RoboSoccer

Intro

RoboCup is an international robotics competition aimed at developing autonomous robotic soccer players. The goal of the project is to develop a robot soccer team (by mid-21st century) that can beat the human World Cup Winners. RobCup offers several leagues in which participants can compete:

• The standard platform league: (legged bots/humanoid league) soccer with Aldebaran NAO robots.
• The small size league
• The middle size league (currently offline?) - Alternative link
• The simulation league: focuses on the development of software agents, rather than actual robots.

Learning In Robosoccer

The robosoccer environment is often used as a testing ground for AI techniques. Here we list some notable research:

• Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems: Peter Stone's PhD thesis.(Won several world Cups).
• CMU: RoboSoccer page for the CORAL research group at Carnegie Mellon.
• CMU archive: older Coral papers
• Apollo:Description of the strategy used by the winning team in the 2010 2d simulation RoboCup.

Simulators

• TechUnited Simulator: simulator developed by the TechUnited team of TU/Eindhoven. Can be used to develop strategies for the Turtle bots used by the team.
• SoccerBots: Basic high level java robosoccer simulator. Easy to use.
• SimSpark: Simulator used by the RoboCup 3D simulation league.
• Soccer Server: the official simulator for the RoboCup 2D simulation league.

Team Code and Binaries

• Binaries of past competitions
• Base code of the WrightEagle team

Movies

• Robocup 2010 final (standard platform league)
• Nao Team
• Tech United @Robocup 2010 (middle size leage)
• CMDragons @Robocup 2008 (small scale league)
• 2D simulation league 2010 final

Other Links

• ssl vision: the vision system used by the small scale league.
• Tech United: The RoboCup team of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (2nd place RoboCup 2010 middle size league).
• Peter Stone's Robosoccer page
• Belgian robocup team.