Big Red: The Cornell Small League Robot Soccer Team

In this paper we describe Big Red, the Cornell University Robot Soccer team. The success of our team at the 1999 competition can be mainly attributed to three points: 1) An integrated design approach; students from mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, operations research, and computer science were involved in the project, and a rigorous and systematic design process was utilized. 2) A thorough understanding of the system dynamics, and ensuing control. 3) A high fidelity simulation environment that allowed us to quickly explore artificial intelligence and control strategies well in advance of working prototypes.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: ROBOCUP
• Authors: Raffaello D'Andrea, Jin-Woo Lee, Andrew Hoffman, Aris Samad-Yahaja, Lars B. Cremean, Thomas Karpati
• Keywords: ROBOCUP 1999, Robot Soccer Team, Robotics, Systematic Design Process, fidelity Simulation Environment