ISBN: 3540663207
TITLE: RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II
AUTHOR: Asada, Minoru; Kitano, Hiroaki (Eds.)
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Overview and Award Papers
Overview Paper
Overview of RoboCup-98 1
Minoru Asada, Manuela Veloso, Milind Tambe, Itsuki Noda, Hiroaki Kitano, and Gerhard K.Kraetzschmar (Osaka Univ., Japan; Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA; USC, USA; Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan; Sony CSL, Japan; University of Ulm, Germany)
Scientific Challenge Award Papers
Character Design for Soccer Commentary 22
Binsted and Sean Luke (Sony CSL, Japan and University of Maryland, USA)
Automatic Soccer Commentary and RoboCup 34
Hitoshi Matsubara, Ian Frank, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Itsuki Noda, Hideyuki Nakashima, and Kiti Hashida (ETL, Japan)
Rocco: A RoboCup Soccer Commentator System 50
Dirk Voelz, Elisabeth Andr, Gerd Herzog, and Thomas Rist (DFKI, Germany)
Champion Teams
The CMUnited-98 Champion Simulator Team 61
Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso, and Patrick Riley (CMU, USA)
The CMUnited-98 Champion Small-Robot Team 77
Manuela Veloso, Michael Bowling, Sorin Achin, Kwun Han, and Peter Stone (CMU, USA)
The CS Freiburg Robotic Soccer Team: Reliable Self-Localization, Multirobot Sensor Integration, and Basic Soccer Skills 93
Jens-Steffen Gutmann, Wolfgang Hatzack, Immanuel Herrmann, Bernhard Nebel, Frank Rittinger, Augustinus Topor, Thilo Weigel, and Bruno Welsch (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg, Germany)
Technical Papers
Infrastructure
The Survey of RoboCup '98: Who, How and Why 109
Igor M. Verner (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
How to make a Challenging AI Course Enjoyable Using the RoboCup Soccer Simulation System 120
Silvia Coradeschi and Jacek Malec (Linkoeping University, Sweden)
A Quadruped Robot for RoboCup Legged Robot Challenge in Paris '98 125
Masahiro Fujita, Stephane Zrehen, Hiroaki Kitano (Sony, Japan)
Robot Soccer with LEGO Mindstorms 141
Henrik Hautop Lund and Luigi Pagliarini (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark)
Basic Skill
Ball-Receiving Skill Dependent on Centering in Soccer Simulation Games 152
Kazuaki Maeda, Akinori Kohketsu, and Tomoichi Takahashi (Chubu Univ., Japan)
The Priority/Confidence Model as a Framework for Soccer Agents 162
Jan Lubbers and Rogier R. Spaans (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
A User Oriented System for Developing Behavior Based Agents 173
Paul Scerri, Silvia Coradeschi, and Anders T.orne (Linkoeping University, Sweden)
Teamwork and Evaluation
From Play Recognition to Good Plays Detection - Reviewing RoboCup 97 Teams from Logfile - 187
Tomoichi Takahashi and Tadashi Naruse (Chubu Univ., Japan)
Inductive Verification and Validation of the KULRoT RoboCup Team 193
Kurt Driessens, Nico Jacobs, Nathalie Cossement, Patrick Monsieurs and Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Belgium)
Layered, Resource-Adaptive Agents in the RoboCup Simulation 207
Christoph G. Jung (Universit. at des Saarlandes & DFKI GmbH, Germany)
A Description-Processing System for Soccer Agents 221
Nobuhiro Ito, Kouichi Nakagawa, Xiaoyong Du, and Naohiro Ishii (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
Using an Explicit Teamwork Model and Learning in RoboCup 237
Stacy Marsella, Jafar Adibi, Yaser Al-Onaizan, Ali Erdem, Randall Hill, Gal A. Kaminka, Zhun Qiu, Milind Tambe (USC, USA)
A Hybrid Agent Model, Mixing Short Term and Long Term Memory Abilities. An Application to RoboCup Competition 246
Fausto Torterolo and Chaterine Garbay (Albert Bonniot Institute, France and Univ. di Palermo, Italy)
Learning and Evolution
Team-Partitioned, Opaque-Transition Reinforcement Learning 261
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA)
Cooperative Behavior Acquisition in a Multiple Mobile Robot Environment by Co-evolution  273
Eiji Uchibe, Masateru Nakamura, and Minoru Asada, (Osaka University, Japan)
Real Robot Perception, Mechanism, and Integration
Integrated Reactive Soccer Agents 286
Wei-min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Rogelio Adobbati, Srini Lanksham, Hadi Moradi, Benham Salemi, and Sheila Tejada (ISI USC, USA)
An Innovative Approach to Vision, Localization and Orientation Using Omnidirectional Radial Signature Analysis 299
Andrew R. Price and Trevor Jones (Deakin University, Australia)
An Application of Vision-Based Learning in RoboCup for a Real Robot with an Omnidirectional Vision System and the Team Description of Osaka University "Trackies" 316
Sho'ji Suzuki, Tatsunori Kato, Hiroshi Ishizuka, Yasutake Takahashi, Eiji Uchibe, and Minoru Asada (Osaka Univ., Japan)
The RoboCup-NAIST: A Cheap Multisensor-Based Mobile Robot with On-Line Visual Learning Capability 326
