10. RoboCup 2006: Bremen, Germany

Full Papers

Simulation and Control

• Stefano Carpin, Michael Lewis, Jijun Wang, Steve Balakirsky, Chris Scrapper:
  Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Reality in Urban Search and Rescue. 1-12
  
• Marco Zaratti, Marco Fratarcangeli, Luca Iocchi:
  A 3D Simulator of Multiple Legged Robots Based on USARSim. 13-24
  
• Norbert Michael Mayer, Joschka Boedecker, Rodrigo da Silva Guerra, Oliver Obst, Minoru Asada:
  3D2Real: Simulation League Finals in Real Robots. 25-34
  
• Giovanni Indiveri, Jan Paulus, Paul-Gerhard Plöger:
  Motion Control of Swedish Wheeled Mobile Robots in the Presence of Actuator Saturation. 35-46
  

Learning

• Tobias Latzke, Sven Behnke, Maren Bennewitz:
  Imitative Reinforcement Learning for Soccer Playing Robots. 47-58
  
• Peggy Fidelman, Peter Stone:
  The Chin Pinch: A Case Study in Skill Learning on a Legged Robot. 59-71
  
• Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yaxin Liu, Peter Stone:
  Half Field Offense in RoboCup Soccer: A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Case Study. 72-85
  
• Hayato Kobayashi, Tsugutoyo Osaki, Eric Williams, Akira Ishino, Ayumi Shinohara:
  Autonomous Learning of Ball Trapping in the Four-Legged Robot League. 86-97
  

Learning, MAS, and Education

• Manish Saggar, Thomas D'Silva, Nate Kohl, Peter Stone:
  Autonomous Learning of Stable Quadruped Locomotion. 98-109
  
• Jiang Dawei, Wang Shiyuan:
  Using the Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Multiagent Decision Making. 110-121
  
• Rachel Goldman, M. Q. Azhar, Elizabeth Sklar:
  From RoboLab to Aibo: A Behavior-Based Interface for Educational Robotics. 122-133
  
• Stefan Enderle:
  The Robotics and Mechatronics Kit "qfix". 134-145
  

Vision

• Walter Nisticò, Matthias Hebbel, Thorsten Kerkhof, Christine Zarges:
  Cooperative Visual Tracking in a Team of Autonomous Mobile Robots. 146-157
  
• Daniel Stronger, Peter Stone:
  Selective Visual Attention for Object Detection on a Legged Robot. 158-170
  
• Sven Olufs, Florian Adolf, Ronny Hartanto, Paul-Gerhard Plöger:
  Towards Probabilistic Shape Vision in RoboCup: A Practical Approach. 171-182
  
• Raúl Rojas, Mark Simon, Oliver Tenchio:
  Parabolic Flight Reconstruction from Multiple Images from a Single Camera in General Position. 183-193
  

Vision and Localization

• Alberto Colombo, Matteo Matteucci, Domenico G. Sorrenti:
  On the Calibration of Non Single Viewpoint Catadioptric Sensors. 194-205
  
• Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Patricio Loncomilla, Paul A. Vallejos:
  An Automated Refereeing and Analysis Tool for the Four-Legged League. 206-218
  
• Peggy Fidelman, Thayne Coffman, Risto Miikkulainen:
  Detecting Motion in the Environment with a Moving Quadruped Robot. 219-231
  
• David Billington, Vladimir Estivill-Castro, René Hexel, Andrew Rock:
  Using Temporal Consistency to Improve Robot Localisation. 232-244
  
• Hauke Strasdat, Maren Bennewitz, Sven Behnke:
  Multi-cue Localization for Soccer Playing Humanoid Robots. 245-257
  
• Jan Hoffmann:
  Proprioceptive Motion Modeling for Monte Carlo Localization. 258-269
  

Posters

• Mohan Sridharan, Peter Stone:
  Autonomous Planned Color Learning on a Legged Robot. 270-278
  
• Daniel Göhring, Jan Hoffmann:
  Sensor Modeling Using Visual Object Relation in Multi Robot Object Tracking. 279-286
  
• Luca Iocchi:
  Robust Color Segmentation Through Adaptive Color Distribution Transformation. 287-295
  
• Xiang Li, Andreas Zell:
  H_infinity Filtering for a Mobile Robot Tracking a Free Rolling Ball. 296-303
  
• Vadim Kyrylov:
  Balancing Gains, Risks, Costs, and Real-Time Constraints in the Ball Passing Algorithm for the Robotic Soccer. 304-313
  
• Matthias Hebbel, Walter Nisticò, Denis Fisseler:
  Learning in a High Dimensional Space: Fast Omnidirectional Quadrupedal Locomotion. 314-321
  
