RoboCup 2011 Robot Soccer World Cup XV [Paperback]

This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in July 2011.The 12 revised papers and 32 poster presentation presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers are orginazed on topical sections on robot hardware and software, perception and action, robotic cognition and learning, multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction, education and edutainment and applications.Champion Papers.-WrightEagle and UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2011 Simulation League.-Champions.-Robot Hardware, Software, and Technologies behind the SKUBA Robot Team.-B-Human 2011  Eliminating Game Delays.-RoboCup 2011 Humanoid League Winners.-Towards Robust Mobility, Flexible Object Manipulation, and Intuitive Multimodal Interaction for Domestic Service Robots.-RoboCupJunior  A Decade Later.-Best Paper.-Compliant Task-Space Control with Back-Drivable Servo Actuators.-Papers with Oral Presentation.-Planning Stable Paths for Urban Search and Rescue Robots.-A Center of Mass Observing 3D-LIPM Gait for the RoboCup Standard Platform League Humanoid.-Ball Interception Behaviour in Robotic Soccer.-Rigid and Soft Body Simulation Featuring Realistic Walk Behaviour.-Towards Robust Object Categorization for Mobile Robots with Combination of Classifiers.-Learning Visual Obstacle Detection Using Color Histogram Features.-Gradient Vector Griding: An Approach to Shape-Based Object Detection in RoboCup Scenarios.-AnySURF: Flexible Local Features Computation.-Online Motion Planning for Multi-robot Interaction Using Composable Reachable Sets.-Real-Time Trajectory Generation by Offline Footstep Planning for a Humanoid Soccer Robot.-Real Time Biped Walking Gait Pattern Generator for a Real Robot.-Papers with Poster Presentation.-Efficient Multi-hypotheses Unscented Kalman Filtering for Robust Localization.-A Portable Ground-Truth System Based on a Laser Sensor.-Proposal for Everywhere Evacuatiolc<