RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative

The Robot World Cup Initiative (R, oboCup) is attempt to foster AI and intelligent rohoties research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies especially concerning multi-agent research (:an be integrated and examined. The first RoboCup competition is to be, heht at. IJCAI-97, Nagoya. In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game. various technologies must I)e incorl)orated including: design principles of autononmus agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time rea.~oning, robotics, and sensor-fllsion. Unlike AAAI robot competition, which is tuned for a single heavy-duty slow-moving robot. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple f‘ast-moving robots under a dynamic environmen(. Although RoboCnp’s final target is a worhl cup with real robots, RoboCup offers a soft.ware platform for reseaxch on the software aspects of RoboCup. This paper describes teclini(’M challenges involw~d in RoboCup, rules, and simulation environment.

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