The Robocup 97 competition provides an excellent opportunity to demonstrate the techniques and methods of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and computer vision. On a soccer field the core capabilities a player must have are to navigate the field, track the ball and other agents, recognize the difference between agents, collaborate with other agents, and hit the ball in the correct dire...

Having the goal of winning against the human world champions in soccer in 2050 in mind, the Humanoid League is facing the challenges of having to increase field and robot size until the sizes of regular fields and regular players are reached in the year 2040. The next major step is foreseen for the year 2020, when minimum robot size will increase by 50%, the number of robots per team will incre...

Middle-sized robot soccer competition provides an excellent opportunity for distributed robotic systems. In particular, a team of dog-sized robot players must perform real-time visual recognition, navigate in a dynamic field, track moving objects, collaborate with teammates, and hit a FIFA size-4 ball in the correct direction. All these tasks demand integrated robots that are autonomous (on-boa...

At present, world sports events become more and more various, but basketball is still one of Chinese youth favorite sports events, Chinese basketball teaching also gradually becomes focus of researching. The paper analyzes Chinese basketball teaching status. Firstly, it studies China university basketball super League cultural background competition rules, it finds out that China university bas...

On April 18, 2021, 12 of Europe’s elite men’s professional football (soccer) clubs announced they were creating a stand-alone midweek European Super League (ESL). The league would be separate and independent from existing governance bodies controlling the sport worldwide. In addition, exist in closed competition format where only member played against each other. A total departure traditional o...

The DoH!Bots (Dortmund Humanoid Robots) is a team of researchers and students from Dortmund University. Our group took part in the humanoid league for the first time at RoboCup 2006, as part of the team BreDoBrothers which was a cooperation with Bremen University. This year both groups want to compete in the Humanoid league independently, due to the difficulties encountered in managing remotely...

The ability to produce peak performance plays a decisive role in the success of athletes in competitive contest situations. Levels of appetitive competition motivation (ACM), i.e., the desire to defeat an opponent independent of secondary reinforcing factors, were assessed in professional female football/soccer players in the premier and regional leagues, using club level as the measurement of ...

This paper examines the relationship between financial inequality, competitive balance and attendance at English professional league soccer. It is shown that while financial inequality among the clubs has increased, competitive balance has remained relatively stable and match attendance appears unrelated to competitive balance. A clearer test of the relationship between these three variables is...

the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of official soccer competition on saliva cortisol, testosterone and immunoglobulin a in male players. for this purpose, 14 fixed players (age: 28.24±4.3 years) were equally selected from two opponent teams in 2009 elimination cup. saliva samples at the rest and immediately after the first half time, before and after the second half time wer...