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| rUNSWift | Team Contact: | Will Uther |  |
Australia |
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University of New South Wales and National ICT Australia |
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| Team Profile |
UNSW has had amazing success in the Legged League of Robocup since it first
participated in the 1999 competition. To date, they have come second twice
and first three times! Unusual within the league, rUNSWift has
always had a team of final-year undergraduates working on the project as
their thesis topic. This creates an extra challenge as each year
we have to start with an entirely new batch of students.
See http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~robocup/history.phtml for more
detail.
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| Research Topics: | UNSW has pursued a number of research topics throughout its robocup career. The overarching principle is to pursue research where it is needed, rather than concentrating on one particular part of the soccer agent. This has led to research in many areas from locomotion to machine learning to multi-agent co-operation. |
| UPENNALIZERS | Team Contact: | Daniel Lee |  |
U.S.A. |
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University of Pennsylvania | |||
| Team Profile | 5 years participation, 2nd in '03 |
| Research Topics: |
Machine learning, biologically inspired sensorimotor processing
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| NUbots | Team Contact: | Stephan Chalup, Rick Middleton | |
Australia |
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School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The University of Newcastle |
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| Team Profile | 3rd place at RoboCup 2002 and 2003, team uses ERS-7 robots |
| Research Topics: |
control, bayesian statistics, machine learning, robot vision, neurocomputing, dimensionality reduction, kernel machines
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| CM-Pack'04 | Team Contact: | Manuela Veloso, Sonia Chernova | |
U.S.A. |
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Carnegie Mellon University | |||
| Team Profile |
The CMPack and the initial CMTrio teams have participated in the RoboCup international and local competitions since 1998, taking
first place several times. Recently, we were awarded first place in the RoboCup US Open 2004.
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Multirobot systems, learning, teamwork, communication, collaboration, vision,
perception
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| GermanTeam 2004 | Team Contact: | Thomas Röfer |  |
Germany |
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| Team Profile | http://www.robocup.de/germanteam/ |
| Research Topics: | see http://www.robocup.de/germanteam/GT2003.pdf, section 1.2 |
| Wright Eagle | Team Contact: | CHEN, Xiaoping |  |
China |
| Team logo | University of Science and Technoloty of China | |||
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| FC Portus | Team Contact: | Luis Paulo Reis  |
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Portugal |
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| Team Profile | Team profile: 3 Staff members and 3 Undergraduate students Short Description: FC Portus Legged League team is being developed by a research group with a long and successful experience in RoboCup (simulation, small-size and middle-size leagues) and results from the combined efforts of two research laboratories (LIACC and ISR-P) and from our previous teams (FC Portugal qdsimulation and coach leagues and 5DPO small and middle size leagues). The team includes several research innovations (like Strategic Positioning and Automatic Color Calibration) and is very flexible in its coordination methodologies and soccer playing strategies. In its first participation in RoboCup the team achieved the 5th position in Padova 2003. |
| Research Topics: | Multi-Agent Coordination, Flexible Team Strategies: Tactics, Roles and Formations, Strategic Positioning, Multi-Agent Communication, Intelligent Perception, Learning, Automatic Calibration. |
| SPQR-legged | Team Contact: | Luca Iocchi |  |
Italy |
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Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica "Antonio Ruberti", Universit'a di Roma "La Sapienza" |
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| Team Profile | see http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~spqr/history.html |
| Research Topics: | see spqrTDP.pdf |
| ARAIBO | Team Contact: | Tamio ARAI |  |
Japan |
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The University of Tokyo and Chuo University | |||
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| ASURA | Team Contact: | OHASHI Takeshi | |
Japan |
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Kyushu Institute of Technology and Fukuoka Institute of Technology |
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| Team Profile |
Our team was organized by KIT(Kyushu Institute of Technology) and FIT(Fukuoka
Institute of Technology) in January of 2001. We have been successfully
participating in the four-legged league of RoboCup since 2001.
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Distributed systems, Object oriented programming, Multi-agent systems,
and Human-Computer interaction
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| BabyTigers 2004 | Team Contact: | Noriaki Mitsunaga | |
Japan |
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Osaka University and Osaka City University |
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| Team Profile | We are participating from 1998. |
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Our topics are,
- observation strategy based on information criterion for a legged mobile robot, - information sharing by a subjective map,
- motion and walking generation by genetic algorithm,
- stable color segmentation based on Monte Carlo localization method,
and so on.
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| Dutch Aibo Team | Team Contact: | Stijn Oomes |  |
Netherlands |
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University of Amsterdam, University of Twente, University of Utrecht, Delft University of Technology and the DECIS Lab |
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The Dutch AIBO Team was founded in November 2003 with our first AIBOs arriving
by Christmas. We played our first official games at the German Open 2004
and are proud to have won one match.
