RoboCup-97 Workshop

The First International Workshop on RoboCup

in conjunction with IJCAI-97

23, 24, and 29 August, 1997 Nagoya Congress Center

Schedule (FINAL)

All Oral Presentations will be held at Room 142. Posters will be presented at Room 143

August 23 (Day 1)

• [9:00-10:00]
  Opening and Administrative Announcements
• Break [10:00-10:30]
• Multi-Agent Architecture 10:30 - 12:00
  • [10:30-10:55]
    Executing Tasks by Modifying and Combining Primitive Reactions
    Jukka Riekki and Juha Roning
    Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Infotech Oulu University of Oulu FIN-90570 Oulu E-mail: {jpr,jjr}@ee.oulu.fi
  • [10:55-11:20]
    Autonomous Soccer Robots
    Wei-Min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Rogelio Adobbati, Ali Erdem, Hadi Moradi, Behnam Salemi, Sheila Tejada
    University of Southern california / Informatin Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 E-mail: {shen, robot-fans}@isi.edu
  • [11:20-11:45]
    Learning, Deciding, Predicting: The Soccer Playing Mind
    Andrew Price, Andrew Jennings, John Kneen, Elizabeth Kendall
    Department of Computer Systems Engineering Royal Melbourne Institute of Tech nology Melbourne Victoria Australia E-mail: andrew.price@cse.rmit.edu.au, {ajennings, John}@rmit.edu.au,
  • [11:45-12:10]
    Multi-Agent Teamwork, Adaptive Learning, and Adversarial Planning in Robocup using a PRS Architecture
    Tommaso F. Bersano-Begey, Patrick G. Kenny, and Edmund H. Durfee
    The University of Michigan Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ATL building, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 E-mail: tombb@engin.umich.edu, pkenny@umich.edu, durfee@umichi.edu
• Lunch
• Planning
  • [13:30-13:55]
    Using Decision Tree Confidence Factors for Multiagent Control
    Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
    Computer Science Dept. Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 E-mail: {pstone, veloso}@cs.cmu.edu http://www.cs.cmu.edu/{~pstone,~mmv}
  • [13:55-14:20]
    Towards Flexible Teamwork and Learning in RoboCup Agents: Extended Abstract
    Milind Tambe, Jafar Adibi, Ali Erdem, Gal A. Kaminka, Stacy C. Marsella, Ion Muslea, Behnam Salemi, Marcello Tallis
    Information Sciences Institute and Computer Science Deparment University of Southern California 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001 marina del Rey, CA 90292 E-mail: robocup-sim@isi.edu
  • [14:20-14:45]
    A Role-Based Decision-Mechanism for Teams of Soccer-Playing Agents
    S. Coradeschi and L. Karlsson
    Department of Computer and Information Science Linkoping University, Sweden E-mail: silco@ida.liu.se, Larka@ida.liu.se
• Break
• RoboCup Challenges [15:15-15:50]
  • The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge
    Kitano, H., et al.
    
  • The RoboCup Physical Agent Challenge
    Asada, M., et al.
    
• Special Session: Humanoid and Legged Robots [16:00-17:00]
  • HONDA Humanoid Robot
    Kazuo Hirai, Director, Deupty General Manager
    Honda R&D Co. LTD Wako Research Center
  • SONY Legged Robot: A Legged Robot for RoboCup based on OPENR
    Masahiro Fujita*, Hiroaki Kitano** and Koji Kageyama*
    *D21 Laboratory, Sony Corporation 6-7-35, Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141 Japan **Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. Takanawa Muse Building, 3-14-13 Higashi-gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 141 Japan
• Press Conference at SHIROTORI HALL[17:30-19:00]
• RoboCup Reception at Cafe Cascade[19:00-21:00]

24 August (Day 2)

• Vision and Control
  • [9:00-9:25]
    Real-Time Vision Processing for a Soccer Playing Mobile Robot
    Gordon Cheng and Alexander Zelinsky
    Department of Systems Engineering, The Australian National University
  • [9:20-9:50]
    Building Shoobot Using Proper Feedback and Feedforward Control
    Hironori Mizuno, Masakatsu Kourogi, Yukihide Kawamoto, Yoichi Muraoka
    School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University 3-4-1 Ohkubo Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169 Japan E-mail:{mizuno, kourogi, kawamoto, muraoka}@muraoka.info.waseda.ac.jp http://www.info.waseda.ac.jp/muraoka/members/hiro/
• Break
• General Analysis
  • [10:20-10:45]
    Multimedia Presentation of Visual DataElisabeth Andre, Gerd Herzog, Thomas Rist, DFKI
    
  • [10:45-11:10]
    Football in Recent Time: What We Can Learn From the Newspapers (Extended Abstract)
    Ian Frank, ETL
    E-mail: ianf@etl.go.jp
• Simulation System
  • [11:10-11:30]
    JavaSoccer, Tucker Balch, GeorgiaTech
  • [11:30-11:50]
    3D Visualization of Soccer Server, Atsushi Shinjou, Softopia Japan
• [11:50-12:10]
  The Educational Value of Project-Oriented Learning in Robotics
  I. Verner and E. Kolberg
  Department of Education in Technology and Science
  Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel