Patrick MacAlpine's Publications
Thesis
Multilayered Skill Learning and Movement Coordination for
Autonomous Robotic Agents.
Patrick MacAlpine.
Ph.D. Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA,
August 2017.
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Journal Articles
Overlapping Layered Learning.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
Artificial Intelligence, 254:21–43, Elsevier, January 2018.
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Variety Wins: Soccer-Playing Robots and Infant Walking
Ori Ossmy, Justine E. Hoch, Patrick MacAlpine, Shohan Hasan,
Peter Stone, and Karen E. Adolph.
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 12:19, 2018.
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Refereed Conference Papers
UT Austin Villa 2014: RoboCup 3D Simulation League Champion via Overlapping Layered Learning.
Patrick MacAlpine, Mike Depinet, and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-15), January 2015. [26.7% acceptance rate]
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SCRAM: Scalable Collision-avoiding Role Assignment with Minimal-makespan for Formational Positioning.
Patrick MacAlpine, Eric Price, and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-15), January 2015. [26.7% acceptance rate]
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The RoboCup 2013 Drop-In Player Challenges: Experiments in Ad Hoc
Teamwork.
Patrick MacAlpine, Katie Genter, Samuel Barrett, and Peter
Stone.
In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
(IROS), September 2014. [46.7% acceptance
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Humanoid Robots Learning to Walk Faster: From the Real World to Simulation and Back.
Alon Farchy, Samuel Barrett, Patrick MacAlpine, and Peter
Stone.
In Proc. of 12th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS), May 2013. [22.9% acceptance rate]
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Design and Optimization of an Omnidirectional Humanoid Walk: A Winning Approach at the RoboCup 2011 3D Simulation
Competition.
Patrick MacAlpine, Samuel Barrett,
Daniel Urieli, Victor Vu, and Peter Stone.
In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI-12), July 2012. [26.0% acceptance rate]
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UT Austin Villa 2011: A Champion Agent in the RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation Competition.
Patrick MacAlpine, Daniel Urieli,
Samuel Barrett, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan,
Francisco Barrera, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Nicolae Stiurca,
Victor Vu, and Peter Stone.
In Proc. of 11th
Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
(AAMAS 2012), June 2012. [20.4% acceptance rate]
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On Optimizing Interdependent Skills: A Case Study in Simulated 3D Humanoid Robot Soccer.
Daniel Urieli, Patrick MacAlpine,
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Yinon Bentor, and Peter
Stone.
In Proc. of
10th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2011), pp. 769–776, IFAAMAS, May
2011. [22.1% acceptance rate]
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Book Chapters
UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2019 3D Simulation League Competition and
Technical Challenge Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine, Faraz Torabi, Brahma Pavse, and Peter Stone.
In Stephan Chalup, Tim Niemueller, Jackrit Suthakorn, and Mary-Anne Williams,
editors, RoboCup 2019: Robot World Cup XXIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, Springer, 2019.
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UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2018 3D Simulation League Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine, Faraz Torabi, Brahma Pavse, John Sigmon, and Peter Stone.
In Dirk Holz, Katie Genter, Maarouf Saad, and Oskar von Stryk,
editors, RoboCup 2018: Robot Soccer World Cup XXII, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, Springer, 2019.
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UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2017 3D Simulation League Competition and
Technical Challenges Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In Claude Sammut, Oliver Obst, Flavio Tonidandel, and Hidehisa Akyama,
editors, RoboCup 2017: Robot Soccer World Cup XXI, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, Springer, 2018.
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Evaluating Ad Hoc Teamwork Performance in Drop-In Player Challenges.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In Gita Sukthankar and Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, editors, Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2017 Workshops, Best Papers,
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 168–186, Springer
International Publishing, 2017.
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UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2016 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In Sven
Behnke, Daniel D. Lee, Sanem Sariel, and Raymond Sheh, editors, RoboCup 2016: Robot Soccer World Cup XX, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, Springer, 2016.
