Robotic soccer is an adversarial multi-agent research domain, in which issues of perception, multi-agent coordination and team strategy are explored. One area of interest investigates heterogeneous teams of humans and robots, where the teammates must coordinate not as master and slave, but as equal participants. We research this peer-to-peer question within the domain of Segway soccer, where te...

RoboCup (http://www.robocup.org) is an international worldwide initiative that aims to promote research and development in mobile robotics and related areas. Robotic soccer is one of the proposed problems since it represents a challenge of high complexity, in which fully autonomous robots cooperate in order to achieve a common goal (win the game). Within Robocup soccer competitions, the Middle-...

Many different and high-quality humanoid motions have been developed based on a tailored, 55cm tall humanoid robot kinematics and design using 21 servo motors and inertial sensors for stabilization. These include fast forward walking of about 1.5 km/h in permanent operation, multidirectional walking capabilities, a variety of standard and spectacular kicks, standing up motions as well as motion...

The educational experiences from using robot soccer in computer science courses are outlined. The educational approach can be termed guided constructionism and it differs from the traditional (pure) constructionism, which can be termed unguided constructionism, by combining hands-on experience with lecturing and guidance. We believe that some essential arguments needs to be taught through lectu...

The Segway Human Transport (HT) is a one person dynamically selfbalancing transportation vehicle. The Segway Robot Mobility Platform (RMP) is a modification of the HT capable of being commanded by a computer for autonomous operation. With these platforms, we propose a new domain for human-robot coordination through a competitive game: Segway Soccer. The players include robots (RMPs) and humans ...

The SegwayTM LLC company has provided a robust mobility platform on which to research human/robot coordination in an adversarial environment. The Segway Human Transport (HT) is a one person dynamically self-balancing transportation vehicle. The Segway Robot Mobility Platform (RMP) is a modification of the Human Transporter capable of being programmed for autonomous operation. With these platfor...

The game of soccer is one of the main focuses of the RoboCup competitions, being a fun and entertaining research environment for the development of autonomous multi-agent cooperative systems. For an autonomous robot to be able to play soccer, first it has to perceive the surrounding world and extract only the relevant information in the game context. Therefore, the vision system of a robotic so...

A motion control and the corresponded strategy to realize cyclic ball passing motion in robot soccer games are presented in this paper. By this strategy, multiple mobile robots kick the ball in tum with high speed while they adjust or change their formation. The ball-kick controller is to drive the robot to an adequate position with a prescribed velocity in a fixed finite time. After kicking, t...

The implementation of high-performance robot controllers for complex control tasks such as playing autonomous robot soccer is tedious, errorprone, and a never ending programming task. In this paper we propose programmers to write autonomous controllers that optimize and automatically adapt themselves to changing circumstances of task execution using explicit perception, dynamics and action mode...

Evolutionary Artificial Potential Field (EAPF) functions are utilized for mobile robot navigation in a microrobot soccer (MiroSot) environment. In a micro-robot soccer system the robots are monitored using an overhead CCD Camera, making it suitable for real time application of the EAPF functions. The effectiveness of the EAPF functions in real time mobile robot navigation are verified through e...