The robocup humanoid challenge as the millennium challenge for advanced robotics

Advanced Robotics

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 723-736

  Kitano, Hiroaki ^a,b   Asada, Minoru ^c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FIFA; Humanoid; RoboCup; Soccer

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MOTION CONTROL; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

HUMANOID; ROBOCUP; SOCCER;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 0033702297     PISSN: 01691864     EISSN: 15685535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855300X00061     Document Type: Article

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