To promote robotic soccer research, we need a low cost and portable robot with some sensors and a communication device. To date, there is no platform for robotic soccer. Therefore, each researcher must build his own robots or utilize robots which are commercially available. This paper describes how to construct a robot system which includes a lightweight and low cost mobile robot with visual, t...

The UQ RoboRoos have been developed to participate in the RoboCup robot soccer small size league over several years. RoboCup 2001 saw a focus on the mechanical design of the RoboRoos, with the introduction of an omni-directional drive system and a high power kicker. The change in mechanical design had implications for the rest of the system particularly navigation and multi-robot planning. In a...

Gaze direction determination of opponents and teammates is a very important ability for any soccer player, human or robot. However, this ability is still not developed in any of the RoboCup soccer leagues. We aim at reverting this situation by proposing a gaze direction determination system for robot soccer; the system is designed primarily for the four-legged league, but it could be extended t...

The Dynamical Systems Design department at the Eindhoven University of Eindhoven is actively researching the design and control of robotic systems. Examples are Amigo, the service robot competing in the RoboCup @home league, the mid-size league soccer robots of Tech United and the Tulip which is the humanoid robot competing in the RoboCup humanoid adult league. One of the new research activitie...

Motion detection and tracking while moving is a desired ability for any soccer player and in particular for any robot soccer player. For instance, this ability allows the determination of the ball trajectory when the player is moving himself or when he is moving his head, for making or planning a soccer-play. If a robot soccer player should have a similar functionality, then it requires an algo...

The Segway Human Transporter (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 human...

In this paper, a new illumination invariant color model HSy with large discriminating power is proposed for object recognition in autonomous robot soccer. Object recognition for soccer robot is used as a benchmark problem for the proposed color model. Classical illumination invariant color components are analyzed. New illumination invariant color components are defined based on the dichromatic ...

Robotic soccer teams are multi-robot systems that react autonomously and flexibly to dynamic game environment. They can follow many strategies, some of which are imitation of human soccer teams and require multiple robots to perform collectively. The development of such systems exceeds the concept of conventional mechatronic products. During the early development phase, fundamental design probl...

finding an optimal path for a robot in a soccer field involves different parameters such as the positions of the robot, positions of the obstacles, etc. due to simplicity and smoothness of ferguson spline, it has been employed for path planning between arbitrary points on the field in many research teams. in order to optimize the parameters of ferguson spline some evolutionary or intelligent al...

Robot soccer is a challenging platform for multi-agent research, involving topics such as real-time image processing and control, robot path planning, obstacle avoidance and machine learning. The robot soccer game presents an uncertain and dynamic environment for cooperating agents [1][2]. Dynamic role switching and formation control are crucial for a successful game. The fuzzy logic based stra...