FC Portugal 2D Simulation: Team Description Paper

FC Portugal project intends to continue the research performed during the development of previous FC Portugal RoboCup simulation league teams. These teams had very good results in previous RoboCup simulation competitions. FC Portugal won the simulation league 2D in RoboCup2000 (Melbourne) and won two European championships (Amsterdam2000 and Paderborn2001). FC Portugal team also won the 2002 Coach Simulation in Fukuoka and achieved two second place awards in this competition (Padova2003 and Lisbon2004). The simulation rescue team was European champion in 2006. The simulation 3D team was world champion of RoboCup2006 (Bremen) and European champion in 2006 and 2007. This paper describes some of the innovations of our Simulation 2D team for the next RoboCup simulation league competitions, relating them with previous work developed by our simulated RoboCup teams. It contains mainly a general description of the work developed and references to some of the scientific papers that contain a more detailed description [1-26]. The main innovation for FC Portugal 2011 is based on the use of setplays as the team’s main coordination mechanism and with the ability to graphically define the setplays to be used.