“Infographics” is a very new RoboCup Soccer Simulation League 2D team, based on the released source code of agent2d [1] and Gliders [2,3]. It also uses librcsc (a base library for The RoboCup Soccer Simulator, RCSS [4]); soccerwindow2: a viewer program for RCSS; fedit2: a formation editor for agent2d; and GIBBS: in-browser log-player for 2D Simulation League logs [5]. The Soccer Simulation 2D L...

In this paper, we report on the current developments of our Mirosot Robot Soccer team, the “Robocoasters”, in preparation for the FIRA Robot World Cup 2002 in Korea. We describe a number of unique enhancements to both the vision systems and the control system. Vision enhancements include a unique shape recognition system, expanded from recognition of three shapes to five shapes for the middle l...

This paper traces four years of evolution of the UNSW team in the RoboCup Sony legged robot league. The lessons learned in the creation of a competitive team are instructive for a wide range of applications of robotics. We describe the development of vision and localisation procedures for robot soccer, as well as innovations in locomotion and the design of game play strategies. Since all teams ...

RoboCup is particularly well-known for its soccer leagues, but there are an increasing number of application leagues. The newest one is the Logistics League where groups of robots take on the task of in-factory production logistics. It has two unique aspects: a game environment which itself acts as an agent and a focus on planning and scheduling in robotics. We propose a simulation based on Gaz...

1. Introduction Pollard and Reep (1997) point out that " soccer coaches, players, fans, and the media are deeply skeptical and often suspicious, to the point of paranoia, at the suggestion that a statistician might have something useful to offer […] ". Statisticians, though, have a different opinion. Statistical interest on the aspects of the game has been steadily rising over the past decades....

Generally speaking in sports competition a number of teams play against each other over a period of time according to a certain scheme. The round robin scheme is very popular in many team sports like soccer and basketball. In this paper we study several basic variants of round robin tournaments. Additionally, we examine real world issues that have to be considered when constructing a sports lea...

Background: Soccer is a complex sport with high cardiovascular demands. Preparation for the demands of competition often involves game-simulation practice. This is supposed to improve the physiological adaptions. The main purpose of this study was to compare heart rate (HR) distribution among elite female soccer players during in-season training sessions and a game. Methods: Fifteen players wer...

Humanoid soccer serves as a suitable benchmark problem for research in artificial intelligence and robotics, and has seen impressive progress in recent years. Thus, many teams participating in the Standard Platform League (SPL) of the RoboCup competition were focusing on improving basic skills for many years. But flexible and fast behavior engineering incorporating team tactics still remains as...

This paper describes our approach on evolving a robot controller to generate a set of goalkeeper behaviours in the Simulation League of the RoboCup competition. The goalkeeper agent is a software construct that performs in a simulated environment provided by the Soccer Server. The soccer server is a noisy environment provided as a testing ground for various artificial intelligence techniques us...

Humanoid soccer robots perceive their environment exclusively through cameras. This paper presents a monocular vision system that was originally developed for use in the RoboCup Humanoid League, but is expected to be transferable to other soccer leagues. Recent changes in the Humanoid League rules resulted in a soccer environment with less color coding than in previous years, which makes percep...