RoboCup 2005 Robot Soccer World Cup IX [Paperback]

This book constitutes the ninth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup, documenting presentations at the RoboCup 2005 International Symposium, held in Osaka, Japan, July 2005 alongside the RoboCup Competition. The book presents 34 revised full papers and 38 revised short papers together with two award-winning papers. This is a valuable source of reference and inspiration for those interested in robotics or distributed intelligence, and mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community.

Award Winning Papers Scientific Award.- Using the Max-Plus Algorithm for Multiagent Decision Making in Coordination Graphs.- Real-Time Diagnosis and Repair of Faults of Robot Control Software.- Full Papers Humanoid.- Exploiting the Unexpected: Negative Evidence Modeling and Proprioceptive Motion Modeling for Improved Markov Localization.- Playing Soccer with RoboSapien.- Reliable and Precise Gait Modeling for a Quadruped Robot.- Toni: A Soccer Playing Humanoid Robot.- Using a Symmetric Rotor as a Tool for Balancing.- Discovering Relevant Sensor Data by Q-Analysis.- Keepaway Soccer: From Machine Learning Testbed to Benchmark.- Learning to Approach a Moving Ball with a Simulated Two-Wheeled Robot.- Sequential Pattern Mining for Situation and Behavior Prediction in Simulated Robotic Soccer.- A Composite System for Real-Time Robust Whistle Recognition.- Calculating the Perfect Match: An Efficient and Accurate Approach for Robot Self-localization.- Comparing Sensor Fusion Techniques for Ball Position Estimation.- RoboCup X: A Proposal for a New League Where RoboCup Goes Real World.- SimRobot  A General Physical Robot Simulator and Its Application in RoboCup.- Agent Community Extraction for 2D-RoboSoccer.- An Online POMDP Algorithm Used by the PoliceForce Agents in the RoboCupRescue Simulation.- Cooperative Action Control Based on Evaluating Objective Achievements.- Dynamic Positioning Based on Voronoi Cells (DPVC).- Gaze Direction Determination of OpplóÚ