2

Geoff Nagy, Andrew Winton, Jacky Baltes and John Anderson

An Event-Driven Operating System for Servomotor Control

20

Tomoichi Takahashi and Masaru Shimizu

How can the RoboCup Rescue Simulation contribute to emergency preparedness in real-world disaster situations?

23

Elizabeth Mamantov, William Silver, William Dawson and Eric Chown

RoboGrams: A Lightweight Message Passing Architecture for RoboCup Soccer

30

Rodrigo Ventura and Aamir Ahmad

Towards Optimal Robot Navigation in Domestic Spaces

31

Jose Sanchez, Sven Schneider and Paul Ploeger

Safely Grasping with Complex Dexterous Hands by Tactile Feedback

33

Emanuele Bastianelli, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi, Giuseppe Castellucci, Danilo Croce and Roberto Basili

RoboCup@Home Spoken Corpus: Using Robotic Competitions for Gathering Datasets

37

G.Y.R. Schropp, J-J. Ch. Meyer and S. Ramamoorthy

A Formalization of the Coach Problem

38

Tomoichi Takahashi and Masaru Shimizu

Is that Robot Allowed to Play in Human versus Robot Soccer Games - Laws of the Game for Achieving the RoboCup Dream -

46

David Freelan, Drew Wicke, Keith Sullivan and Sean Luke

Towards Rapid Multi-robot Learning from Demonstration at the RoboCup Competition

48

Luis Oliveira and Luis Almeida

RF-based Relative Position Estimation in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Confidence Regions

54

Carlos Quintero, Saith Rodriguez, Katherin Perez, Jorge Lopez, Eyberth Rojas and Juan Calderon

Learning Soccer Drills for the Small Size League of RoboCup

55

Saith Rodriguez, Eyberth Rojas, Katherin Perez, Jorge Lopez Jimenez, Carlos Quintero and Juan Calderon

Fast Path Planning Algorithm for the RoboCup Small Size League

64

Leandro Martins, Roberta Pretto, Reinhard Gerndt and Rodrigo Guerra

Design of a Modular Series Elastic Upgrade to a Robotics Actuator

66

Danny Zhu, Joydeep Biswas and Manuela Veloso

Real-Robot Soccer Automated Refereeing for Human Refereeing Support and Team Behavior Evaluation

3

Vincent Hugel and Nicolas Jouandeau

Analytical Solution for Joint Coupling in NAO Humanoid Hips

6

Hamid Reza Shafei, Prof. Mohsen Bahrami, Soroush Sadeghnejad and Prof. Jacky Baltes

A Comparative Study and Development of a Passive Robot with Improved Stability

8

Huimin Lu, Qinghua Yu, Dan Xiong, Junhao Xiao and Zhiqiang Zheng

Object Motion Estimation Based on Hybrid Vision for Soccer Robots in 3D Space

13

Jacky Baltes, Chris Iverach-Brereton and John Anderson

Human Inspired Control of a Small Humanoid Robot in Highly Dynamic Environments or Jimmy Darwin Rocks the Bongo Board

26

Luis Mota, Joao Fabro, Luis Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau

Collaborative Behavior in Soccer: The Setplay Free Software Framework

27

Ahmet Erdem and H. Levent Akin

Multi-Robot Localization by Observation Merging

29

Alina Trifan, Antonio J. R. Neves, Bernardo Cunha and Jose Luis Azevedo

UAVision: A modular time-constrained vision library for soccer robots

32

Andre Dias, Jose Almeida, Pedro Lima and Eduardo Silva

Uncertainty based Multi-Robot Cooperative Triangulation

41

Yuji Nunome, Kazuhito Murakami, Masahide Ito, Kunikazu Kobayashi and Tadashi Naruse

A Method to Estimate Ball's State of Spin by Image Processing for Improving Strategies in the RoboCup Small-Size-robot League

42

Joydeep Biswas and Manuela Veloso

Model-Instance Object Mapping

43

Paulo Dias, João Silva, Rafael Castro and António J. R. Neves

Detection of aerial balls using a Kinect sensor

58

Leonardo Leottau, Carlos Celemin and Javier Ruiz-Del-Solar

Ball Dribbling for Humanoid Biped Robots: A Reinforcement Learning and Fuzzy Control approach

65

Mohammadhossein Malmir, Shahin Boluki and Saeed Shiry Ghidary

Offensive Positioning Based on Maximum Weighted Bipartite Matching and Voronoi Diagram

70

Mike Depinet, Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone

Keyframe Sampling, Optimization, and Behavior Integration: Towards Long-Distance Kicking in the RoboCup 3D Simulation League

72

Nima Shafii, Nuno Lau and Luis Paulo Reis

Generalized Learning to Create an Energy Efficient ZMP-Based Walking