num_pages: 768
description: RoboCup 2001 the Fifth Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences was held from August 2-10 2001 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle USA. Like the previous international RoboCup events - RoboCup 97 in Nagoya Japan; RoboCup 98 in Paris France; RoboCup 99 in Stockholm Sweden; and RoboCup 2000 in Melbourne Australia - RoboCup 2001 included a symposium as well as several robotic competitions. Both parts the symposium and the tournaments are documented in this book. The symposium received over 80 submissions of which 18 were selected for full presentation i. e. a talk at the symposium and a 10-page contribution to this book and 40 were selected as posters i. e. a poster presentation at the s- posium and a 6-page contribution to this book. Among the full presentations ?ve were selected as ?nalists for the Scienti?c and the Engineering Challenge Awards. These ?ve papers are presented separately in the second chapter of this book. The Scienti?c Challenge Award went to the contribution A Control Method for Humanoid Biped Walking with Limited Torque by Fuminori - masaki Ken Endo Minoru Asada and Hiroaki Kitano. The Engineering Ch- lenge Award was given to the paper A Fast Vision System for Middle Size Robots in RoboCup by M. Jamzad B. S. Sadjad V. S. Mirrokni M. Kazemi R. Ghorbani A. Foroughnassiraei H. Chitsaz and A. Heydarnoori. The s- posium also featured an invited talk by Prof.
language: English
title: Robocup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V
publisher: Springer