SPQR + ISocRob RoboCup 2007 Qualification Report

SPQR + ISocRob is a joint team between two research groups: SPQR (Italy) and IsocRob (Portugal). SPQR (Soccer Player Quadruped Robots) is the group of the Faculty of Engineering at University of Rome “La Sapienza” in Italy, that is involved in RoboCup competitions since 1998 in different leagues (Middle-size 1998-2002, Four-legged since 2000, Real-rescue-robots since 2003, Virtual-rescue and @Home in 2006). The IsocRob team represents the competition side of the SocRob (Soccer Robots/Society of Robots) project [5], a research endeavor of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Institute for Systems and Robotics at Instituto Superior Tcnico (ISR/IST), Technical University of Lisbon, which started in 1997. ISocRob has participated in RoboCup Middle-Size League (MSL) almost every year from 1998 to 2006, as well as in the Soccer Simulation League in 2003 and 2004, and started a new Four-Legged League team in 2005. This report presents the development of the joint team, which is intended to be formed as a coordinated heterogeneous multi-robot team. It also describes development efforts of the two groups for RoboCup 2007.