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The RoboCup 2013 Drop-In Player Challenges: Experiments in Ad Hoc Teamwork (2014)
Patrick MacAlpine
,
Katie Genter
,
Samuel Barrett
, and
Peter Stone
As the prevalence of autonomous agents grows, so does the number of interactions between these agents. Therefore, it is desirable for these agents to be capable of banding together with previously unknown teammates towards a common goal: to collaborate without pre-coordination. While past research on ad hoc teamwork has focused mainly on theoretical treatments and empirical studies in relatively simple domains, the long-term vision has been to enable robots and other autonomous agents to exhibit the sort of flexibility and adaptability on complex tasks that people do, for example when they play games of "pick-up" basketball or soccer. This paper introduces a series of pick-up robot soccer experiments that were carried out in three different leagues at the international RoboCup competition in 2013. In all cases, agents from different labs were put on teams with no pre-coordination. This paper introduces the structure of these experiments, describes the strategies used by UT Austin Villa in each challenge, and analyzes the results. The paper's main contribution is the introduction of a new large-scale ad hoc teamwork testbed that can serve as a starting point for future experimental ad hoc teamwork research.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
, September 2014. Accompanying videos at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~AustinVilla/sim/3dsimulation/AustinVilla3DSimulationFiles/2013/html/dropin.html
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Bibtex:
@inproceedings{IROS14-MacAlpine, title={The {R}obo{C}up 2013 Drop-In Player Challenges: Experiments in Ad Hoc Teamwork}, author={Patrick MacAlpine and Katie Genter and Samuel Barrett and Peter Stone}, booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)}, month={September}, note={Accompanying videos at
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~AustinVilla/sim/3dsimulation/AustinVilla3DSimulationFiles/2013/html/dropin.html
}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?macalpine:iros14", year={2014} }
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Samuel Barrett
Ph.D. Alumni
sbarrett [at] cs utexas edu
Katie Genter
Ph.D. Alumni
katie [at] cs utexas edu
Patrick MacAlpine
Ph.D. Student
patmac [at] cs utexas edu
Peter Stone
Faculty
pstone [at] cs utexas edu
Areas of Interest
Ad Hoc Teamwork
Humanoid Robots
Real Robot Soccer
RoboCup
Simulated Robot Soccer
Labs
Learning Agents