RoboCup formation modeling

[摘要] Since the late 1990s, the Robot Soccer World Cup has been used as a testing groundfor new technology in theeld of robotic design and arti cial intelligence. This researchinitiative pits two teams of robots against each other in a game of soccer. It is hopedthat the technology gained will enable the construction of a fully autonomous team ofrobot players to play a normal soccer game against a human team by the year 2050.In robot soccer matches, as in real soccer matches, inferring an opponent's strategycan give a team a major advantage. One important aspect of a team's strategy is theformation the team uses. Knowing the formations that an opposing team tends to take,enables a team to prepare appropriate countermeasures.This thesis will investigate methods to extract formation information from a completedsoccer game.The results show that these methods can be used to infer a classical team formation,as well as other distinguishing characteristics of the players, such as which areas on the eld the players tend to occupy, or the players' movement patterns - both valuable itemsof information for a future opposition team.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University