In this paper, an efficient behavior for a humanoid soccer robot supporting a teammate manipulating the ball is proposed and evaluated. This approach has been derived from human soccer tactics, requires only minimal information about the current state of the game and is therefore well suited for robots with directed vision and limited motion abilities like humanoid robots. The position of the s...

In this paper, we present an automatic approach for the kinematic calibration of the humanoid robot NAO. The kinematic calibration has a deep impact on the performance of a robot playing soccer, which is walking and kicking, and therefore it is a crucial step prior to a match. So far, the existing calibration methods are time-consuming and error-prone, since they rely on the assistance of human...

Having the goal of winning against the human world champions in soccer in 2050 in mind, the Humanoid League is facing the challenges of having to increase field and robot size until the sizes of regular fields and regular players are reached in the year 2040. The next major step is foreseen for the year 2020, when minimum robot size will increase by 50%, the number of robots per team will incre...

Accuracy and speed of movement is required for a goalkeeper robot in the Robocup soccer competition. Moreover, instability and robustness of goalkeeper robot is often a problem in itself that often arise especially if the robot is a humanoid robot. There are various methods on how to improve the performance of movement of humanoid robot have been actively studied. So now we propose how to optim...

Robot Soccer involves planning at many levels, and in this paper we develop high level planning strategies for robots playing in the RoboCup FourLegged League using case based reasoning. We develop a framework for developing and choosing game plays. Game plays are widely used in many team sports e.g. soccer, hockey, polo, and rugby. One of the current challenges for robots playing in the RoboCu...

A humanoid soccer robot named TWNHR-IV and designed by the TKU team to attend the HuroSot League of FIRA RoboWorld Cup is presented. A platform for the study of biped walking control is designed and implemented. A system architecture for TWNHR-IV is presented, where a CMOS sensor, a digital compass, an accelerometer, and eight pressure sensors are used to obtain the information of the environme...

Besides the construction of the robots, the development of control software and tools for simulation and debugging are major topics of interest in the domain of soccer playing humanoid robots. In the RoboCup Four-Legged League, the whole research has—due to the existence of a standard platform—been focused on software development since many years. Therefore, a migration of successful software s...