b-it bots are RoboCup world champions in 2019

"It is a fantastic achievement on the part of our students," says University President  Hartmut Ihne. "Robotics has been one of our university's main research areas for years and the team from the Autonomous Systems Master's degree programme has shown that it is top-notch."

German Champion at RoboCup in Magdeburg

As in other sports, the successful participation in the World Championship required a long and intensive preparation. The six students and their team captain Deebul-Sivarajan Nair had invested a lot of free time in the past months to make the robots fit for the big tournament. An important step was winning the @work league at the RoboCup German Open in May. In Australia, the robot was able to hold its own against the robOTTO team of the University of Magdeburg in the final. The b-it-bots are supervised by the computer science professors Paul Plöger and Gerhard Kraetzschmar.

For Plöger, it was a well-deserved victory, albeit a close one, after many years of optimisation and winning the vice world championship last year. The so-called basic manipulation test can be regarded as a benchmark for the state of software development. In the rotating table test, in which objects are gripped from a revolving table, the b-it bots team was the only team to successfully remove objects from the revolving table. The success of Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg in the field of robotics continues today with the RoboCup-Symposium where three working groups present their results in papers and posters.