Publications

Members of the teams have published their research that is needed to make it possible to let robots play soccer or to rescue.

On this page you can find a selection of those publications, no claim is made that this list is complete.

2024

• Stijn Oomes and Arnoud Visser, Position and Altitude of the Nao Camera Head from Two Points on the Soccer Field plus the Gravitational Direction, preprint arXiv 2407.03041, to be published in RoboCup 2024: Robot World Cup XXVII, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Springer.
• Xavier Monté, Joey van der Kaaij, Rogier van der Weerd and Arnoud Visser, Using Neural Factorization of Shape and Reflectance for Ball Detection, in RoboCup 2023: Robot World Cup XXVI, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 14140), Springer, pp. 129–140, March 14, 2024.

2022

• J. J. Olthuis, N. B. van der Meer, S. T. Kempers, C. A. van Hoof, R. M. Beumer, W. J. P. Kuijpers, A. A. Kokkelmans, W. Houtman, J. J. F. J. van Eijck, J. J. Kon, A. T. A. Peijnenburg & M. J. G. van de Molengraft, Vision-Based Machine Learning in Robot Soccer, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 13132, p. 327–339, March 2022

2021

• W. Houtman, C.A. Lopez Martinez, S. Wang, A. Ketels, H.P.J. Bruyninckx, M.J.G. van de Molengraft, Dynamic control of steerable wheeled mobile platforms applied to an eight-wheeled RoboCup Middle Size League soccer robot, Mechatronics, Vol. 80, December 2021

2019

• W. Houtman, C. M. Kengen, P. H. E. M. van Lith, R. H. J. ten Berge, J. J. Kon, K. J. Meessen, M. A. Haverlag, Y. G. M. Douven, F. B. F. Schoenmakers, D. J. H. Bruijnen, W. H. T. M. Aangenent, J. J. Olthuis, M. Dolatabadi, S. T. Kempers, M. C. W. Schouten, R. M. Beumer, W. J. P. Kuijpers, A. A. Kokkelmans, H. C. T. van de Loo & M. J. G. van de Molengraft, Tech United Eindhoven Middle-Size League Winner 2019, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 11531, p. 517–528, December 2019.
• M. F. B. van der Burgh, J. J. M. Lunenburg, R. P. W. Appeldoorn, L. L. A. M. van Beek, J. Geijsberts, L. G. L. Janssen, P. van Dooren, H. W. A. M. van Rooy, A. Aggarwal, S. Aleksandrov, K. Dang, A. T. Hofkamp, D. van Dinther & M. J. G. van de Molengraft, Tech United Eindhoven @Home 2019 Champions Paper, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 11531, p. 529–539, December 2019.
• Arnoud Visser, Luis G. Nardin and Sebastian Castro, “Integrating the Latest Artificial Intelligence Algorithms into the RoboCup Rescue Simulation Framework“, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 11374, p. 476-487, August 2019.
• Sander van Dijk, Marcus M. Scheunemann, "Deep Learning for Semantic Segmentation on Minimal Hardware", Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 11374, p. 349-361, August 2019.
• Yanick Douven, Wouter Houtman, Ferry Schoenmakers, Koen Meessen, Harrie van de Loo, Dennis Bruijnen, Wouter Aangenent, Jorrit Olthuis, Cas de Groot, Marzieh Dolatabadi Farahani, Peter van Lith, Pim Scheers, Ruben Sommer, Bob van Ninhuijs, Patrick van Brakel, Jordy Senden, Marjon van ’t Klooster, Wouter Kuijpers & René van de Molengraft Tech United Eindhoven Middle Size League Winner 2018, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 11374, p. 413-424, August 2019.

