RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV

Thebookconcludeswithdescriptionsofmostofthemorethan80teams thatcompetedinRoboCup2000. Theseteamdescriptionsservetocatalogthe fullrangeofresearchersandapproachesthathavebeenappliedtothechallenges putforthbyRoboCup. ThenextinternationalRoboCupeventswillbeheldinSeattle,USA(2001) andinFukuoka,Japan(2002). InadditiontoallexistingRoboCupevents,they arescheduledtointroduce(i)RoboCup-Rescuedisasterrescuecompetitionsfor thetransferofideasandtechniquesdevelopedinthesoccerdomaintoarelated task,and(ii)ahumanoidrobotcompetitionasasteptowardsthelong-termgoal ofcreatingafullteamofhumanoidrobotsthatcompeteonarealsoccer?eld. Welookforwardtocontinuingresearchinnovationsandexcitingdemonstrations ofroboticsandAItechnologyintheseandotherfutureRoboCupevents. March2000 PeterStone,TuckerBalch,andGerhardKraetzschmar RoboCupFederation TheRoboCupFederation,thegoverningbodyofRoboCup,isaninternational organizationthatpromotesscienceandtechnologyusingsoccergamesbyrobots andsoftwareagents. President: HiroakiKitano,JapanScienceandTechnologyCorporation,Japan Vice-Presidents: MinoruAsada,OsakaUniversity,Japan EnricoPagello,UniversityofPadua,Italy ManuelaVeloso,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA Trustees: Hans-DieterBurkhard,HumboldtUniversity,Germany SilviaCoradeschi,OrebroUniversity,Sweden DominiqueDuhaut,UniversityofSouthernBretagne,France FransGroen,UniversityofAmsterdam,TheNetherlands AndrewJennings,RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology,Australia MilindTambe,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA ExecutiveCommittee: TuckerBalch,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA AndreasBirk,FreeUniversityofBrussels,Belgium MasahiroFujita,SonyCorp. ,Japan GerhardKraetzschmar,UniversityofUlm,Germany PaulLevi,UniversityofStuttgart,Germany PedroLima,ISR/IST,TechnicalUniversityofLisbon,Portugal HenrikLund,UniversityofSouthernDenmark,Denmark DanieleNardi,UniversityofRomeLaSapienza,Italy ItsukiNoda,ETL,Japan DanielPolani,Lub ¨ eckUniversity,Germany Raul ´ Rojas,UniversityofBerlin,Germany PeterStone,AT&TLabsResearch,USA SatoshiTadokoro,KobeUniversity,Japan GordonWyeth,UniversityofQueensland,Australia AdvisoryCommittee: LuigiaCarlucciAiello,Universit´adiRomaLaSapienza,Italy DanielBobrow,XEROXPARC,USA MichaelBrady,OxfordUniversity,UK ToshioFukuda,NagoyaUniversity,Japan MichaelP. George?,AustralianAIInstitute,Australia AlanMackworth,UniversityofBritishColumbia,Canada DavidWaltz,NECResearch,USA WolfgangWahlster,DFKI,Germany RoboCup2000OrganizationandSupport GeneralChair: AndrewJennings,RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology,Australia DeputyGeneralChair: JeremySamuel,AustralianAIInstitute,Australia OrganizingCo-chairs: EnricoPagello,UniversityofPadua,Italy ManuelaVeloso,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA MinoruAsada,OsakaUniversity,Japan SimulatorLeagueCommittee: PaulScerri(chair),Link¨opingUniversity,Sweden TomoichiTakahashi,ChubuUniversity,Japan GalKaminka,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA MikhailProkopenko,CSIRO,Australia RyszardKowalczyk,CSIRO,Australia Small-SizeRobotLeague(F180)Committee: GordonWyeth(chair),UniversityofQueensland,Australia Raul ´ Rojas,FreeUniversityofBerlin,Germany YukiNakagawa,KitanoSymbioticSystems,Japan AndrewHoward,UniversityofMelbourne,Australia Middle-SizeRobotLeague(F2000)Committee: Ste?enGutmann(chair),UniversityofFreiburg,Germany YongFookSeng,NgeeAnnPolytechnic,Singapore Wei-MinShen,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA PaulParisi,AustralianAIInstitute,Australia SonyLeggedRobotLeagueCommittee: MasahiroFujita(chair),SonyCorp. ,Japan