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Plan-Based Control for Autonomous Soccer Robots Preliminary Report

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Robotic soccer has become a standard “real-world” testbed for autonomous robot control. This paper presents our current views on the use of plan-based control mechanisms for autonomous robotic soccer. We argue that plan-based control will enable autonomous soccer playing robots to better perform sophisticated and fine tuned soccer plays. We present and discuss some of the plan representations that we have developed for robotic soccer. Finally, we outline extensions of our plan representation language that allow for the explicit and transparent specification of learning problems within plans. This extended language enables robot controllers to employ learning subplans that can be reasoned about and manipulated.

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  1. Department of Computer Science IX, Munich University of Technology, Orleanstr. 34, D-81667, Munich, Germany

    Michael Beetz & Andreas Hofhauser

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  1. Institut für Informatik IX, Technische Universität München, Orleansstr. 34, 81667, München, Germany

    Michael Beetz

  2. Fraunhofer-Institut, Autonome Intelligente Systeme (AIS), Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

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  3. LAAS-CNRS, 7, Avenue du Colonel Roche, 31077, Toulouse cedex, France

    Malik Ghallab

  4. College of Engineering Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48019, USA

    Martha E. Pollack

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Beetz, M., Hofhauser, A. (2002). Plan-Based Control for Autonomous Soccer Robots Preliminary Report. In: Beetz, M., Hertzberg, J., Ghallab, M., Pollack, M.E. (eds) Advances in Plan-Based Control of Robotic Agents. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2466. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37724-7_2

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