The heart of the robots are the the EyeBot controllers , developed by a team around Thomas Braunl. We developed our own operating system RoBIOS for the systems, which allows a great deal of flexibility. We incorporated a digital color camera and a graphics display.
All image processing is done on-board.
Our robots have local intelligence and are not simple pawns, directed by a central system with global vision. Although our approach is clearly disadvanted in respect of winning a RoboCup competition, we are more interested in research on general purpose intelligent agents, as opposed to building a system which serves only a certain competition and has to rely on global sensors. Each robot has shaft encoders and infrared range sensors in addition to a digital color camera. We are currently incorporating wireless transmissions to allow the robots to talk to each other plus a ball kicking device. We are able to operate even without communication betwen the robots.