MinoruAsada,OsakaUniversity,Japan ManuelaVeloso,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA DominiqueDuhaut,UniversityofSouthernBretagne,France WorkshopProgramCommittee: PeterStone,(co-chair),AT&TLabsResearch,USA TuckerBalch(co-chair),CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA GerhardKraetzschmar(co-chair),UniversityofUlm,Germany GiovanniAdorni,UniversityofParma,Italy DavidAndre,U. C. Berkeley,USA RonArkin,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology,USA AndreasBirk,UniversityofBrussels,Belgium AndreaBonarini,PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy MichaelBowling,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA IanFra

Overview of Robocup-2000.- Overview of Robocup-2000.- Champion Teams.- FC Portugal Team Description: RoboCup 2000 Simulation League Champion.- The Cornell Robocup Team.- CS Freiburg: Doing the Right Thing in a Group.- The UNSW RoboCup 2000 Sony Legged League Team.- Challenge Award Finalists.- Adaptive Path Planner for Highly Dynamic Environments.- Communication and Coordination among heterogeneous Mid-Size Players: ART99.- A Localization Method for a Soccer Robot Using a Vision-Based Omni-Directional Sensor.- Behavior Classification with Self-Organizing Maps.- Full Papers.- Flexible Synchronisation Within RoboCup Environment: a Comparative Analysis.- Extended Q-Learning: Reinforcement Learning Using Self-Organized State Space.- And the Fans are Going Wild! SIG Plus MIKE.- Fast and Accurate Robot Vision for Vision Based Motion.- Design of Robocup-Rescue Viewers — Towards a Real World Emergency System —.- From Multiple Images to a Consistent View.- Omni-directional vision with a multi-part mirror.- Observation strategy for decision making based on information criterion.- Towards a Logical Approach for Soccer Agents Engineering.- Bridging Gap between the Simulation and Robotics with a Global Vision System.- Real-Time Estimating Spatial Configuration between Multiple Robots by Triangle and Enumeration Constraints.- Framework of Distributed Simulation System for Multi-Agent Environment.- Robust Real Time Color Tracking.- Reinforcement Learning for 3 vs. 2 Keepaway.- Fault-tolerant self localization by case-based reasoning.- PINO The Humanoid : A Basic Architecture.- Poster Description.- Team/goal-keeper coordination in the RoboCup mid-size league.- RescueModel: A Multi-Agent Simulation of Bushfire Disaster Management.- Vision-based Localization in RoboCup Environments.- Collaborative Emergent Actions between Real Soccer Robots.- The Statistics Proxy Server.- Using Simulated RoboCup in Undergraduate Education.- Path Planning of a Mobile Robot as a Discrete Optimization Problem and Adjustment of Weight Parameters in the Objective Function by Reinforcement Learning.- Simulator Complex for Robocup Rescue Simulation Project — As Test-Bed for Multi-Agent Organizational Behavior in Emergency Case of Large-Scale Disaster.- A Quadratic Programming Formulation of a Moving Ball Interception and Shooting Behaviour, and its Application to Neural Network Control.- Keeping the Ball from CMUnited-99.- Potential Tasks and Research Issues for Mobile Robots in RoboCup Rescue.- Potential Field Approach to Short Term Action Planning in RoboCup F180 League.- Robocup-Rescue Simulation: in case of Fire Fighting Planning.- On Emergence of Scalable Tactical and Strategic Behaviour.- Karlsruhe Brainstormers - A Reinforcement Learning approach to robotic soccer.- Preliminary Studies of Dynamics of Physical Agents Ecosystems.- RoboCup-Rescue Disaster Simulator Architecture.- Improvement Continuous Valued Q-learning and its Application to Vision Guided Behavior Acquisition.- Recognizing Formations in Opponent Teams.