This summary reports main efforts and results in the RoboCup Federation project “the Research Challenge”. The original motivation of the project was to establish an abstract and simplified 2D competition as a research challenge of the 2D league. We have tried to fulfill the goal through a middleware that implements a set of high-level actions, instead of the soccer server primitive actions, for...

RoboCup is an international initiative to foster interdisciplinary research and education in robotics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and engineering. We focus on the challenges of multi-robot systems, where robots cooperate with each other and when needed with humans to achieve goals in complex and uncertain environments, such as robot soccer, as RoboCupSoccer, robot rescue, as Rob...

We describe the motivations, research issues, current results, and future directions of The Ulm Sparrows, a project that aims at the design and implementation of a team of robotic soccer players. The RoboCup challenge was proposed by Kitano et al..1] in order to revive research in AI and to provide the eld with a new long-range research challenge. Creating a powerful team of skilled robotic soc...

Futsal is the Fédération de Internationale Football Association's officially recognized five-a-side indoor soccer, which although increasing in popularity worldwide, lacks the Australian or other English language research necessary to enable the growth of the sport. The purpose of this study was to establish a comprehensive overview of the demands of futsal by a time-motion analysis on 8 Austra...

BACKGROUND Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) refers to a group of congenital conditions characterized by disordered cortisol synthesis. The correlation between CAH and sports performance has been less studied before and there is very limited information regarding the impacts of this congenital disease on sports performance. Probably, there are some limitations for patients who suffer from CA...

The RoboCup rescue simulation competitions have been held since 2001. The experience gained during these competitions has supported the development of multi-agent and robotics based solution for disaster mitigation. The league consists of three distinct competitions. These competitions are the agent competition, the virtual robots competition, and the infrastructure competition. The main goal o...

OBJECTIVES By most reports, soccer (football) is among the most played and most popular sports in the world. This study prospectively examined behavioral risk factors for youth soccer injury. METHOD Sixty 11- and 12-year-old boys who played on six teams in a suburban recreational soccer league were followed over the course of a season. Six predictors were assessed prior to the start of the se...

The UT Austin Villa team, from the University of Texas at Austin, won the 2016 RoboCup 3D Simulation League, winning all 14 games that the team played. During the course of the competition the team scored 88 goals and conceded only 1. Additionally the team won the RoboCup 3D Simulation League technical challenge by winning each of a series of three league challenges: free, keepaway, and Gazebo ...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine and compare the scores functional movement screen (FMS) professional male soccer players in different leagues. Materials Methods: Previously collected data 64 athletes who were competing three leagues, using FMS test battery procedure analyzed. Asymmetry dysfunction rates, total scores, subgroups each compared. Results: There was no statistical...

the paper tests, in the context of an open sports league, whether greater success is achieved by clubs in markets with larger populations. The relationship is strong but, to a limited extent, mitigated by more clubs establishing in large markets. JEL classification: L83 key words: soccer, market size, entry, competitive balance, success 1 corresponding author: David Forrest, Centre for the Stud...