Playing games is an important aspect in human life in order to develop skills or in terms of entertainment. Games also play a major role in research such as Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. In this paper we present an approach to enable the humanoid robot Nao to play a board game against a human opponent. We discuss the challenges that arise by the task of playing a board game with a human...

In this paper we will present an application for constraint based methods to self localize within the RoboCup domain. During a robotic soccer game, robots of a team need to know where they and their team mates are on the field, therefore they need to localize themselves. For self localization, constraint based methods can be an effective alternative to classic Bayesian approaches as Kalman filt...

RoboCup soccer is still host to frequent collisions between robots that lead to unsavory gameplan that is typically not allowed in human soccer. In the Standard Platform league where ultrasonic sensors are employed, these collisions are forbidden, but there is still leniency in the Humanoid League. Additionally, advanced behaviors, such as dribbling, require robust obstacle avoidance strategies...

This paper describes the hardware and software design of the kidsize humanoid robot systems of the Darmstadt Dribblers in 2010. The robots are used as a vehicle for research in control of locomotion and behavior of autonomous humanoid robots and robot teams with many degrees of freedom and many actuated joints. The Humanoid League of RoboCup provides an ideal testbed for such aspects of dynamic...

This paper describes the hardware and software design of the kidsize humanoid robot systems of the Darmstadt Dribblers in 2007. The robots are used as a vehicle for research in control of locomotion and behavior of autonomous humanoid robots and robot teams with many degrees of freedom and many actuated joints. The Humanoid League of RoboCup provides an ideal testbed for such aspects of dynamic...

This document describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRo KidSize of Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany, which is qualified for the competition to be held in Atlanta in July 2007. Our team uses self-constructed robots for playing soccer. The paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of the robots. It also covers the software used for perception, behavior control, commu...

This paper describes the hardware and software design of the kidsize humanoid robot systems of the Darmstadt Dribblers in 2009. The robots are used as a vehicle for research in control of locomotion and behavior of autonomous humanoid robots and robot teams with many degrees of freedom and many actuated joints. The Humanoid League of RoboCup provides an ideal testbed for such aspects of dynamic...

This document describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRo TeenSize of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, as required by the qualification procedure for the competition to be held in Eindhoven in June 2013. Our team uses selfconstructed robots for playing soccer. This paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of the robots. It also covers the software used ...

This document describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRoKidSize of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, as required by the qualification procedure for the competition to be held in Graz in July 2009. Our team uses self-constructed robots for playing soccer. The paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of the robots. It also covers the software used for per...

Robot soccer is a standard problem used in Artiicial Intelligence for research on cooperating autonomous robots. This paper shows that simulation of robot soccer also is an excellent application for studying interactive and collaborative visualization. We have implemented a prototype robot soccer application that simulates a soccer match in real time and allows humans to interact with it in var...