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description: RoboCup2000, theFourthRobotWorldCupSoccerGamesandConferences, washeldfromAugust27thtoSeptember3rd,2000, attheMelbourneExhi- tionCenterinMelbourne, Australia. LikethepreviousinternationalRoboCup events RoboCup97 in Nagoya, Japan; RoboCup98 in Paris, France; and RoboCup99inStockholm, Sweden RoboCup2000includedatechnicalwo- shopaswellasseveralroboticsoccercompetitions. RoboCup2000introduced the?rstRoboCupJr. competitionforchildren, aswellasdemonstrationsof humanoidrobotsandoftheRoboCup-Rescuedisasterrescuesimulator. ThisbookdocumentsRoboCup2000. Itconsistsof(i)anoverview;(ii)ch- pionshippapersbythewinnersofthecompetitions;(iii)the?nalistpapersfor theRoboCupchallengeawards;(iv)thepapersandposterspresentedatthe workshop;and(v)descriptionsoftheteamsthatcompeted. Thebookbeginswithanoverviewarticleintroducingthecompetitionsand demonstrationsandincludingthescoresofallofthegamesinthefourc- petitionleagues: thesimulationleague, thesmall-sizerobot(F180)league, the middle-sizerobot(F2000)league, andtheSonyleggedrobotleague. Thefoll- ingsectionpresentsthechampionshippapersfromthewinnersoftheseleagues. TheRoboCupchallengeawardsaredistinctionsthataregivenannuallyto theRoboCup-relatedresearcherswiththegreatestpotentialtoadvancetheir respective?elds. InRoboCup2000, thechallengeaward?nalistswereselected fromamongtheworkshoppapers. Thefourselected?nalistpapersappearin thenextsection. TheannualRoboCupworkshopprovidesaforumforRoboCupresearchers toexchangeideasthataregenerallyapplicableacrossthedi?erentRoboCup leaguesand/orthatareofgeneralscienti?cinterest. TheRoboCup2000wo- shopreceivedmorethan60submissions, fromwhich20wereselectedforfull presentationandanadditional20wereselectedforposterpresentation. These researchpapersformthemainbodyofthisbook. Thebookconcludeswithdescriptionsofmostofthemorethan80teams thatcompetedinRoboCup2000. Theseteamdescriptionsservetocatalogthe fullrangeofresearchersandapproachesthathavebeenappliedtothechallenges putforthbyRoboCup. ThenextinternationalRoboCupeventswillbeheldinSeattle, USA(2001) andinFukuoka, Japan(2002). InadditiontoallexistingRoboCupevents, they arescheduledtointroduce(i)RoboCup-Rescuedisasterrescuecompetitionsfor thetransferofideasandtechniquesdevelopedinthesoccerdomaintoarelated task, and(ii)ahumanoidrobotcompetitionasasteptowardsthelong-termgoal ofcreatingafullteamofhumanoidrobotsthatcompeteonarealsoccer?eld. Welookforwardtocontinuingresearchinnovationsandexcitingdemonstrations ofroboticsandAItechnologyintheseandotherfutureRoboCupevents. March2000 PeterStone, TuckerBalch, andGerhardKraetzschmar RoboCupFederation TheRoboCupFederation, thegoverningbodyofRoboCup, isaninternational organizationthatpromotesscienceandtechnologyusingsoccergamesbyrobots andsoftwareagents. President: HiroakiKitano, JapanScienceandTechnologyCorporation, Japan Vice-Presidents: MinoruAsada, OsakaUniversity, Japan EnricoPagello, UniversityofPadua, Italy ManuelaVeloso, CarnegieMellonUniversity, USA Trustees: Hans-DieterBurkhard, HumboldtUniversity, Germany SilviaCoradeschi, OrebroUniversity, Sweden DominiqueDuhaut, UniversityofSouthernBretagne, France FransGroen, UniversityofAmsterdam, TheNetherlands AndrewJennings, RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology, Australia MilindTambe, UniversityofSouthernCalifornia, USA ExecutiveCommittee: TuckerBalch, CarnegieMellonUniversity, USA AndreasBirk, FreeUniversityofBrussels, Belgium MasahiroFujita, SonyCorp., Japan GerhardKraetzschmar, UniversityofUlm, Germany PaulLevi, UniversityofStuttgart, Germany PedroLima, ISR/IST, TechnicalUniversityofLisbon, Portugal HenrikLund, UniversityofSouthernDenmark, Denmark DanieleNardi, UniversityofRome LaSapienza, Italy ItsukiNoda, ETL, Japan DanielPolani, Lub ] eckUniversity, Germany Raul Rojas, UniversityofBerlin, Germany PeterStone, AT&amp;TLabs Research, USA SatoshiTadokoro, KobeUniversity, Japan GordonWyeth, UniversityofQueensland, Australia AdvisoryCommittee: LuigiaCarlucciAiello, UniversitadiRoma LaSapienza, Italy DanielBobrow, XEROXPARC, USA MichaelBrady, OxfordUniversity, UK ToshioFukuda, NagoyaUniversity, Japan MichaelP. George?, AustralianAIInstitute, Australia AlanMackworth, UniversityofBritishColumbia, Canada DavidWaltz, NECResearch, USA WolfgangWahlster, DFKI, Germany RoboCup2000OrganizationandSupport GeneralChair: AndrewJennings, RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology, Australia DeputyGeneralChair: