This paper introduces a general formulation of relational behaviours for cooperative real robots and an example of its implementation using the pass between soccer robots of the Middle-Sized League of RoboCup. The formulation is based on the Joint Commitment Theory and the pass implementation is supported by past work on soccer robots navigation. Results of experiments with real robots under co...

The RoboCup Humanoid Kidsize League has rocketed into an exceptionally competitive league, supported by recent introduction of the open source hardware and software platforms. Teams must improve substantially their robot teams every year to stay competitive. In addition to the important skills of walking speed, kick stability, and visual acuity, the 2013 season introduced rule changes to test r...

The EA Sports Player Performance Index is a rating system for soccer players used in the top two tiers of soccer in England—the Premier League and the Championship. Its development was a collaboration among professional soccer leagues, a news media association, and academia. In this paper, we describe the index and its construction. The novelty of the index lies in its attempts to rate all play...

2004, George Nemhauser attended a conference on combinatorial optimization held in Santiago, Chile (LACGA’04), which was organized by the Center for Operations Management (CGO) at the University of Chile’s Department of Industrial Engineering. After giving a talk on game scheduling for Major League Baseball (MLB), the Georgia Tech engineering professor granted an interview to a prominent local ...

In particular we address the challenge of im proving the team performance by exploiting the ability to coordinate the actions of the players The advantages of coordination in a soccer play ing scenario can not only be measured in terms of the number of goals scored in the opponents goal but also in the achievement of subgoals such as defending own goal gaining ball possession properly covering ...

This paper describes the humanoid robot Toni that has been designed to play soccer in the RoboCup Humanoid League. The paper details Toni’s mechanical and electrical design, perception, self localization, behavior control, and infrastructure. Toni is fully autonomous, has a low weight (2.2kg), and is much taller (74cm) than most servo-driven humanoid robots. It has a wide field of view camera, ...

Simulators have a long tradition within RoboCup. In the Soccer Simulation League, one of the earliest leagues within RoboCup, traditionally single-purpose robot simulators with high levels of abstraction have been used. These systems proved valuable as tools for multiagent research, but were difficult to extend. Furthermore, there were concerns that research results would not be easily transfer...