Team description of Team ARAIBO

Team ARAIBO (Advanced Robotics with Artificial Intelligence for Ball Operation) has taken part in RoboCup since 1999. Even though we could not get the top three positions in Four-legged Robot League, we have proposed several novel issues such as jumping heading, uniform Monte Carlo localization, dynamic programming, memory squeeze by strategy maps and so forth. We always tried to introduce theoretical approach into AIBO’s maneuver. The team consists of two universities: The University of Tokyo and Chuo University. It is hard to continue this kind of research because RoboCup has not been supported by industry. We always get the budget for student travel expense but it is hard to get enough budgets even for three students. Even though many universities sent more than ten students, it is just a dream for our team ARAIBO. However, we try to participate at least three more years, that is, totally 7 times from 1999 to 2005. We focused onto two fundamental characteristics of the robots: