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RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 7500)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): RoboCup: Robot World Cup

Conference proceedings info: RoboCup 2012.

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Table of contents (34 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Best Paper Award

    1. Lateral Disturbance Rejection for the Nao Robot

      • Juan José Alcaraz-Jiménez, Marcell Missura, Humberto Martínez-Barberá, Sven Behnke
      Pages 1-12
  3. Champion Teams

    1. HELIOS2012: RoboCup 2012 Soccer Simulation 2D League Champion

      • Hidehisa Akiyama, Tomoharu Nakashima
      Pages 13-19
    2. RoboCup 2012 Rescue Simulation League Winners

      • Francesco Amigoni, Arnoud Visser, Masatoshi Tsushima
      Pages 20-35
    3. UT Austin Villa 2012: Standard Platform League World Champions

      • Samuel Barrett, Katie Genter, Yuchen He, Todd Hester, Piyush Khandelwal, Jacob Menashe et al.
      Pages 36-47
    4. TUMsBendingUnits from TU Munich: RoboCup 2012 Logistics League Champion

      • Sören Jentzsch, Sebastian Riedel, Sebastian Denz, Sebastian Brunner
      Pages 48-58
    5. Team CHARLI: RoboCup 2012 Humanoid AdultSize League Winner

      • Coleman Knabe, Mike Hopkins, Dennis W. Hong
      Pages 59-64
    6. RoboCup@Work League Winners 2012

      • Stefan Leibold, Andreas Fregin, Daniel Kaczor, Marina Kollmitz, Kamal El Menuawy, Eduard Popp et al.
      Pages 65-76
    7. UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2012 3D Simulation League Champion

      • Patrick MacAlpine, Nick Collins, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Peter Stone
      Pages 77-88
    8. RoboCup 2012 Best Humanoid Award Winner NimbRo TeenSize

      • Marcell Missura, Cedrick Münstermann, Malte Mauelshagen, Michael Schreiber, Sven Behnke
      Pages 89-93
    9. NimbRo@Home: Winning Team of the RoboCup@Home Competition 2012

      • Jörg Stückler, Ishrat Badami, David Droeschel, Kathrin Gräve, Dirk Holz, Manus McElhone et al.
      Pages 94-105
  4. Accepted Papers

    1. How Much Worth Is Coordination of Mobile Robots for Exploration in Search and Rescue?

      • Francesco Amigoni, Nicola Basilico, Alberto Quattrini Li
      Pages 106-117
    2. Robot Localisation Using Natural Landmarks

      • Peter Anderson, Yongki Yusmanthia, Bernhard Hengst, Arcot Sowmya
      Pages 118-129
    3. Towards a Principled Solution to Simulated Robot Soccer

      • Aijun Bai, Feng Wu, Xiaoping Chen
      Pages 141-153
    4. People Detection in 3d Point Clouds Using Local Surface Normals

      • Frederik Hegger, Nico Hochgeschwender, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Paul G. Ploeger
      Pages 154-165
    5. Simulation Competitions on Domestic Robots

      • Jianmin Ji, Zhiqiang Sui, Guoqiang Jin, Jiongkun Xie, Xiaoping Chen
      Pages 166-177
    6. Throwing Skill Optimization through Synchronization and Desynchronization of Degree of Freedom

      • Yuji Kawai, Jihoon Park, Takato Horii, Yuji Oshima, Kazuaki Tanaka, Hiroki Mori et al.
      Pages 178-189
    7. Positioning to Win: A Dynamic Role Assignment and Formation Positioning System

      • Patrick MacAlpine, Francisco Barrera, Peter Stone
      Pages 190-201
    8. Evacuation Simulation with Guidance for Anti-disaster Planning

      • Masaru Okaya, Tomoichi Takahashi
      Pages 202-212

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About this book

This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Mexico City, Mexico, in June 2012. The 24 revised papers presented together with nine champion team papers and one best paper award were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers present current research and educational activities within the fields of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence with a special focus to robot hardware and software, perception and action, robotic cognition and learning, multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction, education and edutainment, and applications.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Computer Science School, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

    Xiaoping Chen

  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA

    Peter Stone

  • Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico

    Luis Enrique Sucar

  • Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Tijn Zant

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