RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in July 2007, immediately after the 2007 RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue and RoboCupJunior competitions. Papers presented at the symposium focused on
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Ubbo Visser Fernando Ribeiro Takeshi Ohashi Frank Dellaert (Eds.)
RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Ubbo Visser Universität Bremen TZI - Center for Computing Technologies Am Fallturm 1, 28359 Bremen, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Fernando Ribeiro Universidade do Minho Dep. de Electronica Industrial Campus de Azurem, 4800 Guimaraes, Portugal E-mail: [email protected] Takeshi Ohashi Kyushu Institute of Technology Department of Artificial Intelligence Fukuoka Prefecture 820-8502, Iizuka City, Kawazu 680-4, Japan E-mail: [email protected] Frank Dellaert Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing 801 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280, USA E-mail: [email protected] aitainment GmbH holds the copyright for the illustration on the cover of this book. Library of Congress Control Number: 2008930109 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, C.2.4, D.2.7, H.5, I.5.4, J.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
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Preface
The 11th RoboCup International Symposium was held during July 9–10, 2007 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA, immediately after the 2007 Soccer, Rescue and Junior Competitions. The RoboCup community has observed an increasing interest from other communities over the past few years, e.g., the robotics community. RoboCup is seen as a significant approach to the evaluation of newlydeveloped methods to many difficult problems in robotics. Atlanta was also the location of a RoboCup@Space demonstration, which reflected the role of AI and robotics in space exploration. Prior to the symposium, space agencies had expressed an interest in cooperating with RoboCup. A first step in this direction was a successful demonstration at RoboCup 2007, which was accompanied with an invited talk given by a leading scien
