due to their advantages, omni-directional mobile robots have found many applications especially in robotic soccer competitions. however, omni directional navigation system, omni-vision system and kicking mechanism in such mobile robots have not ever been combined. this situation brings the idea of a robot with no head direction into existence, a comprehensive omni directional mobile robot. such...

This paper describes the approach of the team resko@UniKoblenz for the RoboCup Rescue competition 2010. Our mobile system Robbie is based on a MobileRobots Pioneer 3 AT. It is equipped with a four-wheel drive and sonar sensors in the front and in the back. On this platform, an aluminum rack is installed where additional sensors are attached: three color cameras (Philips SPC1300NC), an actively ...

The Robot World Cup Initiative (RoboCup) is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. The rst RoboCup competition will be held at IJCAI-97, Nagoya. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated including: design principles of a...

This paper describes the approach of the team resko@UniKoblenz for the RoboCup Rescue competition 2009. Our mobile system Robbie is based on a MobileRobots Pioneer 3 AT. It is equipped with a four-wheel drive and sonar sensors in the front and in the back. On this platform, an aluminum rack is installed where additional sensors are attached: three color cameras (including two high resolution So...

The sectionr presents the summary of talk in the RoboCup Workshop at Blaubeuren, Germany, Oct. 4-5th after the RoboCup-2003 Symposium. The talk starts from the early beginning of RoboCup and raised the future issues towards the final goal, that is, roadmap discussion and its related issue. Finally, new activities for RoboCity CoRE was

Multi-agent collaboration or teamwork and learning are two critical research challenges in a large number of multi-agent applications. These research challenges are highlighted in RoboCup, an international project focused on robotic and synthetic soccer as a common testbed for research in multi-agent systems. This article describes our approach to address these challenges, based on a team of so...

RoboCup is an increasingly successful attempt to promote the full integration of AI and robotics research. The most prominent feature of RoboCup is that it provides the researchers with the opportunity to demonstrate their research results as a form of competition in a dynamically changing hostile environment, defined as the international standard game definition, which the gamut of intelligent...