RoboCanes RoboCup 3 D Simulation League Team Description Paper 2012

Our team, RoboCanes, was formed in January 2010 for the 3D Soccer Simulation League. One of the team members was the former team leader of Virtual Werder 3D (VW3D) from the University of Bremen. His move to the University of Miami induced taking the original source code from VW3D and porting it to the new requirements of the soccer server and robot model. In Fall 2011, RoboCanes decided to develop its agent’s software from scratch. We are almost finished with this step. The team is lead by Ubbo Visser who is with the RoboCup community in various functions and teams since 2000. He started with (and currently still is in) the Soccer Simulation League. He then founded more teams from the Bremen University in Germany (together with Thomas Röfer): The SSL team B-Smart and the German Team in the 4LL (also together with H.-D. Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin). Since 2008, he is affiliated with the University of Miami in the USA where he founded RoboCanes. Among our team members are Saminda Abeyruwan, Andreas Seekircher, and Justin Stoecker, all PhD students at the Computer Science Department of the University of Miami. Saminda focuses on localization (robot, ball, opponents) and has a good experience with filter techniques. Andreas comes from the team B-Smart and has done studies for his MSc Thesis on the physical Nao. He has published a paper about his thesis entitled ”Entropy-based active vision for a humanoid soccer robot”. He won the best paper award at RoboCup 2010 in Singapore. Justin’s specialties are in graphics/visualization. His skills lead to the new 3D monitor RoboViz that is used for regional opens and the World Championship since 2011. The team is completed by various undergraduate and graduate students.