The Standard Platform League is one of the main competitions at the annual RoboCup world championships. In this competition, teams of five humanoid robots play soccer against each other. In 2013, the league began a new competition which serves as a testbed for cooperation without pre-coordination: the Drop-in Player Competition. Instead of homogeneous robot teams that are each programmed by the...

Background. Brand Personality (BP) is one of the most commonly used concepts in marketing literature, and academicians and marketers believe in its benefits. Today, brand personality plays an important role in strategic management and it is considered as one of the most important tactics of an organization to gain a Competitive Advantage (CA). Objectives. This paper aims to investigate the fac...

Robot soccer has evolved into a very dynamic and competitive field within the last few years. Many different robot soccer leagues now exist, the league most strongly dedicated to entertainment and edutainment is currently FIRA MiroSot. It has now reached 11 vs. 11 robots sized 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5 cm on a 440 x 280 cm field and is therefore the first robot soccer league to physically play 11 vs. 11 ...

Especially in Europe, soccer has become big business, involving many parties (e.g. teams, police, broadcasting companies, ...) and a lot of money. Naturally, the schedule of the matches is of great importance, since it has a considerable impact on the costs or revenues of all parties involved. Each party has its (possibly conflicting) constraints and wishes, which makes it hard to generate a sc...

The humanoid soccer robot league is a new international initiative to foster robotics and AI technologies using soccer games [1]. This paper provides a brief description of a low-cost autonomous humanoid soccer robot called Robo-Erectus (RE), which has been developed in the Center for Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control (ARICC) at Singapore Polytechnic since 2001. To develop a low-cost hu...

Most studies on the identification and development of soccer talent have been one-dimensional in nature. Although some multi-dimensional analyses have been conducted, few research studies have assessed in any depth the socio-spatial factors influencing talent development. The aim of this particular study was to analyse variations in the international representation of clubs (n = 821) and countr...

The Small Size Robot League (SSL) was among the founding RoboCup leagues in the 1997 competition held during IJCAI’97 in Nagoya, Japan. Since then, the league has experienced various advances in terms of robot design, number of robots, field size, software algorithms and other infrastructure used during the games, among these the recent standardization of the vision system shared by all teams. ...

PURPOSE Despite numerous studies which have been done regarding soccer injuries worldwide, there is lack of available data considering the epidemiology of injuries in the Iranian soccer premier league, although it is the most popular sport in the country. The main goal of this research was to determine the incidence of physical injuries in the studied population, considering other characteristi...

In this prospective observational study, injuries sustained in official match-play in players belonging to a professional soccer club were investigated. Incidence and patterns of injury were compared across four-seasons (2005-2006: S1, 2006-2007: S2, 2007-2008: S3 and 2008-2009: S4) and 3 match formats (domestic League/Cup games and European club competition). In addition, the effects of both f...