RoboCup 2009 Robot Soccer World Cup XIII [Paperback]

This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Graz, Austria, in June/July, 2009. They cover scientific contributions to a variety of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions.Coordinated Action in a Heterogeneous Rescue Team.- Concept Evaluation of a Reflex Inspired Ball Handling Device for Autonomous Soccer Robots.- Development of a Realistic Simulator for Robotic Intelligent Wheelchairs in a Hospital Environment.- Creating Photo Maps with an Aerial Vehicle in USARsim.- Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition for Human Robot Interaction.- Combining Key Frame Based Motion Design with Controlled Movement Execution.- Applying Dynamic Walking Control for Biped Robots.- Modeling Human Decision Making Using Extended Behavior Networks.- Motion Synthesis through Randomized Exploration on Submanifolds of Configuration Space.- Robust and Computationally Efficient Navigation in Domestic Environments.- Robust Collision Avoidance in Unknown Domestic Environments.- Real-Time Ball Tracking in a Semi-automated Foosball Table.- Three Humanoid Soccer Platforms: Comparison and Synthesis.- Learning Complementary Multiagent Behaviors: A Case Study.- Rollover as a Gait in Legged Autonomous Robots: A Systems Analysis.- Pareto-Optimal Collaborative Defensive Player Positioning in Simulated Soccer.- A Novel Camera Parameters Auto-adjusting Method Based on Image Entropy.- Object Recognition with Statistically Independent Features: A Model Inspired by the Primate Visual Cortex.- Using Genetic Algorithms for Real-Time Object Detection.- An Approximate Computation of the Dominant Region Diagram for the Real-Time Analysis of Group Behaviors.- A Lua-based Behavior Engine for Controlling the Humanoid Robot Nao.- Stable Mapping Using a Hyper Particle Filter.- A Characterization of 3D Sensors for Response Robots.- Multiple Model Kalman Filters: A Localization Technique for RoboCup Soccer.- Integrated Genetic Algorithmic lC¨