RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Balanced Walking with Capture Steps....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
RoboCup@Home Spoken Corpus: Using Robotic Competitions for Gathering Datasets....Pages 19-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2014 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenge Champions....Pages 33-46
ZJUNlict: RoboCup 2014 Small Size League Champion....Pages 47-59
Tech United Eindhoven, Winner RoboCup 2014 MSL....Pages 60-69
RoboCup SPL 2014 Champion Team Paper....Pages 70-81
CIT Brains KidSize Robot: RoboCup 2014 Best Humanoid Award Winner....Pages 82-93
RoboCup 2014 Humanoid AdultSize League Winner....Pages 94-105
MRESim, a Multi-robot Exploration Simulator for the Rescue Simulation League....Pages 106-117
Towards Highly Reliable Autonomy for Urban Search and Rescue Robots....Pages 118-129
The Intelligent Techniques in Robot KeJia  – The Champion of RoboCup@Home 2014....Pages 130-141
Winning the RoboCup@Work 2014 Competition: The smARTLab Approach....Pages 142-154
Decisive Factors for the Success of the Carologistics RoboCup Team in the RoboCup Logistics League 2014....Pages 155-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
RoboCup@Work: Competing for the Factory of the Future....Pages 171-182
Simulation Leagues: Analysis of Competition Formats....Pages 183-194
Cosero, Find My Keys! Object Localization and Retrieval Using Bluetooth Low Energy Tags....Pages 195-206
Object Recognition for Manipulation Tasks in Real Domestic Settings: A Comparative Study....Pages 207-219
Simulation for the RoboCup Logistics League with Real-World Environment Agency and Multi-level Abstraction....Pages 220-232
Automatic Robot Calibration for the NAO....Pages 233-244
Single- and Multi-channel Whistle Recognition with NAO Robots....Pages 245-257
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Towards Spatio-Temporally Consistent Semantic Mapping....Pages 258-269
A New Real-Time Algorithm to Extend DL Assertional Formalism to Represent and Deduce Entities in Robotic Soccer....Pages 270-282
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
An Event-Driven Operating System for Servomotor Control....Pages 285-294
How Can the RoboCup Rescue Simulation Contribute to Emergency Preparedness in Real-World Disaster Situations?....Pages 295-305
RoboGrams: A Lightweight Message Passing Architecture for RoboCup Soccer....Pages 306-317
Towards Optimal Robot Navigation in Domestic Spaces....Pages 318-331
Safely Grasping with Complex Dexterous Hands by Tactile Feedback....Pages 332-344
A Formalization of the Coach Problem....Pages 345-357
Is that Robot Allowed to Play in Human Versus Robot Soccer Games....Pages 358-368
Towards Rapid Multi-robot Learning from Demonstration at the RoboCup Competition....Pages 369-382
RF-based Relative Position Estimation in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Confidence Regions....Pages 383-394
Learning Soccer Drills for the Small Size League of RoboCup....Pages 395-406
Fast Path Planning Algorithm for the RoboCup Small Size League....Pages 407-418
AutoRef: Towards Real-Robot Soccer Complete Automated Refereeing....Pages 419-430
Analytical Solution for Joint Coupling in NAO Humanoid Hips....Pages 431-442
A Comparative Study and Development of a Passive Robot with Improved Stability....Pages 443-453
Object Motion Estimation Based on Hybrid Vision for Soccer Robots in 3D Space....Pages 454-465
Human Inspired Control of a Small Humanoid Robot in Highly Dynamic Environments or Jimmy Darwin Rocks the Bongo Board....Pages 466-477
Multi-robot Localization by Observation Merging....Pages 478-489
UAVision: A Modular Time-Constrained Vision Library for Soccer Robots....Pages 490-501
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Uncertainty Based Multi-Robot Cooperative Triangulation....Pages 502-513
A Method to Estimate Ball’s State of Spin by Image Processing for Improving Strategies in the RoboCup Small-Size-Robot League....Pages 514-524
Model-Instance Object Mapping....Pages 525-536
Detection of Aerial Balls Using a Kinect Sensor....Pages 537-548
Ball Dribbling for Humanoid Biped Robots: A Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy Control Approach....Pages 549-561
Offensive Positioning Based on Maximum Weighted Bipartite Matching and Voronoi Diagram....Pages 562-570
Keyframe Sampling, Optimization, and Behavior Integration: Towards Long-Distance Kicking in the RoboCup 3D Simulation League....Pages 571-582
Generalized Learning to Create an Energy Efficient ZMP-Based Walking....Pages 583-595
Front Matter....Pages 597-597
On the Progress of Soccer Simulation Leagues....Pages 599-610
RoboCup Small-Size League: Past, Present and Future....Pages 611-623
RoboCup MSL - History, Accomplishments, Current Status and Challenges Ahead....Pages 624-635
The Standard Platform League....Pages 636-648
RoboCup Humanoid League Rule Developments 2002–2014 and Future Perspectives....Pages 649-660
RoboCup Rescue Simulation Innovation Strategy....Pages 661-672
RoboCup Rescue Robot League....Pages 673-685
On RoboCup@Home – Past, Present and Future of a Scientific Competition for Service Robots....Pages 686-697
Front Matter....Pages 699-699
Design of a Modular Series Elastic Upgrade to a Robotics Actuator....Pages 701-708
Collaborative Behavior in Soccer: The Setplay Free Software Framework....Pages 709-716
Back Matter....Pages 717-719