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RoboCup 4-Legged Soccer League
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Objective
One of the ultimate dreams in robotics is to create life-like robotics systems,
such as humanoid robots and animal-like legged robots. Sony believes that
quadruped robots have major potential for future robotics, because the consumer
market of personal entertainment robots has the potential to surpass
the static industrial market. Also from AI point of view this personal
robots are more interesting than industrial robots, because those robots have
to be reasonably intelligent, maintain a certain level of agility, be
aware of their environment and be able to engage in some collaborative
behaviors with each other and humans.
The RoboCup 4-Legged Soccer League is an ideal challenge for a general
University, because it defines a standard hardware platform, which allows
to excel on algorithms to perceive the environment, to reason about the
optimal (joint) actions, and to perform those actions in smooth way.
Research group members
Prof. dr. ir. F.C.A. Groen
Dr. A. Visser
ing. E.H. Steffens
ing B. Terwijn
Research Achievements
The IAS group participates in the Dutch Aibo Team, which is a collaboration
of the Utrecht University, the Delft University of Technology,
the Decis Laboratory, the University of Twente and the University of Amsterdam.
This participation is a recent initiative, and at this moment this platform is on our University only used for educational purposes and research
on the undergraduate level:
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C.A.M. Pieterse, 'Kleur invariantie voor de Robocup challenge - onderzoek naar een belichtings invariante methode voor object herkenning', June 2004, Bsc-thesis University of Amsterdam (366 Kb)
More information
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Detailed information (including LabBook and Workspace) can be found on the local Project Homepage.
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General informtion about the Dutch Aibo Team can be found on the Decis site and the University Utrecht site
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A overview of the all Robocup initiatives in the Netherlands can be found at
the Dutch RoboSoccer Team site.
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