| RoboCup
2002 Symposium Program |
| 09:00 - 09:15
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Welcome address
(Hiroaki Kitano or Minoru Asada) and one of the program chairs |
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| 09:15 - 10:30 |
Self-Localization |
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| 09:15 - 09:40
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Constraint-Based Landmark Localization - Ashley Stroupe,
Carnegie Mellon University, Kevin Sikorski, University of
Washington, Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 09:40 - 10:05
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Improving Vision-Based Self-Localization - Hans Utz, Alexander
Neubeck, Gerd Mayer, Gerhard Kraetzschmar, University of Ulm,
Dep. of Neural Information Processing |
| 10:05 - 10:30
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Evaluation of Self-Localization Performance for a Local-Vision
Robot in the Small Size League - Daisuke Sekimori, Akashi
College of Technology, Tomoya Usui, Yasuhiro Masutani, Fumio
Miyazaki, Osaka University |
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| 10:30
- 10:50 |
Coffee break |
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| 10:50
- 11:40 |
Invited Talk (1) - "Humanoid
Robots as Research Tools of Neuroscience" by Mitsuo Kawato
(ATR, Japan) |
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| 11:40 - 12:30 |
Guidance and Path Planning |
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| 11:40 - 12:05
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Fast image processing and flexible path generation system
for RoboCup small size league - Shinya Hibino, Yukiharu Kodama,
Aichi Prefectural University, Ysunori Nagasaka, Tomoichi Takahashi,
Chubu University, Kazuhito Murakami, Tadashi Naruse, Aichi
Prefectural University |
| 12:05 - 12:30
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A Modified Potential Fields Method for Robot Navigation
Applied to Dribbling in Robotic Soccer - Bruno Damas, Pedro
Lima, Luis Custodio, Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica - Instituto
Superior Tecnico |
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| 12:30
- 13:30 |
Lunch break |
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| 13:30 - 15:10 |
Behavior Learning |
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| 13:30 - 13:55
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Using online learning to analyze the opponents behaviour
- Ubbo Visser, Hans-Georg Weland, TZI, University of Bremen |
| 13:55 - 14:20
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Hidden Markov Modeling of Multi-Agent Systems and its Learning
Method - Itsuki Noda, Cyber Assist Reseach Center, AIST and
PRESTO, JST |
| 14:20 - 14:45
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Learning the Sequential Behavior of Teams from Observations
- Gal Kaminka, Mehmet Fidanboylu, Allen Chang, Manuela Veloso,
Carnegie Mellon University |
| 14:45 - 15:10
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Towards a Life-Long Learning Soccer Agent - Alexander Kleiner,
Markus Dietl, Bernhard Nebel, Universitaet Freiburg, Institut
fuer Informatik |
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| 15:10
- 15:30 |
Coffee break |
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| 15:30
- 16:30 |
Invited Talk (2) -"A Small Humanoid
Robot SDR-4X for Entertainment based on OPEN-R" by Masahiro
Fujita (DCL, SONY) |
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| 16:30 - 17:45 |
Coordination and Cooperation |
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| 16:30 - 16:55
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Adaptive Synchronisation for a RoboCup Agent - Jefferson
Montgomery, Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia |
| 16:55 - 17:20
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Team Formation for Reformation in Multiagent Domains like
RoboCupRescue - Ranjit Nair,
Milind Tambe, Stacy Marsella, University of Southern California
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| 17:20 - 17:45
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MPADES: Middleware for Parallel Agent Discrete Event Simulation
- Patrick Riley, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon
University |
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| 17:45
- 18:00 |
Coffee break |
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| 18:00
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Poster session and cocktail reception |
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| Posters (June 24): |
- Robosoccer-RU Open Simulation League: Principles and
Algorithms-Sergey Stepanov
- Towards an Optimal Scoring Policy for Simulated Soccer
Agents-Jelle Kok
- An Interactive Software Environment for Gait Generation
