ROBOCUP - A CHALLENGE PROBLEM FOR AI

The Robot World-Cup Soccer (RoboCup) is an attempt to foster AI and in telligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wi de range of technologies can be integrated and examined. The first Rob oCup competition will be held at the Fifteenth International Joint Con ference on Artificial Intelligence in Nagoya, Japan. A robot team must actually perform a soccer game, incorporating various technologies, i ncluding design principles of autonomous agents, multiagent collaborat ion, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, robotics, and sensor f usion. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robots und er a dynamic environment. Although RoboCup's final target is a world c up with real robots; RoboCup offers a software platform for research o n the software aspects of RoboCup. This article describes technical ch allenges involved in RoboCup, rules, and the simulation environment.