RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV

by Peter Stone (Editor)

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&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, Au...

679 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 2001

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