RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II

M. Asada, M. Veloso, M. Tambe, I. Noda, H. Kitano, G. K. Kraetzschmar (auth.), Minoru Asada, Hiroaki Kitano (eds.)3540663207

RoboCup is an international initiative devoted to advancing the state of the art in artificial intelligence and robotics. The aims of the project and potential research directions are numerous. The ultimate, long-range goal is to build a team of robot soccer players that can beat a human World Cup champion team.
This book is the second official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the Second International Workshop on RoboCup held in Paris, France, in July 1998. The book opens with an overview section, provides research papers on selected technical topics, and presents technical and strategic descriptions of the work of participating teams.
Of interest far beyond the rapidly growing RoboCup community, this book is also indispensable reading for R&D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.

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Table of contents :
Overview of RoboCup-98….Pages 1-21
Character Design for Soccer Commentary….Pages 22-33
Automatic Soccer Commentary and RoboCup….Pages 34-49
Rocco: A RoboCup Soccer Commentator System….Pages 50-60
The CMUnited-98 Champion Simulator Team….Pages 61-76
The CMUnited-98 Champion Small-Robot Team….Pages 77-92
The CS Freiburg Robotic Soccer Team: Reliable Self-Localization, Multirobot Sensor Integration, and Basic Soccer Skills….Pages 93-108
The Survey of RoboCup’ 98: Who, How and Why….Pages 109-119
How to Make a Challenging AI Course Enjoyable Using the RoboCup Soccer Simulation System….Pages 120-124
A Quadruped Robot for RoboCup Legged Robot Challenge in Paris ’98….Pages 125-140
Robot Soccer with LEGO Mindstorms….Pages 141-151
Ball-Receiving Skill Dependent on Centering in Soccer Simulation Games….Pages 152-161
The Priority/Confidence Model as a Framework for Soccer Agents….Pages 162-172
A User Oriented System for Developing Behavior Based Agents….Pages 173-186
From Play Recognition to Good Plays Detection….Pages 187-192
Inductive Verification and Validation of the KULRoT RoboCup Team….Pages 193-206
Layered and Resource-Adapting Agents in the RoboCup Simulation….Pages 207-220
A Description-Processing System for Soccer Agents and NIT Stones 98….Pages 221-236
Using an Explicit Teamwork Model and Learning in RoboCup: An Extended Abstract….Pages 237-245
A Hybrid Agent Model, Mixing Short Term and Long Term Memory Abilities….Pages 246-260
Team-Partitioned, Opaque-Transition Reinforcement Learning….Pages 261-272
Cooperative Behavior Acquisition in a Multiple Mobile Robot Environment by Co-evolution….Pages 273-285
Integrated Reactive Soccer Agents….Pages 286-298
An Innovative Approach to Vision, Localization and Orientation Using Omnidirectional Radial Signature Analysis….Pages 299-315
An Application of Vision-Based Learning in RoboCup for a Real Robot with an Omnidirectional Vision System and the Team Description of Osaka University “Trackies”….Pages 316-325
The RoboCup-NAIST: A Cheap Multisensor-Based Mobile Robot with Visual Learning Capability….Pages 326-337
Andhill-98: A RoboCup Team which Reinforces Positioning with Observation….Pages 338-345
Evolving Team Darwin United ….Pages 346-351
UBU: Utility-Based Uncertainty Handling in Synthetic Soccer….Pages 352-357
AT Humboldt in RoboCup-98 (Team description)….Pages 358-363
Individual Tactical Play and Pass with Communication between Players….Pages 364-370
UFSC-team: A Cognitive Multi-agent Approach to the RoboCup’98 Simulator League….Pages 371-376
Description of Team Erika….Pages 377-383
Getting global performance through local information in PaSo-Team’98….Pages 384-389
A Direct Approach to Robot Soccer Agents: Description for the Team Mainz Rolling rains Simulation League of RoboCup ’98….Pages 390-395
CAT Finland: Executing Primitive Tasks in Parallel….Pages 396-401
A Multi-level Constraint-based Controller for the Dynamo98 Robot Soccer Team….Pages 402-409
The small league RoboCup team of the VUB AI-Lab….Pages 410-415
CIIPS Glory Soccer Robots with Local Intelligence….Pages 416-421
The Cambridge University Robot Football Team Description….Pages 422-427
The UQ RoboRoos Small-Size League Team Description for RoboCup’98….Pages 428-433
ISocRob — Team Description….Pages 434-439
Real MagiCol 98: Team Description and Results….Pages 440-445
Agilo RoboCuppers: RoboCup Team Description….Pages 446-451
The Ulm Sparrows: Research into Sensorimotor Integration, Agency, Learning, and Multiagent Cooperation….Pages 452-457
ART Azzurra Robot Team….Pages 458-463
Design and Evaluation of the T-Team of the University of Tuebingen for RoboCup’98….Pages 464-472
Team Description of the GMD RoboCup-Team….Pages 473-478
UTTORI United: Cooperative Team Play Based on Communication….Pages 479-484
Quadruped Robot Guided by Enhanced Vision System and Supervision Modules….Pages 485-490
The CMTrio-98 Sony Legged Robot Team….Pages 491-497
BabyTigers-98: Osaka Legged Robot Team….Pages 498-506