2017

• Wouter Kuijpers, António J. R. Neves & René van de Molengraft Cooperative Sensing for 3D Ball Positioning in the RoboCup Middle Size League, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 9776, p. 268–278, November 2017.
• Ferry Schoenmakers, Koen Meessen, Yanick Douven, Harrie van de Loo, Dennis Bruijnen, Wouter Aangenent, Bob van Ninhuijs, Matthias Briegel, Patrick van Brakel, Jordy Senden, Robin Soetens, Wouter Kuijpers, Joris Reijrink, Camiel Beeren, Marjon van ’t Klooster, Lotte de Koning & René van de Molengraft, Tech United Eindhoven Middle Size League Winner 2016, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 9776, p. 542–553, November 2017.
• Carlos Hernandez, Mukunda Bharatheesha, Wilson Ko, Hans Gaiser, Jethro Tan, Kanter van Deurzen, Maarten de Vries, Bas Van Mil, Jeff van Egmond, Ruben Burger, Mihai Morariu, Jihong Ju, Xander Gerrmann, Ronald Ensing, Jan Van Frankenhuyzen & Martijn Wisse, Team Delft’s Robot Winner of the Amazon Picking Challenge 2016, , Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 9776, p. 613–624, November 2017.
• A. Visser, A New RoboCup@Home Challenge, In Benelux A.I. Newsletter. 31(1), p. 2-6, Summer 2017.

2016

• Raymond Sheh, Sören Schwertfeger and Arnoud Visser, “16 Years of RoboCup Rescue“, KI – Künstliche Intelligenz, Volume 30, Issue 3, October 2016.
• Masaru Shimizu, Nate Koenig, Arnoud Visser and Tomoichi Takahashi, “A realistic RoboCup Rescue Simulation based on Gazebo“, in RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 9513, 2016, pp. 331-338.

2015

• Sven Wachsmuth, Dirk Holz, Maja Rudinac, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, RoboCup@Home - Benchmarking Domestic Service Robots, AAAI 2015: 4328-4329
• Cesar Lopez Martinez, Ferry Schoenmakers, Gerrit Naus, Koen Meessen, Yanick Douven, Harrie van de Loo, Dennis Bruijnen, Wouter Aangenent, Joost Groenen, Bob van Ninhuijs, Matthias Briegel, Rob Hoogendijk, Patrick van Brakel, Rob van den Berg, Okke Hendriks, René Arts, Frank Botden, Wouter Houtman, Marjon van’t Klooster, Jeroen van der Velden, Camiel Beeren, Lotte de Koning, Olaf Klooster, Robin Soetens & René van de Molengraft, Tech United Eindhoven, Winner RoboCup 2014 MSL, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI 8992, p. 60-69, January 2015.
• Victor Spirin, Julian de Hoog, Arnoud Visser and Stephen Cameron, “MRESim, a multi-robot exploration simulator for Rescue Simulation League“, in RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 8992, January 2015, pp. 106-107.
• Robin Soetens, René van de Molengraft & Bernardo Cunha, RoboCup MSL - History, Accomplishments, Current Status and Challenges Ahead, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 8992, January 2015, pp. 624–635.
• Arnoud Visser, Nobuhiro Ito and Alexander Kleiner, “RoboCup Rescue Simulation Innovation Strategy“, in RoboCup 2014: Robot World Cup XVIII, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 8992, January 2015, pp. 661-672.

2014

• Jos Elfring, Simon Jansen, René van de Molengraft & Maarten Steinbuch, Active Object Search Exploiting Probabilistic Object–Object Relations, in RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 8371, July 2014, pp. 13-24.
• Janno Lunenburg, Robin Soetens, Ferry Schoenmakers, Paul Metsemakers, René van de Molengraft & Maarten Steinbuch, Sharing Open Hardware through ROP, the Robotic Open Platform, , in RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 8371, July 2014, pp. 584–591.
• Zeid Kootbally, Stephen Balakirsky and Arnoud Visser, “Enabling codesharing in Rescue Simulation with USARSim/ROS“, in RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII, Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 8371, July 2014, pp. 592-599.

