TeamBots^TM Users

• In research:

  • Mitchell Potter and Lisa Meeden at the Naval Research Laboratory are using JavaSoccer as a domain for the investigation of evolutionary computation. They plan to run the evolved strategies on Nomad Scout robots.

  • Ashwin Ram and Irfan Essa at Georgia Tech are leading a project aimed at developing a "robot pet" called Pepe. The long-term objective of this research is to build an intelligent, adaptive, user-friendly agent that displays different emotional states and a wide range of behaviors. Their software controls an ISR Pebbles robot using TeamBots.

  • Paul Rybski and Sascha A. Stoeter at the University of Minnesota are using TeamBots as a platform for the investigation of robot navigation across variable terrain.

  • Hiroaki Kitano at Sony CSL is using JavaSoccer as a platform for the development of robot soccer strategies for RoboCup Competition.

  • Darrin Bentivegna at Georgia Tech's Mobile Robot Laboratory is using TeamBots as a platform to investigate how groups of robots can be commanded by a human using visual gestures/signals. He has integrated TeamBots with one of Newton Lab's Cognachrome vision system on a Nomad 150 robot.

  • TeamBots software controlled Georgia Tech's winning multi-robot entry in the 1997 AAAI Mobile Robot Competition.

  • Asif Razaq at Queen Mary University of London is implementing support for Khepera robots in TeamBots. He is investigating robot soccer using the Khepera platform.

• In education:
  • CS 4324 ``Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision'' taught at Georgia Tech by Chris Atkeson; JavaSoccer used as a class project. Several student-developed teams from this class are included in the TeamBots distribution.

  • CS 7100 ``Introduction to Graduate Studies'' taught at Georgia Tech by Irfan Essa; JavaSoccer used as a class project. Several student-developed teams from this class are included in the TeamBots distribution.

  • 2D5350 ``Behavior-based Robotics'' taught at KTH (Sweden) by Ronald Arkin; TeamBots used as a platform for class projects.

  • CS 260 ``Java'' taught at the University of North Dakota by Henry Hexmoor; JavaSoccer suggested as a class project.

  • CS 599 ``Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems'' taught at the University of Southern California by Maja Mataric; TeamBots suggested as a platform for class projects.

• Links, ratings and references:

  • The Java Applet Rating Service (JARS) gives TeamBots
    

  • Jay Scott lists TeamBots on his excellent Machine Learning in Games website in the robotic soccer section.

  • Take a look at Itsuki Noda's official RoboCup soccer simulator, the soccer server.

  • Of course the official RoboCup homepage is worth a visit.

  • Check out Peter Stone's page for interesting papers on learning soccer robots.

  • Georgia Tech's Mobile Robot Laboratory is a leader in multi-robot research.

  • The Robotics Research Laboratories at USC are also doing some great multi-robot work.