The 11th edition of RoboCup IranOpen took place at Tehran International Fairground. Around 2000 university and high school students from different countries competed in three categories including humanoids, flying robots and rescuers, divided into different leagues and difficulty levels. A total of 320 teams, 306 from Iran and 14 teams from abroad (Afghanistan, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Peru, South Korea, United Kingdom and the USA), competed at this event.

The IranOpen has been organized by the Iranian RoboCup National Committee and Qazvin Azad University. The Committee was officially formed in July 2006 with the objective of promoting robotics and artificial intelligence research.

Winners RoboCup Soccer – 2D Simulation League

1st – Nexus 2D (Ferdowsi University Mashhad, Iran)

2nd – Miracle 2016 (Hefei Normal University, China)

3rd – MT2016 (Hefei University, China)

Technical challenge: Shiraz (Shiraz, Iran)

Winners RoboCup Soccer – 3D Simulation League

1st – UTAustinVilla (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

2nd – Apollo3D (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

3rd – Kylinsky3D (Hohai University Wentian College, China)

Winners RoboCup Soccer – Small Size Robot League

1st – Immortals (Robotics Engineering Center, University of Tehran)

2nd – MRL (Azad University of Qazvin, Iran)

3rd – ZJUNLict (Zhejiang University, China)

Small Size robot soccer (or F180) focuses on the problem of intelligent multi-agent cooperation and control in a highly dynamic environment with a hybrid centralized/distributed system.

Winners RoboCup Soccer – Humanoid League (Adult, teen and kid size)

Adult: 1st – Baset Adult-Size (Baset Pazhuh Tehran Co, Iran)

Teen: 1st – AUTMan Teen (Amirkabir University, Iran / University of Manitoba, Canada)

Kid Size

1st – Bold Hearts (University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom)

2nd – Parand Kid-Size (Azad University of Parand, Iran)

3rd – FUmanoids (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

Winners RoboCup Soccer – Standard Platform League

1st – Nao Team HTWK (HTWK Leipzig, Germany)

2nd – DAlnamite (TU Berlin / DAI-Labor, Germany)

Innovation challenge: MRL-SPL (Azad University of Qazvin, Iran)

The RoboCup Standard Platform League is a RoboCup robot soccer league, in which all teams compete with identical robots.

Winners RoboCup Rescue – Rescue Agent Simulation League

1st MRL (Azad University of Qazvin, Iran)

2nd S.O.S (Amirkabir University of Technology Tehran, Iran)

3rd Poseidon (Farzanegan High School Tehran, Iran)

Technical challenge: RAS-ROSHD (Roshd High School Tehran, Iran)

Winners RoboCup Rescue – Rescue Robot League

1st – MRL (Azad University of Qazvin, Iran)

2nd – YRA (Azad University of Yazd, Iran)

3rd – VRU (Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Iran)

Skill, discovery and mobility challenge: MRL

Flying rescue challenge: YRA

Winners RoboCup@Work

1st – ACE IAUK (Azad University of Kerman, Iran)

2nd – MEC (Shariati Technical College Tehran, Iran)

Winners RoboCup Junior – Soccer Open

1st – Helli Afra (Allameh Helli High School 10, Tehran, Iran)

2nd – AMOS (Salam Zeynoddin High School, Iran)

3rd – Allameh Tabatabaei (Allameh Tabatabaei High School)

Winners IranOpenDeminer – Tele-Operated Deminer Robots

1st – YRA (Azad University of Yazd, Iran)

2nd – Pasargad (Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran)

3rd (joint) – SRC (Azad University of Tabriz, Iran) and Malayer University (Malayer University, Hamedan, Iran)

Winners IranOpenDeminer – Small Size Intelligent Deminer Robots

1st – khayyam Robotic (Azad University of Neyshabur, Iran)

2nd – ROBOSINA (Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran)

3rd – RTL (Azad University of Arak, Iran)

Winners IranOpenUAV

1st (joint) – MRL (Azad University of Qazvin, Iran) and KN2C (K.N.Toosi University Tehran, Iran)

3rd – Cyrus UAV (Azad University of Kermanshah, Iran)

Winners IranOpenROV

1st – MRL (Azad University of Qazvin, Iran)

2nd – anZan Of Persian Gulf (Applied Science University of Ahvaz, Iran)

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Video: Mehr News Agency | RoboCup IranOpen 2016

Sources: 2016 IranOpen; Mehr News Agency (MNA) 1; MNA 2; BORNA News; Fars News; IRNA 1; IRNA 2; ISNA 1; ISNA 2 (in Persian); Jam-e Jam Online 1; Jam-e Jam Online 2; dai-labor.de; Baltimore Sun; Epoch Times (in Persian); Facebook | DAI-Labor