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Award Winners
RoboCup-97 finished as astonishing success attracting at least over 5,000
general audiences and 1,500 IJCAI attendee. The conference was reported
in major media through the world such as CNN, ABC news/Good Morning America,
Wired, BBC, WTN, BskyB, NHK, German TV, Der Spigel, etc.
- The
RoboCup Scientific Challenge Award:
Sean Luke (Univ. Maryland) for demonstrating the utility of
evolutionary approach by co-evolving soccer teams in the simulator
league.
- The
RoboCup 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.
- Middle
Size League:
- World Cmapion Two team ended in draw in final and in
prepreliminary games.
- Dreamteam (ISI/USC) Wei Min shen et al
- Trakies (Osaka Univ.) Minoru asada et al
Characteristics: Dreamteam (ISI/USC) is full on-board system.
Trakies of Osaka Univ. used reinforcement learning to fully train
their behaviors.
- Small
Size League:
- World Champion
CMUnited (Carnegie
Mellon Univ.) Manuela Veloso, Peter Stone, et al CMUnited
use Layered architecture.
- Second Place:
Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Nara
used on-board vision system.
- Simulator
League:
- World Champion
Humbolt (Humbolt Univ. Germany) using Case-based reasoning
and agent-oriented programming
- Second Place:
Andhill (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Ando using reinforcement
learning
- Third Place:
ISIS (ISI/USC) Milind Tambe et al using Soar-architecture
- No world Champion this year for exhibition
league.
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