Artificial intelligence in RoboCup

Abstract

From the RoboCup Website: Robot World Cup Initiative (RoboCup) is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. For this purpose, RoboCup chose to use soccer game, and organize RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences. The aim of the paper is provide an AI research perspective on RoboCup, based on the experience gained as the team leader of ART, the Italian Robot team which partecipated in RoboCup-98 and 99 Middle-size League.