Takayuki Nakamura, Kazunori Terada, Atsushi Shibata, and Hideaki Takeda (NAIST, Japan)
Team Description
Simulation
Andhill-98:A RoboCup Team which Reinforces Positioning with Observation 338
Tomohito Andou (NEC, Japan)
Evolving Team Darwin United 346
David Andre and Astro Teller (UC Berkeley, USA and CMU, USA)
UBU: Utility-Based Uncertainty Handling in Synthetic Soccer 352
Magnus Boman, Helena Aberg, Asa Ahman, Jens Andreasen, Mats Danielson, Carl-Gustaf Jansson, Johan Kummeneje, Harko Verhagen, Johan Walter (SU/KTH, Sweden)
AT Humboldt in RoboCup-98 358
Pascal Gugenberger, Jan Wendler, Kay Schr. oter, and Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
Individual Tactical Play andPass with Communication between Players -Team Descriptions of Team Miya2- 364
Harukazu Igarashi, Shougo Kosue and Masatoshi Miyahara (Kinki Univ., Japan)
UFSC-team: A Cognitive Multi-Agent Approach to the RoboCup'98 Simulator League 371
Augusto Cesar Pinto Loureiro da Costa and Guilherme Bittencourt (Universidade, Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil)
Description of Team Erika 377
Takeshi Matsumura (Waseda Univ., Japan)
Getting Global Performance through Local Information in PaSo-Team'98 384
E. Pagello, F. Montesello, F. Garelli, F. Candon, P. Chioetto and S. Griggio (Padua University, Italy; Inst. LADSEB, Italy; Univ. of Venice, Italy)
A Direct Approach to Robot Soccer Agents: Description for the Team MAINZ ROLLING BRAINS Simulation League of RoboCup'98 390
Daniel Polani,Stefan Weber,and Thomas Uthmann (Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt, Germany)
CAT Finland: Executing Primitive Tasks in Parallel 396
Jukka Riekki, Jussi Pajala, Antti Tikanmki, and Juha Rning (University of Oulu, Finland)
A Multi-level Constraint-Based Controller for the Dynamo98 Robot Soccer Team 402
Yu Zhang and Alan K. Mackworth (UBC, Canada)
Real Robot Small-Size League
The small league RoboCup team of the VUB AI-Lab 410
Andreas Birk, Thomas Walle, Tony Belpaeme, Johan Parent, Tom De Vlaminck, and Holger Kenn (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
CIIPS Glory - Soccer Robots with Local Intelligence 416
Thomas Braunl (The Univ. of Western Australia, Australia)
The Cambridge University Robot Football Team Description 422
A. Rowstron, B. Bradshaw, D. Crosby, T. Edmonds, S. Hodges, A. Hopper, S. Lloyd, J.Wang and S. Wray (Cambridge Univ., UK)
UQ RoboRoos: Preliminary Results for a Robot Soccer Team 428
Gordon Wyeth, Brett Browning, and Ashley Tews (University of Queensland, Australia)
Real Robot Middle-Size League
ISocRob - Team Description 434
Pedro Aparicio, Rodrigo Ventura, Pedro Lima, and Carlos Pinto-Ferreira (ISR/IST, Portugal)
Real MagiCol 98: Team Description and Results 440
E. Gonzlez, H. Loaiza, A. Surez, C. Morenoet (Universidad d'Evry Val d'Essonne - LaMI, Colombia)
Agilo RoboCuppers: RoboCup Team Description 446
Michael Klupsch, Maximilian L. uckenhaus, Christoph Zierl, Ivan Laptev, Thorsten Bandlow, Marc Grimme, Ignaz Kellerer, Fabian Schwarzer (Technische Universitt Mnchen, Germany)
The Ulm Sparrows: Research into Sensorimotor Integration, Agency, Learning, and Multiagent Cooperation 452
Gerhard K.Kraetzschmar, Stefan Enderle, Stefan Sablatnoeg, Thomas Boss, Mark Dettinger, Hans Braxmayer, Heiko Folkerts, Markus Klingler, Dominik Maschke, Gerd Mayer, Markus Mueller, Alexander Neubeck, Marcus Ritter, Heiner Seidl, Robert Woerz, Guenther Palm (University of Ulm, Germany)
ART Azzurra Robot Team 458
Daniele Nardi, Giorgio Clemente and Enrico Pagello (Univ. "La Sapienza", Italy)
Design and Evaluation of the T-Team of the University orTuebingen for RoboCup'98 464
Michael Plagge, Boris Diebold, Richard Guenther, Joern Ihlenburg, Dirk Jung, Keyan Zahedi, and Andreas Zell (W.-Schickard-Institute for Computer Science, Tuebingen, Germany)
Team Description of the GMD RoboCup-Team 473
A. Siegberg, A. Bredenfeld, H. Guenther, H.U. Kobialka, B. Klaassen, U. Licht, K.L. Paap, P.G. Ploeger, H. Streich , J. Vollmer, J. Wilberg, R. Worst, and T. Christaller (GMD, Germany)
UTTORI United: Cooperative Team Play Based on Communication 479
Kazutaka Yokota, Koichi Ozaki, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Akihiro Matsumoto, Daisuke Koyama, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Kuniaki Kawabata, Hayato Kaetsu, and Hajime Asama (Utsunomiya Univ., Toyo Univ., and RIKEN, Japan)
Legged robot league
Quadrruped Robot Guided by Enhanced Vision System and Supervision Modules 485
Vincent Hugel, Patrick Bonnin, Jean Christophe Bouramou, Didier Solheid, Pierre Blazevic, and Dominique Duhaut (U. V. S. Q., France)
The CMTrio-98 Sony Legged Robot Team 491
Manuela Veloso and William Uther (CMU, USA)
BabyTigers-98: Osaka Legged Robot Team 498
Noriaki Mitsunaga, Minoru Asada, and Chizuko Mishima (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Author Index 507
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