The RoboRoos Robot Soccer team competed in the Small Size League of the annual RoboCup competitions. The goal of the RoboCup federation is "By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team." The rules are similar to the human version of the game (FIFA), other than the elimination of the offside rule as well as modifications that accommodate [...]
My PhD thesis project was “Reading the Play – Adaptation by Prediction”. The basis for the approach was akin to an elite sports player being able to "read the play", allowing for decisions to be made based on predictions of likely future outcomes. Using Markov chains we could model the opponent behaviour to prediction their likely future state. This brief video shows the prediction system at work in the RoboRoo robot [...]