CMU RoboSoccer
RoboCup Simulator Team Homepage 

Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso, Patrick Riley

ATTCMUnited-2000 placed 3rd at RoboCup-2000! 

CMUnited-99 is the RoboCup-99 Simulator League World Champion Team! 

CMUnited-98 is the RoboCup-98 Simulator League World Champion Team! 

• ATTCMUnited-2000 simulator team homepage
• CMUnited-99 simulator team homepage 
• CMUnited-98 simulator team homepage 
• CMUnited-97 simulator team homepage 

Books 

• MIT Press, 2000.

Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems: A Winning Approach to Robotic Soccer.
Peter Stone.

Ph.D. Theses 

• CMU Computer Science Tech Report CMU-CS-98-187. 

Layered Learning in Multi-Agent Systems.
Peter Stone.

Journal Articles 

• In Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), 1999. 

Task Decomposition, Dynamic Role Assignment, and Low-Bandwidth Communication for Real-Time Strategic Teamwork. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso. 
HTML version
 
• Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI), Volume 12, 1998. 

A Layered Approch to Learning Client Behaviors in the RoboCup Soccer Server. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso. 
HTML version
A Japanese translation by Takayoshi Ishii
Some related slides: ( PostScript / html)
 
• Internation Journal of Human-Computer Systems (IJHCS), Volume 48, 1998.

Towards Collaborative and Adversarial Learning: A Case Study in Robotic Soccer. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso. 
HTML version

Book Chapters 

• In "RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II", M. Asada and H. Kitano (eds.), 1999. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

The CMUnited-98 Champion Simulator Team. (extended version) 
Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso, and Patrick Riley
HTML version
 
• In Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents'99)

and in "RoboCup-98: The Second Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences", M. Asada (ed.), 1999. Springer Verlag, Berlin.
Team-Partitioned, Opaque-Transition Reinforcement Learning. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
HTML version
 
• In "RoboCup-97: The First Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences", H. Kitano (ed.), 1998. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Also in Second International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 1998. 
Using Decision Tree Confidence Factors for Multiagent Control. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
HTML version
 
• In "RoboCup-97: The First Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences", H. Kitano (ed.), 1998. Springer Verlag, Berlin.

The CMUnited-97 Simulator Team. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
HTML version

Conferences, Symposia and Workshops 

• In Fifth International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL'98)

Task Decomposition and Dynamic Role Assignment for Real-Time Strategic Teamwork. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
HTML version
 
• In First International Workshop on Collective Robotics (CRW'98)

Communication in Domains with Unreliable, Single-Channel, Low-Bandwidth Communication. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso
HTML version
 
• Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-97). 

The RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge 97. 
Hiroaki Kitano, Milind Tambe, Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso, Silvia Coradeschi, Eiichi Osawa, Hitoshi Matsubara, Itsuki Noda, and Minoru Asada 
HTML version
 
• International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 1996 (IROS'96) Workshop on RoboCup.

Predictive Memory for an Inaccessible Environment. 
Mike Bowling and Peter Stone, and Manuela Veloso. 
HTML version
 
• Neural Information Processing Systems 1995 (NIPS*95) 

Extended version citable as a CMU Tech report: CMU-CS-95-222 
Beating a Defender in Robotic Soccer: Memory-Based Learning of a Continuous Function. (extended version) 
Official NIPS*95 version. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso. 
HTML version (of the extended paper)
 
• 1995 AAAI Fall Symposium on Active Learning 

Using Testing to Iteratively Improve Training. 
Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso. 
Here are some slides with more detail 

• RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative 
• Our software is designed for use with the Soccer Server System. 
• Several teams have used our software to help build their teams. Here is the RoboLog Koblenz team at the Universität Koblenz-Landau.