TEHRAN – Winners of the 13th RoboCup Iran Open competitions were announced on Saturday.

Organized by the Iranian RoboCup Regional Committee and Qazvin Islamic Azad University, the RoboCup Iran Open 2018 was held at Tehran Permanent International Fairground from April 3 to 7.

In Iran Open Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Outdoor league, MRL Rescue Team from Qazvin Islamic Azad University ranked first. IRSE team from South Tehran Islamic Azad University was the runner-up and the third prize went to ATRON from Khomeini Shahr Islamic Azad University.

In Iran Open UAV Speed Race league, the first prize went to SIRFPV, PARNIA won the second prize and the third prize went to FPV MAN from Khorramabad Islamic Azad University.

MRL Rescue Team from Qazvin Islamic Azad University won the first prize in RoboCup Rescue Robot Category. The second prize went to YRA from Yazd Islamic Azad University and KN2C from Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology won the third prize.

In Iran Open UAV Indoor league, CYRUS won the first prize. SAMEN was the runner-up and the third prize went to MEGA UAV.

In RoboCup Deminer, Tele-Operated Deminer Robots category SAMAUAV from Sama Islamic Azad University won the first prize. The second prize went to SRC from Tabriz Islamic Azad University and Royan from Royan Sanat Tabarestan Company won the third prize.

ER-Force from Germany’s University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ranked first in RoboCup Soccer, small size category. ZJUNLICT from Zhejiang University of China won the second prize and the third prize went to Parsian from Iran.

A total of 478 teams competed at the contest, out of which 38 competitors were from 11 countries including China, the U.S., Turkey, the UK, Singapore and India.

According to the official website of the contest, the main categories of Iran Open 2018 are RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, RoboCup@Work, RoboCup Junior and IranOpenDeminer.

RoboCup (Originally called Robot World Cup Initiative) is an international research and education initiative. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined, as well as being used for integrated project-oriented education.