RoboCup 2008 Suzhou
Paper Awards
| Best Paper Award | |
| A 3D Simulator of Multiple Legged Robots based on USARSim, by Marco Zaratti, Marco Fratarcangeli, Luca Iocchi |
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| Best Student Paper Award | |
| Half Field Oensein RoboCup Soccer: A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Case Study, by Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yaxin Liu, Peter Stone |
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| Using the Max-Plus Algorithm for Multiagent Decision Making in Coordination Graphs Jelle R. Kok and Nikos Vlassis, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam |
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| Engineering Challenge Award | |
| Real-Time Diagnosis and Repair of Faults of Robot Control Software Gerald Steinbauer, Martin Moerth, and Frans Wotawa Technology, Graz University of Technology |
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| “Map-based Multi Model Tracking of a Moving Object” Cody Kwok, Dieter Fox, University of Washington |
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| Engineering Challenge Award | |
| “UCHILSIM: A Dynamically and Visually Realistic Simulator for the RoboCup Four Legged League” Juan Cristobal Zagal and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, University of Chile |
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| “Recognition and prediction of motion situations based on a qualitative motion description” Andrea Miene, Ubbo Visser & Otthein Herzog TZI Center for Computing Technologies, University of Bremen |
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| Engineering Challenge Award | |
| “”Knowledge-Based” Autonomous Dynamic Color Calibration” Daniel Cameron and Nick Barnes |
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| “Traction Monitoring for Collision Detection with Legged Robots” Michael J. Quinlan, Craig L. Murch, Richard H. Middleton, and Stephan K. Chalup |
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| “RoboCupJunior: learning with educational robotics ” Elizabeth Sklar *1 , Amy Eguchi *2 , Jeffrey Johnson *3 *1 Department of Computer Science, Columbia University *2 School of Education, University of Cambridge *3 Department of Design and Innovation, The Open University |
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| Engineering Challenge Award | |
| “MPADES: Middleware for Parallel Agent Discrete Event Simulation” Patrick Riley Carnegie Mellon University, Computer Science Department |
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| “Toward RoboCup without Color Labeling” Robert Hanek, Thorsten Schmitt, Sebastian Buck, Michael Beetz Munich University of Technology Department of Comupter Science IX |
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| “The Control Method for Humanoid Walking Using Structural Property” Fuminori Yamasaki *1,*2 , Ken Endo *3 , Minoru Asada *2 , and Hiroaki Kitano *1,*4 *1 Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, ERATO, JST *2 Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University *3 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Keio University, *4 Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. |
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| Engineering Challenge Award | |
| “A Fast Vision System for Middle Size Robots in RoboCup” M. Jamzad, B.S.Sadjad, V.S.Mirrokni, M.Kazemi, H.Chitsaz, A.Heydarnoori, M.T.Hajiaghai, and E.Chiniforooshan Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran |
RoboCup 2000 Melbourne
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| “Behavior Classification with Self-Organizing Maps” Michael Wunstel, Daniel Polani*, Thoams Uthmann, and Jurgen Perl Institut fur Informatik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany, *Institut fur Neuro-und Bioinformatik, Universitat Lubeck, Germany |
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| Engineering Challenge Award | |
| “A Localization Method for a Soccer Robot Using a Vision-Based Omni-Directional Sensor” Carlos F. Marques, Pedro U. Lima Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Insitituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal |
RoboCup 99 Stockholm
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| “For the development of automated and statistical game analysis systems and methodologies” Information Science Institute, University of Southern California (ISI/USC), USA, Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), Japan, and Chubu University, Japan |
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RoboCup 98 Paris
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI) for “development of fully automatic commentator systems for RoboCup simulator league.” |
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RoboCup 97 Nagoya
| Scientific Challenge Award | |
| Sean Luke (Univ. Maryland) for demonstrating the utility of evolutionary approach by co-evolving soccer teams in the simulator league. | |
| Engineering Challenge Award | |
| RMIT Raiders (Royal Merborune Institute of Technology) for innovative design of ball-based omni-directional driving mechanism | |
| Uttori United (Utunomiya Univ. toyo Univ. and Institute of Physical and chemical Research (RIKEN)) for innovative design of wheel-based omni-directional driving mechanism. |