RoboCup 2019 - Major Winners

Award Name	Authors	Paper Title
Best Engineering Paper Finalist	Nizar Massouh, Lorenzo Brigato and Luca Iocchi	RoboCup@Home-Objects: Benchmarking Object Recognition for Home Robots
Best Engineering Paper Finalist	Alex Mitrevski and Paul G. Plöger	Reusable Specification of State Machines for Rapid Robot Functionality Prototyping
Best Engineering Paper Finalist	Marcus M. Scheunemann and Sander G. van Dijk	ROS 2 for RoboCup
Best Science Paper Finalist	Francisco Leiva, Kenzo Lobos-Tsunekawa and Javier Ruiz-Del-Solar	Collision Avoidance for Indoor Service Robots through Multimodal Deep Reinforcement Learning
Best Science Paper Finalist	Pedro Pena and Ubbo Visser	Adaptive Walk-Kick on a Bipedal Robot
Best Science Paper Finalist	Jacques Saraydaryan, Raphael Leber and Jumel Fabrice	People management framework using a 2D camera for human-robot social interactions

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Sylvia Coradeschi Award	Lucia Liu (SPL NomadZ Team)	ETH Zurich

Rescue Simulation League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Agent Competition - 1st Place	MRL	Qazvin Islamic Azad University
Agent Competition - 2nd Place	AIT-Rescue	Aichi Institute of Technology
Technical Challenge - 1st Place	Ri-One	Ritsumeikan University
Infrastructure Award - 1st Place	AIT-Rescue	Aichi Institute of Technology
Virtual Robot Competition - 1st Place	MRL	Qazvin Islamic Azad University
Virtual Robot Competition - 2nd Place	Eslam	Eslam High School

Rescue Robot League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Rescue Competition - 1st Place	SHINOBI	Kyoto University & Tohoku University
Rescue Competition - 2nd Place	Irap Sechzig	King Mongjut's University of Technology North Bangkok
Rescue Competition - 3rd Place	Hector Darmstadt	Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Best-In-Class Mobility	Irap Sechzig	King Mongjut's University of Technology North Bangkok
Best-In-Class Dexterity	SHINOBI	Kyoto University & Tohoku University
Best-In-Class Autonomy	Hector Darmstadt	Technische Universitat Darmstadt

RoboCup@Work League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Technical Challenge: Cluttered Pick Test	MRL	Qazvin Islamic Azad University
Technical Challenge: Open Challenge	AutonOHM	Nuremberg Institute of Technology Georg Simon Ohm
RoboCup@Work Competition - 1st Place	b-it-bots	Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
RoboCup@Work Competition - 2nd Place	robOTTO	Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
RoboCup@Work Competition - 3rd Place	RoboErectus@Work	Singapore Polytecnic

RoboCup@Home League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Domestic Standard Platform - 1st Place	Tech United Eindhoven	Eindhoven University of Technology
Domestic Standard Platform - 2nd Place	Team TidyBoy	Pusan/Seoul/Hanyang University
Domestic Standard Platform - 3rd Place	Hibikino-Musashi	Kyushu Institute of Technology
Open Platform - 1st Place	homer@Unikoblenz	University of Koblenz-Landau
Open Platform - 2nd Place	Pumas	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Open Platform - 3rd Place	CATIE Robotics	CATIE
Social Standard Platform - 1st Place	UTS Unleashed!	University of Technology Sydney
Social Standard Platform - 2nd Place	Uchile Peppers	Universidad de Chile
Dishwasher Award	Team TidyBoy	Pusan/Seoul/Hanyang University
Best Scientific Paper	UT Austin Villa	University of Texas at Austin

Logistics League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Technical Challenge - 1st Place	Carologistics	RWTH Aachen, FH Aachen
Technical Challenge - 2nd Place	GRIPS	TU Graz
Technical Challenge - 2nd Place	Baby Tigers-R	Ryukokii University
Logistics - 1st Place	Carologistics	RWTH Aachen, FH Aachen
Logistics - 2nd Place	GRIPS	TU Graz
Logistics - 3rd Place	PYRO	University Lille

