RoboCup 2002 Small-Size League Review

The RoboCup challenge, to build soccer playing robots able to compete against the best human soccer players, is a goal well beyond our current levels of robot technology. Our current competition structure, with its various leagues, aims to step towards this goal by focusing on different aspects of the RoboCup problem. In the small-size league, global perception allows us to focus primarily on single and multi-robot control and multi-robot teamwork.