RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII
This book includes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Joao Pessoa, Brazil, in July 2014.The 36 revised papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submis-sions and include 11 champion-te
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNAI Series Editors Randy Goebel University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Yuzuru Tanaka Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Editors Reinaldo A.C. Bianchi FEI University São Bernardo do Campo Brazil H. Levent Akin Boğaziçi University Istanbul Turkey
Subramanian Ramamoorthy University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK Komei Sugiura National Institute of Information and Communications Technology Kyoto Japan
ISSN 0302-9743 ISSN 1611-3349 (electronic) Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ISBN 978-3-319-18614-6 ISBN 978-3-319-18615-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18615-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015938428 LNCS Sublibrary: SL7 – Artificial Intelligence Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The RoboCup – Robot World Cup – 2014 took place at the Convention Center “Poeta Ronaldo Cunha Lima” in João Pessoa, Brazil, from July 19–24. The RoboCup 2014 competition had a total of 2,631 participants from 45 countries in the Major and Junior leagues. If we consider also the exhibitors, staff, local organization, and volunteers, RoboCup 2014 had more than 2,900 participants. Approximately 100,000 visitors from different Brazilian states attended RoboC
