Dear SSL Community,

we, the luhbots soccer team, are happy to announce our submission for the Open Source Award 2026. This year we would like to present a new simulation framework for the SSL.

The aim of this simulator is being able to speed up simulation time, with the long-term goal of eventually using it to train AI models aimed at specific tasks to aid our strategy.

Some of it's main features are:

* A rigid body physics simulation of the robots and the ball. * Decoupling of the simulator and the network components, allowing embedding the simulator into other programs and specifying the time step size. * An implementation, compliant with the official SSL-protocols. * Being able to be used as a drop-in replacement for other SSL-simulators.

The source code and documentation can be found on our GitHub page: https://github.com/luhbots/luhsoccer_simulation

Furthermore our new software is now also available at this address: https://github.com/luhbots/luhsoccer_trioxide

Best regards Tim Füchsel luhbots soccer