The CS Freiburg Team: Playing Robotic Soccer Based on an Explicit World Model

Robotic soccer is an ideal task to demonstrate new techniques and explore new problems. Moreover, problems and solutions can easily be communicated because soccer is a well‐known game. Our intention in building a robotic soccer team and participating in RoboCup‐98 was, first, to demonstrate the usef...

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Published in:The AI magazine 2000-04, Vol.21 (1), p.37-46
Main Authors: Gutmann, Jens‐Steffen, Hatzack, Wolfgang, Herrmann, Immanuel, Nebel, Bernhard, Rittinger, Frank, Topor, Augustinus, Weigel, Thilo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
Cooperation
Explicit world models
Football
Lasers
Localization
Methods
Robotics
Robots
Sensors
Soccer
Teams
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Summary:Robotic soccer is an ideal task to demonstrate new techniques and explore new problems. Moreover, problems and solutions can easily be communicated because soccer is a well‐known game. Our intention in building a robotic soccer team and participating in RoboCup‐98 was, first, to demonstrate the usefulness of the self‐localization methods we have developed. Second, we wanted to show that playing soccer based on an explicit world model is much more effective than other methods. Third, we intended to explore the problem of building and maintaining a global team world model. As has been demonstrated by the performance of our team, we were successful with the first two points. Moreover, robotic soccer gave us the opportunity to study problems in distributed, cooperative sensing.
ISSN:0738-4602
2371-9621
DOI:10.1609/aimag.v21i1.1493