WorldCup MPC Recovery Soccer Lab

[gsq2477]

Registration UUID (required)

Registration UUID: 012fc52c-a40a-4100-a692-2b3641971903

Project Summary

• Project name: WorldCup MPC Recovery Soccer Lab
• Robot platform: MuJoCo planar robot with physical ball contact
• Task goal: Convert World Cup prediction rows into tactic-specific target zones, then use closed-loop control to push a ball into the selected zone without object teleportation.
• Technical approach: Prediction CSV rows select tactics. A one-step receding-horizon recovery policy reads live robot and ball state from MuJoCo, chooses approach/recovery/push/finish modes, and executes them through PD motor control.
• Core features: Closed-loop feedback, MuJoCo contact physics, 96-trial evaluation, 32 lateral disturbance recovery tests, JSON trajectory logging, demo video.
• Highlights: 96/96 successful trials, 32/32 disturbance recoveries, mean final ball-goal error 0.4207 m.
• Current limitations: Compact hand-built recovery policy rather than a learned soccer policy.
• Future improvements: Add defenders, multi-robot passing, and learned tactical policies.

How to Run

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python submissions/worldcup-robot-sim/run_worldcup_robot_sim.py --self-check
python submissions/worldcup-robot-sim/run_worldcup_robot_sim.py

Demo Video

• Demo video is included in the submission folder
• Demo video link:

Checklist

• submissions/worldcup-robot-sim/registration.json contains my UUID
• PR description contains the same UUID
• Code runs from documented instructions
• Demo video was generated by the submitted code

[gsq2477]

Hi Robothon team, my submission PR #466 has been open for a while but has not appeared on the leaderboard. Could you please confirm whether it is queued for judging or if submissions are already closed? Thank you.

[gsq2477]

Hi Robothon team, I have updated this PR with the closed-loop MuJoCo control version after the last leaderboard generation. Could you please re-run the evaluation for PR #466? Thank you!

[gsq2477]

Hi Robothon team, I have updated PR #466 with a stronger closed-loop recovery version: 96/96 successful trials and 32/32 disturbance recoveries. Could you please re-run the evaluation? Thank you!

[gsq2477]

Hi Robothon team, I have updated PR #466 with a stronger closed-loop recovery version: 96/96 successful trials and 32/32 disturbance recoveries. Could you please re-run the evaluation? Thank you!

[gsq2477]

Hi Robothon team, following up on PR #466.

The leaderboard still appears to be using the old evaluation generated at 2026-06-27 05:18 UTC, while my final PR update was submitted at 2026-06-27 09:52 UTC.

The PR now contains the updated WorldCup MPC Recovery Soccer Lab version with:

• 96/96 successful trials
• 32/32 disturbance recoveries
• updated PR description and demo video

Could you please confirm whether PR #466 is queued for re-evaluation, or if any action is needed from my side?

Thank you!