RoboCup Junior Rescue

GENERAL INFORMATION

RoboCupJunior Rescue is an educational initiative focused on elementary, middle, and high school students, as well as early university students, to work with a robot that must autonomously overcome various obstacles to carry out rescue activities. The scenario is based on an area that is too dangerous for humans to rescue victims of a natural disaster; therefore, the most difficult task has been assigned to a robot. It must be able to carry out the rescue mission in fully autonomous mode without human intervention. The robot must be strong and smart enough to navigate through dangerous terrain with hills, rough ground, and debris without getting stuck.

There are three subcategories:

Rescue Line: An autonomous robot must follow a black line while overcoming various problems in a modular arena made up of tiles with different patterns. The ground is white, and the tiles are at different levels connected by ramps. When the robot finally finds the victims, it has to transport them very carefully to the evacuation point so that humans can attend to them.

Rescue Maze: The robot needs to search for victims through a maze, so it must not find the quickest way to traverse the maze, but must explore it as much as possible while avoiding areas with black floors. When the robot finally finds the victims, it has to provide them with aid equipment and a locator so that humans can locate and take them to a safe place.

Rescue Simulation: In situations of navigating difficult or dangerous environments, robots can be used for search and rescue operations to minimize putting humans at risk. In this challenge, a virtual autonomous robot must be developed to search for and identify victims in a simulated dangerous scenario. The robot must navigate through challenging terrains without getting stuck, locating disaster victims and signaling their location to the human rescue team. The open-source code wiki for its development is available at https://erebus.rcj.cloud/.

Rescue League has three subleagues in Junior and one subleague to progress to Major:

Rescue Line: The Rescue Line subleague is open to students aged 14 to 19 (as of July 1). An autonomous robot must follow a black line while overcoming different problems in a modular arena made up of tiles with different patterns.

Rescue Maze: The Rescue Maze subleague is open to students aged 14 to 19 (as of July 1). Team members can compete in Rescue Line twice (2 international events). After competing in Rescue Line twice, they must move on to Rescue Maze.

RCJ Rescue Simulation (Webot-Erebus): RoboCupJunior Rescue Simulation provides new and exciting learning opportunities with a newly developed platform (Webots-Erebus).

RoboCupRescue – Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge: The Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge (RMRC) is part of the RoboCupRescue Robot competition.

Restrictions:

RCJ Rescue teams must consist of at least 2 members and up to a maximum of 4.

Age is considered as of July 1 each year for the RoboCup world championship and, therefore, also for the Mexican Robotics Tournament.

Each contestant can only be registered in one single team, subleague, and league throughout RoboCupJunior.

Rules

RCJRescueLine2025 Descarga

RCJRescueMaze2025 Descarga

The rules for the RoboCupJunior Rescue competition are published on the international RoboCupJunior website.

These rules can be consulted at https://junior.robocup.org/rescue/.

Team limits per institution:

Each institution can register the following number of teams per Junior category:

Maximum 1 team per subleague in Rescue Line and Rescue Maze
Maximum 2 teams per subleague in all Soccer and OnStage subleagues
There will be no limit on the number of teams in Rescue Simulation (formerly CoSpace)
The institution that has obtained first place in each subcategory of the previous tournament (TMR2024) and has sent their participation report to RoboCup 2024 gains the right to register an additional team in that same subcategory. They must register the additional team and its members, and before concluding the pre-registration, send an email to regtmr@femexrobotica.org indicating the name of the team to which they wish to apply this right.

Responsible for RobocupJunior Rescue General:

Ernesto Cervantes

email: neto.cervantes@outlook.com

Responsible for category Rescue Line Primary:

Gerardo Camarillo

email: gerardocamarillodl@gmail.com

Responsible for category Rescue Maze:

Jorge Eduardo de León Reyna

email: eduardojorge116@gmail.com

Responsible for category Rescue Line:

Eduardo Alvarado

email: edd.ag33@gmail.com