RoboCup 2010 Robot Soccer World Cup XIV [Paperback]

This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Singapore, in June, 2010 - representing the scientific tracks structured in four sessions entitled simulation and rescue robots; robot perception and localization; robot motion and humanoid robots; and human robot interaction and semantic scene analysis. The 20 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. Documenting the research advances of the RoboCup community since the predecessor symposium, this book constitutes a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R&D professionals interested in RoboCup or in robotics and distributed AI more generally.

Entropy-Based Active Vision for a Humanoid Soccer Robot.- A Realistic Simulation Tool for Testing Face Recognition Systems under Real-World Conditions.- Thermal Face Recognition Using Local Interest Points and Descriptors for HRI Applications.- On Progress in RoboCup: The Simulation League Showcase.- Odometry Correction for Humanoid Robots Using Optical Sensors.- SSL-Humanoid: RoboCup Soccer Using Humanoid Robots under the Global Vision.- Localization with Non-unique Landmark Observations.- MR-Simulator: A Simulator for the Mixed Reality Competition of RoboCup.- Learning Footstep Prediction from Motion Capture Kicking a Ball  Modeling Complex Dynamic Motions for Humanoid Robots.- Towards Semantic Scene Analysis with Time-of-Flight Cameras.- Providing Ground-Truth Data for the Nao Robot.- Optimizing Particle Filter Parameters for Self-localization.- Improving People Awareness of Service Robots by Semantic Scene Knowledge.- An Evaluation of Open lC: