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NEXUS is the RoboCup Simulation team from the Software Simulation and Modeling Laboratory, Computer Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. Established in 2002, NEXUS firstly participated in RoboCup contest in 2003 Padova, Italy in Soccer-2D league. Afterwards, NEXUS could go as high as the third round in RoboCup 2005 Osaka, Japan, and ranked 9^th-12^th place among 33 teams from all over the world. In RoboCup 2007 Atlanta, USA, the team's achievement was 9^th-16^th place, and the latest one was the 4^th place in the 7^th IEEE Latin American Robotics Competitions - 4^th Latin American RoboCup Open 2008, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Nexus members have also made some constructive contribution to the start of Khorasan province high school students RoboCup teams including source code release and training students with Linux programming and algorithm design. We also organized some domestic contests to select some students team for the RoboCup leagues.

What is RoboCup:

RoboCup is an international joint 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. RoboCup chose 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 RoboCup 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. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment. RoboCup also offers a software platform for research on the software aspects of RoboCup.

About Simulation:
The RoboCup simulation is a research and educational tool for multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. Soccer simulation  enables for two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robotic players to play soccer (football).

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