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RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII

  • Presents highlights of Robot Soccer World Cup 2014
  • Contains papers from the new special track on open source hardware and software components
  • Contributions are written by international experts in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 8992)

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

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

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Table of contents (58 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
  2. Best Paper Award for its Scientific Contribution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Balanced Walking with Capture Steps

      • Marcell Missura, Sven Behnke
      Pages 3-15
  3. Best Paper Award for its Engineering Contribution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
    2. RoboCup@Home Spoken Corpus: Using Robotic Competitions for Gathering Datasets

      • Emanuele Bastianelli, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi, Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce, Roberto Basili
      Pages 19-30
  4. Champion Teams

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31
    2. UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2014 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenge Champions

      • Patrick MacAlpine, Mike Depinet, Jason Liang, Peter Stone
      Pages 33-46
    3. ZJUNlict: RoboCup 2014 Small Size League Champion

      • Chuan Li, Rong Xiong, Zeyu Ren, Wenjian Tang, Yue Zhao
      Pages 47-59
    4. Tech United Eindhoven, Winner RoboCup 2014 MSL

      • Cesar Lopez Martinez, Ferry Schoenmakers, Gerrit Naus, Koen Meessen, Yanick Douven, Harrie van de Loo et al.
      Pages 60-69
    5. RoboCup SPL 2014 Champion Team Paper

      • Jayen Ashar, Jaiden Ashmore, Brad Hall, Sean Harris, Bernhard Hengst, Roger Liu et al.
      Pages 70-81
    6. CIT Brains KidSize Robot: RoboCup 2014 Best Humanoid Award Winner

      • Yasuo Hayashibara, Hideaki Minakata, Kiyoshi Irie, Taiki Fukuda, Victor Tee Sin Loong, Daiki Maekawa et al.
      Pages 82-93
    7. RoboCup 2014 Humanoid AdultSize League Winner

      • Seung-Joon Yi, Steve McGill, Qin He, Larry Vadakedathu, Hak Yi, Sanghyun Cho et al.
      Pages 94-105
    8. MRESim, a Multi-robot Exploration Simulator for the Rescue Simulation League

      • Victor Spirin, Julian de Hoog, Arnoud Visser, Stephen Cameron
      Pages 106-117
    9. Towards Highly Reliable Autonomy for Urban Search and Rescue Robots

      • Stefan Kohlbrecher, Florian Kunz, Dorothea Koert, Christian Rose, Paul Manns, Kevin Daun et al.
      Pages 118-129
    10. The Intelligent Techniques in Robot KeJia  – The Champion of RoboCup@Home 2014

      • Kai Chen, Dongcai Lu, Yingfeng Chen, Keke Tang, Ningyang Wang, Xiaoping Chen
      Pages 130-141
    11. Winning the RoboCup@Work 2014 Competition: The smARTLab Approach

      • Bastian Broecker, Daniel Claes, Joscha Fossel, Karl Tuyls
      Pages 142-154
    12. Decisive Factors for the Success of the Carologistics RoboCup Team in the RoboCup Logistics League 2014

      • Tim Niemueller, Sebastian Reuter, Daniel Ewert, Alexander Ferrein, Sabina Jeschke, Gerhard Lakemeyer
      Pages 155-167
  5. Oral Presentations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
    2. RoboCup@Work: Competing for the Factory of the Future

      • Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar, Nico Hochgeschwender, Walter Nowak, Frederik Hegger, Sven Schneider, Rhama Dwiputra et al.
      Pages 171-182
    3. Simulation Leagues: Analysis of Competition Formats

      • David Budden, Peter Wang, Oliver Obst, Mikhail Prokopenko
      Pages 183-194

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About this book

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 submissions and include 11 champion-team papers, three special-track papers on open-source hardware and software, nine papers on the advancement of the RoboCup leagues track, and three best papers. The contributions present current research and educational activities in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence with a special focus on the interaction between robots and humans.

Editors and Affiliations

  • FEI University, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

    Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi

  • Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

    H. Levent Akin

  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Subramanian Ramamoorthy

  • National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Kyoto, Japan

    Komei Sugiura

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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