The Dutch AIBO Team 2004

Abstract

We are a group of researchers and students from the universities of Amsterdam, Delft, Twente and Utrecht, and the DECIS Lab. Our goal is to stimulate research, teaching, and applications in the fields of artificial intelligence and collaborative robotics in the Netherlands by joining the international RoboCup community. Our team combines a group of senior researchers with a strong research record and a long experience in robot soccer competitions, with a diverse group of the most talented students in the country. Since we are distributed across the Netherlands, we have chosen a modular architecture that allows us to develop our innovations in parallel. This paper explains that our team has the right qualifications to compete in the Four-legged Robot League of RoboCup 2004. We have chosen a promising approach to the AIBO team architecture which will position us as a serious competitor.