Dr Timothy Wiley

RoboCup is the premiere annual international competition for autonomous robotics, featuring teams competing from over 40 countries across a wide variety of challenges. I have been involved in RoboCup for over a decade. My current roles include participating at RMIT and roles within the RoboCup organisation.

RoboCup Soccer SPL

I served as member of the Technical Committee (TC) for the RoboCup Soccer Standard Platform League from 2017 - 2022. The TC is responsible for managing the rules and qualification process for the league.

RedBackBots

I am currently the academic supervisor and team lead for RedBackBots, the RMIT RoboCup Soccer SPL Team. RedBackBots was formed in 2020, and has competed at RoboCup since 2023.

Current Team (2023)

Supervisors: Dr. Timothy Wiley, Prof. John Thangarajah.
Team Members: : Vyomaa Bhaskar, Jasper Avice Demay, Tom Ellis, Samuel Griffiths, David Hermanto, Adhiraj Jain, Lewis Matthews, Luke Mullan, Murray Owens, Kah Hie Toh, Ryan Samarakoon, James Sun .
Results: 5th-place Challenger Shield

Previous Teams

2022
Supervisors: Dr. Timothy Wiley, Prof. John Thangarajah.
Team Members: Axel Ahmer, Shrestha Gosh, Robert Lamont, Prawal Lohani, Joshua Mackay, Syam Mohan, Arlo Rostirolla, Manoj Sharma, Romarico JR Vargas.
Results: (Competed Remotely) 8th Technical Challenges. Best result was 3rd Visual Referee Challenge

2021
Supervisors: Dr. Timothy Wiley, Prof. John Thangarajah.
Team Members: Luke Davoli, Nikita Tuyet-Nhung Phung, Daniel Spivak, Vaibhav Rameshbhai Thumar.
Results: Withdrew due to Melbourne COVID-19 lock-down.

2020
Supervisors: Dr. Timothy Wiley, Prof. John Thangarajah, Dr. Ruwan Tennakoon.
Team Members: Joesph Williams, Milindi Kodihara, Sam Komesarook, Talal Meshari.
Results: RoboCup 2020 cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

RoboCup Sydney 2019

I was previously the LOC representative for the RoboCup Soccer SPL at RoboCup Sydney 2019, which was the held at the Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour, Sydney.

RoboCup Soccer SPL Final 2019 (Image: Photographer@Large)

Former Teams and Results

UNSW | Academic Supervisor
School of Computer Science and Engineering | Faculty of Engineering | UNSW Sydney
I supervised the UNSW RoboCup Soccer SPL team (rUNSWift). The team's results at the 2018 international competition were:

Quarter Finalists, Champions Cup
Winner, Mixed-Team competition, in collaboration with B-Human

UNSW | Team Leader/Member

I also been apart of:

UNSW@Home, UNSW RoboCup@Home DSPL team
CASualty, the UNSW RoboCup Rescue team.
The team won
- Best-in-Class Autonomy (2010, 2011)
- Best-in-Class Mobility (2010)