- Simulation League.- SBC++ Simulator Team.- A Team.- AT Humboldt 2000 (Team Description).- AIRG Sibiu.- The NOAI Team Description.- Improved Agents of the magmafreiburg2000 Team.- Virtual Werder.- Kakitsubata Team Description.- PaSo-Team 2000.- Sharif-Arvand Simulation Team.- SharifII Soccer Simulation Team.- Essex Wizards 2000 Team Description.- RoboCup-2000 Simulation League: Team KU-Yam2000.- Harmony Team.- TakAI.- PSI Team.- PSI Team.- Gnez: Adapting Knowledge to the Environment with GA.- Gnez: Adapting knowledge to the environment with GA.- Zeng00 : the Realization of Mixed Strategy in Simulation Soccer Game.- Zeng00: The Realization of Mixed Strategy in simulation soccer game.- RoboLog Koblenz 2000.- RoboLog Koblenz 2000.- Open Zeng: an Open Style Distributed Semi-Cooperative Team Development Project from Japan.- Open Zeng: an Open Style Distributed Semi-Cooperative Team Development Project from Japan.- Gemini in RoboCup-2000.- Gemini in RoboCup-2000.- Team Description for Lucky lübeck - Evidence-Based World State Estimation.- Team Description for Lucky Lübeck — Evidence-Based World State Estimation.- Karlsruhe Brainstormers 2000 Team Description.- Karlsruhe Brainstormers 2000 Team Description.- ATT-CMUnited-2000: Third Place Finisher in the Robocup-2000 Simulator League.- ATT-CMUnited-2000: Third Place Finisher in the Robocup-2000 Simulator League.- Headless Chickens IV.- Headless Chickens IV.- Mainz Rolling Brains 2000.- Mainz Rolling Brains 2000.- Team Description of Spatial-Timer.- Team Description of Spatial-Timer.- Polytech100.- Polytech100.- Team YowAI-2000 Description.- Team YowAI-2000 Description.- 11monkeysII.- 11monkeysII.- All Botz.- All Botz.- 4 Stooges.- 4 Stooges.- CIIPS Glory Small Soccer Robots with Local Image Processing.- CIIPS Glory Small Soccer Robots with Local Image Processing.- ViperRoos 2000.- ViperRoos 2000.- RoboCup 2000 (F180) Team Description : UPMC-CFA Team (France).- RoboCup 2000 (F180) Team Description : UPMC-CFA Team (France).- MuCows.- MuCows.- Role-Based Strategy in Tpots RoboCup Team.- Role-Based Strategy in TPOTs RoboCup Team.- LuckyStar II - Team Description Paper.- LuckyStar II - Team Description Paper.- FU-Fighters 2000.- FU-Fighters 2000.- RoGi Team Description.- RoGi Team Description.- UQ RoboRoos: Kicking on to 2000.- UQ RoboRoos: Kicking on to 2000.- ART’00 - Azzurra Robot Team for the Year 2000.- ART’00 - Azzurra Robot Team for the Year 2000.- RMIT United.- RMIT United.- Agilo RoboCuppers: RoboCup Team Description.- Agilo RoboCuppers: RoboCup Team Description.- WinKIT.- WinKIT.- CMU Hammerheads Team Description.- CMU Hammerheads Team Description.- GMD-Robots.- GMD-Robots.- A Goal Keeper for Middle Size Robocup.- A Goal Keeper for Middle Size Robocup.- The Dutch Team.- The Dutch Team.- The RoboCup-NAIST.- The RoboCup-NAIST.- KIRC: Kyutech Intelligent Robot Club.- KIRC: Kyutech Intelligent Robot Club.- CoPS-Team Description.- CoPS-Team Description.- Golem Team in Middle-Sized Robots League.- Golem Team in Middle-Sized Robots League.- Osaka University “Trackies 2000”.- Osaka University “Trackies 2000”.- Essex Rovers Team Description.- Essex Rovers Team Description.- French LRP Team’s Description.- French LRP Team’s Description.- Team ARAIBO.- Team ARAIBO.- CMPack’ 00.- CMPack ’00.- The Mcgill’s Reddogs Legged League System.- The McGill’s RedDogs Legged League System.- BabyTigers: Osaka Legged Robot Team.- BabyTigers: Osaka Legged Robot Team.- S.P.Q.R..- S.P.Q.R..- The University of Pennsylvania RoboCup Legged Soccer Team.- The University of Pennsylvania RoboCup Legged Soccer Team.- Team Sweden.- Team Sweden.- RoboMutts.- RoboMutts.- Humboldt Heroes.- Humboldt Heroes.