2013

• Akin, H.L., Ito, N., Jacoff, A., Kleiner, A., Pellenz, J. & Visser, A. (2013). RoboCup Rescue Robot and Simulation Leagues. AI-Magazine, 34 (1), 78-86.
• Amigoni, F., Visser, A. & Tsushima, M. (2013). RoboCup 2012 Rescue Simulation Winners. In X. Chen, P. Stone, L.E. Sucar & T. van der Zant (Eds.), RoboCup 2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI Vol. 7500. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (pp. 20-35). Heidelberg: Springer.
• Sander van Noort and Arnoud Visser, Extending Virtual Robots towards RoboCup Soccer Simulation and @Home, in the Springer Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 7500, pp. 20-35, June 2013.
• Verschoor, C.R. & Visser, A. (2013). Integrating disparity and edge detection algorithms to autonomously follow linear-shaped structures at low altitude. In 2013 3rd Joint Conference of Al & Robotics and 5th RoboCup Iran Open International Symposium: April 08, 2013, Qazvin, Iran.
• Waard, M. de, Inja, M. & Visser, A. (2013). Analysis of flat terrain for the Atlas robot. In M. Mousakhani, M. Ataei & M. Jamzad (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2013 3rd Joint Conference of AI & Robotics and 5th RoboCup Iran Open International Symposium: April 08, 2013, Qazvin, Iran.

2012

• Olaf Zwennes, Astrid Weiss and Arnoud Visser, “Adapting the mapping difficulty for the automatic generation of rescue challenges“, Proceedings of the RoboCup IranOpen 2012 Symposium (RIOS12), April 2012.
• Nobuhiro Ito, Arnoud Visser and Alexander Kleiner, “Rescue Simulation League“, in “RoboCup 2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV”, (edited by Thomas Röfer, N. Michael Mayer, Jesus Savage, Uluc Saranlı), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 7416, p. XIV-XV, Springer, Heidelberg, March 2012.

2011

• Okke Formsma, Nick Dijkshoorn, Sander van Noort and Arnoud Visser, “Realistic Simulation of Laser Range Finder Behavior in a Smoky Environment“, in “RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV”, (edited by Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Eric Chown and Paul G. Plöger), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 6556, p. 336-349, Springer, March 2011.
• Arnoud Visser, David de Bos, and Hessel van der Molen. An Experimental Comparison of Mapping Methods, the Gutmann dataset. In Proceedings of the RoboCup IranOpen 2011 Symposium (RIOS11) (April 2011).
• Jeroen de Best, René van de Molengraft, Maarten Steinbuch, A novel ball handling mechanism for the RoboCup middle size league, Mechatronics, Vol. 21, Issue 2, March 2011, Pages 469-478.

2010

• R.J.M. Janssen, M.J.G. Molengraft, van de, M. Steinbuch, Hypotheses based multi-object tracking in the RoboCup MidSize league, Proceedings of the Internal Conference on Autonomous Agents And MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS2010) : Workshop on Agents in Real-time and Dynamic Environments, May 10-14, 2010, Toronto, Canada
• Maarten van der Velden, Wouter Josemans, Bram Huijten and Arnoud Visser, “Application of Traversability Maps in the Virtual Rescue competition“, Proceedings of the RoboCup IranOpen 2010 Symposium (RIOS10), April 2010.
• Fares Alnajar, Hanne Nijhuis and Arnoud Visser, “Coordinated action in a Heterogeneous Rescue Team“, in “RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII”, (edited by J. Baltes et al.), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 5949, p. 1-10, Springer, Heidelberg, February 2010.
• Rob Janssen, Jeroen de Best & René van de Molengraft, Real-time ball tracking in a semi-automated foosball table, in “RoboCup 2009: Robot Soccer World Cup XIII”, (edited by J. Baltes et al.), Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, volume 5949, p. 128-139, Springer, Heidelberg, February 2010.

