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The RoboCup 2013 Drop-In Player Challenges: Experiments in Ad Hoc Teamwork.
Patrick
MacAlpine, Katie Genter, Samuel
Barrett, and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2014.
Accompanying videos at http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~AustinVilla/sim/3dsimulation/AustinVilla3DSimulationFiles/2013/html/dropin.html
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As the prevalence of autonomous agents grows, so does the number of interactions between these agents. Therefore, it is desirable for these agents to be capable of banding together with previously unknown teammates towards a common goal: to collaborate without pre-coordination. While past research on ad hoc teamwork has focused mainly on theoretical treatments and empirical studies in relatively simple domains, the long-term vision has been to enable robots and other autonomous agents to exhibit the sort of flexibility and adaptability on complex tasks that people do, for example when they play games of "pick-up" basketball or soccer. This paper introduces a series of pick-up robot soccer experiments that were carried out in three different leagues at the international RoboCup competition in 2013. In all cases, agents from different labs were put on teams with no pre-coordination. This paper introduces the structure of these experiments, describes the strategies used by UT Austin Villa in each challenge, and analyzes the results. The paper's main contribution is the introduction of a new large-scale ad hoc teamwork testbed that can serve as a starting point for future experimental ad hoc teamwork research.
@InProceedings{IROS14-MacAlpine,
author = {Patrick MacAlpine and Katie Genter and Samuel Barrett and Peter Stone},
title = {The {R}obo{C}up 2013 Drop-In Player Challenges: Experiments in Ad Hoc Teamwork},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
location = {Chicago, Illinois, USA},
month = {September},
year = {2014},
abstract={
As the prevalence of autonomous agents grows, so does the number of
interactions between these agents. Therefore, it is desirable for these agents
to be capable of banding together with previously unknown teammates towards a
common goal: to collaborate without pre-coordination. While past research on
ad hoc teamwork has focused mainly on theoretical treatments and empirical
studies in relatively simple domains, the long-term vision has been to enable
robots and other autonomous agents to exhibit the sort of flexibility and
adaptability on complex tasks that people do, for example when they play games
of "pick-up" basketball or soccer. This paper introduces a series of pick-up
robot soccer experiments that were carried out in three different leagues at
the international RoboCup competition in 2013. In all cases, agents from
different labs were put on teams with no pre-coordination. This paper
introduces the structure of these experiments, describes the strategies used by
UT Austin Villa in each challenge, and analyzes the results. The paper's main
contribution is the introduction of a new large-scale ad hoc teamwork testbed
that can serve as a starting point for future experimental ad hoc teamwork
research.
},
wwwnote={Accompanying videos at <a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~AustinVilla/sim/3dsimulation/AustinVilla3DSimulationFiles/2013/html/dropin.html">http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~AustinVilla/sim/3dsimulation/AustinVilla3DSimulationFiles/2013/html/dropin.html</a>},
}
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