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RoboCup-97 Nagoya


Workshop Tentative Schedule

All Oral Presentations will be held at Room 142. Posters will be presented at Room 143

August 23 (Day 1)
  • [9:00-10:00]
    Opening and Administrative Announcements

  • Break [10:00-10:30]

  • Multi-Agent Architecture 10:30 - 12:00
    • [10:30-10:55]
      Executing Tasks by Modifying and Combining Primitive Reactions
      Jukka Riekki and Juha Roning
      Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Infotech Oulu University of Oulu FIN-90570 Oulu E-mail: {jpr,jjr}@ee.oulu.fi
    • [10:55-11:20]
      Autonomous Soccer Robots
      Wei-Min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Rogelio Adobbati, Ali Erdem, Hadi Moradi, Behnam Salemi, Sheila Tejada
      University of Southern california / Informatin Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 E-mail: {shen, robot-fans}@isi.edu
    • [11:20-11:45]
      Learning, Deciding, Predicting: The Soccer Playing Mind
      Andrew Price, Andrew Jennings, John Kneen, Elizabeth Kendall
      Department of Computer Systems Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech nology Melbourne Victoria Australia E-mail: andrew.price@cse.rmit.edu.au, {ajennings, John}@rmit.edu.au,
    • [11:45-12:10]
      Multi-Agent Teamwork, Adaptive Learning, and Adversarial Planning in Robocup using a PRS Architecture
      Tommaso F. Bersano-Begey, Patrick G. Kenny, and Edmund H. Durfee
      The University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ATL building, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 E-mail: tombb@engin.umich.edu, pkenny@umich.edu, durfee@umichi.edu
  • Lunch

  • Planning
    • [13:30-13:55]
      Using Decision Tree Confidence Factors for Multiagent Control
      Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
      Computer Science Dept. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 E-mail: {pstone, veloso}@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/{~pstone,~mmv}
    • [13:55-14:20]
      Towards Flexible Teamwork and Learning in RoboCup Agents: Extended Abstract
      Milind Tambe, Jafar Adibi, Ali Erdem, Gal A. Kaminka, Stacy C. Marsella, Ion Muslea, Behnam Salemi, Marcello Tallis
      Information Sciences Institute and Computer Science Deparment University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001 marina del Rey, CA 90292 E-mail: robocup-sim@isi.edu
    • [14:20-14:45]
      A Role-Based Decision-Mechanism for Teams of Soccer-Playing Agents
      S. Coradeschi and L. Karlsson
      Department of Computer and Information Science Linkoping University, Sweden E-mail: silco@ida.liu.se, Larka@ida.liu.se
  • Break

  • RoboCup Challenges [15:15-15:50]
    • The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge
      Kitano, H., et al.
    • The RoboCup Physical Agent Challenge
      Asada, M., et al.
  • Special Session: Humanoid and Legged Robots [16:00-17:00]
    • HONDA Humanoid Robot
      Kazuo Hirai, Director, Deupty General Manager
      Honda R&D Co. LTD Wako Research Center
    • SONY Legged Robot: A Legged Robot for RoboCup based on OPENR
      Masahiro Fujita*, Hiroaki Kitano** and Koji Kageyama*
      *D21 Laboratory, Sony Corporation 6-7-35, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141 Japan **Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc. Takanawa Muse Building, 3-14-13 Higashi-gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141 Japan
  • Press Conference at SHIROTORI HALL[17:30-19:00]

  • RoboCup Reception at Cafe Cascade[19:00-21:00]

24 August (Day 2)

  • Vision and Control
    • [9:00-9:25]
      Real-Time Vision Processing for a Soccer Playing Mobile Robot
      Gordon Cheng and Alexander Zelinsky
      Department of Systems Engineering, The Australian National University
    • [9:20-9:50]
      Building Shoobot Using Proper Feedback and Feedforward Control
      Hironori Mizuno, Masakatsu Kourogi, Yukihide Kawamoto, Yoichi Muraoka
      School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University 3-4-1 Ohkubo Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169 Japan E-mail:{mizuno, kourogi, kawamoto, muraoka}@muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp http://www.info.waseda.ac.jp/muraoka/members/hiro/
  • Break

  • General Analysis
    • [10:20-10:45]
      Multimedia Presentation of Visual DataElisabeth Andre, Gerd Herzog, Thomas Rist, DFKI
    • [10:45-11:10]
      Football in Recent Time: What We Can Learn From the Newspapers (Extended Abstract)
      Ian Frank, ETL
      E-mail: ianf@etl.go.jp
  • Simulation System
    • [11:10-11:30]
      JavaSoccer, Tucker Balch, GeorgiaTech
    • [11:30-11:50]
      3D Visualization of Soccer Server, Atsushi Shinjou, Softopia Japan
  • [11:50-12:10]
    The Educational Value of Project-Oriented Learning in Robotics
    I. Verner and E. Kolberg
    Department of Education in Technology and Science
    Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel

  • Lunch

  • Poster Session[13:30-]

  • Test run and reserved time
29 August (Day 3)
  • Review of RoboCup-97
  • Secret of my success : Presentation by winners
  • Review and discussion on rules and procedures
  • Discussion of RoboCup Challenge
  • Future RoboCups

Team Descriptions: Poster Presentations

This is a list team who already submitted the camera-ready version of their team description to be included in Workshop notes. Other teams can bring their posters and make presentations.

