{"id":256,"date":"2007-02-08T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robocup.bowdoin.edu\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2007-02-08T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T17:48:37","slug":"what-weve-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/robocup\/what-weve-been-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;ve Been Up To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In two words: a lot.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve written a lot about our team for purposes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tzi.de\/4legged\/bin\/view\/Website\/Call2007\">qualifying for RoboCup 2007<\/a> and to give report on what we did in 2006.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made the plans to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robocup-german-open.de\/en\">German Open 2007<\/a> &#8212; where we will be only one of two english-speaking teams there and the sole representative of our continent. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve made a lot of upgrades to our lab: <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/northern_bites\/362880065\/in\/photostream\/\">new lights<\/a>, freshly painted goals, <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/northern_bites\/383863381\/in\/photostream\/\">new lines<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/northern_bites\/375126543\/in\/photostream\/\">new posts<\/a>, and most beautifully, <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/northern_bites\/383863400\/\">four new Apple 23&#8243; HD Cinema Displays<\/a>.  I nearly fainted at the sight of the new monitors.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been working hard on getting our localization system up to snuff and have been revisiting lots of different low-level systems.  Our progress here has been substantial: our dog has a pretty decent idea of where it is using only two posts to localize from and with some significant vision hurdles left.  <\/p>\n<p>So, we have this big application for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robocup-us.org\">RoboCup 2007<\/a> coming up due in the middle of next week.  We&#8217;ll have a video, team report, and application available to all who desire it by then.  Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two words: a lot. We&#8217;ve written a lot about our team for purposes of qualifying for RoboCup 2007 and to give report on what we did in 2006. We&#8217;ve made the plans to attend the German Open 2007 &#8212; where we will be only one of two english-speaking teams there and the sole representative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robocup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/robocup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}