Robotic Soccer ISBN 978-3-902613-21-9 hard cover, 598 pages Edited by: Pedro Lima Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria Publication date: December 2007 Price: 80 Euro incl. package & postage |Download the full text of this book|

About the Book 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.

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Table of Contents

01Communication and Collaboration in Heterogeneous Teams of Soccer Robots
Philipp Baer and Roland Reichle

02Positioning in Robots Soccer
Hesam T. Dashti, Shahin Kamali and Nima Aghaeepour

03Non-monotonic Reasoning on Board a Sony AIBO
David Billington, Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Rene Hexel, and Andrew Rock

04Color Classification and Object Recognition for Robot Soccer Under Variable Illumination
Nathan Lovell and Vladimir Estivill-Castro

05Towards Model-based Vision Systems for Robot Soccer Teams
Murilo Fernandes Martins, Flavio Tonidandel and Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi

06Probabilistic and Statistical Layered Approach for High-Level Decision Making in Soccer Simulation Robotics
Carlos Bustamante and Leonardo Garrido

07Simulated Environment in Robot Soccer
Gregor Klancar and Rihard Karba

08A Robust and Scalable Pareto Optimal Ball Passing Algorithm for the Robotic Soccer
Vadim Kyrylov

09FC Portugal - High-level Coordination Methodologies in Soccer Robotics
Nuno Lau and Luis Paulo Reis

10Desktop Robot Soccer
Frederic Maire, Joaquin Sitte and Narongdech Keeratipranon

11Embedded Behavioral Control of Four-legged Robots
David Herrero Perez and Humberto Martinez Barber

12A Comprehensive Framework for Perception in Robotic Soccer
Luciano Oliveira, Augusto Loureiro and Leizer Schnitiman

13Task Management for Soft Real-Time Applications Based on General Purpose Operating Systems
Paulo Pedreiras and Luis Almeida

14Integrating Autonomous Behaviour and Team Coordination into an Embedded Architecture
Bernd Kleinjohann, Lisa Kleinjohann, Willi Richert and Claudius Stern

15Learning to Play Soccer with the Simple Soccer Robot Soccer Simulator
Jeff Riley

16Analysing the Difficulty of Learning Goal-Scoring Behaviour for Robot Soccer
Jeff Riley and Vic Ciesielski

17Motion Detection and Object Tracking for an AIBO Robot Soccer Player
Javier Ruiz-del-Solar and Paul A. Vallejos

18Comprehensive Omni-Directional Soccer Player Robots
Mehdi DaneshPanah, Amir Abdollahi, Hossein Ostadi and Hooman Aghaebrahimi Samani

19Event-driven Hybrid Classifier Systems and Online Learning for Soccer Game Strategies
Yuji Sato

20Robust and Accurate Detection of Object Orientation and ID without Color Segmentation
Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Tomoyuki Nagahashi and Shoichi Shimizu

21Behavior Acquisition in RoboCup Middle Size League Domain
Yasutake Takahashi and Minoru Asada

22Multicriterial Decision-making Control of the Robot Soccer Team
Petr Tucnik

23Robust and Efficient Robot Vision Through Sampling
Alex North and William Uther

24Robot Localisation Using a Distributed Multi-Modal Kalman Filter
Oleg Sushkov and William Uther

25Impossibles: A Fully Autonomous Four-legged Robot Soccer Team
Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze, Jafar Habibi and Nima Asadi

26RoboCup@Home: Creating and Benchmarking Tomorrows Service Robot Applications
Tijn van der Zant and Thomas Wisspeintner

27VolksBot - A Construction Kit for Multi-purpose Robot Prototyping
Thomas Wisspeintner and Walter Nowak

28Collaborative Localization and Gait Optimization of SharPKUngfu Team
Qining Wang, Chunxia Rong, Guangming Xie and Long Wang

29The Robotic Water Polo and Underwater Robot Cooperation Involved in the Game
Zhang Lee, Guangming Xie, Dandan Zhang and Jinyan Shao