Third Robot World Cup prepares for disasters

 Stockholm 28 Jul 99 The Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup-99 Stockholm, is being held July 27 - August 6, 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden. Teams of five robots play a tournament. In order for a team of robot agents to actually play a soccer game, different technologies must be incorporated, including design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, sensor-fusion, and learning. When autonomous cooperating robots function well, they can be applied in disaster areas, for instance after an earth quake, or to explore - yes you guessed right - Mars or one of the other planets.

Teams from all over the world, including European countries such as The Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, participate in the game. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robot agents in a dynamic, nondeterministic, and adversarial environment. There are three leages:

  1. Real Robot Small Size League (F180): Teams of up to five real robots of smal size (approximately 15 cm in diameter) compete on a 1.525 * 2.74 m field.
  2. Real Robot Middle Size League (F2000): Teams of up to five real robots of medium size (approximately 50cm in diameter) compete on a 4.575 * 8.22 m field
  3. Simulation League: Software agents play soccer using the RoboCup soccer server simulator

You can follow the tournament at: www.robocup.org

Ad Emmen