Coaching in sport is a complex activity where several components influence each other to achieve the goal, especially team sports. Skills, physical abilities, and tactics are not enough, but with strong character by players increasingly chances of achieving success. Researchers have found coaching models that aim improve technical skills integrated proven be effective. This research aims find e...

Following obstacle free paths towards the ball and avoiding opponents while dribbling are key skills to win soccer games. These tasks are challenging as the robot’s environment in soccer games is highly dynamic. Thus, exact plans will likely become invalid in the future and continuous replanning is necessary. The robots of the RoboCup Standard Platform League are equipped with limited computati...

BACKGROUND In professional soccer, a significant amount of training time is used to improve players' aerobic capacity. However, it is not known whether soccer specific training fulfils the criterion of effective endurance training to improve maximal oxygen uptake, namely an exercise intensity of 90-95% of maximal heart rate in periods of three to eight minutes. OBJECTIVE To determine whether ...

The Dutch robot soccer team Clockwork Orange is a research project of the Delft University of Technology and the University of Amsterdam. In this project we study multi-robot collaboration, robot vision and robot control. Our research focus, overviewed in this paper, is on automatic calibration for robust colour segmentation, behaviour based robotics, reinforcement trained dribbling with the ba...

Following obstacle free paths towards the ball and avoiding opponents while dribbling are key skills to win soccer games. These tasks are challenging as the robot’s environment in soccer games is highly dynamic. Thus, exact plans will likely become invalid in the future and continuous replanning is necessary. The robots of the RoboCup Standard Platform League are equipped with limited computati...

This study investigates the influence of specific soccer training with the non-dominant leg on mental rotation performance of 20 adolescent soccer players between 10 and 11 years of age. While the experimental group performed soccer specific tasks only with the non-dominant foot once a week for 10 weeks, the control group absolved the same exercises with the dominant foot for the same period of...