UFSC-Team: A Cognitive Multi-agent Approach to the RoboCup'98 Simulator League

The RoboCup competition is a very interesting laboratory for open cognitive multi-agent systems. It presents an environment where two robot teams play soccer, with all the challenges that this task brings-up. Because of the distributed vision system, where each player has its own camera, there is no single agent that has a global view of the eld. This means a high inter-agent cooperation cost to built a global environment knowledge. According to the RoboCup Simulator League, a very narrow communication band-width is allowed to inter-agent communication. Because of this, the cooperation process should be based mainly on visual perception, rather than on communication. The UFSC-Team proposes a cognitive multi-agent system where most part of the cooperation process is based on visual information and where the exchanged messages are just used to decide the role each agent should play in a predeened strategy.