12. RoboCup 2008: Suzhou, China

Best Student Paper

• Masrur Doostdar, Stefan Schiffer, Gerhard Lakemeyer:
  A Robust Speech Recognition System for Service-Robotics Applications. 1-12
  

Papers with Oral Presentation

• Marco Antonelli, Fabio Dalla Libera, Emanuele Menegatti, Takashi Minato, Hiroshi Ishiguro:
  Intuitive Humanoid Motion Generation Joining User-Defined Key-Frames and Automatic Learning. 13-24
  
• Daniel Beck, Alexander Ferrein, Gerhard Lakemeyer:
  Landmark-Based Representations for Navigating Holonomic Soccer Robots. 25-36
  
• David Becker, Max Risler:
  Mutual Localization in a Team of Autonomous Robots Using Acoustic Robot Detection. 37-48
  
• Oliver Birbach, Jörg Kurlbaum, Tim Laue, Udo Frese:
  Tracking of Ball Trajectories with a Free Moving Camera-Inertial Sensor. 49-60
  
• Thomas Gabel, Martin A. Riedmiller, Florian Trost:
  A Case Study on Improving Defense Behavior in Soccer Simulation 2D: The NeuroHassle Approach. 61-72
  
• Daniel Göhring, Heinrich Mellmann, Hans-Dieter Burkhard:
  Constraint Based Belief Modeling. 73-84
  
• Pablo Guerrero, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Miguel Romero:
  Explicitly Task Oriented Probabilistic Active Vision for a Mobile Robot. 85-96
  
• Xiucai Ji, Hui Zhang, Dan Hai, Zhiqiang Zheng:
  An Incremental SLAM Algorithm with Inter-calibration between State Estimation and Data Association. 97-108
  
• Hayato Kobayashi, Tsugutoyo Osaki, Tetsuro Okuyama, Akira Ishino, Ayumi Shinohara:
  Development of an Augmented Environment and Autonomous Learning for Quadruped Robots. 109-120
  
• Tim Laue, Matthias Hebbel:
  Automatic Parameter Optimization for a Dynamic Robot Simulation. 121-132
  
• Huimin Lu, Hui Zhang, Junhao Xiao, Fei Liu, Zhiqiang Zheng:
  Arbitrary Ball Recognition Based on Omni-Directional Vision for Soccer Robots. 133-144
  
• Tekin Meriçli, Çetin Meriçli, H. Levent Akin:
  A Robust Statistical Collision Detection Framework for Quadruped Robots. 145-156
  
• Hamid Reza Moballegh, Mojgan Mohajer, Raúl Rojas:
  Increasing Foot Clearance in Biped Walking: Independence of Body Vibration Amplitude from Foot Clearance. 157-165
  
• Rajesh Elara Mohan, Carlos Antonio Acosta Calderon, Changjiu Zhou, Tianwu Yang, Liandong Zhang, Yongming Yang:
  Adapting ADDIE Model for Human Robot Interaction in Soccer Robotics Domain. 166-176
  
• Yasunori Nagasaka, Tatsumasa Kitahara, Tomoichi Takahashi:
  A Proposal of Bridging Activities between RoboCupJunior and Senior Leagues. 177-188
  
• Nezih Ergin Özkucur, Baris Kurt, H. Levent Akin:
  A Collaborative Multi-robot Localization Method without Robot Identification. 189-199
  
• Pier Francesco Palamara, Vittorio A. Ziparo, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi, Pedro U. Lima:
  Teamwork Design Based on Petri Net Plans. 200-211
  
• Rodrigo Palma Amestoy, Pablo Guerrero, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Claudio Garretón:
  Bayesian Spatiotemporal Context Integration Sources in Robot Vision Systems. 212-224
  
• Max Pfingsthorn, Yashodhan Nevatia, Todor Stoyanov, Ravi Rathnam, Stefan Markov, Andreas Birk:
  Towards Cooperative and Decentralized Mapping in the Jacobs Virtual Rescue Team. 225-234
  
• Mike Phillips, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Robust Supporting Role in Coordinated Two-Robot Soccer Attack. 235-246
  
• Jann Poppinga, Andreas Birk:
  A Novel Approach to Efficient Error Correction for the SwissRanger Time-of-Flight 3D Camera. 247-258
  
• Chunxia Rong, Qining Wang, Yan Huang, Guangming Xie, Long Wang:
  Autonomous Evolution of High-Speed Quadruped Gaits Using Particle Swarm Optimization. 259-270
  
• Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Palma Amestoy, Paul A. Vallejos, Román Marchant, P. Zegers:
  Designing Fall Sequences That Minimize Robot Damage in Robot Soccer. 271-283
  
• Jesus Savage, Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Francisco Ayala, Sergio Cuellar:
  The Use of Scripts Based on Conceptual Dependency Primitives for the Operation of Service Mobile Robots. 284-295
  
• Tijn Schmits, Arnoud Visser:
  An Omnidirectional Camera Simulation for the USARSim World. 296-307
  
