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WOMEN I N EN GI N EER I N G
Diversity as a Game Changer
for Successful Teams in RoboCup
By Daniel Leidner , Georgia Chalvatzaki , and Karinne Ramirez-Amaro
The international RoboCup competition
has, in the past, been described as " a
treasure trove of rich diversity for
research issues and interdisciplinary
connections " [1]. This description is
often credited to the facets of the federation
itself, which hosts a variety of
challenges for rescue robots, robots for
service at home and in industrial environments,
and, most prominently,
robots that play soccer, in different sizes
and formats, be they simulated,
wheeled, or legged.
A particular team with constant outstanding
performance is the B-Human
team of the Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science, University
of Bremen, and the German Research
Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
research area Cyber-Physical Systems.
The team is considered one of the best in
the soccer RoboCup Standard Platform
League (SPL) (see Figure 1), winning
the world championship nine times. This
" Women in Engineering " column covers
the dimensions of diversity that contribute
to this success story and the potential
of the dimensions yet unexplored.
SENIORITY
Robot soccer is a team sport just like
human soccer, meant to invite everyone
regardless of their background. " More
than 200 students start their studies in
computer science each year at the University
of Bremen " says Tim Laue (Figure
2), one of the team leaders of
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FIGURE 1. The diversity of the human and robot participants of the 2022 SPL competition
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B-Human and a postdoctoral researcher
and lecturer
in the Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science.
" Students can choose a semester project
evaluated with 18 ECTS for eight
months in the bachelor program and
24 ECTS for 12 months in the master
program. " One of the offered projects is
participation in the B-Human team.
Often, the students continue with a
bachelor's thesis or master's thesis
afterward. In fact, continuity is a major
key for the success of the team. " I have
been with B-Human for 20 years by
now, " says Thomas Röfer (Figure 2),
the second team leader working at
DFKI in Bremen. " You get the chance
to travel the world for a championship.
Students want to experience this again
and again, so they stay! " In the previous
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