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computer vision, world modeling, machine learning, collaborative robotics,
opponent modeling
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| Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | Team Contact: | Tucker Balch | |
U.S.A. |
| Team logo | Georgia Tech College of Computing | |||
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| Hamburg Dog Bots | Team Contact: | Birgit Koch | |
Germany |
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Technische Informatiksysteme
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| Team Profile |
team exists since October 2003, 3rd place in German Open 2004
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| Research Topics: |
teamwork, communication, cooperation, socionic
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| JollyPochie | Team Contact: | Ayumi SHINOHARA | |
Japan |
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Department of Informatics, Kyushu University |
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| Team Profile | We have just started in March of 2003, and we lost all games at Robocup 2003 in Padova. We finished in fourth place at the 2004 Japan Open in May. |
| Research Topics: | Machine learning, machine discovery, data mining, image processing, string processing, software architecture, visualization. |
| Les 3 Mousquetaires | Team Contact: | Vincent Hugel |  |
France |
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Laboratoire de Robotique de Versailles (LRV) | |||
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| MetroBots | Team Contact: | Elizabeth Sklar, Simon Parsons | |
U.S.A. |
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City University of New York and Columbia University | |||
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| Mi-PAL IIIS Team Griffith | Team Contact: | Vladimir Estivill-Castro | |
Australia |
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Mi-PAL Machine intelligence and Pattern Analysis Lab
IIIS - Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems
Griffith University |
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| Team Profile | Team participating for the second time in RoboCup. Some members participated before in RoboCup, RoboCupJr and FIRA cup. |
| Research Topics: | Robotics for people. Vision. Software Architecture for Robotics. Team strategies. |
| Team Chaos | Team Contact: | Kevin LeBlanc |   |
Sweden/Spain |
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Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Department of Technology
Örebro University, Sweden
Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Department of Computing Science
Lund University, Sweden
Department of Information and Communication Engineering
University of Murcia, Spain
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Team Chaos, formerly Team Sweden, is a multi-university team which has
been successfully competing in the four-legged league of RoboCup since
1999. This year, the four sites of activities are: Öòebro University -
Sweden (coordinating node), Blekinge Institute of Technology - Sweden,
Lund University - Sweden, and theUniversity of Murcia - Spain. The
distributed character of Team Chaos has made the project organization demanding,
but has resulted in a rewarding scientific and human cooperation.
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We approach the RoboCup problem as an entertaining way to do team research
work which involves important scientific challenges. Our main scientific
focus is the integration of higher level cognitive processes with physical
activity in the real world. Our practical goal is to develop general
principles and algorithms for intelligent autonomous robotics that can
be used in different robots and in different domains.
Some of the distinctive aspects of our approach are: (i) a general, principled
architecture for autonomous systems; (ii) hierarchical fuzzy behaviors
for fast incremental development of robust behaviors; (iii) fuzzy landmark-based
localization for efficient, fault-tolerant self-localization; (iv) an effective
cooperative object localization technique (also based on fuzzy logic); and (v) robust vision-based
perception, coupled with active perceptual anchoring, for effective object
detection.
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| TecRAMS-Mexico | Team Contact: | Ma. de los Angeles Junco Rey |  |
Mexico |
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| Team Profile | First participation in RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka Japan Second participation: 2003 First American Open, Pittsburgh USA Third participation: RoboCup 2003 Padova Italy Fourth participation: RoboCup 2004 Lisbon Portugal |
| Research Topics: | Dynamic equilibrium. Normally all dynamic walking algorithms consider robot as a dynamic system. We are modeling 3D position of robot's gravity center depending of all torques applied to it. Afterwards, control strategies will be used for control its center of gravity position Localization algorithms without colored beacons. We have developed a localization algorithm that should work without the use of beacons, field lines will be used to find the points for localization. Invariant light condition for color segmentation. We are researching algorithms for segmenting images regarding of shadows, light conditions and noise. It should be able to be ported to systems such like YUV or RGB. Enhanced virtual reality. We are planning to develop an enhanced virtual reality field that will allow us to test our four sony robots in competition against four simulated robots. Team strategies acquisition. We have developed distributed reinforcement learning algorithms for team strategies acquisition and used a Nash equilibrium model to make rational decisions among the robots. Those algorithms were tested in a simulator and we intend to test them in the Aiboqks. |
| U-Chile 1 | Team Contact: | Javier Ruiz-del-Solar |  |
Chile |
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Universidad de Chile | |||
| Team Profile |
Team creation December 2002.
First participation: RoboCup 2003, Padova, Italy.
Second participation: RoboCup 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.
Detailed team profile in http://www.robocup.cl/four.htm
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Evolutionary robotics, adaptive learning, learning from simulations and
collaborative robotics.Relevant publications in http://www.robocup.cl/four/publications.htm
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| UT Austin Villa 2004 | Team Contact: | Peter Stone | |
U.S.A. |
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The University of Texas at Austin | |||
| Team Profile |
Our team started as a class project in January of 2003. At RoboCup
2003 in Padua, our goal was just to participate. We lost all
of our official games, though were able to win some exhibitions and achieved
the fourth highest result in the challenge competition, including the second
highest score in the obstacle avoidance challenge. We finished in
third place at the 2004 US Open in April, and hope to be in the thick of
the competition at RoboCup 2004.
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Machine learning, Multiagent systems, Learned locomotion and ball capturing,
Robust vision, color constancy, Automatic sensor-action model callibration
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| UTS Unleashed! | Team Contact: | Mary-Anne Williams | |
Australia |
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University of Technology, Sydney | |||
| Team Profile | UTS Unleashed! |
| Research Topics: |
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Conceptual Spaces, Colloboration,
Agent Oriented Software Engineering, Belief Revision
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| UW Huskies | Team Contact: | Dieter Fox | |
U.S.A. |
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University of Washington | |||
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