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The Evolution of a Robot Soccer Team

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Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics ((STAR,volume 6))

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This paper traces four years of evolution of the UNSW team in the RoboCup Sony legged robot league. The lessons learned in the creation of a competitive team are instructive for a wide range of applications of robotics. We describe the development of vision and localisation procedures for robot soccer, as well as innovations in locomotion and the design of game play strategies. Since all teams in the competition are required to use identical hardware, the key factor to success in this league is the creativity of the software designers in programming the robots to perform skills that the robots were not originally intended to do and to perform them in a highly dynamic and non-deterministic environment.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Claude Sammut & Bernhard Hengst

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  1. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Raymond Austin Jarvis

  2. Dept. of Systems Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    Alexander Zelinsky

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Sammut, C., Hengst, B. (2003). The Evolution of a Robot Soccer Team. In: Jarvis, R.A., Zelinsky, A. (eds) Robotics Research. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36460-9_34

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