A cooperative multi-agent system and its real time application to robot soccer

The soccer robot system consists of multi agents, with highly coordinated operation and movements so as to fulfill specific objectives, even under adverse situation. The coordination of the multi-agents is associated with a lot of supplementary work in advance. The associated issues are the position correction, prevention of communication congestion local information sensing in addition to the need for imitating the human-like decision making. A control structure for soccer robot is designed and several behaviors and actions for a soccer robot are proposed. Modified zone defense as a basic strategy and several special strategies for fouls are applied to SOTY and MIRO teams for MIROSOT (Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament). The authors have been placed in second and fourth positions in MIROSOT'96 held at KAIST in November 1996, with the proposed scheme and micro-robots.