Control of group of robots

Abstract

This paper describes the design of the solution of the 3rd generation of the robot-soccer strategy system for the VSB-TU Ostrava robot-soccer team. In this generation, we tried to completely redesign our system, implement and evaluate new, popular or advanced technologies. We divided the strategy system into two parts: the higher strategy, which makes decisions about the robots' goals, and the lower strategy, which controls the motion of the robot. The motion control is based on computing and following of trajectory. Higher strategies are built on evaluation, recognition, and performance of user defined scenarios. An additional part of the system, - the manual computer-assisted control of robots - is also described.