RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen

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Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Tokyo

Andreas Birk Silvia Coradeschi Satoshi Tadokoro (Eds.)

RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Author Andreas Birk Interantional University Bremen, School of Engineering and Science Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Silvia Coradeschi Örebro University, Department of Technology 70182 Örebro, Sweden E-mail: [email protected] Satoshi Tadokoro Kobe University, Department of Computer and Systems Engineering Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657-8501 Japan E-mail: [email protected]

Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme RoboCup : Robot Soccer World Cup V / RoboCup 2001. Andreas Birk ... (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Tokyo : Springer, 2002 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 2377 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-43912-9

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, C.2.4, D.2.7, H.5, I.5.4, J.4 ISSN 0302-9743 ISBN 3-540-43912-9 Springer-Verlag 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-Verlag. Violations are liable for prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York a member of BertelsmannSpringer Science+Business Media GmbH http://www.springer.de © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Boller Mediendesign Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 10870431 06/3142 543210

Preface RoboCup 2001, the Fifth Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, was held from August 2–10, 2001, at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, USA. Like the previous international RoboCup events – RoboCup 97 in Nagoya, Japan; RoboCup 98 in Paris, France; RoboCup 99 in Stockholm, Sweden; and RoboCup 2000 in Melbourne, Australia – RoboCup 2001 included a symposium as well as several robotic competitions. Both parts, the symposium and the tournaments, are documented in this book. The symposium received over 80 submissions of which 18 were selected for full presentation, i.e., a talk at the symposium and a 10-page contribution to this book, and 40 were selected as posters, i.e., a poster presentation at the symposium and a 6-page contribution to