Abstract

The SPL robot soccer league focuses its efforts on the development of robot control software for standard humanoid robots. Nevertheless, few interchange of software modules are observed in the league, being the B-Human effort an exception. In addition, a large difference in performance is observed between experienced teams and new teams. This situation makes difficult the incorporation of new teams in the league. Therefore, it seems attractive to explore the use of ROS within the SPL soccer robotics community in order to revert the described situation. As a first step, this paper presents some work in this direction, such as the installation of ROS in the new NAO V4 robots, the integration of the B-Human motion engine as a ROS node, and the communication of two robots running a ROS-based control software.