In the small-size football competitions, the Iranian team fielded four 80cm robots, ranking third in the main event of RoboCup 2003.
The 2002 champion Japan ended Isfahan's 9-match winning streak as it won the semifinal match 4-1 on July 9.
Winning the third title, the Isfahani team gave a Japanese team an 8-1 humiliating loss.
The organizing committee named Isfahan as ‘Team of RoboCup 2003’ giving it 5.2 points for superior design, advanced control, and unique performance.
Headed by Alireza Fadaei-Tehrani, robot controllers of Isfahan were Amir Abdollahi, Houman Aqa-Ebrahimi, Hossein Ostadi, Iraj Hosseini, Hamidreza Moballegh, Mohsen Amiri, Hamid Daneshgah-Panah, Amir Goudarzi, and Mahdi Habibi.
Two Japanese teams stood top and second.
Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology snatched the world championship title in 1999.
A Japanese team stole the show in simulation class as it won the crown and the runner-up and third titles went to Sharif and Isfahan universities of Iran respectively.
In the exhibition competitions, Caspian and Iranians, both from Tehran's University of Science and Technology, and Islamic Azad University of Qazvin, northwestern Iran, won the first three titles respectively.
Thirty-four countries pitted 250 teams in the world competitions.
Iranian teams arrive in Mehrabad International Airport at 03:00 a.m. Friday.
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