Azzurra Robot Team - ART ART

Azzurra Robot Team (ART) is the result of a joint effort of six Italian research groups from Univ. of Genova, Politecnico Milano, Univ. of Padova, Univ. of Palermo, Univ. of Parma, Univ. Roma ”La Sapienza”, and Consorzio Padova Ricerche which has provided resources and a set up of the soccer field in its Center in Padova. We have developed the team within the framework of the RoboCup Italia Project, with the aim of education and training of students in the subjects related to the design of autonomous mobile robots, of developing new research ideas and foster the development of larger projects in this field in Italy. 1 Azzurra Robot Team Azzurra Robot Team (ART) is the National Italian Team for F-2000 RoboCup league, developed within the framework of the RoboCup Italia project, and for RoboCup-99 ART is formed by six academic groups and the Consorzio Padova Ricerche. The goal of the project is to exploit the expertise and ideas from all groups in order to build a team where players have different features, both hardware and software, but retain the ability to coordinate their behaviour within the team. Therefore, the ART team includes several types of players, that are built on top of two hardware bases: baseART and MoRo. Below we provide a short description of the two basic architectures, and subsequently we shall address each type of player. Finally we shall address the research problems that are tackled by every unit of the team.