RoboCup 2000

Thebookconcludeswithdescriptionsofmostofthemorethan80teams thatcompetedinRoboCup2000. Theseteamdescriptionsservetocatalogthe fullrangeofresearchersandapproachesthathavebeenappliedtothechallenges putforthbyRoboCup. ThenextinternationalRoboCupeventswillbeheldinSeattle,USA(2001) andinFukuoka,Japan(2002). InadditiontoallexistingRoboCupevents,they arescheduledtointroduce(i)RoboCup-Rescuedisasterrescuecompetitionsfor thetransferofideasandtechniquesdevelopedinthesoccerdomaintoarelated task,and(ii)ahumanoidrobotcompetitionasasteptowardsthelong-termgoal ofcreatingafullteamofhumanoidrobotsthatcompeteonarealsoccer?eld. Welookforwardtocontinuingresearchinnovationsandexcitingdemonstrations ofroboticsandAItechnologyintheseandotherfutureRoboCupevents. March2000 PeterStone,TuckerBalch,andGerhardKraetzschmar RoboCupFederation TheRoboCupFederation,thegoverningbodyofRoboCup,isaninternational organizationthatpromotesscienceandtechnologyusingsoccergamesbyrobots andsoftwareagents. President: HiroakiKitano,JapanScienceandTechnologyCorporation,Japan Vice-Presidents: MinoruAsada,OsakaUniversity,Japan EnricoPagello,UniversityofPadua,Italy ManuelaVeloso,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA Trustees: Hans-DieterBurkhard,HumboldtUniversity,Germany SilviaCoradeschi,OrebroUniversity,Sweden DominiqueDuhaut,UniversityofSouthernBretagne,France FransGroen,UniversityofAmsterdam,TheNetherlands AndrewJennings,RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology,Australia MilindTambe,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA ExecutiveCommittee: TuckerBalch,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA AndreasBirk,FreeUniversityofBrussels,Belgium MasahiroFujita,SonyCorp. ,Japan GerhardKraetzschmar,UniversityofUlm,Germany PaulLevi,UniversityofStuttgart,Germany PedroLima,ISR/IST,TechnicalUniversityofLisbon,Portugal HenrikLund,UniversityofSouthernDenmark,Denmark DanieleNardi,UniversityofRome"LaSapienza",Italy ItsukiNoda,ETL,Japan DanielPolani,Lub ¨ eckUniversity,Germany Raul ´ Rojas,UniversityofBerlin,Germany PeterStone,AT&TLabs-Research,USA SatoshiTadokoro,KobeUniversity,Japan GordonWyeth,UniversityofQueensland,Australia AdvisoryCommittee: LuigiaCarlucciAiello,Universit´adiRoma"LaSapienza",Italy DanielBobrow,XEROXPARC,USA MichaelBrady,OxfordUniversity,UK ToshioFukuda,NagoyaUniversity,Japan MichaelP. George?,AustralianAIInstitute,Australia AlanMackworth,UniversityofBritishColumbia,Canada DavidWaltz,NECResearch,USA WolfgangWahlster,DFKI,Germany RoboCup2000OrganizationandSupport GeneralChair: AndrewJennings,RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology,Australia DeputyGeneralChair: JeremySamuel,AustralianAIInstitute,Australia OrganizingCo-chairs: EnricoPagello,UniversityofPadua,Italy ManuelaVeloso,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA MinoruAsada,OsakaUniversity,Japan SimulatorLeagueCommittee: PaulScerri(chair),Link¨opingUniversity,Sweden TomoichiTakahashi,ChubuUniversity,Japan GalKaminka,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA MikhailProkopenko,CSIRO,Australia RyszardKowalczyk,CSIRO,Australia Small-SizeRobotLeague(F180)Committee: GordonWyeth(chair),UniversityofQueensland,Australia Raul ´ Rojas,FreeUniversityofBerlin,Germany YukiNakagawa,KitanoSymbioticSystems,Japan AndrewHoward,UniversityofMelbourne,Australia Middle-SizeRobotLeague(F2000)Committee: Ste?enGutmann(chair),UniversityofFreiburg,Germany YongFookSeng,NgeeAnnPolytechnic,Singapore Wei-MinShen,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA PaulParisi,AustralianAIInstitute,Australia SonyLeggedRobotLeagueCommittee: MasahiroFujita(chair),SonyCorp. ,Japan MinoruAsada,OsakaUniversity,Japan ManuelaVeloso,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA DominiqueDuhaut,UniversityofSouthernBretagne,France WorkshopProgramCommittee: PeterStone,(co-chair),AT&TLabs-Research,USA TuckerBalch(co-chair),CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA GerhardKraetzschmar(co-chair),UniversityofUlm,Germany GiovanniAdorni,UniversityofParma,Italy DavidAndre,U. C. Berkeley,USA RonArkin,GeorgiaInstituteofTechnology,USA AndreasBirk,UniversityofBrussels,Belgium AndreaBonarini,PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy MichaelBowling,CarnegieMellonUniversity,USA IanFra