An autonomous soccer-playing robot was designed and constructed as part of the electrical engineering senior project at Brigham Young University. Unique physical features enable ball handling abilities. A front-side rotating drum retains the ball by applying backspin. A pneumatic kicker allows for fast accurate kicks. Robot movement control is performed by three different systems. The low-level...

THE COGNITIVE APPROACH TO DESIGN OF SOCCER AGENT L. Stankevich Saint-Petersburg State Technical University, Politekhnicheskay 29, (812)24742-14 e-mail: [email protected] Abstract Soccer (association football of robot) makes a good example of the problem of the real world which is moderately abstracted. This play has being chosen as one of standard problems for study on multi-agent sys...

In this paper we explain how we applied genetic programming to behavior-based team coordination in the RoboCup Soccer Server domain. Genetic programming is a promising new method for automatically generating functions and algorithms through natural selection. In contrast to other learning methods, genetic programming’s automatic programming makes it a natural approach for developing algorithmic...

Robot soccer is a popular challenge due to its game dynamics. In particular, mobile robots must exhibit high responsiveness to motion commands and suitable pose control. This article presents a digital controller for pose stability convergence, developed to small-sized soccer robots. Special emphasis has been put on the design of a generic controller, which is suitable for any mobile robot with...

In this paper, we describe the GMD-Robots. These robots will be presented at the RoboCup 1999. RoboCup is the robot world cup soccer games and conferences. It offers the opportunity to examine a wide range of technologies in different research areas. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple moving robots in a dynamic environment. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game vario...

Robot soccer fosters AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. In order for a robot team to actually perform in a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated including: design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics, and...

A humanoid soccer robot named TWNHR-IV and designed by the TKU team to attend the HuroSot League of FIRA RoboWorld Cup is presented. A platform for the study of biped walking control is designed and implemented. A system architecture for TWNHR-IV is presented, where a CMOS sensor, a digital compass, an accelerometer, and eight pressure sensors are used to obtain the information of the environme...

Competing at the RoboCup 2000 Sony legged robot league, the UNSW team won both the challenge competition and all their soccer matches, emerging the outright winners for this league against eleven other international teams. The main advantage that the UNSW team had was speed. A major contributor to the speed was a novel omnidirectional locomotion method developed for the quadruped Sony ERS-110 r...

Robots participating in a soccer game need to determine the position of the ball, other robots, and the goal positions using real time visual tracking, along with being able to navigate safely, move the ball towards the opponents goal, and co-operate with teammates. Each soccer robot is equipped with basic behaviours such as chasing the ball and shoot it at the goal. Although the single-agent b...

In contrast to human soccer players, autonomous robot soccer players often move according to a limited set of predefined behavioural rules. This knowledge can be used advantageously: If the opponent’s behavioural rules are learned, it will be possible to detect these during a match and react accordingly. A method for autonomous activity mining in videos, called Probabilistic Latent Sequential M...