Robotic Soccer

Pedro Lima

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2007
• Print ISBN:
  9783902613219
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535158172
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Automation in Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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: 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

• Robotic Soccer
• Preface
• Contents
• 1. Communication and Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams of Soccer Robots
• 2. Positioning in Robots Soccer
• 3. Non-monotonic Reasoning on Board a Sony AIBO
• 4. Color Classification and Object Recognition for Robot Soccer Under Variable Illumination
• 5. Towards Model-based Vision Systems for Robot Soccer Teams
• 6. Probabilistic and Statistical Layered Approach for High-Level Decision Making in Soccer Simulation Robotics
• 7. Simulated Environment in Robot Soccer
• 8. A Robust and Scalable Pareto Optimal Ball Passing Algorithm for the Robotic Soccer
• 9. FC Portugal - High-level Coordination Methodologies in Soccer Robotics
• 10. Desktop Robot Soccer
• 11. Embedded Behavioral Controlof Four-legged Robots
• 12. A Comprehensive Framework for Perception in Robotic Soccer
• 13. Task Management for Soft Real-Time Applications Based on General Purpose Operating Systems
• 14. Integrating Autonomous Behaviour and Team Coordination
• 15. Learning to Play Soccer with the SimpleSoccer Robot Soccer Simulator
• 16. Analysing the Difficulty of Learning Goal-Scoring Behaviour for Robot Soccer
• 17. Motion Detection and Object Tracking for an AIBO Robot Soccer Player
• 18. Comprehensive Omni-Directional Soccer Player Robots
• 19. Event-driven Hybrid Classifier Systems and Online Learning for Soccer Game Strategies
• 20. Robust and Accurate Detection of Object Orientation and ID without Color Segmentation
• 21. Behavior Acquisition in Robo Cup Middle SizeLeague Domain
• 22. Multicriterial Decision-making Control of theRobot Soccer Team
• 23. Robust and Efficient Robot Vision Through Sampling
• 24. Robot Localisation Using a DistributedMulti-Modal Kalman Filter
• 25. Impossibles: A Fully Autonomous Four-legged Robot Soccer Team
• 26. RoboCup@Home: Creating and Benchmarking Tomorrows Service Robot Applications
• 27. VolksBot - A Construction Kit for Multi-purpose Robot Prototyping
• 28. Collaborative Localization and Gait Optimization of SharPKUngfu Team
• 29. The Robotic Water Polo and Underwater Robot Cooperation Involved in the Game