Humanoid League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Best Referee Award - 1st Place	Merel Keijsers (Electric Sheep)	University of Canterbury
Best Referee Award - 2nd Place	Marcus Kannicht (Hamburg Bit-Bots & WF Wolves)	Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
Best Referee Award - 3rd Place	Hao Wang (SYC U-Legendary)	Shenyang City University
Best Referee Award - 3rd Place	Sebastian Steller (Hamburg Bit-Bots & WF Wolves)	University of Hamburg
KidSize Drop-In Challenge - 1st Place	Rhoban	CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux INP
KidSize Drop-In Challenge - 2nd Place	CIT Brains	Chiba Institute of Technology
KidSize Drop-In Challenge - 3rd Place	ZJUDancer	State KeyLab of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University
Teen-Size Drop-In Challenge - 1st Place	MRL HSL	Mechatronics Research Lab, Qazvin Islamic Azad University
Teen-Size Drop-In Challenge - 2nd Place	RO:BIT	School of Robotics, Kwangwoon University
Adult-Size Drop-In Challenge - 1st Place	NimbRo	Reheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn
Adult-Size Drop-In Challenge - 2nd Place	Tsinghua Hephaestus	Tsinghua University
Adult-Size Drop-In Challenge - 3rd Place	Sweaty	University of Applied Science Offenburg
KidSize Soccer Competition - 1st Place	Rhoban	CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux INP
KidSize Soccer Competition - 2nd Place	ZJUDancer	State KeyLab of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University
KidSizeSoccer Competition - 3rd Place	CIT Brains	Chiba Institute of Technology
TeenSize Soccer Competition - 1st Place	MRL-HSL	Mechatronics Research Lab, Qazvin Islamic Azad University
TeenSize Soccer Competition - 2nd Place	ZJLabers	Intelligent Robot Research Center, Zhejiang Lab
TeenSizeSoccer Competition - 3rd Place	Ichiro Teen Size	Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
AdultSize Soccer Competition - 1st Place	NimbRo	Reheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn
AdultSize Soccer Competition - 2nd Place	Sweaty	University of Applied Science Offenburg
AdultSizeSoccer Competition - 3rd Place	Tsinghua Hephaestus	Tsinghua University
KidSize Technical Challenge - 1st Place	Rhoban	CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux INP
KidSize Technical Challenge - 2nd Place	CIT Brains	Chiba Institute of Technology
KidSize Technical Challenge - 3rd Place	Ichiro Kid Size	Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
TeenSize Technical Challenge - 1st Place	Ichiro Teen Size	Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember
TeenSize Technical Challenge - 2nd Place	MRL-HSL	Mechatronics Research Lab, Qazvin Islamic Azad University
TeenSize Technical Challenge - 3rd Place	RO:BIT	School of Robotics, Kwangwoon University
AdultSize Technical Challenge - 1st Place	NimbRo	Reheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn
AdultSize Technical Challenge - 2nd Place	Tsinghua Hephaestus	Tsinghua University
AdultSize Technical Challenge - 3rd Place	ZSST-NTNU	National Taiwan Noremal University
Best Humanoid Award - 1st Place	NimbRo	Reheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn
Best Humanoid Award - 2nd Place	Rhoban	CNRS, LaBRI, University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux INP
Best Humanoid Award - 3rd Place	MRL-HSL	Mechatronics Research Lab, Qazvin Islamic Azad University

3D Soccer Simulation

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Skills Challenge - 1st Place	UT Austin Villa	University of Texas at Austin
Skills Challenge - 2nd Place	MagmaOffenburg	Hochschule Offenburg University of Applied Science
Skills Challenge - 3rd Place	Itandroids	Technological Institute of Aeronautics
Scientific/Free Challenge - 1st Place	FC Portugal	Universities of Aveiro, Porto and Minho
Scientific/Free Challenge - 2nd Place	UT Austin Villa	University of Texas at Austin
Scientific/Free Challenge - 3rd Place	MagmaOffenburg	Hochschule Offenburg University of Applied Science
Technical Challenge - 1st Place	UT Austin Villa	University of Texas at Austin
Technical Challenge - 2nd Place	MagmaOffenburg	Hochschule Offenburg University of Applied Science
Technical Challenge - 2nd Place	FC Portugal	Universities of Aveiro, Porto and Minho
Soccer Competition - 1st Place	UT Austin Villa	University of Texas at Austin
Soccer Competition - 2nd Place	MagmaOffenburg	Hochschule Offenburg University of Applied Science
Soccer Competition - 3rd Place	Wright Ocean	Ludong University

2D Soccer Simulation

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Soccer Competition - 1st Place	Fractals 2019	The University of Sydney & CSIRO
Soccer Competition - 2nd Place	HELIOS 2019	Fukuoka University, Osaka Prefecture University
Soccer Competition - 3rd Place	CYRUS2019	Atomic Energy High School

Small-Size Soccer League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Technical Challenge - 1st Place	TIGERs Mannheim	DHBW Mannheim
Open Source Award	TIGERs Mannheim	DHBW Mannheim
Best TDP Award	TIGERs Mannheim	DHBW Mannheim
Most Improved Team	Ultron	Universite Laval
Excellence Award - 1st Place	TIGERs Mannheim	DHBW Mannheim
Division A Soccer Competition - 1st Place	ZJUNlict	Zhejiang University
Division A Soccer Competition - 2nd Place	ER-Force	Freidrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg
Division A Soccer Competition - 3rd Place	MRL	Qazvin Islamic Azad University
Division B Soccer Competition - 1st Place	Thunderbots	University of British Columbia

Standard Platform League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Champions Cup - 1st Place	B-Human	University of Bremen/DFKI Bremen
Champions Cup - 2nd Place	Nao-Team HTWK	Leipzig University of Applied Science
Champions Cup - 3rd Place	rUNSWift	University of New South Wales
Challenger Shield - 1st Place	Starkit	Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Challenger Shield - 2nd Place	SABANA Herons	Universidad de la Sabana
Challenger Shield - 3rd Place	NTU RoboPAL	National Taiwan University
Mixed Team Tournament - 1st Place	B+B (B-Human and Berlin United)	University of Bremen/DFKI Bremen & Humnoldt Universitat zu Berlin
Mixed Team Tournament - 2nd Place	Team Team (Nao-Team HTWK and Bembelbots)	Leipzig University of Applied Sciences & Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Technical Challenge - 1st Place	Berlin United	Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin

Middle Size League

Award Name	Winner	Institution
Technical Challenge - 1st Place	NuBot	National University of Defense Technology
Technical Challenge - 2nd Place	Tech United	Eindhoven University of Technology
Technical Challenge - 3rd Place	ASML-Falcons	ASML
Soccer Competition - 1st Place	Tech United	Eindhoven University of Technology
Soccer Competition - 2nd Place	Water	Beijing Information Science & Technology University
Soccer Competition - 3rd Place	ASML-Falcons	ASML
Scientific/Engineering Challenge - 1st Place	Tech United	Eindhoven University of Technology
Scientific/Engineering Challenge - 2nd Place	CAMBADA	University of Aveiro
Scientific/Engineering Challenge - 3rd Place	NuBot	National University of Defense Technology