7. RoboCup 2003: Padua, Italy

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/robocup/2003,
  editor    = {Daniel Polani and
               Brett Browning and
               Andrea Bonarini and
               Kazuo Yoshida},
  title     = {RoboCup 2003: Robot Soccer World Cup VII},
  booktitle = {RoboCup},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {3020},
  year      = {2004},
  isbn      = {3-540-22443-2},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Overview and Roadmap

• Enrico Pagello, Emanuele Menegatti, Ansgar Bredenfeld, Paulo Costa, Thomas Christaller, Adam Jacoff, Jeffrey Johnson, Martin Riedmiller, Alessandro Saffiotti, Takashi Tomoichi:
  Overview of RoboCup 2003 Competition and Conferences. 1-14
  
• Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Minoru Asada, Andrea Bonarini, Adam Jacoff, Daniele Nardi, Martin Riedmiller, Claude Sammut, Elizabeth Sklar, Manuela M. Veloso:
  RoboCup: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Workshop of the Executive Committee in Blaubeuren, October 2003. 15-34
  

Invited Papers

• Hiroaki Kitano:
  Challenges in Robust Situation Recognition through Information Fusion for Mission Criticial Multi-agent Systems. 35-42
  
• Brian P. Gerkey, Maja J. Mataric:
  On Role Allocation in RoboCup. 43-53
  
• Ulrich Nehmzow:
  On the Role of Quantitative Descriptions of Behaviour in Mobile Robotics Research. 54-66
  

Technical Papers

• Jeffrey Johnson, Blaine A. Price:
  Complexity Science and Representation in Robot Soccer. 67-76
  
• Andrea Miene, Ubbo Visser, Otthein Herzog:
  Recognition and Prediction of Motion Situations Based on a Qualitative Motion Description. 77-88
  
• Mikhail Prokopenko, Peter Wang:
  Evaluating Team Performance at the Edge of Chaos. 89-101
  
• Itsuki Noda:
  Hidden Markov Modeling of Team-Play Synchronization. 102-113
  
• Martin Lötzsch, Joscha Bach, Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Matthias Jüngel:
  Designing Agent Behavior with the Extensible Agent Behavior Specification Language XABSL. 114-124
  
• Timo Steffens:
  Feature-Based Declarative Opponent-Modelling. 125-136
  
• Ali Ajdari Rad, Navid Qaragozlou, Maryam Zaheri:
  Scenario-Based Teamworking, How to Learn, Create, and Teach Complex Plans? 137-144
  
• Jan Murray:
  Specifying Agent Behaviors with UML Statecharts and StatEdit. 145-156
  
• Paul-Gerhard Plöger, Adriana Arghir, Tobias Günther, Ramin Hosseiny:
  Echo State Networks for Mobile Robot Modeling and Control. 157-168
  
• Hans Lausen, Jakob Nielsen, Michael Nielsen, Pedro U. Lima:
  Model and Behavior-Based Robotic Goalkeeper. 169-180
  
• Juan Cristóbal Zagal, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Pablo Guerrero, Rodrigo Palma Amestoy:
  Evolving Visual Object Recognition for Legged Robots. 181-191
  
• Patrick Riley, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Coaching Advice and Adaptation. 192-204
  
• Jinyi Yao, Lao Ni, Fan Yang, Yunpeng Cai, Zengqi Sun:
  Technical Solutions of TsinghuAeolus for Robotic Soccer. 205-213
  
• Matthias Jüngel, Jan Hoffmann, Martin Lötzsch:
  A Real-Time Auto-Adjusting Vision System for Robotic Soccer. 214-225
  
• Daniel Cameron, Nick Barnes:
  Knowledge-Based Autonomous Dynamic Colour Calibration. 226-237
  
• Gerd Mayer, Hans Utz, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar:
  Playing Robot Soccer under Natural Light: A Case Study. 238-249
  
• Felix von Hundelshausen, Raúl Rojas:
  Tracking Regions. 250-261
  
• Thomas Röfer, Matthias Jüngel:
  Fast and Robust Edge-Based Localization in the Sony Four-Legged Robot League. 262-273
  
• Kai Huebner:
  A Symmetry Operator and Its Application to the RoboCup. 274-283
  
• Peter Stone:
  RoboCup as an Introduction to CS Research. 284-295
  
• Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons, Peter Stone:
  RoboCup in Higher Education: A Preliminary Report. 296-307
  
