RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III

This book is the third official archival publication devoted to RoboCup and documents the achievements presented at the Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, Robo-Cup-99, held in Stockholm, Sweden in July/August 1999. The book presents the following parts
- Introductory overview and survey
- Research papers of the champion teams and scientific award winners
- Technical papers presented at the RoboCup-99 Workshop
- Team description of a large number of participating teams.
This book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable source or reference and inspiration for R&D professionals interested in multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, and intelligent robotics.

Overview of RoboCup-99.- Overview of RoboCup-99.- Champion Teams.- The CMUnited-99 Champion Simulator Team.- Big Red: The Cornell Small League Robot Soccer Team.- Middle Sized Soccer Robots: ARVAND.- Vision Based Behavior Strategy to Play Soccer with Legged Robots.- Scientific Challenge Award Papers.- Automated Assistants to Aid Humans in Understanding Team Behaviors.- LogMonitor: From Player’s Action Analysis to Collaboration Analysis and Advice on Formation.- A Statistical Perspective on the RoboCup Simulator League: Progress and Prospects.- Technical Papers.- Real-time Color Detection System using Custom LSI for High-Speed Machine Vision.- A Segmentation System for Soccer Robot Based on Neural Networks.- Practical Camera and Colour Calibration for Large Rooms.- Path Tracking Control of Non-holonomic Car-Like Robot with Reinforcement Learning.- Fast Image Segmentation, Object Recognition and Localization in a RoboCup Scenario.- Using Hierarchical Dynamical Systems to Control ReactiveBehavior.- Heterogeneity and On-Board Control in the Small Robots League.- The Body, the Mind or the Eye, first?.- Motion Control in Dynamic Multi-Robot Environments.- Behavior Engineering with “Dual Dynamics” Models and Design Tools.- Techniques for Obtaining Robust, Real-Time, Colour-Based Vision for Robotics.- Design Issues for a Robocup Goalkeeper.- Layered Reactive Planning in the IALP Team.- From a Concurrent Architecture to a Concurrent Autonomous Agents Architecture.- Tracking and Identifying in Real Time the Robots of a F-180 Team.- VQQL. Applying Vector Quantization to Reinforcement Learning.- Fast Accurate and Robust Self-Localization in the RoboCup Environment.- Self-Localization in the RoboCup Environment.- Virtual RoboCup: Real-Time 3D Visualization of 2D Soccer Games.- The RoboCup-98 Teamwork Evaluation Session: A Preliminary Report.- Towards a Distributed Multi-agent System for a Robotic Soccer Team.- A Multi-threaded Approach to Simulated Soccer Agents for the RoboCupCompetition.- A Functional Architecture for a Team of Fully Autonomous Cooperative Robots.- Extension of the Behaviour Oriented Commands (BOC) Model for the Design of a Team of Soccer Players Robots.- Modular Simulator: A Draft of New Simulator for RoboCup.- Programming Real Time Distributed Multiple Robotic Systems.- The Attempto RoboCup Robot Team.- Rogi Team Real: Dynamical Physical Agents.- Learning to Behave by Environment Reinforcement.- End User Specification of RoboCup Teams.- Purposeful Behavior in Robot Soccer Team Play.- Autonomous Information Indication System.- Spatial Agents Implemented in a Logical Expressible Language.- Layered Learning and Flexible Teamwork in RoboCup Simulation Agents.- A Method for Localization by Integration of Imprecise Vision and a Field Model.- Multiple Reward Criterion for Cooperative Behavior Acquisition in a Multiagent Environment.- BDI Design Principles and Cooperative Implementation in RoboCup.- Team Descriptions.- AT Humboldt in RoboCup-99(Team description).- Cyberoos’99: Tactical Agents in the RoboCup Simulation League.- 11Monkeys Description.- Team Erika.- Essex Wizards’99 Team Description.- FCFoo99.- Footux Team Description A Hybrid Recursive Based Agent Architecture.- Gongeroos’99.- Headless Chickens III.- IALP.- Kappa-II.- Karlsruhe Brainstormers - Design Principles.- Kasugabito III.- RoboCup-99 Simulation League: Team KU-Sakura2.- The magmaFreiburg Soccer Team.- Mainz Rolling Brains.- NITStones-99.- Oulu 99.- Pardis.- PaSo-Team’99.- PSI Team.- RoboLog Koblenz.- Rational Agents by Reviewing Techniques.- The Ulm Sparrows 99.- UBU Team.- YowAI.- Zeng99: RoboCup simulation team with Hierarchical Fuzzy Intelligent Control and Cooperative Development.- Small-Size Robot (F180) League.- All Botz.- Big Red: The Cornell Small League Robot Soccer Team.- The CMUnited-99 Small-Size Robot Team.- 5dpo Team Description.- FU-Fighters Team Description.- Linked99.- OWARI-BITO.- Rogi 2 Team Description.- Temasek Polytechnic RoboCupTeam-TPOTs.- The VUB AI-lab RoboCup’99 Small League Team.- Middle-Size Robot (F2000) League.- Agilo RoboCuppers: RoboCup Team Description.- ART99 - Azzurra Robot Team.- CoPS-Team Description.- CS Freiburg’ 99.- DREAMTEAM 99: Team Description Paper.- Description of the GMD RoboCup-99 Team.- ISocRob — Intelligent Society of Robots.- KIRC: Kyutech Intelligent Robot Club.- The Concept of Matto.- The RoboCup-NAIST.- Robot Football Team from Minho University.- Real MagiCol 99: Team Description.- RMIT Raiders.- Design and Construction of a Soccer Player Robot ARVAND.- The Team Description of Osaka University “Trackies-99”.- 5dpo-2000 Team Description.- Sony Legged Robot League.- Team ARAIBO.- BabyTigers-99: Osaka Legged Robot Team.- CM-Trio-99.- Humboldt Hereos in RoboCup-99 (Team description).- McGill RedDogs.- Team Sweden.- UNSW United.- UPennalizers: The University of Pennsylvania RoboCup Legged Soccer Team.