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3D Simulation
This is the official site of the UT Austin Villa 3D Simulation team from the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
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People
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan
Yinon Bentor
Peter Stone
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2008 Competitions
UT Austin Villa participated in the RoboCup 2008 competition held in Suzhou, China, in July 2008. We provide files from our competition entry below.
Team Description Paper
UT Austin Computer Science Technical Report AI09-01 (PS|PDF) describes our team's entry in RoboCup 2008, including skill building and performance statistics and higher-level strategic behavior.
Binary
Binary
Start Script
Kill Script
Videos of Agent Skills
Walk forward (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Walk forward (second view) (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Walk backward (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Walk sideways (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Rise (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Turn (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Kick (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Kick (second view) (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Scoring a goal (.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
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2007 Competitions
UT Austin Villa participated in the RoboCup 2007 competition held in Atlanta, U.S.A., in July 2007. The main feature of the 2007 3D Simulation competition was the introduction of a humanoid robot, replacing the spherical agents used until 2006. Despite not having participated in previous years' competitions, our team chose to enter the 2007 competitions mainly because we were motivated by the significant challenge of programming a humanoid robot at a low level of control.
Team Description Paper
Our team description paper (PS|PDF) describes the approaches we adopted in designing our agent. While we made progress in developing skills like walking and turning, we were unable to complete programming others like kicking in time for the competitions. As a result, our team did not secure a placement.
Binary
Here is a binary of our agent. The program has been tested on Ubuntu 5.10; it requires the following libraries for successful execution: boost_thread-gcc-mt (boost-1.33.1), rcssnet3D, zeitgeist, salt, and oxygen (rcssserver3d-0.5.6). The agent may be started through the command line as follows:
> agentspark [options]
options:
--help (prints this message).
--host IP (IP of the server, default 127.0.0.1).
--port portNumber (portNumber of connection to server, default 3100).
--team TeamName (Name of Team, default UTAustinVilla).
--unum UNum (Uniform Number of Player (1 or 2), default 1).
Videos of Agent Skills
Below are some videos of our agent executing its skills.
Dribble to goal(.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Walk forward(.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Walk sideways(.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Walk backward(.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Turn(.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Fall(.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
Rise(.mov,
.wmv,
.avi).
For any questions, please contact Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan.