opportunity for integrated robotics research. In particular, robot players in a soccer game must recognize and track objects in real time, navigate in a dynamic field, collaborate with teammates, and strike the ball in the correct direction. All these tasks demand robots that are autonomous (sensing, thinking, and acting as independent creatures), efficient (functioning under time and resource ...

In this paper we present the current stage of development of EMMA, a small autonomous robot inspired by the Khepera robot widely distributed in the scientific community. EMMA features a modern microcontroller as the central processing unit (CPU) being very efficient in processing sensor and motor signals and a black–white camera as the main sensory system. The test application of EMMA is autono...

FIRA robot soccer is strongly affected by the central vision system because of the head mounted camera. A single camera implies a central image processing system, which conflicts with the demands on autonomous acting of the individual robots. Even so this approach will continue to be used in the near future due to the limitations of the robot hardware. This paper presents a flexible and robust ...

In this paper we introduce an improvement in the path planning algorithm for the humanoid soccer playing robot which uses Ferguson splines and PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization). The objective of the algorithm is to find a path through other playing robots to the ball, which should be as short as possible and also safe enough. Ferguson splines create preliminary paths using random generated para...

Reinforcement learning is an active research area with a vast number of applications in robotics, and the RoboCup competition interesting environment for studying evaluating reinforcement methods. A known difficulty applying to robotics high experience samples required, being use simulated environments training agents followed by transfer real-world (sim-to-real) viable path. This article intro...

Soccer Server is a simulator of RoboCup. Soccer Server provides an environment to confront two teams of players that are controlled by various types of systems with each other. Each system connects to the server as a client, which controls a player on the soccer eld via a computer network. Using this server, we can compare performances of multi-agent systems and multi-robot-control systems from...

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Object recognition is one of the most important processes for robot soccer in the standard platform robot league. Main task of the vision system of robot soccer while playing is recognizing and tracking the objects like ball, goalposts, robots of the same team and rival robots in the game. The basic idea of several object recognition methods, especially in robot soccer and RoboCup environment, ...

This article describes the computational model underlying the AGILO autonomous robot soccer team, its implementation, and our experiences with it. According to our model the control system of an autonomous soccer robot consists of a probabilistic game state estimator and a situated action selection module. The game state estimator computes the robot’s belief state with respect to the current ga...

An integrated multi-agent robot system for robot soccer games consists of multiple mobile robots, a vision system, a wireless communications system and a host computer. The multiple robots can be cooperatively controlled as they play a robot soccer game in an unknown and dynamic environment. The development of the system involved mechanism design and manufacture, integration of the electromecha...