• Christoph Siedentop, Max Schwarz, Sebastian Pfülb:
  Introducing Image Processing to RoboCupJunior. 308-317
  
• Dali Sun, Alexander Kleiner, Thomas M. Wendt:
  Multi-robot Range-Only SLAM by Active Sensor Nodes for Urban Search and Rescue. 318-330
  
• Tomoichi Takahashi:
  Analysis Methods of Agent Behavior and Its Interpretation in a Case of Rescue Simulations. 331-342
  
• Yasutake Takahashi, Yoshihiro Tamura, Minoru Asada:
  Spiral Development of Behavior Acquisition and Recognition Based on State Value. 343-354
  
• Ioana Varsadan, Andreas Birk, Max Pfingsthorn:
  Determining Map Quality through an Image Similarity Metric. 355-365
  
• Tobias Warden, Andreas D. Lattner, Ubbo Visser:
  Real-Time Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Dynamic Scenes in 3D Soccer Simulation. 366-378
  
• Alfredo Weitzenfeld, Carlos Ramos, Peter Ford Dominey:
  Coaching Robots to Play Soccer via Spoken-Language. 379-390
  
• Henry Work, Eric Chown, Tucker Hermans, Jesse Butterfield, Mark McGranaghan:
  Player Positioning in the Four-Legged League. 391-402
  
• Mingguo Zhao, Ji Zhang, Hao Dong, Yu Liu, Liguo Li, Xuemin Su:
  Humanoid Robot Gait Generation Based on Limit Cycle Stability. 403-413
  
• Stefan Zickler, Manuela M. Veloso:
  Playing Creative Soccer: Randomized Behavioral Kinodynamic Planning of Robot Tactics. 414-425
  

Papers with Poster Presentation

• Matías Arenas, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Simón Norambuena, Sebastián Cubillos:
  A Robot Referee for Robot Soccer. 426-438
  
• Koshi Asano, Kazuhito Murakami, Tadashi Naruse:
  Detection of Basic Behaviors in Logged Data in RoboCup Small Size League. 439-450
  
• Andreas Birk, Jann Poppinga, Max Pfingsthorn:
  Using Different Humanoid Robots for Science Edutainment of Secondary School Pupils. 451-462
  
• Andreas Birk, Jann Poppinga, Todor Stoyanov, Yashodhan Nevatia:
  Planetary Exploration in USARsim: A Case Study Including Real World Data from Mars. 463-472
  
• Mauricio Correa, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Fernando Bernuy:
  Face Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction Applications: A Comparative Study. 473-484
  
• Stefan Enderle, Wolfgang Guenther, Hans-Juergen Hilscher, Holger Kenn:
  xROB-S and iCon-X: Flexible Hardware, Visual Programming and Software Component Reuse. 485-494
  
• Pejman Iravani:
  Multi-level Network Analysis of Multi-agent Systems. 495-506
  
• Xiucai Ji, Hui Zhang, Dan Hai, Zhiqiang Zheng:
  A Decision-Theoretic Active Loop Closing Approach to Autonomous Robot Exploration and Mapping. 507-518
  
• W. Bradley Knox, Juhyun Lee, Peter Stone:
  Domestic Interaction on a Segway Base. 519-531
  
• Jie Ma, Stephen Cameron:
  Combining Policy Search with Planning in Multi-agent Cooperation. 532-543
  
• Sara McGrath, John Anderson, Jacky Baltes:
  Model-Free Active Balancing for Humanoid Robots. 544-555
  
• Brian McKinnon, Jacky Baltes, John Anderson:
  Stereo-Vision Based Control of a Car Using Fast Line-Segment Extraction. 556-567
  
• Çetin Meriçli, H. Levent Akin:
  A Layered Metric Definition and Evaluation Framework for Multirobot Systems. 568-579
  
• Olivier Michel, Yvan Bourquin, Jean-Christophe Baillie:
  RobotStadium: Online Humanoid Robot Soccer Simulation Competition. 580-590
  
• Dennis Pachur, Tim Laue, Thomas Röfer:
  Real-Time Simulation of Motion-Based Camera Disturbances. 591-601
  
• Rahul Sarika, Harith Siddhartha, Kamalakar Karlapalem:
  Database Driven RoboCup Rescue Server. 602-613
  
• Jörn Sprado, Björn Gottfried:
  What Motion Patterns Tell Us about Soccer Teams. 614-625
  
• Christopher Stanton:
  Designing Grounded Agents: From RoboCup to the Real-World. 626-637
  
• Sanaz Taleghani, Siavash Aslani, Saeed Shiry:
  Robust Moving Object Detection from a Moving Video Camera Using Neural Network and Kalman Filter. 638-648
  
• Qining Wang, Hua Li, Feifei Huang, Guangming Xie, Long Wang:
  Collaborative Localization Based Formation Control of Multiple Quadruped Robots. 649-659