• Patrick Heinemann, Jürgen Haase, Andreas Zell:
  A Novel Approach to Efficient Monte-Carlo Localization in RoboCup. 322-329
  
• Björn Gottfried, Jörn Witte:
  Representing Spatial Activities by Spatially Contextualised Motion Patterns. 330-337
  
• Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Stuart Seymon:
  Mobile Robots for an E-Mail Interface for People Who Are Blind. 338-346
  
• David Herrero Pérez, Humberto Martínez Barberá:
  Robust and Efficient Field Features Detection for Localization. 347-354
  
• Michael Isik, Freek Stulp, Gerd Mayer, Hans Utz:
  Coordination Without Negotiation in Teams of Heterogeneous Robots. 355-362
  
• Patrick Heinemann, Frank Sehnke, Felix Streichert, Andreas Zell:
  Towards a Calibration-Free Robot: The ACT Algorithm for Automatic Online Color Training. 363-370
  
• Markus M. Geipel, Michael Beetz:
  Learning to Shoot Goals Analysing the Learning Process and the Resulting Policies. 371-378
  
• Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Peter Ford Dominey:
  Cognitive Robotics: Command, Interrogation and Teaching in Robot Coaching. 379-386
  
• Jürgen Sturm, Paul van Rossum, Arnoud Visser:
  Panoramic Localization in the 4-Legged League. 387-394
  
• Saori Umemura, Kazuhito Murakami, Tadashi Naruse:
  Orientation Extraction and Identification of the Opponent Robots in RoboCup Small-Size League. 395-401
  
• Steven P. Nicklin, Robin D. Fisher, Richard H. Middleton:
  Rolling Shutter Image Compensation. 402-409
  
• Mohammad Reza Khojasteh, Mohammad Reza Meybodi:
  Evaluating Learning Automata as a Model for Cooperation in Complex Multi-agent Domains. 410-417
  
• Ryota Nakanishi, James Bruce, Kazuhito Murakami, Tadashi Naruse, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Cooperative 3-Robot Passing and Shooting in the RoboCup Small Size League. 418-425
  
• Steffen Planthaber, Ubbo Visser:
  Logfile Player and Analyzer for RoboCup 3D Simulation. 426-433
  
• Steffen Prüter, Ralf Salomon, Frank Golatowski:
  Local Movement Control with Neural Networks in the Small Size League. 434-441
  
• Luca Marchetti, Giorgio Grisetti, Luca Iocchi:
  A Comparative Analysis of Particle Filter Based Localization Methods. 442-449
  
• Winai Chonnaparamutt, Andreas Birk:
  A New Mechatronic Component for Adjusting the Footprint of Tracked Rescue Robots. 450-457
  
• Ivan Delchev, Andreas Birk:
  Vectorization of Grid Maps by an Evolutionary Algorithm. 458-465
  
• Martin Lauer:
  Ego-Motion Estimation and Collision Detection for Omnidirectional Robots. 466-473
  
• Tim Laue, Thomas Röfer:
  Integrating Simple Unreliable Perceptions for Accurate Robot Modeling in the Four-Legged League. 474-482
  
• Colin McMillen, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Distributed, Play-Based Coordination for Robot Teams in Dynamic Environments. 483-490
  
• Giuliano Polverari, Daniele Calisi, Alessandro Farinelli, Daniele Nardi:
  Development of an Autonomous Rescue Robot Within the USARSim 3D Virtual Environment. 491-498
  
• Sascha Lange, Martin Riedmiller:
  Appearance-Based Robot Discrimination Using Eigenimages. 499-506
  
• Carlos Bustamante, Leonardo Garrido, Rogelio Soto:
  Fuzzy Naive Bayesian Classification in RoboSoccer 3D: A Hybrid Approach to Decision Making. 507-515
  
• Jochen Brunhorn, Oliver Tenchio, Raúl Rojas:
  A Novel Omnidirectional Wheel Based on Reuleaux-Triangles. 516-522
  
• Fumitaka Otsuka, Hikari Fujii, Kazuo Yoshida:
  Development of Three Dimensional Dynamics Simulator with Omnidirectional Vision Model. 523-531
  
• James Bruce, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Real-Time Randomized Motion Planning for Multiple Domains. 532-539
  
• Marek Marcinkiewicz, Mikhail Kunin, Simon Parsons, Elizabeth Sklar, Theodore Raphan:
  Towards a Methodology for Stabilizing the Gaze of a Quadrupedal Robot. 540-547
  
• A. Tuna Ozgelen, Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons:
  Automatic Acquisition of Robot Motion and Sensor Models. 548-555
  
• Ivette C. Martínez, David Ojeda, Ezequiel A. Zamora:
  Ambulance Decision Support Using Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning in Robocup Rescue Simulation League. 556-563