• Peta Wyeth, Mark Venz, Gordon Wyeth:
  Scaffolding Children's Robot Building and Programming Activities. 308-319
  
• Alessandro Farinelli, Luca Iocchi:
  Planning Trajectories in Dynamic Environments Using a Gradient Method. 320-331
  
• Sven Behnke:
  Local Multiresolution Path Planning. 332-343
  
• Minoru Asada, Yutaka Katoh, Masaki Ogino, Koh Hosoda:
  A Humanoid Approaches to the Goal - Reinforcement Learning Based on Rhythmic Walking Parameters. 344-354
  
• Jacky Baltes, Patrick Lam:
  Design of Walking Gaits for Tao-Pie-Pie, a Small Humanoid Robot. 355-365
  
• Ralf Regele, Paul Levi, Wolfgang Bott:
  ProRobot - Predicting the Future of Humanoid Robots. 366-373
  
• Michael J. Quinlan, Craig L. Murch, Richard H. Middleton, Stephan K. Chalup:
  Traction Monitoring for Collision Detection with Legged Robots. 374-384
  
• David Ball, Gordon Wyeth:
  Multi-robot Control in Highly Dynamic, Competitive Environments. 385-396
  
• Thorsten Schmitt, Robert Hanek, Michael Beetz:
  Developing Comprehensive State Estimators for Robot Soccer. 397-409
  
• Kazuhito Murakami, Shinya Hibino, Yukiharu Kodama, Tomoyuki Iida, Kyosuke Kato, Tadashi Naruse:
  Cooperative Soccer Play by Real Small-Size Robot. 410-421
  
• Paul Lee, Tim Dean, Andrew Yap, Dariusz Walter, Les Kitchen, Nick Barnes:
  On-Board Vision Using Visual-Servoing for RoboCup F-180 League Mobile Robots. 422-433
  
• Alexander Kleiner, Thorsten Buchheim:
  A Plugin-Based Architecture for Simulation in the F2000 League. 434-445
  
• Kazunori Asanuma, Kazunori Umeda, Ryuichi Ueda, Tamio Arai:
  Development of a Simulator of Environment and Measurement for Autonomous Mobile Robots Considering Camera Characteristics. 446-457
  
• Marco Kögler, Oliver Obst:
  Simulation League: The Next Generation. 458-469
  

Posters

• Amir A. Shafie, Zalinda Baharum:
  Educational Features of Malaysian Robot Contest. 470-477
  
• Dragos Golubovic, Bo Li, Huosheng Hu:
  A Hybrid Software Platform for Sony AIBO Robots. 478-486
  
• Jianqiang Jia, Weidong Chen, Yugeng Xi:
  A Rule-Driven Autonomous Robotic System Operating in a Time-Varying Environment. 487-494
  
• Vincent Hugel, Pierre Blazevic, Olivier Stasse, Patrick Bonnin:
  Trot Gait Design Details for Quadrupeds. 495-502
  
• Stef B. M. Post, Maurits L. Fassaert, Arnoud Visser:
  The High-Level Communication Model for Multi-agent Coordination in the RoboCupRescue Simulator. 503-509
  
• Yasuhiro Masutani, Yukihisa Tanaka, Tomoya Shigeta, Fumio Miyazaki:
  Pseudo-local Vision System Using Ceiling Camera for Small Multi-robot Platforms. 510-517
  
• Oliver Obst:
  Using Model-Based Diagnosis to Build Hypotheses about Spatial Environments: A Response to a Technical Challenge. 518-525
  
• Akira Motomura, Takeshi Matsuoka, Tsutomu Hasegawa:
  Self-localization Method Using Two Landmarks and Dead Reckoning for Autonomous Mobile Soccer Robots. 526-533
  
• Hans-Ulrich Kobialka, Vlatko Becanovic:
  Speed-Dependent Obstacle Avoidance by Dynamic Active Regions. 534-542
  
• Jafar Habibi, Hamid Younesy, Abbas Heydarnoori:
  Using the Opponent Pass Modeling Method to Improve Defending Ability of a (Robo)Soccer Simulation Team. 543-550
  
• Gonçalo Neto, Hugo Costelha, Pedro U. Lima:
  Topological Navigation in Configuration Space Applied to Soccer Robots. 551-558
  
