Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam


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Robocup Simulation Soccer

The Robot World Cup Initiative (RoboCup) is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem in which a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup's final goal is a soccer world cup with real robots and in order to realize this goal several competitions have been set up which all focus on different aspects of the overall problem. One of these competitions is the Simulation League which concentrates mainly on RoboCup aspects at a high level of abstraction such as team strategy and learning capabilities. Our team UvA Trilearn participated in different competitions since 2001. In the yearly world championships our team reached 4th place in 2001 and 2002, and became champion in 2003. Furthermore, UvA Trilearn also won the German Open three consecutive times (2002-2004).

Research group members

drs. J.R. Kok
dr. N. Vlassis
Prof. dr. ir. Frans Groen

Funding

University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Research Achievements

A soccer game is a specific but very attractive real time multiagent environment from the viewpoint of distributed artificial intelligence and multiagent research. Several scientific areas of interest which we will address in our project are the following:
  • Dynamic Resource Allocation/Heterogeneous Agents. Given the different skills agents have, and given that agents grow tired, how should agents best divide their tasks between them?
  • Multiagent Modeling.How can a coach recognize its own team's and an opponent's strength's and weaknesses? How can it model their behavior?
  • Teamwork and Coordination.How can a group of agents work together, collaborating and coordinating, as an effective team? How do dynamic small sub-teams form, and how can they be made effective?
  • Agent Architectures. What architectures are useful for dynamic, complex, multiagent settings?

Project Homepage

More detailed information (including sources, binaries, publications and logfiles) can be found at the UvA Trilearn website. More information about the RoboCup Initiative itself can be found at http://www.robocup.org.

Demo

Flash file of the final of the RoboCup-2003 World Championship.
Maintained by Bas Terwijn. Last edited on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:38:52 +0100