RoboCup 2004 competitions and symposium: A small kick for robots, a giant score for science

AI Magazine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 36-61

  Lima, Pedro ^a   Custódio, Luis ^a   Akin, H Levent ^b   Jacoff, Adam ^c   Kraetzschmar, Gerhard ^d   Kiat, Ng Beng ^e   Obst, Oliver ^f   Röfer, Thomas ^g   Takahashi, Yasutake ^h   Zhou, Changjiu ⁱ  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d FRAUNHOFER IAIS   (Germany)

^e DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^f University of Koblenz   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^h OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Control Centre   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; EXHIBITIONS; MOBILE ROBOTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

ROBOCUP SYMPOSIUM; ROBOT SOCCER; TECHNICAL CHALLENGE COMPETITION;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 21244444711     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Berger, R.; Gollin, M.; and Burkhard, H.-D. 2004. AT Humboldt 2004 and AT Humboldt 3D Team Description. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, Team Description Papers CD-Rom. Berlin: Springer.
2. Fox, D.; Thrun, S.; Burgard, W.; and Dellaert, F. 2001. Particle Filters for Mobile Robot Localization. In Sequential Monte Carlo Methods in Practice, ed. A. Doucet, N. de Freitas, and N. Gordon. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
3. Gönner, C.; Rous, M.; and Kraiss, K.-F. 2005. Real-Time Adaptive Colour Segmen- tation for the RoboCup Middle-Size League. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, ed. D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, and J. Santos-Victor. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
4. Hoffmann, J.; Jüngel, M.; Lötzsch, M. 2005. A Vision Based System for Goal-Directed Obstacle Avoidance Used in the RC'03 Obstacle Avoidance Challenge. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, ed. D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, and J. Santos-Victor. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
5. Jacoff, A.; Weiss, B.; and Messina E. 2003. Evolution of a Performance Metric for Urban Search and Rescue Robots (2003). Paper presented at the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, August, Gaithersburg, MD.
6. Kim, M. S., Uther, W. 2003. Automatic Gait Optimisation for Quadruped Robots. Paper presented at the 2003 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Brisbane, Australia, December 1-3.
7. Kitano, H., and Asada, M. 2000. The RoboCup Humanoid Challenge as the Millennium Challenge for Advanced Robotics. Advanced Robotics 13(8): 723-736.
8. Kitano, H.; Kuniyoshi, Y.; Noda, I.; Asada, M.; Matsubara, H.; Osawa E. 1997. RoboCup: A Challenge Problem for AI, AI Magazine 18(1): 78-85.
9. Kitano, H.; Takokoro, S; Noda, I.; Matsubara, H.; takahashi, T.; Shinjou, A.; Shimada S. 1999. RoboCup rescue: Search and Rescue in Large-Scale Disasters as a Domain for Autonomous Agents Reasearch. In Proceedings of the IEEE Internatinal Conference on Man, System, and Cybernetics. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
10. Kögler, M., and Obst, O. 2004. Simulation League: The Next Generation. In RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3020, ed. D. Polani,. A Bonarini, B. Browning, and K. Yoshida. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
11. Kohl, N., and Stone, P. 2004. Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
12. Kwok, C., Fox, D. 2005. Map-based Multi Model Tracking of a Moving Object. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, ed. D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, and J. Santos-Victor. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
13. Lund, H. H., Pagliarini, L. 1999. Robot Soccer with LEGO Mindstorms. In RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1604, ed M. Asada and H. Kitano, 141-152. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
14. Mahmoudian, P.; Asadi, S.; Bastani, M.; Fotuhi, A.; and Dashti, H. T. 2004. UTUtd 2004 - 3D Team Description. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, Team Description Papers CD-Rom. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
15. Montealegre, J. C. Z., Ruiz-del-Solar, J. 2005. UCHILSIM: A Dynamically and Visually Realistic Simulator for the RoboCup Four-Legged League. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, ed. D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, and J. Santos-Victor. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
16. Nakashima, T.; Takatani, M.; Udo, M.; and Ishibuchi, H. 2004. "hana" Team Description. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, Team Description Papers CD-Rom. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
17. Nuessle, T.; Kleiner, A.; and Brenner, M. 2004. Approaching Urban Disaster Reality: The ResQ Firesimulator. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, ed. D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, and J. Santos-Victor. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
18. Quinland, M. J.; Chalup, S. K.; Middleton, R. H. 2003. Techniques for improving Vision and Locomotion on the Sony AIBO robot. Paper presented at the 2003 Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Dec. 1-3, Brisbane, Australia.
19. Riedmiller, M.; Merke, A.; and Withopf, D. 2004. Brainstormers 2004 Team Description. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, Team Description Papers CD-Rom. Berlin: Springer.
20. Röfer, T. 2005. Evolutionary Gait-Optimization Using a Fitness Function Based on Proprioception. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, ed. D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, and J. Santos-Victor. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
21. Röfer, T., Jüngel, M. 2004. Fast and Robust Edge-Based Localization in the Sony Four-Legged Robot League. In RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3020, ed. D. Polani, A. Bonarini, B. Browning, and K. Yoshida. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
22. Seysener, C.; Murch, C.; Middleton, R. 2005. Extensions to Object Recognition in the Four-Legged League. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, ed. D. Nardi, M. Riedmiller, C. Sammut, and J. Santos-Victor. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
23. Sklar, E.; Eguchi, A.; and Johnson, J. 2003. RoboCup Junior: Learning with Educational Robotics. In RoboCup 2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2752, 238-253. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
24. Stankevich, L.; Kritchoun, A.; Ivanov, A.; and Serebryakov, S. 2004. Zenit-NewERA Team Description. In RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3276, Team Description Papers CD-Rom. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
25. Zhou, C. 2004. Rules for the RoboCup Humanoid League. Advanced Robotics 18(7): 721-724.