Title of Project:
                              NexGen Soccer

Team Members:
            Leader:   Abid Hayee Khan Lodhi
            Team:     Fayez Asif Bhatti
                             Syed Masoom Raza Shamsi
                             Chaudary Sohaib Ahmed
                             Syed Raza Haider Zaidi

Category:
                           Scientific Research & Development.

Technologies:
                           Microsoft Visual Studio.net.
                    
Project Advisor:
                          Faisal Tehseen Shah (Senior Manager IT – CIIT Lahore)

Project Description:
NexGen Soccer is a project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. 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. We have chosen to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries. The ultimate goal of the NexGen Soccer project is

“By 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world champion team in soccer”.

In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated including: design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics, and sensor-fusion. NexGen is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment. It also offers a software platform for research on the software aspects of robotics.