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FC Portugal Approach Overview

Reference: FC Portugal Approach Overview, Luis Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau, http://www.ieeta.pt/robocup/overview.htm, November of 2000

Abstract: Enabling robots to play like human soccer players and by 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot that can win against the human world champion team in soccer are the main objectives of the RoboCup initiative. We are researching the way of creating the brains that will enable the 2050, a team of humanoid robots to play better soccer than a team of human players! Our approach is based on the identification of 14 different research topics needed to create those intelligent RoboSoccer players. Some of our research areas are completely new in RoboCup and most of our proposals are completely original. The excellent results achieved by the team proved that our research is on the right track for 2050!

Contents of FC Portugal Approach Overview:

• Motivation
• How to Play (Robo)Soccer?
• Team Strategy
• Situation Based Strategic Positioning
• Player Types
• Dynamic Positioning and Role Exchange
• Agent Architecture and High Level Decision Module
• Intelligent Communication
• Strategic Looking Mechanism
• Individual Decision Making (Ball Possession, Ball Recovery and Marking Techniques)
• Low-Level Skills (Optimization Kick)
• Associated Tools (Visual Debugger, Offline Client and World State Error Analyzer)

References

• 1. Luis Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau,  FC Portugal Team Description: RoboCup 2000 Simulation League Champion, In Peter Stone, Tucker Balch and Gerhard Kraetzschmar, editors, RoboCup-2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2001, to appear

• 2. Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso. Task Decomposition, Dynamic Role Assignment, and Low-Bandwidth Communication for Real­Time Strategic Teamwork. Artificial Intelligence, 110 (2), pp.241-273, June 1999.

• 3. Peter Stone. Layered Learning in Multi-Agent Systems. PhD Thesis, Computer Science Dep., Carnegie Mellon University, December 1998

• 4. Peter Stone, Patrick Riley and Manuela Veloso. CMUnited-99 source code, 1999. Accessible from http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ ~pstone/ RoboCup/ CMUnited99-sim.html.

• 5. Peter Stone, Patrick Riley and Manuela Veloso. Layered Disclosure: Why is the agent doing what it’s doing?, Agents 2000, Fourth Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents, Barcelona, June 2000

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