RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X (Paperback)

Full Papers.- Bridging the Gap Between Simulation and Reality in Urban Search and Rescue.- A 3D Simulator of Multiple Legged Robots Based on USARSim.- 3D2Real: Simulation League Finals in Real Robots.- Motion Control of Swedish Wheeled Mobile Robots in the Presence of Actuator Saturation.- Imitative Reinforcement Learning for Soccer Playing Robots.- The Chin Pinch: A Case Study in Skill Learning on a Legged Robot.- Half Field Offense in RoboCup Soccer: A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Case Study.- Autonomous Learning of Ball Trapping in the Four-Legged Robot League.- Autonomous Learning of Stable Quadruped Locomotion.- Using the Simulated Annealing Algorithm for Multiagent Decision Making.- From RoboLab to Aibo: A Behavior-Based Interface for Educational Robotics.- The Robotics and Mechatronics Kit "qfix".- Cooperative Visual Tracking in a Team of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Selective Visual Attention for Object Detection on a Legged Robot.- Towards Probabilistic Shape Vision in RoboCup: A Practical Approach.- Parabolic Flight Reconstruction from Multiple Images from a Single Camera in General Position.- On the Calibration of Non Single Viewpoint Catadioptric Sensors.- An Automated Refereeing and Analysis Tool for the Four-Legged League.- Detecting Motion in the Environment with a Moving Quadruped Robot.- Using Temporal Consistency to Improve Robot Localisation.- Multi-cue Localization for Soccer Playing Humanoid Robots.- Proprioceptive Motion Modeling for Monte Carlo Localization.- Posters.- Autonomous Planned Color Learning on a Legged Robot.- Sensor Modeling Using Visual Object Relation in Multi Robot Object Tracking.- Robust Color Segmentation Through Adaptive Color Distribution Transformation.- H ??? Filtering for a Mobile Robot Tracking a Free Rolling Ball.- Balancing Gains, Risks, Costs, and Real-Time Constraints in the Ball Passing Algorithm for the Robotic Soccer.- Learning in a High Dimensional Space: Fast Omnidirectional Quadrupedal Locomotion.- A Novel Approach to Efficient Monte-Carlo Localization in RoboCup.- Representing Spatial Activities by Spatially Contextualised Motion Patterns.- Mobile Robots for an E-Mail Interface for People Who Are Blind.- Robust and Efficient Field Features Detection for Localization.- Coordination Without Negotiation in Teams of Heterogeneous Robots.- Towards a Calibration-Free Robot: The ACT Algorithm for Automatic Online Color Training.- Learning to Shoot Goals Analysing the Learning Process and the Resulting Policies.- Cognitive Robotics: Command, Interrogation and Teaching in Robot Coaching.- Panoramic Localization in the 4-Legged League.- Orientation Extraction and Identification of the Opponent Robots in RoboCup Small-Size League.- Rolling Shutter Image Compensation.- Evaluating Learning Automata as a Model for Cooperation in Complex Multi-agent Domains.- Cooperative 3-Robot Passing and Shooting in the RoboCup Small Size League.- Logfile Player and Analyzer for RoboCup 3D Simulation.- Local Movement Control with Neural Networks in the Small Size League.- A Comparative Analysis of Particle Filter Based Localization Methods.- A New Mechatronic Component for Adjusting the Footprint of Tracked Rescue Robots.- Vectorization of Grid Maps by an Evolutionary Algorithm.- Ego-Motion Estimation and Collision Detection for Omnidirectional Robots.- Integrating Simple Unreliable Perceptions for Accurate Robot Modeling in the Four-Legged League.- Distributed, Play-Based Coordination for Robot Teams in Dynamic Environments.- Development of an Autonomous Rescue Robot Within the USARSim 3D Virtual Environment.- Appearance-Based Robot Discrimination Using Eigenimages.- Fuzzy Naive Bayesian Classification in RoboSoccer 3D: A Hybrid Approach to Decision Making.- A Novel Omnidirectional Wheel Based on Reuleaux-Triangles.- Development of Three Dimensional Dynamics Simulator with Omnidirectional Vision Model.- Real-Time Randomized Motion Planning for Multiple Domains.- Towards a Methodology for