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Designing and Optimization of Omni-Directional Kick for Bipedal Robots

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Recent Trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence (IEA/AIE 2013)

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The paper presents designing and optimization of key-frame based kick skills for bipedal robots. The kicks, evolved via evolutionary algorithms, allow a humanoid robot to kick in straight, sideways, backward and in angular directions. Experiments are conducted on the simulated model of Nao robot that is being used in the RoboCup Soccer 3D Simulation league. The initial sets of kicks were manually designed by human experts and were passed as seed values to the optimization process. Correctness in the kick direction and the distance covered by the ball were used as the fitness criteria. The findings of the paper not only significantly improves the capability of our RoboCup Soccer 3D team but also provides insight in the designing and optimization of key-frame based kicks that can be utilized by other teams participating in bipedal soccer.

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  1. Artificial Intelligence Lab, Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan

    Syed Ali Raza & Sajjad Haider

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Texas State University, 78666, San Marcos, TX, USA

    Moonis Ali

  2. Agent Systems Research Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081, Amsterdam, HV, The Netherlands

    Tibor Bosse

  3. Interactive Intelligence Group, Department of Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD, Delft, The Netherlands

    Koen V. Hindriks  & Catholijn M. Jonker  & 

  4. Computational Intelligence Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Mark Hoogendoorn

  5. Agent Systems Research Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan Treur

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Raza, S.A., Haider, S. (2013). Designing and Optimization of Omni-Directional Kick for Bipedal Robots. In: Ali, M., Bosse, T., Hindriks, K.V., Hoogendoorn, M., Jonker, C.M., Treur, J. (eds) Recent Trends in Applied Artificial Intelligence. IEA/AIE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7906. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38577-3_30

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