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The study of the collaboration, coordination and negotiation among different agents in a multi-agent system (MAS) has always been the most challenging yet popular in the research of distributed artificial intelligence. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Changda Wang , Xianyi Chen , Xibin Zhao , Shiguang Ju

RoboCup represents an International testbed for advancing research in AI and robotics, focusing on a definite goal: developing a robot team that can win against the human world soccer champion team by the year 2050. To achieve this goal,…

Achieving coordinated teamwork among legged robots requires both fine-grained locomotion control and long-horizon strategic decision-making. Robot soccer offers a compelling testbed for this challenge, combining dynamic, competitive, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhi Su , Yuman Gao , Emily Lukas , Yunfei Li , Jiaze Cai , Faris Tulbah , Fei Gao , Chao Yu , Zhongyu Li , Yi Wu , Koushil Sreenath

RoboCup SSL is an excellent platform for researching artificial intelligence and robotics. The dribbling system is an essential issue, which is the main part for completing advanced soccer skills such as trapping and dribbling. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Zheyuan Huang , Yunkai Wang , Lingyun Chen , Jiacheng Li , Zexi Chen , Rong Xiong

In order to pursue the vision of the RoboCup Humanoid League of beating the soccer world champion by 2050, new rules and competitions are added or modified each year fostering novel technological advances. In 2017, the number of players in…

Individual and team capabilities are challenged every year by rule changes and the increasing performance of the soccer teams at RoboCup Humanoid League. For RoboCup 2019 in the AdultSize class, the number of players (2 vs. 2 games) and the…

In the domain of the Soccer simulation 2D league of the RoboCup project, appropriate player positioning against a given opponent team is an important factor of soccer team performance. This work proposes a model which decides the strategy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Jordan Henrio , Thomas Henn , Tomoharu Nakashima , Hidehisa Akiyama

Over the past few years, soccer-playing humanoid robots have advanced significantly. Elementary skills, such as bipedal walking, visual perception, and collision avoidance have matured enough to allow for dynamic and exciting games. When…

This work proposes a scheme that allows learning complex multi-agent behaviors in a sample efficient manner, applied to 2v2 soccer. The problem is formulated as a Markov game, and solved using deep reinforcement learning. We propose a basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Pavan Samtani , Francisco Leiva , Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

This work presents an application of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for the complete control of real soccer robots of the IEEE Very Small Size Soccer (VSSS), a traditional league in the Latin American Robotics Competition (LARC). In the VSSS…

Soccer is a sparse rewarding game: any smart or careless action in critical situations can change the result of the match. Therefore players, coaches, and scouts are all curious about the best action to be performed in critical situations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Pegah Rahimian , Afshin Oroojlooy , Laszlo Toka

Beating the human world champions by 2050 is an ambitious goal of the Humanoid League that provides a strong incentive for RoboCup teams to further improve and develop their systems. In this paper, we present upgrades of our system which…

We present a new approach for identifying situations and behaviours, which we call "moves", from soccer games in the 2D simulation league. Being able to identify key situations and behaviours are useful capabilities for analysing soccer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Olivia Michael , Oliver Obst , Falk Schmidsberger , Frieder Stolzenburg

Humanoid soccer dribbling is a highly challenging task that demands dexterous ball manipulation while maintaining dynamic balance. Traditional rule-based methods often struggle to achieve accurate ball control due to their reliance on fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhuoheng Wang , Jinyin Zhou , Qi Wu

Over the past few years, the Humanoid League rules have changed towards more realistic and challenging game environments, which encourage teams to advance their robot soccer performances. In this paper, we present the software and hardware…

Collecting and maintaining accurate world knowledge in a dynamic, complex, adversarial, and stochastic environment such as the RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation is a challenging task. Knowledge should be learned in real-time with time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-20 Saminda Abeyruwan , Andreas Seekircher , Ubbo Visser

The RoboCup Humanoid League holds annual soccer robot world championships towards the long-term objective of winning against the FIFA world champions by 2050. The participating teams continuously improve their systems. This paper presents…

We propose a reinforcement learning solution to the \emph{soccer dribbling task}, a scenario in which a soccer agent has to go from the beginning to the end of a region keeping possession of the ball, as an adversary attempts to gain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-29 Arthur Carvalho , Renato Oliveira

RoboCup soccer competitions are considered among the most challenging multi-robot adversarial environments, due to their high dynamism and the partial observability of the environment. In this paper we introduce a method based on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Francesco Riccio , Roberto Capobianco , Daniele Nardi

Recent work has shown that deep neural networks are capable of approximating both value functions and policies in reinforcement learning domains featuring continuous state and action spaces. However, to the best of our knowledge no previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Matthew Hausknecht , Peter Stone