Andreas Birk
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), AI-lab, Belgium
Thomas Walle
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), AI-lab, Belgium
Tony Belpæme
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), AI-lab, Belgium
Holger Kenn
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), AI-lab, Belgium
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Published in: RobocCup-99 Team Descriptions. Small and Middle Leagues
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 3:14, p. 81-84
Linköping Electronic Articles in Computer and Information Science vol. 4 3:14, p. 81-84
Published: 1999-12-05
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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The VUB AI-lab team is mainly interested in the two loosely linked aspects of on-board control and heterogeneity. One major effort for forstering both aspects within RoboCups small robots league is our development of a so-to-say robot construction-kit; allowing to implement a wide range of players with on-board control. For the 99 competition; the existing RoboCube controller-hardware has been further improved. In addition; some solid and precise mechanical building-blocks were developed; which can easily be mounted on differently shaped bottom-plates. On top of these engineering efforts; we report here a computational inexpensive but efficient algorithm for motion-control; including obstacle avoidance. Furthermore; we shortly address the issue of increased diffulties of coordinating so-to-say multiple teams due to the possible variations based on heterogeneity. Operational semantics based on abstract data-types and patter matching capabilities can be a way out of this problem.
[BKW98] Andreas Birk; Holger Kenn; and Thomas Walle. Robocube: an \universal"\special-purpose" hardware for the robocup small robots league. In 4th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems. Springer; 1998.
[BKW99] Andreas Birk; Holger Kenn; and Thomas Walle. From stringpuppets to autonomous systems: On the role of on-board control in the small robots league. Technical Report under review; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; AI-Laboratory; 1999.
[BWB+98] Andreas Birk; Thomas Walle; Tony Belpaeme; Johan Parent; Tom De Vlaminck; and Holger Kenn. The small league robocup team of the vub ai-lab. In Proc. of The Second International Workshop on RoboCup. Springer; 1998.
[OBK99] Pierre-Yves Oudeyer; Andreas Birk; and Jean-Luc Koning. Interaction protocols with operational semantics and the coordination of heterogeneous soccer-robots. Technical Report under review; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; AI-Laboratory; 1999.
