The CMUnited-98 simulator team became the 1998 RoboCup simulator league champion by winning all 8 of its games, outscoring opponents by a total of 66–0. CMUnited-98 builds upon the successful CMUnited-97 implementation, but also improves upon it in many ways. This article gives an overview of the CMUnited-98 agent skill and multi-agent coordination strategies, emphasizing the recent improvements.

The CMUnited small-robot team became the 1998 RoboCup small-robot league champion, repeating its 1997 victory. CMUnited-98 built upon the success of CMUnited-97, and involved a number of improvements. This article gives an overview of the CMUnited-98 team, focusing on this year’s improvements. It concludes with the results of the RoboCup 98 competition.

Antonio Pich, Ignasi Rosell, Joaqúın Santos, and Juan José Sanz-Cillero 1 Departament de F́ısica Teòrica, IFIC, Universitat de València – CSIC, Apt. Correus 22085, 46071 València, Spain 2 Departamento de Ciencias F́ısicas, Matemáticas y de la Computación, Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, 46115 Alfara del Patriarca, València, Spain and 3 Departamento de F́ısica Teórica and Instituto de F́ısica Teór...

This paper investigates the performance of speaker-independent (SI) acoustic hidden-Markov-models (HMMs) trained with a huge Japanese speech database, and discusses the e ciency and task-independency involved. The database consists of read and spontaneous speech uttered by 3,771 speakers. The speech involves wide distributions with respect to region and age to capture the Japanese speech charac...

Let A3 be the set of all positive integers pqr, where p, q, r are primes and possibly two, but not all three of them are equal. For any n = pqr ∈ A3, define a function w by w(n) = P (p + q)P (p + r)P (q + r), where P (m) is the largest prime factor of m. It is clear that if n = pqr ∈ A3, then w(n) ∈ A3. For any n ∈ A3, define w0(n) = n, wi(n) = w(wi−1(n)) for i = 1, 2, . . . . An element n ∈ A3...

The photodissociation cross section of the molecular ion HeH was calculated within the Born-Oppenheimer approximation for a parallel, a perpendicular, and an isotropic orientation of the molecular axis with respect to the field, considering also different initial vibrational and rotational states. The results were compared to recent data from a free-electron laser experiment performed at the FL...

This study was conducted to determine if VO, of stepping in children is affected by altering the step platform height based on leg length. The effect of leg length on VO, and heart rate (HR) during stepping was examined in 19 children, ages 8-17, who stepped onto 5 different bench heights that corresponded to hip angles of 65", 73", 82", 90°, or 98". VO, and HR response to a work load of 8 m . ...