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Prioritized Role Assignment for Marking.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
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Behnke, Daniel D. Lee, Sanem Sariel, and Raymond Sheh, editors, RoboCup 2016: Robot Soccer World Cup XX, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2016.
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UT Austin Villa RoboCup 3D Simulation Base Code Release.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In Sven
Behnke, Daniel D. Lee, Sanem Sariel, and Raymond Sheh, editors, RoboCup 2016: Robot Soccer World Cup XX, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2016.
Code release at https://github.com/LARG/utaustinvilla3d
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UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2015 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine, Josiah Hanna, Jason Liang, and
Peter Stone.
In Luis Almeida, Jianmin Ji, Gerald Steinbauer, and Sean Luke,
editors, RoboCup-2015: Robot Soccer World Cup XIX, Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2016.
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A Study of Layered Learning Strategies Applied to Individual Behaviors in Robot Soccer.
David L. Leottau, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Patrick MacAlpine, and
Peter Stone.
In Luis Almeida, Jianmin Ji, Gerald Steinbauer, and Sean Luke,
editors, RoboCup-2015: Robot Soccer World Cup XIX, Lecture
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UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2014 3D Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenge Champions.
Patrick MacAlpine, Mike Depinet, Jason Liang, and Peter Stone.
In Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, H. Levent Akin, Subramanian Ramamoorthy,
and Komei Sugiura, editors, RoboCup-2014: Robot Soccer World Cup XVIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer
Verlag, Berlin, 2015.
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Keyframe Sampling, Optimization, and Behavior Integration: Towards Long-Distance Kicking in the RoboCup 3D Simulation League.
Mike Depinet, Patrick MacAlpine, and Peter Stone.
In Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi, H. Levent Akin, Subramanian Ramamoorthy,
and Komei Sugiura, editors, RoboCup-2014: Robot Soccer World Cup XVIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer
Verlag, Berlin, 2015.
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UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2012 3D Simulation League Champion.
Patrick MacAlpine, Nick Collins, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia and Peter Stone.
In Xiaoping Chen, Peter Stone, Luis Enrique Sucar, and Tijn Van der Zant, editors, RoboCup-2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI, Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2013.
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Positioning to Win: A Dynamic Role Assignment and Formation Positioning System.
Patrick MacAlpine, Francisco Barrera, and Peter Stone.
In Xiaoping Chen, Peter Stone, Luis Enrique Sucar, and Tijn Van der Zant, editors, RoboCup-2012: Robot Soccer World Cup XVI, Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2013.
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Wright Eagle and UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2011 Simulation League Champions.
Aijun Bai, Xiaoping Chen, Patrick MacAlpine, Daniel
Urieli, Samuel Barrett, and Peter
Stone.
In Thomas Roefer, Norbert Michael
Mayer, Jesus Savage, and Uluc Saranli, editors, RoboCup-2011: Robot Soccer World Cup XV, Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2012.
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Refereed Workshop/Symposium Papers
Adaptation of Surrogate Tasks for Bipedal Walk Optimization.
Patrick MacAlpine, Elad Liebman, and Peter Stone.
In GECCO Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Optimisation (SAEOpt) Workshop, July 2016.
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Simultaneous Learning and Reshaping of an Approximated Optimization
Task.
Patrick MacAlpine, Elad Liebman, and Peter Stone.
In AAMAS Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop, May 2013.
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Using Dynamic Rewards to Learn a Fully Holonomic Bipedal Walk.
Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone.
In AAMAS Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop,
June 2012.
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Technical Reports
UT Austin Villa 2011 3D Simulation Team Report.
Patrick MacAlpine, Daniel Urieli,
Samuel Barrett, Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan,
Francisco Barrera, Adrian Lopez-Mobilia, Nicolae Stiurca,
Victor Vu, and Peter Stone.
Technical Report AI11-10, The University of Texas at Austin,
Department of Computer Science, AI Laboratory, 2011.
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