Previous RoboCup participations

RoboCanes is the University of Miami robotic soccer team. The team is led by Dr. Ubbo Visser. We participated in three leagues: a) the Standard Platform League (SPL), b) the 3D Simulation League, and c) DSPL. RoboCanes is active since 2010.

RoboCanes achievements since 2010:

• Winner:
  German Open 2011, US Open 2015
• Finalist:
  World Robot Summit 2018
  World Cup: Mexico  2012, Brazil 2014
  Iran Open: 2011, 2012
  US Open: 2014  
• 3rd place
  Asian Open 2014
  RoboCup 2025
  
• Semi-Finalist
  World Cup: 2017  
• 1/4 Final
  World Cup: 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015
  Stage II @Home: 2021 (simulation), 2022, 2023, 2024
  

Prior to 2010, Dr. Visser founded and co-founded Virtual Werder (University of Bremen, Germany), and the German Team (Sony Aibo robots, 4LL) in the early 2000s. The German Team won the WorldCup in 2004. He also co-founded B-SMART as part of a student's project at the University of Bremen. B-SMART was active from 2002-2007 and excelled into the 1/4 final in several cases.

Research topics of the RoboCanes team include learnable knowledge representation, biped walking control, multi-agent cooperation and communication, self-localization, parameter optimization, reinforcement learning, computer vision.

Our team members have also served on Organizing Committee, Technical Committee and Executive Committee for different leagues:

Katarzyna Pasternak - (@Home) OC&TC 2021 - 2024, EC 2024 - current

Tony Luo - (@Home) OC 2019 - 2021

Pedro Pena - (@Home) TC  2019-2021