RoboCup 2017: Robot World Cup XXI

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Best Paper Award for Scientific Contribution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Real-Time Online Adaptive Feedforward Velocity Control for Unmanned Ground Vehicles

      • Nicolai Ommer, Alexander Stumpf, Oskar von Stryk

      Pages 3-16

3. Best Paper Award for Engineering Contribution

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Using Convolutional Neural Networks in Robots with Limited Computational Resources: Detecting NAO Robots While Playing Soccer

      • Nicolás Cruz, Kenzo Lobos-Tsunekawa, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

      Pages 19-30

4. Oral Presentations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 31-31

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   2. Large-Scale Stochastic Scene Generation and Semantic Annotation for Deep Convolutional Neural Network Training in the RoboCup SPL

      • Timm Hess, Martin Mundt, Tobias Weis, Visvanathan Ramesh

      Pages 33-44

   3. Fast and Precise Black and White Ball Detection for RoboCup Soccer

      • Jacob Menashe, Josh Kelle, Katie Genter, Josiah Hanna, Elad Liebman, Sanmit Narvekar et al.

      Pages 45-58

   4. Fear Learning for Flexible Decision Making in RoboCup: A Discussion

      • Caroline Rizzi, Colin G. Johnson, Patricia A. Vargas

      Pages 59-70

   5. Proposed Environment to Support Development and Experiment in RoboCupRescue Simulation

      • Shunki Takami, Kazuo Takayanagi, Shivashish Jaishy, Nobuhiro Ito, Kazunori Iwata, Yohsuke Murase et al.

      Pages 71-83

   6. Competition Design to Evaluate Cognitive Functions in Human-Robot Interaction Based on Immersive VR

      • Tetsunari Inamura, Yoshiaki Mizuchi

      Pages 84-94

   7. Toward Real-Time Decentralized Reinforcement Learning Using Finite Support Basis Functions

      • Kenzo Lobos-Tsunekawa, David L. Leottau, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

      Pages 95-107

   8. A Machine Learning System for Controlling a Rescue Robot

      • Timothy Wiley, Ivan Bratko, Claude Sammut

      Pages 108-119

   9. Analysing Soccer Games with Clustering and Conceptors

      • Olivia Michael, Oliver Obst, Falk Schmidsberger, Frieder Stolzenburg

      Pages 120-131

5. Poster Presentations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. CABSL – C-Based Agent Behavior Specification Language

      • Thomas Röfer

      Pages 135-142

   3. Secured Offline Authentication on Industrial Mobile Robots Using Biometric Data

      • Sarah Haas, Thomas Ulz, Christian Steger

      Pages 143-155

   4. Follow Me: Real-Time in the Wild Person Tracking Application for Autonomous Robotics

      • Thomas Weber, Sergey Triputen, Michael Danner, Sascha Braun, Kristiaan Schreve, Matthias Rätsch

      Pages 156-167

   5. Learning to Use Toes in a Humanoid Robot

      • Klaus Dorer

      Pages 168-179

   6. Cloud Simulations for RoboCup

      • Enric Cervera, Gustavo Casañ, Ricardo Tellez

      Pages 180-189

This book includes the post-conference proceedings of the 21st RoboCup International Symposium, held in Nagoya, Japan, in September 2017. The 33 full revised papers and 9 papers from the winning teams presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are orginazed on topical sections on Robotics, Artificial intelligence, Environment perception, State estimation and much more. 

• artificial intelligence
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• humanoid robot
• image processing
• image segmentation
• learning algorithms
• machine learning
• motion planning
• neural networks
• reinforcement learning
• robotics
• robots
• software engineering

• Fukuoka University, Fukuoka, Japan

  Hidehisa Akiyama

• Center for Research in Mathematics, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia

  Oliver Obst

• School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  Claude Sammut

• Department of Computer Science, Centro Universitario da FEI, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil

  Flavio Tonidandel

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