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What
is RoboCup?
The Robot World Cup Initiative (RoboCup) is an international research and
education initiative. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics
research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies
can be integrated and examined, as well as being used for integrated project-oriented
education.
For
this purpose, RoboCup chose to use the soccer game as a primary domain, and
organizes RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences. In
order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies
must be incorporated including: design principles of autonomous agents,
multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning,
robotics, and sensor-fusion. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple
fast-moving robots under a dynamic environment. RoboCup also offers a
software platform for research on the software aspects of RoboCup.
While
the soccer game is used as a standard problem where a broad-range of efforts
will be concentrated and integrated, competition is only a
part of the RoboCup
activity
(cited from the official RoboCup Web pages)
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