The rule book of the RCLL contains the rules and regulations teams participating in the competitions
have to follow. They are updated every year to reflect the progress and development of the league.
Typically we aim to have a 2-year cycle of the rulebook, with larger changes introduced in one year and
only smaller changes to stabilize and adjust in the following year.
2020 (canceled)
2019 The RoboCup German Open has developed starting with the first event in 2001 to a well-established and attractive open competition for international RoboCup Major League teams with a strong European focus. In addition, it is since years the German official and only qualification tournament to select German RoboCupJunior teams for participation in the yearly RoboCup. With the fruitful combination of Major and Junior leagues, the event will be held for academic and educational purpose to foster RoboCup activities in Germany – both RoboCup as scientific competition in the RoboCup Major Leagues and RoboCupJunior as an ideal approach to attract young people for science and technology. An additional motivation is to promote RoboCup as an attractive instrument to communicate the importance of STEM for the future of the society.
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2018 we are working towards the introduction of a new storage station. This is a long-term effort. This year,
the station will provide pre-assembled products that can be bought for delivery.The new rulebook will have
only small changes and will be available end of February 2018, see Rulebook 2018.
2017 we changed the field size and zone layout. Production became the main focus by making the exploration
phase shorter and less important.The workpieces were marked with barcodes, to track specific products by
processing stations and award points for production steps during the game, see Rulebook 2017.
2016 After three years of constant and tremendous changes, 2016 was a year to consolidate our league,
see Rulebook 2016.
2015 we introduced actual physical processing machines based on the Modular Production System (MPS)
requiring more complex machine handling. To accommodate the new machine working height, the
Robotino 3 will be the new major platform in the league (Robotino 2 are still allowed).Festo provides a
special offer for RoboCup participants for the new robot platform.
Additionally, the production schedule has again become more flexible and dynamic, by introducing color-
coded rings of which a varying number can be requested to be mounted in a specific order for a certain
product. This increased the number of products from 3 to about 240, see Rulebook 2015.
2014 we merged the formerly separate playing fields into a single one, on which both teams compete
at the same time, introducing the need for self-localization, dynamic collision avoidance, and increased
spatial coordination complexity. Additionally, the production schedules became more dynamic in that
orders were posted dynamically, see Rulebook 2014
2013 we introduced the Referee Box (refbox) changing the competition at its core by introducing a
flow of information. This allowed for more dynamic games and the automatic tracking of scores, and
to relax the hitherto existing regulations regarding additional computing power, see Rulebook 2013
2012 we had our forst official Logistics League competition, see Rulebook 2012.