An introduction of vision-based autonomous robotic fish competition

Robotic competitions are ideal benchmarks for robotics research. In this paper, we introduce a class of robotic fish competitions which use biomimetic robotic fish to play water polo-like games. In such competitions, the boxfish-like robots use their onboard cameras to acquire environment information and overhead global-vision camera is forbidden. To win the game, several problems such as self-localization, underwater motion control, underwater communication, and multiple underwater robot cooperation need to be investigated. The competition will promote the underwater robotics and their applications.