JeremySamuel, AustralianAIInstitute, Australia OrganizingCo-chairs: EnricoPagello, UniversityofPadua, Italy ManuelaVeloso, CarnegieMellonUniversity, USA MinoruAsada, OsakaUniversity, Japan SimulatorLeagueCommittee: PaulScerri(chair), Link]opingUniversity, Sweden TomoichiTakahashi, ChubuUniversity, Japan GalKaminka, UniversityofSouthernCalifornia, USA MikhailProkopenko, CSIRO, Australia RyszardKowalczyk, CSIRO, Australia Small-SizeRobotLeague(F180)Committee: GordonWyeth(chair), UniversityofQueensland, Australia Raul Rojas, FreeUniversityofBerlin, Germany YukiNakagawa, KitanoSymbioticSystems, Japan AndrewHoward, UniversityofMelbourne, Australia Middle-SizeRobotLeague(F2000)Committee: Ste?enGutmann(chair), UniversityofFreiburg, Germany YongFookSeng, NgeeAnnPolytechnic, Singapore Wei-MinShen, UniversityofSouthernCalifornia, USA PaulParisi, AustralianAIInstitute, Australia SonyLeggedRobotLeagueCommittee: MasahiroFujita(chair), SonyCorp., Japan MinoruAsada, OsakaUniversity, Japan ManuelaVeloso, CarnegieMellonUniversity, USA DominiqueDuhaut, UniversityofSouthernBretagne, France WorkshopProgramCommittee: PeterStone, (co-chair), AT&amp;TLabs Research, USA TuckerBalch(co-chair), CarnegieMellonUniversity, USA GerhardKraetzschmar(co-chair), UniversityofUlm, Germany GiovanniAdorni, UniversityofParma, Italy DavidAndre, U. C. Berkeley, USA RonArkin, GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology, USA AndreasBirk, UniversityofBrussels, Belgium AndreaBonarini, PolitecnicodiMilano, Italy MichaelBowling, CarnegieMellonUniversity, USA IanFrank, ElectrotechnicalLaboratory, JAPAN DougGage, SpaceandNavalWarfareSystemsCenter, USA WiebevanderHoek, UtrechtUniversity, TheNetherlands VIII OrganizationandSupport HuoshengHu, UniversityofEssex, UK KurtKonolige, SRIInternational, USA RobinMurphy, UniversityofSouthFlorida, USA LynneParker, OakRidgeNationalLaboratory, USA JukkaRiekki, UniversityofOulu, Finland Wei-MinShen, UniversityofSouthernCalifornia, USA Sho jiSuzuki, OsakaUniversity, Japan MasayukiOhta, TokyoInstituteofTechnology, Japan GordonWyeth, UniversityofQueensland, Australia Supportedby: FujiXerox Australon RMITUniversity RoboCupWorldWideSponsors: SonyCorporation SGI TableofContents OverviewofRoboCup-2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 EditedbyPeterStonewithMinoruAsada, TuckerBalch, MasahiroFujita, GerhardKraetzschmar, HenrikLund, PaulScerri, SatoshiTadokoro, andGordonWyeth ChampionTeams FCPortugalTeamDescription: RoboCup2000SimulationLeagueChampion29 Lu?sPauloReisandNunoLau TheCornellRoboCupTeam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Ra?aelloD Andrea, Tamas Kalmar -Nagy, PritamGanguly, andMichaelBabish CSFreiburg: DoingtheRightThinginaGroup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 ThiloWeigel, WilliAuerbach, MarkusDietl, BurkhardDuml ] er, Jens-Ste?enGutmann, KornelMarko, KlausMu]ller, BernhardNebel, BorisSzerbakowski, andMaximilianThiel TheUNSWRoboCup2000SonyLeggedLeagueTeam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 BernhardHengst, DarrenIbbotson, SonBaoPham, JohnDalgliesh, MikeLawther, PhilPreston, andClaudeSammut ChallengeAwardFinalists AdaptivePathPlannerforHighlyDynamicEnvironments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 JackyBaltesandNicholasHildreth CommunicationandCoordinationAmongHeterogeneousMid-Size Players: ART99. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 ClaudioCastelpietra, LucaIocchi, DanieleNardi, MaurizioPiaggio, AlessandroScalzo, andAntonioSgorbissa ALocalizationMethodforaSoccerRobotUsingaVision-Based Omni-DirectionalSensor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 CarlosF. MarquesandPedroU. Lima BehaviorClassi?cationwithSelf-OrganizingMaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 MichaelWu]nstel, DanielPolani, ThomasUthmann, andJu]rgenPerl X TableofContents TechnicalPapers FullPapers FlexibleSynchronisationwithinRoboCupEnvironment: AComparative Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 MarcButler, MikhailProkopenko, andThomasHoward ExtendedQ-Learning: ReinforcementLearningUsingSelf-OrganizedState Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 ShuichiEnokida, TakeshiOhasi, TakaichiYoshida, andToshiakiEjima AndtheFansAreGoingWild!SIGplusMIKE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 IanFrank, KumikoTanaka-Ishii, Hiroshi
language: English
title: RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV
titlecomplete: RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019)
publisher: Springer