BART LAB Rescue Team won the 1st Place at RoboCup Japan Open 2011 as the Second Year Consecutively

On May 2-5, 2011, at Osaka, Japan, BART LAB Rescue Team with 2 Robots and 16 members to attend the RoboCup Japan Open 2011, Rescue Robot League. There were 12 teams in the competition, local and only one foreign team, ‘BART LAB Rescue’. Important Japanese teams included ‘Shinobi’ from Kyoto University, ’09 Japan Champion and ‘Nexis-R’ A.K.A. ‘NU-Tech R’ from Nagaoka University, ’07-’08 Japan Champion.

BART LAB Rescue Team won the Rescue Robot Championship as the second time, consecutively. BART LAB Rescue had lead since the first round with three 15-minute missions with the total scores of 210, while the second and third places (Nexis-R and Shinobi) received the scores of 75 and 70, respectively. The final round was a sudden dead run of 25-minute mission with a new improvement of arena and rules to fit with real experience from the Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in this year. BART LAB Rescue and Nexis-R were only two teams to be able to make the scores, while BART LAB Rescue could make the scores as twice of the Nexis-R. This lead to BART LAB Rescue Team to become the Champion in Japan Open 2011 for Rescue Robot League as the second time consecutively.

Among the Japanese teams, a few Japanese robots were attempted to perform in the real Japan earthquake locations in Sendai. BART LAB Rescue Team was supported to join the RoboCup Japan Open 2011 by ‘ThaiCom Foundation’ as the main sponsor and ‘Jele’ as the combined sponsor.