Classification of playing styles in football: The use of ball action data

Coaches can benefit from objective information about playing styles applied in football matches. In this work, two methods for determining (characteristics of) the playing style of a football team in a certain match based on statistics of ball actions are constructed. The first method assigns a match to one of four commonly applied playing...

Real-Time Optimistic Planning for the Control of Nonlinear Systems

Optimistic Planning is a model-based online planning algorithm that guarantees near-optimal actions for the control arbitrarily nonlinear systems. Planning algorithms aim to find optimal actions by starting from the current state and developing a tree representation of sequences of actions and resulting states, using a model to simulate state...