This is the official site of the UT Austin Villa 3D Simulation team from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.
This web page provides supplementary material to the following paper:
UT Austin Villa 2011: A Champion Agent in the RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation Competition
Patrick MacAlpine, Daniel Urieli, Samuel Barrett, Shivaram
Kalyanakrishnan, Francisco Barrera, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Nicolae
Stiurca, Victor Vu, Peter Stone
Published in the Proc. of 11th
Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS
2012) in Valencia, Spain, June 2012.
The full paper can be found here.
Abstract:
This paper presents the architecture and key components of a simulated
humanoid
robot soccer team, UT Austin Villa, which was designed to compete in the RoboCup 3D simulation competition.
These key components include (1) an
omnidirectional walk engine and associated walk parameter optimization
framework, (2) an inverse kinematics based kicking architecture, and (3) a
dynamic role assignment and positioning system. UT Austin Villa
won the RoboCup 2011 3D simulation competition in convincing fashion by
winning all 24 games it played. During the course of the competition
the team scored 136 goals while conceding none. We
analyze the effect of each component in isolation and
show through
extensive experiments that the complete team significantly outperforms all the
other teams from the competition.
Below are a few videos and links to pages (with more videos) that demonstrate the work reported in this paper.
Action from RoboCup 2011.
Download videos: Highlights
(ogv, mp4),
Final 1st half
(ogv,
mp4),
Final 2nd half
(ogv,
mp4)
Agent Components
Omnidirectional
Walk Optimization
Kicking Engine
Dynamic
Role Assignment and Formation Positioning System
For any questions, please contact Patrick MacAlpine.
