This paper describes robotstadium: an online simulation contest based on the new RoboCup Nao Standard League. The simulation features two teams with four Nao robots each team, a ball and a soccer field corresponding the specifications of the real setup used for the new RoboCup Standard League using the Nao robot. Participation to the contest is free of charge and open to anyone. Competitors can...

The paper gives an introduction to behavior-based robotics and explains its prospects for industry. First, the roots of behavior-based robotics in the scientiic elds of Artiicial Life and behavior-oriented Artiicial Intelligence are presented. Based on this, the important conceptual aspects of behavior-based robotics are explained. The concepts are further motivated and illustrated with experim...

We present a systematic characterization of the localization component of an infrared localization and communication system for mobile robots developed by Ian Kelly [Kelly2004]. We also present modifications to the software component of the system which significantly increase the accuracy of the range and bearing measurements. The improved system has a range of up to 3 m, with a maximum standar...

The paper describes an e cient memory-based learning scheme for the localization of a door in a visual scene, estimation of the distance to it from a mobile robot, and steering the robot through the door. Digital signal processing techniques are used to speed up the run-time processing and achieve performance much faster than other learning techniques would permit. Reported are results from exp...

In some situations, when an external disturbance occurs, humans can rock stably backward and forward by lifting the toe or the heel to keep the upright balance without stepping. Many control schemes have been proposed for standing balance control under external disturbances without stepping. But, in most of them researchers have only considered a flat foot phase. In this paper a framework is pr...

In this paper robust PID control of fully-constrained cable driven parallel manipulators with elastic cables is studied in detail. In dynamic analysis, it is assumed that the dominant dynamics of cable can be approximated by linear axial spring. To develop the idea of control for cable robots with elastic cables, a robust PID control for cable driven robots with ideal rigid cables is firstly de...

This paper proposes a gait planning approach to reduce the required friction for a biped robot walking on various surfaces. To this end, a humanoid robot with 18 DOF is considered to develop a dynamics model for studying various 3D manoeuvres. Then, feasible trajectories are developed to alleviate the fluctuations on the upper body to resemble human-like walking. In order to generate feasible w...