Real Robot League
  • Fast Vision Tracking for RoboCup-97
    Randy Sargent, Bill Bailey, Carl Witty, and Anne Wright
    Newton Research Labs
  • A Hierarchical Fuzzy Controller Based Autonomous Soccer Player
    D. Padilla and M. de Oliveira
    UNM/NASA ACE Center
  • Team Description: Omni-directional Soccer Robots with 360 Degree Vision
    Andrew Price, Andrew Jennings, John Kneen
    Department of Computer Systems Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne Victoria Australia E-mail: andrew.price@cse.rmit.edu.au, {ajennings,JohnK}@rmit.edu.au
  • Totally Autonomous Soccer Robots
    Wei-Min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Rogelio Adobbati, Ali Erdem, Hadi Moradi, Behnam Salemi, Sheila Tejada
    University of Southern california / Informatin Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 E-mail: {shen, robot-fans}@isi.edu
  • Cooperation Towards Team Play
    Yokota, K.* , Ozaki, K.*, Matsumoto, A**, Fujii, T.***, Asama, H.***, Kaetsu, H. and Endo, I.***
    *Dept. of Mechanical Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Utsunomiya University **Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Toyo University *** The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
  • Vision-Based Learning for Real Robot: Towards RoboCup
    Suzuki, S., Takahashi, Y., Uchibe, E., Nakamura, M., Mishima, C. and Asada, M.,
    Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University
Simulator League
  • Co-Evolving Soccer Softbot Team Coordination with Genetic Programming
    Sean Luke, Charles Hohn, Jonathan Farris, Gary Jackson, James Hendler
    University of Maryland
  • Agent Soccer with Case Based Reasoning Extended Abstract
    Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Markus Hannebauer, Ralf Kuhnel
    Inst. of Informatics Humboldt University Berlin, D-10099 Berlin, Germany E-mail: hdb/hannebau/kuehnel@infomatik.hu-berlin.de
  • An Agenda-Based Multi-Agent Architecture
    Vicente Matellan and Daniel Borrajo
    Departmento de Informatica Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 28911, Leganes, Espana E-mail: {vmo,dborrajo}@ia.uc3m.es
  • Team description: Royal Melbourne Knights
    Simon Ch'ng and Lin Padgham
    Department of Computer Science Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne, Victoria, Australia E-mail: {schng, linpa}@cs.rmit.edu.au
  • A Multi-Layered Behavior Based System for Controlling Robocup Agents
    P. Scerri
    Department of Computer Science RMIT University, GPO Box 2476V Melbourne 3001, Australia E-mail: paul@numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
  • Motivation-Based Agent Model
    Ransui Iso, Takayoshi Ishii, Yuichiro Yamazaki, Daiji Tamagawa, Hirashige In azumi
    School of Science and Engineering, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
  • Team Kasuga-bito with modulation of playing
    Tomoo Inden, Tomoichi Takahashi
    Chubu University 1200 Matumoto, Kasugai-shi, Aichi, 487, JAPAN E-mail: g96701, ttaka@isc.chubu.ac.jp.
  • Application of Environmental Agent Model for the Soccer Game
    Takehiro Hotta, Nobuhiro Ito, and Naohiro Ishii
    Department of Intelligence and Computer Science, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466, Japan E-mail: angra@egg.ics.nitech.ac.jp Phone: +81-52-735-5474 Fax: +81-52-735-5477
  • Agent Programming on Gaea
    Itsuki Noda,
    ElectroTechnical Laboratory
  • RoboCup-97 Simulator Track: Team Sicily (CSLI)
    Huang, L., Fry, J., Houlette, R., Kaufmann, S. and Peters, S.,
    Center for Study of Language and Information
    Stanford University
  • Decision making by the characteristics and the interaction in multi-agent robotics soccer
    Matsumoto, A. and Nagai, H.,
    Toyo University
  • Integrating RL and Behavior-based Control for Soccer
    Tucker Balch,
    Mobile Robot Laboratory,
    Georgia Institute of Technology,
    Atlanta, Georgia, USA




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