2009

• Balaguer, B., Balakirsky, S., Carpin, S. & Visser, A. (2009). Evaluating maps produced by urban search and rescue robots: Lessons learned from RoboCup. Autonomous Robots, 27 (4), 449-464.
• Balakirsky, S., Carpin, S. & Visser, A. (2009). Evaluating The RoboCup 2009 Virtual Robot Rescue Competition. In Proceedings of the 9th Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems workshop (PerMIS’09). Gaithersburg, MD, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

2008

• Jeroen de Best; Rene van de Molengraft, An active ball handling mechanism for RoboCup, 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, Hanoi, Vietnam, 2008, pp. 2060-2065.
• Pfingsthorn, M., Slamet, B. & Visser, A. (2008). A scalable hybrid multi-robot SLAM method for highly detailed maps. In U. Visser, F. Ribeiro, T. Ohashi & F. Dellaert (Eds.), RoboCup 2007: robot soccer World Cup XI Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 457-464). Berlin: Springer.

2007

• Dennis Bruijnen; Wouter Aangenent; Jeroen van Helvoort; Rene van de Molengraft, From Vision to Realtime Motion Control for the RoboCup Domain, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Singapore, 2007, pp. 545-550.
• Balakirsky, S., Carpin, S., Kleiner, A., Lewis, M., Visser, A., Wang, J. & Ziparo, V.A. (2007). Towards heterogeneous robot teams for disaster mitigation: results and performance metrics from RoboCup Rescue. Journal of Field Robotics, 24 (11-12), 943-967.
• Jürgen Sturm, Paul van Rossum, and Arnoud Visser. Panoramic Localization in the 4-Legged League: Removing the dependence on artificial landmarks. In RoboCup 2006: Robot Soccer World Cup X (eds. G. Lakemeyer, E. Sklar, D. Sorrenti, and T. Takahashi) , Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series, 4434, 387–394 (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, October 2007)

2006

• Floris Mantz, Pieter Jonker, Wouter Caarls, Behavior-Based Vision on a 4 Legged Soccer Robot, RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4020, pp. 480-487.

2003

• Jelle Kok, Remco de Boer, Nikos Vlassis & Frans C. A. Groen, Towards an Optimal Scoring Policy for Simulated Soccer Agents, In RoboCup 2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2752, pages 296–303, Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Matthijs T. J. Spaan & Frans C. A. Groen, Team coordination among robotic soccer players, In RoboCup 2002: Robot Soccer World Cup VI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2752, pages 409–416, Springer Berlin Heidelberg

2002

• Frank de Jong, Jurjen Caarls, Robert Bartelds & Pieter P. Jonker, A two-tiered approach to self-localization, RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2377, pp 405–410. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
• Matthijs Spaan, Marco Wiering, Robert Bartelds, Raymond Donkervoort, Pieter Jonker, and Frans Groen. Clockwork orange: The dutch robosoccer team. In RoboCup 2001: Robot Soccer World Cup V, pages 627–630, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2002. Springer Berlin Heidelberg

2001

• Frans Groen, Wiebe van der Hoek, Pieter Jonker, Ben Kröse, Hans Spoelder, Stefano Stramigioli, RoboCup European Championship:: Report of the Amsterdam 2000 event, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 36, Issues 2–3, 31 August 2001, Pages 59-66.
• Pieter Jonker, Jurjen Caarls & Wouter Bokhove, Fast and Accurate Robot Vision for Vision Based Motion, RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2019, pp 149–158. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
• Pieter Jonker, Will van Geest & Frans Groen, The Dutch Team, RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2019, pp 587–590. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

2000

• H.J.W. Spoelder; L. Renambot; D. Germans; H.E. Bal, F.C.A. Groen, Man multi-agent interaction in VR: a case study with RoboCup, Proceedings IEEE Virtual Reality 2000, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, 2000, pp. 291-300.
• Kröse, B.J.A., Bogaard, R. van den & Hietbrink, N. (2000). Programming robots is fun: Robocup Jr. 2000. In van.den Bosch et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Belgium-Netherlands Al Conference BNAIC’ 00 (pp. 29-36).

1999

• Emiel Corten and Frans Groen, Team description of the UvA-Team, RoboCup-99 Team Descriptions. Simulation League, Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, No. 4, 1999 (pp. 149-153).

1998

• Emiel Corten and Erik Rondema, Team description of the Windmill Wanderers, Proceedings on the second RoboCup Workshop, Paris, July 1998 (pp. 347-352).