Abstract:
RoboCup is amongst the most illustrious of international robotic competitions, held annually. Its Standard Platform League comprises of soccer competitions between teams of humanoid robots.
Robocup competition provides an interesting platform where intelligent systems are studied and developed to interact with real physical objects.
NAO robot from Aldebaran Robotics is the hardware platform for RoboCup SPL; while incorporates sonar sensors, joint encoders, cameras, 25 degree of freedom, foot pressure sensors, Wifi, Embedded Linux and Atom processor. The key objective of this project is to make a multi-agent system which can contribute towards the complete software module of robots which can play soccer with each other.
The robots operate fully autonomously with only local vision and highly constrained inter-robot communication, without any external intervention.
In real soccer goal keeper plays a totally different role from other players. Hence a novel idea is presented to improve the performance of goal keeper for Robocup SPL competition.
