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This Book Is The Third Official Archival Publication Devoted To Robocup And Documents The Achievements Presented At The Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games And Conferences, Robo-cup-99, Held In Stockholm, Sweden In July/august 1999. The Book Presents The Following Parts - Introductory Overview And Survey - Research Papers Of The Champion Teams And Scientific Award Winners - Technical Papers Presented At The Robocup-99 Workshop - Team Description Of A Large Number Of Participating Teams. This Book Is Mandatory Reading For The Rapidly Growing Robocup Community As Well As A Valuable Source Or Reference And Inspiration For R&d Professionals Interested In Multi-agent Systems, Distributed Artificial Intelligence, And Intelligent Robotics. Overview Of Robocup-99 -- Overview Of Robocup-99 -- Champion Teams -- The Cmunited-99 Champion Simulator Team -- Big Red: The Cornell Small League Robot Soccer Team -- Middle Sized Soccer Robots: Arvand -- Vision Based Behavior Strategy To Play Soccer With Legged Robots -- Scientific Challenge Award Papers -- Automated Assistants To Aid Humans In Understanding Team Behaviors -- Logmonitor: From Player’s Action Analysis To Collaboration Analysis And Advice On Formation -- A Statistical Perspective On The Robocup Simulator League: Progress And Prospects -- Technical Papers -- Real-time Color Detection System Using Custom Lsi For High-speed Machine Vision -- A Segmentation System For Soccer Robot Based On Neural Networks -- Practical Camera And Colour Calibration For Large Rooms -- Path Tracking Control Of Non-holonomic Car-like Robot With Reinforcement Learning -- Fast Image Segmentation, Object Recognition And Localization In A Robocup Scenario -- Using Hierarchical Dynamical Systems To Control Reactive Behavior -- Heterogeneity And On-board Control In The Small Robots League -- The Body, The Mind Or The Eye, First? -- Motion Control In Dynamic Multi-robot Environments -- Behavior Engineering With “dual Dynamics” Models And Design Tools -- Techniques For Obtaining Robust, Real-time, Colour-based Vision For Robotics -- Design Issues For A Robocup Goalkeeper -- Layered Reactive Planning In The Ialp Team -- From A Concurrent Architecture To A Concurrent Autonomous Agents Architecture -- Tracking And Identifying In Real Time The Robots Of A F-180 Team -- Vqql. Applying Vector Quantization To Reinforcement Learning -- Fast Accurate And Robust Self-localization In The Robocup Environment -- Self-localization In The Robocup Environment -- Virtual Robocup: Real-time 3d Visualization Of 2d Soccer Games -- The Robocup-98 Teamwork Evaluation Session: A Preliminary Report -- Towards A Distributed Multi-agent System For A Robotic Soccer Team -- A Multi-threaded Approach To Simulated Soccer Agents For The Robocup Competition -- A Functional Architecture For A Team Of Fully Autonomous Cooperative Robots -- Extension Of The Behaviour Oriented Commands (boc) Model For The Design Of A Team Of Soccer Players Robots -- Modular Simulator: A Draft Of New Simulator For Robocup -- Programming Real Time Distributed Multiple Robotic Systems -- The Attempto Robocup Robot Team -- Rogi Team Real: Dynamical Physical Agents -- Learning To Behave By Environment Reinforcement -- End User Specification Of Robocup Teams -- Purposeful Behavior In Robot Soccer Team Play -- Autonomous Information Indication System -- Spatial Agents Implemented In A Logical Expressible Language -- Layered Learning And Flexible Teamwork In Robocup Simulation Agents -- A Method For Localization By Integration Of Imprecise Vision And A Field Model -- Multiple Reward Criterion For Cooperative Behavior Acquisition In A Multiagent Environment -- Bdi Design Principles And Cooperative Implementation In Robocup -- Team Descriptions -- At Humboldt In Robocup-99 (team Description) -- Cyberoos’99: Tactical Agents In The Robocup Simulation League -- 11monkeys Description -- Team Erika -- Essex Wizards’99 Team Description -- Fcfoo99 -- Footux Team Description A Hybrid Recursive Based Agent Architecture -- Gongeroos’99 -- Headless Chickens Iii -- Ialp -- Kappa-ii -- Karlsruhe Brainstormers - Design Principles -- Kasugabito Iii -- Robocup-99 Simulation League: Team Ku-sakura2 -- The Magmafreiburg Soccer Team -- Mainz Rolling Brains -- Nitstones-99 -- Oulu 99 -- Pardis -- Paso-team’99 -- Psi Team -- Robolog Koblenz -- Rational Agents By Reviewing Techniques -- The Ulm Sparrows 99 -- Ubu Team -- Yowai -- Zeng99: Robocup Simulation Team With Hierarchical Fuzzy Intelligent Control And Cooperative Development -- Small-size Robot (f180) League -- All Botz -- Big Red: The Cornell Small League Robot Soccer Team -- The Cmunited-99 Small-size Robot Team -- 5dpo Team Description -- Fu-fighters Team Description -- Linked99 -- Owari-bito -- Rogi 2 Team Description -- Temasek Polytechnic Robocup Team-tpots -- The Vub Ai-lab Robocup’99 Small League Team -- Middle-size Robot (f2000) League -- Agilo Robocuppers: Robocup Team Description -- Art99 - Azzurra Robot Team -- Cops-team Description -- Cs Freiburg’ 99 -- Dreamteam 99: Team Description Paper -- Description Of The Gmd Robocup-99 Team -- Isocrob — Intelligent Society Of Robots -- Kirc: Kyutech Intelligent Robot Club -- The Concept Of Matto -- The Robocup-naist -- Robot Football Team From Minho University -- Real Magicol 99: Team Description -- Rmit Raiders -- Design And Construction Of A Soccer Player Robot Arvand -- The Team Description Of Osaka University “trackies-99” -- 5dpo-2000 Team Description -- Sony Legged Robot League -- Team Araibo -- Babytigers-99: Osaka Legged Robot Team -- Cm-trio-99 -- Humboldt Hereos In Robocup-99 (team Description) -- Mcgill Reddogs -- Team Sweden -- Unsw United -- Upennalizers: The University Of Pennsylvania Robocup Legged Soccer Team. Edited By Manuela Veloso, Enrico Pagello, Hiroaki Kitano. Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References At The End Of Each Chapters And Index. English