RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII

Front Matter....Pages -
Towards Quantifying Interaction Networks in a Football Match....Pages 1-12
Active Object Search Exploiting Probabilistic Object–Object Relations....Pages 13-24
Online Generated Kick Motions for the NAO Balanced Using Inverse Dynamics....Pages 25-36
Team Water: The Champion of the RoboCup Middle Size League Competition 2013....Pages 37-48
RoboCup 2013 Humanoid Kidsize League Winner....Pages 49-55
Learning to Improve Capture Steps for Disturbance Rejection in Humanoid Soccer....Pages 56-67
RoboCup 2013: Best Humanoid Award Winner JoiTech....Pages 68-79
B-Human 2013: Ensuring Stable Game Performance....Pages 80-91
ZJUNlict: RoboCup 2013 Small Size League Champion....Pages 92-103
The Walking Skill of Apollo3D – The Champion Team in the RoboCup2013 3D Soccer Simulation Competition....Pages 104-113
The Decision-Making Framework of WrightEagle, the RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation 2D League Champion Team....Pages 114-124
Clustering and Planning for Rescue Agent Simulation....Pages 125-134
Increasing Flexibility of Mobile Manipulation and Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction in RoboCup@Home....Pages 135-146
How to Win RoboCup@Work?....Pages 147-158
Analyzing and Learning an Opponent’s Strategies in the RoboCup Small Size League....Pages 159-170
An Entertainment Robot for Playing Interactive Ball Games....Pages 171-182
Self-calibration of Colormetric Parameters in Vision Systems for Autonomous Soccer Robots....Pages 183-194
BRISK-Based Visual Feature Extraction for Resource Constrained Robots....Pages 195-206
Compliant Robot Behavior Using Servo Actuator Models Identified by Iterative Learning Control....Pages 207-218
Unexpected Situations in Service Robot Environment: Classification and Reasoning Using Naive Physics....Pages 219-230
Person Following by Mobile Robots: Analysis of Visual and Range Tracking Methods and Technologies....Pages 231-243
Fast Monocular Visual Compass for a Computationally Limited Robot....Pages 244-255
Reusing Risk-Aware Stochastic Abstract Policies in Robotic Navigation Learning....Pages 256-267
Motivated Reinforcement Learning for Improved Head Actuation of Humanoid Robots....Pages 268-279
Efficient Distributed Communications for Multi-robot Systems....Pages 280-291
Distributed Formation Control of Heterogeneous Robots with Limited Information....Pages 292-303
RoSHA: A Multi-robot Self-healing Architecture....Pages 304-315
Routing with Dijkstra in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks....Pages 316-325
Shape Based Round Object Detection Using Edge Orientation Histogram....Pages 326-335
RoboCup Logistics League Sponsored by Festo: A Competitive Factory Automation Testbed....Pages 336-347
Parallel Computation Using GPGPU to Simulate Crowd Evacuation Behaviors: Planning Effective Evacuation Guidance at Emergencies....Pages 348-359
Vision Based Referee Sign Language Recognition System for the RoboCup MSL League....Pages 360-372
Unsupervised Recognition of Salient Colour for Real-Time Image Processing....Pages 373-384
Improved Particle Filtering for Pseudo-Uniform Belief Distributions in Robot Localisation....Pages 385-395
Robust and Efficient Object Recognition for a Humanoid Soccer Robot....Pages 396-407
Automatic Generation of Humanoid’s Geometric Model Parameters....Pages 408-419
Modification of Foot Placement for Balancing Using a Preview Controller Based Humanoid Walking Algorithm....Pages 420-431
Iterative Snapping of Odometry Trajectories for Path Identification....Pages 432-443
Evaluation of Recent Approaches to Visual Odometry from RGB-D Images....Pages 444-455
Spontaneous Reorientation for Self-localization....Pages 456-467
Multi-sensor Mobile Robot Localization for Diverse Environments....Pages 468-479
High-Level Commands in Human-Robot Interaction for Search and Rescue....Pages 480-491
Optimizing Energy Usage through Variable Joint Stiffness Control during Humanoid Robot Walking....Pages 492-503
A System for Building Semantic Maps of Indoor Environments Exploiting the Concept of Building Typology....Pages 504-515
Semantic Object Search Using Semantic Categories and Spatial Relations between Objects....Pages 516-527
HELIOS Base: An Open Source Package for the RoboCup Soccer 2D Simulation....Pages 528-535
The Open-Source TEXPLORE Code Release for Reinforcement Learning on Robots....Pages 536-543
NUbugger: A Visual Real-Time Robot Debugging System....Pages 544-551
The 2012 UT Austin Villa Code Release....Pages 552-559
Ground Truth Acquisition of Humanoid Soccer Robot Behaviour....Pages 560-567
Humanoid TeenSize Open Platform NimbRo-OP....Pages 568-575
Modular Development of Mobile Robots with Open Source Hardware and Software Components....Pages 576-583
Sharing Open Hardware through ROP, the Robotic Open Platform....Pages 584-591
Enabling Codesharing in Rescue Simulation with USARSim/ROS....Pages 592-599
FUmanoids Code Release 2012....Pages 600-607
Extensions of a RoboCup Soccer Software Framework....Pages 608-615
Inexpensive Image Processing Solution for the RoboCupJunior Soccer Scenario....Pages 616-623
Hector Open Source Modules for Autonomous Mapping and Navigation with Rescue Robots....Pages 624-631
SimSpark: An Open Source Robot Simulator Developed by the RoboCup Community....Pages 632-639
Visualizing and Debugging Complex Multi-Agent Soccer Scenes in Real Time....Pages 640-647
On B-Human’s Code Releases in the Standard Platform League – Software Architecture and Impact....Pages 648-655
Five Years of SSL-Vision – Impact and Development....Pages 656-663
Integration of the ROS Framework in Soccer Robotics: The NAO Case....Pages 664-671
Development of RoboCup@Home Simulation towards Long-term Large Scale HRI....Pages 672-680
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