Table of contents : Overview of Robocup-2000....Pages 1-29 FC Portugal Team Description: RoboCup 2000 Simulation League Champion....Pages 29-40 The Cornell Robocup Team....Pages 41-51 CS Freiburg: Doing the Right Thing in a Group....Pages 52-63 The UNSW RoboCup 2000 Sony Legged League Team....Pages 64-75 Adaptive Path Planner for Highly Dynamic Environments....Pages 76-85 Communication and Coordination among heterogeneous Mid-Size Players: ART99....Pages 86-95 A Localization Method for a Soccer Robot Using a Vision-Based Omni-Directional Sensor....Pages 96-107 Behavior Classification with Self-Organizing Maps....Pages 108-118 Flexible Synchronisation Within RoboCup Environment: a Comparative Analysis....Pages 119-128 Extended Q-Learning: Reinforcement Learning Using Self-Organized State Space....Pages 129-138 And the Fans are Going Wild! SIG Plus MIKE....Pages 139-148 Fast and Accurate Robot Vision for Vision Based Motion....Pages 149-158 Design of Robocup-Rescue Viewers — Towards a Real World Emergency System —....Pages 159-168 From Multiple Images to a Consistent View....Pages 169-178 Omni-directional vision with a multi-part mirror....Pages 179-188 Observation strategy for decision making based on information criterion....Pages 189-198 Towards a Logical Approach for Soccer Agents Engineering....Pages 199-208 Bridging Gap between the Simulation and Robotics with a Global Vision System....Pages 209-218 Real-Time Estimating Spatial Configuration between Multiple Robots by Triangle and Enumeration Constraints....Pages 219-228 Framework of Distributed Simulation System for Multi-Agent Environment....Pages 229-238 Robust Real Time Color Tracking....Pages 239-248 Reinforcement Learning for 3 vs. 2 Keepaway....Pages 249-258 Fault-tolerant self localization by case-based reasoning....Pages 259-268 PINO The Humanoid : A Basic Architecture....Pages 269-278 Team/goal-keeper coordination in the RoboCup mid-size league....Pages 279-284 RescueModel: A Multi-Agent Simulation of Bushfire Disaster Management....Pages 285-290 Vision-based Localization in RoboCup Environments....Pages 291-296 Collaborative Emergent Actions between Real Soccer Robots....Pages 297-302 The Statistics Proxy Server....Pages 303-308 Using Simulated RoboCup in Undergraduate Education....Pages 309-314 Path Planning of a Mobile Robot as a Discrete Optimization Problem and Adjustment of Weight Parameters in the Objective Function by Reinforcement Learning....Pages 315-320 Simulator Complex for Robocup Rescue Simulation Project — As Test-Bed for Multi-Agent Organizational Behavior in Emergency Case of Large-Scale Disaster....Pages 321-326 A Quadratic Programming Formulation of a Moving Ball Interception and Shooting Behaviour, and its Application to Neural Network Control....Pages 327-332 Keeping the Ball from CMUnited-99....Pages 333-338 Potential Tasks and Research Issues for Mobile Robots in RoboCup Rescue....Pages 339-344 Potential Field Approach to Short Term Action Planning in RoboCup F180 League....Pages 345-350 Robocup-Rescue Simulation: in case of Fire Fighting Planning....Pages 351-356 On Emergence of Scalable Tactical and Strategic Behaviour....Pages 357-366 Karlsruhe Brainstormers - A Reinforcement Learning approach to robotic soccer....Pages 367-372 Preliminary Studies of Dynamics of Physical Agents Ecosystems....Pages 373-378 RoboCup-Rescue Disaster Simulator Architecture....Pages 379-384 Improvement Continuous Valued Q-learning and its Application to Vision Guided Behavior Acquisition....Pages 385-390 Recognizing Formations in Opponent Teams....Pages 391-396 SBC++ Simulator Team....Pages 397-400 A Team....Pages 401-404 AT Humboldt 2000 (Team Description)....Pages 405-408 AIRG Sibiu....Pages 409-412 The NOAI Team Description....Pages 413-416 Improved Agents of the magmafreiburg2000 Team....Pages 417-420 Virtual Werder....Pages 421-424 Kakitsubata Team Description....Pages 425-428 PaSo-Team 2000....Pages 429-432 Sharif-Arvand Simulation Team....Pages 433-436 SharifII Soccer Simulation Team....Pages 437-440 Essex Wizards 2000 Team Description....Pages 441-444 RoboCup-2000 Simulation League: Team KU-Yam2000....Pages 445-448 Harmony Team....Pages 449-452 TakAI....Pages 453-456 PSI Team....Pages 457-460 Gnez: Adapting knowledge to the environment with GA....Pages 461-464 Zeng00: The Realization of Mixed Strategy in simulation soccer game....Pages 465-468 RoboLog Koblenz 2000....Pages 469-472 Open Zeng: an Open Style Distributed Semi-Cooperative Team Development Project from Japan....Pages 473-476 Gemini in RoboCup-2000....Pages 477-480 Team Description for Lucky Lübeck — Evidence-Based World State Estimation....Pages 481-484 Karlsruhe Brainstormers 2000 Team Description....Pages 485-488 ATT-CMUnited-2000: Third Place Finisher in the Robocup-2000 Simulator League....Pages 489-492 Headless Chickens IV....Pages 493-496 Mainz Rolling Brains 2000....Pages 497-500 Team Description of Spatial-Timer....Pages 501-504 Polytech100....Pages 505-508 Team YowAI-2000 Description....Pages 509-512 11monkeysII....Pages 513-514 All Botz....Pages 515-518 4 Stooges....Pages 519-522 CIIPS Glory Small Soccer Robots with Local Image Processing....Pages 523-526 ViperRoos 2000....Pages 527-530 RoboCup 2000 (F180) Team Description : UPMC-CFA Team (France)....Pages 531-534 MuCows....Pages 535-538 Role-Based Strategy in TPOTs RoboCup Team....Pages 539-542 LuckyStar II - Team Description Paper....Pages 543-546 FU-Fighters 2000....Pages 547-550 RoGi Team Description....Pages 551-554 UQ RoboRoos: Kicking on to 2000....Pages 555-558 ART’00 - Azzurra Robot Team for the Year 2000....Pages 559-562 RMIT United....Pages 563-566 Agilo RoboCuppers: RoboCup Team Description....Pages 567-570 WinKIT....Pages 571-574 CMU Hammerheads Team Description....Pages 575-578 GMD-Robots....Pages 579-582 A Goal Keeper for Middle Size Robocup....Pages 583-586 The Dutch Team....Pages 587-590 The RoboCup-NAIST....Pages 591-594 KIRC: Kyutech Intelligent Robot Club....Pages 595-598 CoPS-Team Description....Pages 599-602 Golem Team in Middle-Sized Robots League....Pages 603-606 Osaka University “Trackies 2000”....Pages 607-610 Essex Rovers Team Description....Pages 611-614 French LRP Team’s Description....Pages 615-618 Team ARAIBO....Pages 619-622 CMPack ’00....Pages 623-626 The McGill’s RedDogs Legged League System....Pages 627-630 BabyTigers: Osaka Legged Robot Team....Pages 631-634 S.P.Q.R.....Pages 635-638 The University of Pennsylvania RoboCup Legged Soccer Team....Pages 639-642 Team Sweden....Pages 643-646 RoboMutts....Pages 647-650 Humboldt Heroes....Pages 651-654