and Control Design of Sony Legged Robots-Huosheng Hu
- A Control Architecture for a Rescue Robot ensuring
Safe Semi-Autonomous Operation-Andreas Birk
- Reinforcement Learning in Large State Spaces, Simulated
Robotic Soccer as a Testbed-Karl Tuyls
- Team coordination among robotic soccer players-Matthijs
Spaan
- Relating the Entropy of Joint Beliefs to Multi-Agent
Coordination-Mikhail Prokopenko
- Towards real-time strategic teamwork: a RoboCup case
study-Kenichi Yoshimura
- Adaptive Methods to Improve Self-Localization in Robot
Soccer-Ingo Dahm
- Decision-making and tactical behaviour with Potential
Fields-Jens Meyer
- An Architecture for a National RoboCup Team-Thomas
Roefer
- Direct Reward and Indirect Reward in Multi-Agent Reinforcement
Learning-Masayuki Ohta
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| 09:00
- 9:50 |
Invited Talk (3) "Cooperation
by Observation" by Yasuo Kuniyoshi (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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| 09:50 - 11:00 |
Panel Discussion: RoboCup Milestones |
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| 11:00
- 11:20 |
Coffee break |
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| 11:20 - 12:35 |
Other Topics |
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| 11:20 - 11:45 |
Towards RoboCup without Color Labeling - Robert Hanek, Thorsten
Schmitt, Sebastian Buck, Michael Beetz, Technische Universitaet
Muenchen |
| 11:45 - 12:10 |
Integration of Advice in an Action-Selection Architecture
- Paul Carpenter, Patrick Riley, Manuela Veloso, Gal Kaminka,
Carnegie Mellon University |
| 12:10 - 12:35 |
The Role of Motion Dynamics in the Design, Control and Stability
of Bipedal and Quadrupedal Robots - Michael Hardt, Oskar von
Stryk, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt |
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| 12:35
- 13:30 |
Lunch break |
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| 13:30
- 14:20 |
Invited Talk (3) - "A Research
and Development Vision for Robot Assisted Search and Rescue"
by John Blitch (CRASAR) |
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| 14:20 - 15:10 |
Competitions and Education |
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| 14:20 - 14:45 |
Multiagent Competitions and Research: Lessons from RoboCup
and TAC - Peter Stone, AT&T Labs - Research |
| 14:45 - 15:10 |
RoboCupJunior: learning with educational robotics - Elizabeth
Sklar, Columbia University, Amy Eguchi, University of Cambridge,
Jeffrey Johnson, The Open University |
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| 15:10
- 15:30 |
Coffee break |
| Joint
Session with DARS |
| 15:30
- 16:20 |
Invited Talk (4) "Multi-Robot
Systems: Where we've been and Where we're going" by Lynne
Parker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee)
and |
| 16:20
- 17:10 |
DARS talk-"On the relation of morphology, materials, and control in the emergence on cognition: developmental robotics and artificialmorphogenesis" by Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich) |
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| 17:10
- 18:30 |
Poster session and demonstration of
an "Autonomous Table Soccer Player", by Thilo Weigel
and Bernhard Nebel, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg |
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| Posters (June 25): |
- Probabilistic Vision-based Opponent Tracking in Robot
Soccer-Thorsten Schmitt
- A Framework for Learning From Observation Using Primitives-Darrin
Bentivegna
- Localization of robots in F180 league using projective
geometry-Jerome Douret
- Real-time Decision Making under Uncertainty of Self-Localization
Results-Ryuichi Ueda
- Co-evolution of Morphology and Controller for Biped
Humanoid Robot-Ken Endo
- An Autonomous Table Soccer Player-Bernhard Nebel
- MUREA: a MUlti-Resolution Evidence Accumulation method
for robot localization in known environments-Domenico
G. Sorrenti
- Real-Time Randomized Path Planning for Mobile Robots-James
Bruce
- Behavior Acquisition based on Multi-Module Learning
System in Multi-Agent Environment-Yasutake Takahashi
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| 18:30
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Farewell Party |
Scientific Challenge Award Candidates |
- Towards RoboCup without Color Labeling - Robert Hanek,
Thorsten Schmitt, Sebastian Buck, Michael Beetz, Technische
Universitaet Muenchen
- RoboCupJunior: learning with educational robotics -
Elizabeth Sklar, Columbia University, Amy Eguchi, University
of Cambridge,Jeffrey Johnson, The Open University
- MPADES: Middleware for Parallel Agent Discrete Event
Simulation -Patrick Riley, Computer Science Department,
Carnegie Mellon University
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