Milan Robocup Team

a robot soccer team in the middle-size league of Robocup

MRT is a joint initiative of:

Politecnico di Milano
Dept. of Electronics and Information
AIRLab - Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory

Università di Milano - Bicocca
Dept. Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione
IRALab - Informatics and Robotics for Automation Laboratory

Robocup is a world wide research initiative aimed at the improvement and diffusion of Autonomous Robotics through the organization of competitions that bring together the best roboticists in the world. Competitions are a way to focus on common problems, propose solutions and compare them in the same environment.

From 1998 to 2000, we have participated to Robocup competions with the Italian National team ART (Azzurra Robocup Team), together with other university labs in Italy, in a unique collaboration setting, which improved our knowledge and scientific level, with almost no public or private fundings. The best results obtained with ART have been a second place at Robocup 1999, and a second place at the European championship in Amsterdam in 2000.

Since 2001, with the dissolution of ART, we have implemented a new Milan Robocup Team, whose aim is to exploit in Robocup advanced and low-cost technology , to be adopted also in service robotics, and other robotic applications.

MRT is a joint effort between the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory, at the Department of Electronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano , and the Informatics for Robotics and Automation (I.R.A.) Laboratory at the Dipartimento di Informatica, sistemistica e Comunicazione of the Università di Milano-Bicocca.