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+\chapter{Introduction}
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+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 Standard Platform league. In this league all teams use the
+same robot \textit{Nao}, which is being produced by the SoftBank Robotics. We
+will describe the capabilities of this robot in more detail in the next
+chapter.
+
+One of the most notable teams in the Standard Platform League is
+\textit{B-Human}. This team represents TU 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 an attractive starting point for RoboCup
+beginners.
+
+\section{Out objective and motivation}
+
+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 next chapter. The work on these tasks would
+allow us to acquire new competences, which we could then use to complement the
+RoboCup team of 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 improve over the existing work in these areas.
+
+Having said that, we hope that our project \todo{will be good}, and this report
+will help future students to get familiar with our results and continue our
+work.