Cooperative Multi Agent Soccer Robot Team

This paper introduces our first efforts of developing a new team for RoboCup Middle Size Competition. In our robots we have applied omni directional based mobile system with omnidirectional vision system and fuzzy control algorithm to navigate robots. The control architecture of MRL middle-size robots is a three layered architecture, Planning, Sequencing, and Executing. It also uses Blackboard system to achieve coordination among agents. Moreover, the architecture should have minimum dependency on low level structure and have a uniform protocol to interact with real robot.

Authors:

• Vahid Rostami
• Saeed Ebrahimijam
• P.khajehpoor
• P.Mirzaei
• Mahdi Yousefiazar

Keywords:

• Robocup
• Soccer robots
• Fuzzy controller
• Multi agent.

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