Robotic Soccer

Many papers in the book concern advanced research on (multi-)robot subsystems, naturally motivated by the challenges posed by robot soccer, but certainly applicable to other domains:

Book Description

Reasoning, multi-criteria decision-making, behavior and team coordination, cooperative perception, localization, mobility systems (namely omni-directional wheeled motion, as well as quadruped and biped locomotion, all strongly developed within RoboCup), and even a couple of papers on a topic apparently solved before Soccer Robotics – color segmentation – but for which several new algorithms were introduced since the mid-nineties by researchers on the field, to solve dynamic illumination and fast color segmentation problems, among others.
This book is certainly a small sample of the research activity on Soccer Robotics going on around the globe as you read it, but it surely covers a good deal of what has been done in the field recently, and as such it works as a valuable source for researchers interested in the involved subjects, whether they are currently “soccer roboticists” or not.

Table of Contents

• Communication and Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams of Soccer Robots
• Motion Detection and Object Tracking for an AIBO Robot Soccer Player
• Comprehensive Omni-Directional Soccer Player Robots
• Event-driven Hybrid Classifier Systems and Online Learning for Soccer Game Strategies
• Robust and Accurate Detection of Object Orientation and ID without Color Segmentation
• Behavior Acquisition in RoboCup Middle Size League Domain
• Multicriterial Decision-Making Control of the Robot Soccer Team
• Robust and Efficient Robot Vision Through Sampling
• Robot Localisation Using a Distributed Multi-Modal Kalman Filter
• Impossibles: A Fully Autonomous Four-Legged Robot Soccer Team
• RoboCup@Home: Creating and Benchmarking Tomorrows Service Robot Applications
• VolksBot – A Construction Kit for Multi-Purpose Robot Prototyping
• Collaborative Localization and Gait Optimization of SharPKUngfu Team
• Analysing the Difficulty of Learning Goal-Scoring Behaviour for Robot Soccer
• Learning to Play Soccer with the SimpleSoccer Robot Soccer Simulator
• Integrating Autonomous Behaviour and Team Coordination into an Embedded Architecture
• Positioning in Robots Soccer
• Non-Monotonic Reasoning on Board a Sony AIBO
• Color Classification and Object Recognition for Robot Soccer Under Variable Illumination
• Towards Model-based Vision Systems for Robot Soccer Teams
• Probabilistic and Statistical Layered Approach for High-Level Decision Making in Soccer Simulation Robotics
• Simulated Environment in Robot Soccer
• A Robust and Scalable Pareto Optimal Ball Passing Algorithm for the Robotic Soccer
• FC Portugal – High-Level Coordination Methodologies in Soccer Robotics
• Desktop Robot Soccer
• Embedded Behavioral Control of Four-legged Robots
• A Comprehensive Framework for Perception in Robotic Soccer
• Task Management for Soft Real-Time Applications Based on General Purpose Operating Systems
• The Robotic Water Polo and Underwater Robot Cooperation Involved in the Game

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