Robot Soccer Anywhere: Achieving Persistent Autonomous Navigation and Mapping and Object Vision Tracking in Dynamic Environments Export

@inproceedings{Dragone-Opto2005, abstract = {The paper describes an ongoing effort to enable autonomous mobile robots to play soccer in unstructured, everyday environments. Unlike conventional robot soccer competitions that are usually held on purpose-built robot soccer 'fields', in our work we seek to develop the capability for robots to demonstrate aspects of soccer-playing in more diverse environments, such as schools, hospitals, or shopping malls, with static obstacles (furniture) and dynamic natural obstacles (people). This problem of 'Soccer Anywhere' presents numerous research challenges including: (1) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in dynamic, unstructured environments, (2) software control architectures for decentralized, distributed control of mobile agents, (3) integration of vision-based object tracking with dynamic control, and (4) social interaction with human participants. In addition to the intrinsic research merit of these topics, we believe that this capability would prove useful for outreach activities, in demonstrating robotics technology to primary and secondary school students, to motivate them to pursue careers in science and engineering.}, address = {Dublin, Ireland}, author = {Dragone, Mauro and O'Donoghue, Ruadhan and Leonard, John J. and O'Hare, Gregory and Duffy, Brian and Patrikalakis, Andrew and Leederkerken, Jacques}, booktitle = {Proceedings of SPIE Opto Ireland}, citeulike-article-id = {3169879}, keywords = {intelligent-agents, mapping, mobile-robotics, navigation, robot-soccer}, month = {April}, pdf = {http://sosaa.ucd.ie/publications/Opto2005.pdf}, posted-at = {2008-08-28 16:25:07}, priority = {0}, title = {Robot Soccer Anywhere: Achieving Persistent Autonomous Navigation and Mapping and Object Vision Tracking in Dynamic Environments}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - Dragone-Opto2005 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3169879 N2 - The paper describes an ongoing effort to enable autonomous mobile robots to play soccer in unstructured, everyday environments. Unlike conventional robot soccer competitions that are usually held on purpose-built robot soccer 'fields', in our work we seek to develop the capability for robots to demonstrate aspects of soccer-playing in more diverse environments, such as schools, hospitals, or shopping malls, with static obstacles (furniture) and dynamic natural obstacles (people). This problem of 'Soccer Anywhere' presents numerous research challenges including: (1) Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in dynamic, unstructured environments, (2) software control architectures for decentralized, distributed control of mobile agents, (3) integration of vision-based object tracking with dynamic control, and (4) social interaction with human participants. In addition to the intrinsic research merit of these topics, we believe that this capability would prove useful for outreach activities, in demonstrating robotics technology to primary and secondary school students, to motivate them to pursue careers in science and engineering. AD - Dublin, Ireland TI - Robot Soccer Anywhere: Achieving Persistent Autonomous Navigation and Mapping and Object Vision Tracking in Dynamic Environments T2 - Proceedings of SPIE Opto Ireland KW - intelligent-agents KW - mapping KW - mobile-robotics KW - navigation KW - robot-soccer AU - Dragone, Mauro AU - O'Donoghue, Ruadhan AU - Leonard, John AU - O'Hare, Gregory AU - Duffy, Brian AU - Patrikalakis, Andrew AU - Leederkerken, Jacques PY - 2005/April// ER -