Robust team-play in highly uncertain environments

Effective teamwork in highly dynamic environments requires a delicate balance between giving agents the autonomy to act and react on their own and restricting that autonomy so that the agents do not work at cross purposes. In this article we describe the problems involved in coordinating behavior based upon a highly dynamic object, a soccer ball, for agents with sensing and communications limitations. We then present a system for coping with these problems and examine its success in light of its performance at the RoboCup 2007 championship. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2 [Artificial Intelligence]: Robotics--performance measures General Terms Algorithms, Design, Performance Keywords RoboCup, cooperation, localization

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ATAL
• Authors: Henry Work, Eric Chown, Tucker Hermans, Jesse Butterfield
• Keywords: ATAL 2008, Delicate Balance, Dynamic Environments, Intelligent Agents, RoboCup 2007 Championship