The UvA Rescue Team has several innovative ideas to further improve the infrastructure of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League. Those ideas range from providing USARSim an interface compatible with the RoboCup@Home Simulation, to provide the possibility to specify robots in the URDF format, to create a model for the Ricoh Theta 360o camera, to create a model of the omnidirectional robots like t...

RoboCup Rescue is an international project aimed at apply ing multi agent research to the domain of search and rescue in large scale disasters This paper reports our initial experiences with using the Robocup Rescue Simulator and building agents capable of making de cisions based on observation of other agent s behavior We also plan on analyzing team behavior to obtain rules that explain this b...

This paper describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRo TeenSize of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, as required by the RoboCup qualification procedure for the competition held from the 27th of July to the 30th of July 2017 in Nagoya, Japan. Our team uses self-constructed robots for playing soccer. This paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of the rob...

Since texture is a fundamental character of images, it plays an important role in visual perception, image understanding and scene interpretation. This paper presents a texture-based pattern recognition scheme for Sony robots in the RoboCup domain. Spatial frequency domain algorithms are adopted and tested on a PC while simple colour segmentation and blob-based recognition are implemented on re...

The UQ RoboRoos have been developed to participate in the RoboCup robot soccer small size league over several years. RoboCup 2001 saw a focus on the mechanical design of the RoboRoos, with the introduction of an omni-directional drive system and a high power kicker. The change in mechanical design had implications for the rest of the system particularly navigation and multi-robot planning. In a...

In WrightEagle2008, we continue to research based on the previous WrightEagle simulation 2D team. WrightEagle has won the runner-up of Robocup2007, the Champion of RoboCup2006, and the runner-up of RoboCup2005, as well as three consecutive championships of RoboCup China Open in recent years. In this paper, we present the innovations of our team since the last simulation league competitions, and...

In this paper we describe details of our winning team NimbRo@Home at the RoboCup@Home competition 2012. This year we improved the gripper design of our robots and further advanced mobile manipulation capabilities such as object perception and manipulation planning. For human-robot interaction, we propose to complement faceto-face communication between user and robot with a remote user interface...

Autonomous Mobile Robotics is a very active research field. The RoboCup challenge provides a standard benchmark environment and the design of a small size RoboCup team is an excellent way to innovate in this field. The evolving design of the team is presented as well as some of the experience accumulated from two participations in this competition. Some key issues are discussed and the adopted ...

This paper describes the RoboCup Humanoid League team NimbRo TeenSize of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, as required by the RoboCup qualification procedure for the 2016 competition held in Leipzig, Germany. Our team uses self-constructed robots for playing soccer. This paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of the robots, covers the software used for state...

This paper proposes using topics central to RoboCup, particularly autonomous agents and multiagent systems, as the subject-matter for a course designed to introduce undergraduate students to all facets of computer science research. Experiences are presented from the design and implementation of such a course. The course is structured around an ongoing incremental programming project that culmin...