RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII
ThesearetheproceedingsoftheRoboCup2004Symposium,heldattheInstituto Superior T´ ecnico, in Lisbon, Portugal in conjunction with the RoboCup c- petition. The papers presented here document the many innovations in robotics that result from RoboCup. A problem
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Daniele Nardi Martin Riedmiller Claude Sammut José Santos-Victor (Eds.)
RoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII
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Volume Editors Daniele Nardi Università di Roma “La Sapienza” E-mail: [email protected] Martin Riedmiller University of Osnabrück E-mail: [email protected] Claude Sammut University of New South Wales E-mail: [email protected] José Santos-Victor Lisbon Technical University E-mail: [email protected]
The picture on the cover was taken by Yukiko Matsuoka, © RoboCup Federation.
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CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, C.2.4, D.2.7, H.5, I.5.4, J.4 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-25046-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springeronline.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11399162 06/3142 543210
Preface
These are the proceedings of the RoboCup 2004 Symposium, held at the Instituto Superior T´ecnico, in Lisbon, Portugal in conjunction with the RoboCup competition. The papers presented here document the many innovations in robotics that result from RoboCup. A problem in any branch of science or engineering is how to devise tests that can provide objective comparisons between alternative methods. In recent years, competitive engineering challenges have been established to motivate researchers to tackle difficult problems while providing a framework for the comparison of results. RoboCup was one of the first such competitions and has been a model for the organization of challenges following sound scientific principles. In addition to the competition, the associated symposium provides a forum for researchers to present refereed papers. But, for RoboCup, the symposium has the greater goal of encouraging the exchange of ideas between teams so that the competition, as a whole, progresses from year to year and strengthens its contribution to robotics. One hundred and eighteen papers were submitted to the Symposium. Each paper was reviewed by at least two international referees; 30 papers were accepted for presentation at the Symposium as full papers and a further 38 were accepted for poster presentation. The quality of the Symposium could not be maintained without the support of the authors and the gener
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