Where to Score in AI World Cup Football?

To push the boundaries of technology, the world cup football for robots, RoboCup, is organized on a yearly basis since 1997. To push the boundaries of artificial intelligence, a simulated version of the RoboCup, AI World Cup Football, is arranged yearly from 2017. This requires skillful attackers, defenders and goalkeeper. A large part of having...

Defensive Positioning Strategies For A Goalkeeper In The AI World Cup

The AI World Cup is a virtual competition in which teams of five players compete in a football match. The defensive strategies for the goalkeeper in this environment are yet to be researched, however. In previous editions of the competition the participating teams use a basic goalkeeper that can only dive but not position itself. This project...

Facing the ball carrier in AI World Cup soccer

Robot soccer competitions have been around for a while and have been a great environment to develop AI algorithms in. One of these environments is the AI world cup. The AI world cup environment is a virtual environment where two teams with five robots each play a soccer match. This paper focuses on defending the attacker that is carrying the...