This document discusses a project to develop an affordable soccer playing robot called TURTLE-5k in order to attract more teams to the middle sized leagues of RoboCup and drive knowledge sharing. The goals were to contribute to society, demonstrate capabilities, and collaborate with partners from Technical University. Key challenges included high costs, reliance on voluntary contributions, and constraints on resources. Ultimately the project was successful in creating a $7,000 robot, selling two teams, and generating exposure through media while strengthening cooperation between partners.

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Connected Innovation by playing soccer with robots
ACE ingenieurs-& adviesbureau
Frank Steeghs
October7, 2014

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Established1977
Locations
Eindhoven, Delft (NL)
Lummen, Gent (B)
250 employees
ACE ingenieurs-& adviesbureau
Werktuigbouwkunde en Elektrotechniek

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product development
industrial automation
high-tech systems
construction technology
four
specialized
business units

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core activities
analysis
design
engineering
prototyping

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Soccer robots?

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Vision
Vision of RoboCup:
“In 2050 a team of soccer playing robots defeats the human world champion team”.

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Mission
Mission of Prof. Rene van de Molengraft, director Tech United, TU/e:
“Develop an affordable robot so more teams will join the RoboCup.”

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Develop low-cost soccer robot
•Easy entrance to robotics
•Attract new teams for competing in the middle sized leagues (MSL) RoboCup
•Drive knowledge throughout competition
•Competition is based on open source and sharing the gained knowledge

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Connected Innovation

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Find partners to collaborate in
this multidisciplinary project

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Maingoals ACE
1.To deliver a (non-commercial) contribution to society and show Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
2.Show capabilities throughout developing a soccer robot as a demonstrator.
3.Collaborate with complementary partners and Technical University

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Results& Reflection

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Difficulties in the project
•Cost reduction of 5 times
•No commercial business case not for profit
•Voluntary (pro-bono) contribution of consortium
•All relying on the goodwill of the partners
•Final integration of disciplines
•Speed-up timing for second customer ASML
•Priority on low-volume non-commercial projects
•Constraints on available human resources

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Results
•Costpricearound€7.000,-at series of 11
•2 teams ‘sold’
•Online availableOpen Source

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Reflection on collaboration
•All took responsibility for bringing this to a good end
•High commitment (of all team members)
•All strived to deliver a professional quality

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Spin-offs
• Exposure: articles in press (magazines,
newspaper, radio, video etc.)
• New and more intensive cooperation's
• Future demonstrator on primary en
secondary schools

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Thankyou
More information aboutTURTLE-5k at www.turtle5k.org
More information aboutACE at www.ace.eu