TITLE: Cooperative Sensing and Acting in Robotic Soccer

PRESENTER: Professor Bernhard Nebel
                        nebel@informatik.uni-freiburg.de

AFFILIATION: Institut fur Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg

DATE: Friday 20 September 2002

TIME: 2:00noon - 3.00pm

PLACE: CSE K17 1st Floor Seminar Room

ABSTRACT:

Robotic soccer is a challenging research problem because problems in robotics, artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems and real-time reasoning have to be solved in order to create a successful team of robotic soccer players. In the talk, I will concentrate on cooperative sensing methods and on team play approaches that have been developed for the CS Freiburg team, which has been RoboCup world champion in the mid-size league three times.

BIOGRAPHY OF SPEAKER:

Bernhard Nebel received a Diploma in Computer Science (Dipl.-Inform.) from the University of Hamburg in 1980 and his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Saarland in 1989. Between 1982 and 1993 he worked on different AI projects at the University of Hamburg, the Technical University of Berlin, ISI/USC, IBM Germany, and the German Research Center for AI (DFKI). From 1993 to 1996 he held an Associate Professor position (C3) at the Computer Science Department of the University of Ulm. Since 1996 he is Professor at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg and head of the research group on foundations of AI.

SEMINAR CONVEYOR:

Bernhard Hengst
Tel: +61-2-9385-3988,
E-mail: bernhardh@cse.unsw.edu.au
School of Computer Science & Engineering, UNSW.