The research of autonomous robots is one of the most important challenges in recent years. Among the numerous robot researches, the humanoid robot soccer competition is very popular. The robot soccer players rely on their vision systems very intensively when they are in the unpredictable and dynamic environments. This work proposes a simple and real-time object recognition system for the RoboCu...

This paper describes embedded system for the international small-sized league RoboCub soccer team. The constraint of robot size and the range of robot functions imply a complex design of a high performance system in a very small package. The main feature of the design is the integration of multiple functions including a softcore processor into a single Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) devi...

S.P.Q.R. (Soccer Player Quadruped Robots, but also Senatus PopolusQue Romanus) 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). This report presents the main development efforts of the team in 2005-2006. ...

Robot soccer requires vision to be fast, accurate and reliable for a team to perform well. To win competitions, the vision system must work every day under all contest conditions. In practice, the field conditions for robot soccer can vary enormously from field to field, and even from day to day throughout a contest. This paper presents a system that can adapt to rapidly varying light and colou...

An important aim of the current research effort in artificial intelligence and robotics is to achieve cooperative agent behavior for teams of robots in real-world scenarios. Especially in the RoboCup scenario, but also in other projects like Nexus, agents have to cooperate efficiently to reach certain goals. In the RoboCup project, cooperative team-play and team strategies similar to real world...

In this paper, we make two contributions. First, we present a new domain, called Segway Soccer, for investigating the coordination of dynamically formed, mixed human-robot teams within the realm of a team task that requires real-time decision making and response. Segway Soccer is a game of soccer between two teams consisting of Segway riding humans and Segway RMP-based robots. We believe Segway...

Soccer was the original motivation for Robocup. Besides being a very popular sport worldwide, soccer brings up a set of challenges for researchers while attracting people to the event, promoting robotics among students, researchers and general public. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and indust...

This paper presents an overview of a humanoid soccer robot, build out of readily available hardware. The system architecture is covered in detail thereby enabling the reader to build a starter system for entering bipedal, humanoid soccer competitions. The structure of motion-pages of a Bioloid robot is presented. A vision algorithm to detect goal posts, used for SelfLocalisation of the robot, i...

This paper describes an overall robot-soccer system, associated action selection mechanism and strategies. The robots used in MiroSot are small in size (7.5cm 7.5cm 7.5cm), fully/semi autonomous and without any human operators. MiroSot involves multiple robots that need to collaborate in an adversarial environment to achieve speciic objectives. In multi-robot systems the environment's dynamics ...

Omni directional mobile robots have been popularly employed in several applications especially in soccer player robots considered in Robocup competitions. However, omni directional navigation system, omni-vision system and omni-kick mechanism in such soccer player robots have not ever been combined. This situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, i.e. a comprehe...