RoboCup 2021: Robot World Cup XXIV (Paperback)

Ball Path Prediction for Humanoid Robots: Combination of k-NN Regression and Autoregression Methods.- Enabling Modern Application Development with Swift On The Nao/Pepper Robots.- Step Adjustment for a Robust Humanoid Walk.- Inter-Task Similarity Measure for Heterogeneous Tasks.- Dataset and Benchmarking of Real-Time Embedded Object Detection for RoboCup SSL.- TORSO-21 Dataset: Typical Objects in RoboCup Soccer 2021.- Object Pose Estimation using Keypoints and Part Affinity Fields.- Real-time Pose Estimation for Multi-Humanoid Robots.- Improving Sample Efficiency in Behavior Learning by Using Sub-optimal Planners for Robots.- Soccer robots modeling project based on RoboCupJunior: Simulation environment for physical robot improvement.- Closing the Reality Gap with Unsupervised Sim-to-Real Image Translation.- Engineering Features to Improve Pass Prediction in Soccer Simulation 2D Games.- Learning from the Crowd: Improving the Decision Making Process in Robot Soccer using the Audience Noise.- rSoccer: A Framework for Studying Reinforcement Learning in Small and Very Small Size Robot Soccer.- Optimized Wireless Control and Telemetry Network for Mobile Soccer Robots.- A Telemetry-based PI Tunning Strategy for Low-level Control of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot.- Soccer Field Boundary Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks.- Towards building rapport with a Human Support Robot.- Faster YOLO-LITE: Faster Object Detection on Robot and Edge Devices.- RoboCup 2021 SSL Champion TIGERs Mannheim - A Decade of Open-Source Robot Evolution.- Starkit: RoboCup Humanoid KidSize 2021 Worldwide Champion Team Paper.- Robocup@Home 2021 Champion Team Paper: SSPL Winner Uchile Peppers.- homer@UniKoblenz: Winning team of the RoboCup Virtual @Home Open Platform League 2021.- RoboCup@Home 2021 Domestic Standard Platform League Winner.- B-Human 2021 - Playing Soccer Out of the Box.- UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2021 3D Simulation League Competition Champions.- Vision-based Machine Learning in Robot Soccer.- Improving Dribbling, Passing, and Marking Actions in Soccer Simulation 2D Games Using Machine Learning.- Humanoid Adult Size Champion 2021 Sweaty.