Video: RoboCup robot soccer history 1997 – 2011

RoboCup is an international initiative to foster inter-disciplinary research and education in robotics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and engineering. We focus on the challenges of multi-robot systems, where robots cooperate with each other and when needed with humans to achieve goals in complex and uncertain environments, such as robot soccer, as RoboCupSoccer, robot rescue, as RoboCupRescue, and the wide spectrum of robot applications in daily life, as RoboCup@Home. We also include sponsored demonstrations that explore possible new scientific challenges, such as collaborative logistics. Furthermore, we are committed to contribute to the education of children in robotics: RoboCupJunior provides an exciting introduction to science and engineering for children. Overall, RoboCup is a large vibrant community, composed of university faculty and student researchers and engineers, school teachers, children, and parents. RoboCup serves as a substrate to a wide variety of academic entreprises, ranging from courses and class projects to undergraduate, Masters, and PhD research theses. RoboCup has an international annual event consisting of robot competitions and a symposium. RoboCup has consistently grown, from a few hundred participants in 1997 to close to 3,000 in 2011.

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[2]  Gerhard Lakemeyer,et al.  RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X , 2006, RoboCup.

[3]  Javier Ruiz-del-Solar,et al.  RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV , 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[4]  Hiroaki Kitano,et al.  RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II , 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[5]  Adam Jacoff,et al.  RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX , 2006, RoboCup.

[6]  Hitoshi Matsubara,et al.  RoboCup 2008: Robot Soccer World Cup XII [papers from the 12th annual RoboCup International Symposium, Suzhou, China, July 15-18, 2008] , 2009, RoboCup.

[7]  Hiroaki Kitano,et al.  RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III , 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[8]  Thomas Röfer,et al.  Robot Soccer World Cup XV , 2012 .

[9]  Martin A. Riedmiller,et al.  RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII , 2005, RoboCup.

[10]  Jesus Savage,et al.  RoboCup 2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV , 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[11]  Raúl Rojas,et al.  RoboCup 2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI , 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[12]  Andreas Birk,et al.  RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V , 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[13]  Jacky Baltes,et al.  RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII [papers from the 13th annual RoboCup International Symposium, Graz, Austria, June 29 - July 5, 2009] , 2010, RoboCup.

[14]  Brett Browning,et al.  RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII , 2003, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

[15]  Peter Stone,et al.  RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV , 2001, RoboCup.