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RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII

  • Presents highlights of Robot World Cup 2013
  • Contains papers from the new special track on open source hardware and software components
  • Contributions are written by international experts in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8371)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): RoboCup: Robot World Cup

Conference proceedings info: RoboCup 2013.

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Table of contents (64 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Best Paper Award for Its Theoretical Contribution

    1. Towards Quantifying Interaction Networks in a Football Match

      • Oliver M. Cliff, Joseph T. Lizier, X. Rosalind Wang, Peter Wang, Oliver Obst, Mikhail Prokopenko
      Pages 1-12
  3. Best Paper Award for Its Application Contribution

    1. Active Object Search Exploiting Probabilistic Object–Object Relations

      • Jos Elfring, Simon Jansen, René van de Molengraft, Maarten Steinbuch
      Pages 13-24
  4. Best Paper Award for Its Engineering Contribution

  5. Champion Teams

    1. Team Water: The Champion of the RoboCup Middle Size League Competition 2013

      • Song Chen, Zhe Zhu, Ye Tian, Charles Lynch, Di Zhu, Ye Lv et al.
      Pages 37-48
    2. RoboCup 2013 Humanoid Kidsize League Winner

      • Daniel D. Lee, Seung-Joon Yi, Stephen G. McGill, Yida Zhang, Larry Vadakedathu, Samarth Brahmbhatt et al.
      Pages 49-55
    3. Learning to Improve Capture Steps for Disturbance Rejection in Humanoid Soccer

      • Marcell Missura, Cedrick Münstermann, Philipp Allgeuer, Max Schwarz, Julio Pastrana, Sebastian Schueller et al.
      Pages 56-67
    4. RoboCup 2013: Best Humanoid Award Winner JoiTech

      • Yuji Oshima, Dai Hirose, Syohei Toyoyama, Keisuke Kawano, Shibo Qin, Tomoya Suzuki et al.
      Pages 68-79
    5. B-Human 2013: Ensuring Stable Game Performance

      • Thomas Röfer, Tim Laue, Arne Böockmann, Judith Müller, Alexis Tsogias
      Pages 80-91
    6. ZJUNlict: RoboCup 2013 Small Size League Champion

      • Yue Zhao, Rong Xiong, Hangjun Tong, Chuan Li, Li Fang
      Pages 92-103
    7. The Walking Skill of Apollo3D – The Champion Team in the RoboCup2013 3D Soccer Simulation Competition

      • Juan Liu, Zhiwei Liang, Ping Shen, Yue Hao, Hecheng Zhao
      Pages 104-113
    8. Clustering and Planning for Rescue Agent Simulation

      • Ahmed Abouraya, Dina Helal, Fadwa Sakr, Noha Khater, Salma Osama, Slim Abdennadher
      Pages 125-134
    9. Increasing Flexibility of Mobile Manipulation and Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction in RoboCup@Home

      • Jörg Stückler, David Droeschel, Kathrin Gräve, Dirk Holz, Michael Schreiber, Angeliki Topalidou-Kyniazopoulou et al.
      Pages 135-146
    10. How to Win RoboCup@Work?

      • Sjriek Alers, Daniel Claes, Joscha Fossel, Daniel Hennes, Karl Tuyls, Gerhard Weiss
      Pages 147-158
  6. Oral Presentations

    1. Analyzing and Learning an Opponent’s Strategies in the RoboCup Small Size League

      • Kotaro Yasui, Kunikazu Kobayashi, Kazuhito Murakami, Tadashi Naruse
      Pages 159-170
    2. An Entertainment Robot for Playing Interactive Ball Games

      • Tim Laue, Oliver Birbach, Tobias Hammer, Udo Frese
      Pages 171-182
    3. Self-calibration of Colormetric Parameters in Vision Systems for Autonomous Soccer Robots

      • António J. R. Neves, Alina Trifan, Bernardo Cunha
      Pages 183-194
    4. BRISK-Based Visual Feature Extraction for Resource Constrained Robots

      • Daniel Jaymin Mankowitz, Subramanian Ramamoorthy
      Pages 195-206

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About this book

This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2013. The 20 revised papers presented together with 11 champion team papers, 3 best paper awards, 11 oral presentations, and 19 special track on open-source hard- and software papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers present current research and educational activities within the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence with a special focus to robot hardware and software, perception and action, robotic cognition and learning, multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction, education and edutainment, and applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Computer Science Institute VI: Autonomous Intelligent Systems, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Sven Behnke

  • School of Computing Science, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Manuela Veloso

  • Faculty of Science, Informatics Institute, Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Arnoud Visser

  • Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Rong Xiong

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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