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+\chapter{Introduction}
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+RoboCup \cite{robocup} is an international competition in the field of
+robotics, the ultimate goal of which is to win a game of soccer against a human
+team by the middle of the 21st century. The motivation behind this objective is
+the following: It is impossible to achieve such an ambitious goal with the
+current state of technology, which means that the RoboCup competitions will
+drive scientific and technological advancement in such areas as computer
+vision, mechatronics and multi-agent cooperation in complex dynamic
+environments. The RoboCup teams compete in five different leagues: Humanoid,
+Standard Platform, Medium Size, Small Size and Simulation. Our work in this
+semester was based on the rules of the \textit{Standard Platform League}. In
+this league all teams use the same robot \textit{Nao}, which is being produced
+by SoftBank Robotics. We will describe the capabilities of this robot in
+more detail in the next chapter.
+
+A couple of words need to be said about the state-of-the-art. One of the most
+notable teams in the Standard Platform League is \textit{B-Human}
+\cite{bhuman}. This team represents the University of Bremen and in the last
+nine years they won the international RoboCup competition six times and twice
+were the runner-up. The source code of the framework that B-Human use for
+programming their robots is available on GitHub, together with an extensive
+documentation, which makes the B-Human framework a frequent starting point for
+RoboCup beginners.
+
+\section{Our Objective and Motivation}
+\label{sec problem statement}
+
+In this report we are going to introduce the robotics project, which our team
+worked on during the Summer Semester 2018. The main objective of our work was
+to explore a possible strategy for fast goal scoring. There are three main
+aspects of our motivation behind this objective. The first one is the fact,
+that goal scoring is crucial for winning soccer games, therefore fast and
+effective goal scoring will bring the team closer to victory. Secondly, in
+order to score a goal, many problems and tasks need to be solved, which we will
+describe in close detail in the following chapters. The work on these tasks
+would allow us to acquire new competences, which we could then use to
+complement the RoboCup team of the TUM. Finally, this objective encompasses
+many disciplines, such as object detection, mechatronics or path planning,
+which means that working on it might give us a chance to contribute to the
+research in these areas.
+
+Having said that, we hope that our project will be a positive contribution to
+the work being done at the Institute for Cognitive Systems and that this
+report will help future students to get familiar with our results and continue
+our work.