The educational experiences from using robot soccer in computer science courses are outlined. The educational approach can be termed guided constructionism and it differs from the traditional (pure) constructionism, which can be termed unguided constructionism, by combining hands-on experience with lecturing and guidance. We believe that some essential arguments needs to be taught through lectu...

The Segway Human Transport (HT) is a one person dynamically selfbalancing transportation vehicle. The Segway Robot Mobility Platform (RMP) is a modification of the HT capable of being commanded by a computer for autonomous operation. With these platforms, we propose a new domain for human-robot coordination through a competitive game: Segway Soccer. The players include robots (RMPs) and humans ...

The SegwayTM LLC company has provided a robust mobility platform on which to research human/robot coordination in an adversarial environment. The Segway Human Transport (HT) is a one person dynamically self-balancing transportation vehicle. The Segway Robot Mobility Platform (RMP) is a modification of the Human Transporter capable of being programmed for autonomous operation. With these platfor...

The game of soccer is one of the main focuses of the RoboCup competitions, being a fun and entertaining research environment for the development of autonomous multi-agent cooperative systems. For an autonomous robot to be able to play soccer, first it has to perceive the surrounding world and extract only the relevant information in the game context. Therefore, the vision system of a robotic so...

A motion control and the corresponded strategy to realize cyclic ball passing motion in robot soccer games are presented in this paper. By this strategy, multiple mobile robots kick the ball in tum with high speed while they adjust or change their formation. The ball-kick controller is to drive the robot to an adequate position with a prescribed velocity in a fixed finite time. After kicking, t...

The implementation of high-performance robot controllers for complex control tasks such as playing autonomous robot soccer is tedious, errorprone, and a never ending programming task. In this paper we propose programmers to write autonomous controllers that optimize and automatically adapt themselves to changing circumstances of task execution using explicit perception, dynamics and action mode...

Evolutionary Artificial Potential Field (EAPF) functions are utilized for mobile robot navigation in a microrobot soccer (MiroSot) environment. In a micro-robot soccer system the robots are monitored using an overhead CCD Camera, making it suitable for real time application of the EAPF functions. The effectiveness of the EAPF functions in real time mobile robot navigation are verified through e...

The aim of this paper is to give a short introduction to an autonomous robot system on the practice-oriented example of robot soccer as a test bed for the implementation of Multi Agent Systems. It is a great opportunity to work with robot soccer, because it is covering almost every parts of an autonomous system and gives an idea how such a system can be realized.

This paper deals with an intelligent control of an autonomous mobile robot, which can adapt to dynamical environments. RoboCup soccer robots are chosen as demonstration targets. An important issue in robotic soccer is how to respond to dynamical environment. This study presents an intelligent control method based on System-Life concept for the autonomous mobile robot system. In other words, it ...

With the ever increase in the number of robots in an industrial environment, scientists/technologists were often faced with issues on cooperation and coordination among diierent robots and their self governance in a work space. This has led to the developments in multi-robot cooperative autonomous systems. The proponents of multi-robot autonomous systems needed a model to test the theories bein...