CMDragons 2015: Coordinated Offense and Defense of the SSL Champions

The CMDragons Small Size League SSL team won all of itsi¾ź6 games at RoboCup 2015, scoring a total of 48 goals and conceding 0. This paper presents the core coordination algorithms in offense and defense that enabled such successful performance. We first describe the coordinated plays layer that distributes the team's robots into offensive and defensive subteams. We then describe the offense and defense coordination algorithms to control these subteams. Effective coordination enables our robots to attain a remarkable level of team-oriented gameplay, persistent offense, and reliability during regular gameplay, shifting our strategy away from stopped ball plays. We support these statements and the effectiveness of our algorithms with statistics from our performance at RoboCup 2015.

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