• Tomoharu Nakashima, Masayo Udo, Hisao Ishibuchi:
  A Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning for a Ball Interception Problem. 559-567
  
• Nobuyuki Kurihara, Ryotaku Hayashi, Hikari Fujii, Daiki Sakai, Kazuo Yoshida:
  Intelligent Control of Autonomous Mobile Soccer Robot Adapting to Dynamical Environment. 568-575
  
• Yasutake Takahashi, Koichi Hikita, Minoru Asada:
  A Hierarchical Multi-module Learning System Based on Self-interpretation of Instructions by Coach. 576-583
  
• Mike Reddy, Stuart Lewis:
  Building Aunt Hillary: Creating Artificial Minds with ?Neural Nests?. 584-591
  
• Michael Beetz, Freek Stulp, Alexandra Kirsch, Armin Müller, Sebastian Buck:
  Autonomous Robot Controllers Capable of Acquiring Repertoires of Complex Skills. 592-599
  
• Alireza Fadaei Tehrani, Ali Mohammad Doosthosseini, Hamid Reza Moballegh, Peiman Amini, Mohammad Mehdi DaneshPanah:
  A New Odometry System to Reduce Asymmetric Errors for Omnidirectional Mobile Robots. 600-610
  
• Bo Li, Huosheng Hu:
  Texture-Based Pattern Recognition Algorithms for the RoboCup Challenge. 611-620
  
• Toshiyuki Ishimura, Takeshi Kato, Kentaro Oda, Takeshi Ohashi:
  An Open Robot Simulator Environment. 621-627
  
• Kousuke Shinoda, Itsuki Noda, Masayuki Ohta, Susumu Kunifuji:
  Application of Parallel Scenario Description for RoboCupRescue Civilian Agent. 628-636
  
• Carla Penedo, João Pavão, Pedro Nunes, Luís M. M. Custódio:
  RoboCup Advanced 3D Monitor. 637-644
  
• Alessandro Farinelli, Giorgio Grisetti, Luca Iocchi, Sergio Lo Cascio, Daniele Nardi:
  RoboCup Rescue Simulation: Methodologies Tools and Evaluation for Practical Applications. 645-653
  
• Mansour Jamzad, Abolfazl Keighobadi Lamjiri:
  An Efficient Need-Based Vision System in Variable Illumination Environment of Middle Size RoboCup. 654-661
  
• Andrea Bonarini, Matteo Matteucci, Marcello Restelli:
  Filling the Gap among Coordination, Planning, and Reaction Using a Fuzzy Cognitive Model. 662-669
  
• John Anderson, Jacky Baltes, David Livingston, Elizabeth Sklar, Jonah Tower:
  Toward an Undergraduate League for RoboCup. 670-677
  
• Marcello Restelli, Domenico G. Sorrenti, Fabio M. Marchese:
  A Probabilistic Framework for Weighting Different Sensor Data in MUREA. 678-685
  
• Michael H. Bowling, Brett Browning, Allen Chang, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Plays as Team Plans for Coordination and Adaptation. 686-693
  
• Gregory Kuhlmann, Peter Stone:
  Progress in Learning 3 vs. 2 Keepaway. 694-702
  
• Gordon Wyeth, Damien Kee:
  Distributed Control of Gait for a Humanoid Robot. 703-711
  
• Sven Behnke, Anna Egorova, Alexander Gloye, Raúl Rojas, Mark Simon:
  Predicting Away Robot Control Latency. 712-719
  
• Daniel Polani:
  Towards a Probabilistic Asynchronous Linear Control Theory. 720-728
  
• Jan Wendler, Joscha Bach:
  Recognizing and Predicting Agent Behavior with Case Based Reasoning. 729-738
  
• Alankar Karol, Bernhard Nebel, Christopher Stanton, Mary-Anne Williams:
  Case Based Game Play in the RoboCup Four-Legged League Part I The Theoretical Model. 739-747
  
• Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Juan Cristóbal Zagal:
  How Contests Can Foster the Research Activities on Robotics in Developing Countries: Chile - A Case Study. 748-756
  
• Christopher Stanton, Mary-Anne Williams:
  Grounding Robot Sensory and Symbolic Information Using the Semantic Web. 757-764