The research of autonomous robots is one of the most important challenges in recent years. Among the numerous robot researches, the humanoid robot soccer competition is very popular. The robot soccer players rely on their vision systems very intensively when they are in the unpredictable and dynamic environments. This work proposes a simple and real-time object recognition system for the RoboCu...

As step towards the long-term goal of winning against the FIFA world champion, the RoboCup Federation added in 2002 a league for humanoid robots to its annual soccer competitions. Now, the young Humanoid League raised the bar again. After preliminary competitions, for the first time, soccer games with humanoid robots were played in 2005. This article describes the technology of the humanoid soc...

This paper details the hardware, software and electrical design of our new humanoid platform for the adult size league at RoboCup 2014 to be held later this year in João Pessoa, Brazil. THORwIn is a 49Kg bipedal robot that will show our experience from previous RoboCup encounters with Humanoid platforms like DARwIn-OP, CHARLI, and XOS in robot soccer autonomy since RoboCup 2007 [1,2].

To make a robot team perform a soccer game, various technologies must be developed. To date, we constructed a multi-sensor based mobile robot for robotic soccer research. Based on this platform, we have implemented some behaviors for playing soccer and the vision system with on-line visual learning function. This year, we refine behaviors for playing soccer since we improve a motor control syst...

The development of optimized motions of humanoid robots that guarantee a fast and also stable walking is an important task especially in the context of autonomous soccer playing robots in RoboCup. We present a walking motion optimization approach for the humanoid robot prototype HR18 which is equipped with a low dimensional parameterized walking trajectory generator, joint motor controller and ...

Robot soccer game is one of the significant and interesting areas among most of the autonomous robotic researches. Following the humanoid soccer robot basic movement and strategy actions, the robot is operated in a dynamic and unpredictable contest environment and must recognize the position of itself in the field all the time. Therefore, the localization system of the soccer robot becomes the ...

This paper describes two major humanoid robotic competitions: the RoboCup Humanoid League and the FIRA HuroCup, which were both introduced in 2002. Even though both competitions have the final goal of creating a team of robots that can compete with humans in a soccer math, the two associations focused on different intermediate goals. RoboCup focused on interesting soccer matches between teams o...

Finding an optimal path for a robot in a soccer field involves different parameters such as the positions of the robot, positions of the obstacles, etc. Due to simplicity and smoothness of Ferguson Spline, it has been employed for path planning between arbitrary points on the field in many research teams. In order to optimize the parameters of Ferguson Spline some evolutionary or intelligent al...

Our research is concerned with making a dynamic, closed loop, stabilized kick for the Nao robot. The Nao is a humanoid robot made by Aldebaran Robotics. It is used in the Standard Platform League of the RoboCup, an organization which organizes football (soccer) competitions for autonomous robots. Kicking, of course, is an important part of football, and thus a good kick is vital to achieving go...