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Robots Take Over… The Sports World?

By IGI Global on Aug 20, 2010
While the World Cup kept much of the world glued to their televisions from June 11 to July 11, 2010, watching the final 32 teams compete to win the world football championship in South Africa, a smaller version of the world cup was being played June 19-25 in Singapore. RoboCup 2010 allowed a number of global teams to compete to win the global robot soccer championship.

The biggest obstacle for the teams' developers is the organization of the robots' efforts and having them work together as a team. The robot teams seem to be improving their synergy, but eventually, the robots will need to move far beyond their current capabilities in order for the competition to reach its ultimate goal: to develop autonomous humanoid robots that can defeat the best human players by 2050.

A team from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, is coming closer to that goal by developing and implementing a new algorithm to give the robots a sense of where the ball will go next. Up until now, the robots had been working based primarily on reactions to events, but this ability to use human-like logic to gain an edge on their opponents represents an important step toward creating a robot soccer team capable of beating human beings and a significant step toward true artificial intelligence ( www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-06/new-physics-based-algorithm-gives-footballing-bots-power-prediction).

RoboCup is just one of many multi-agent applications covered in Multi-Agent Applications with Evolutionary Computation and Biologically Inspired Technologies: Intelligent Techniques for Ubiquity and Optimization, a new reference published by IGI Global, an information science and technology publisher. This title, edited by Shu-Heng Chen, National Chengchi University, Taiwan; Yasushi Kambayashi, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan; and Hiroshi Sato, National Defense Academy, Japan, compiles numerous ongoing projects and research efforts in the design of agents in light of recent development in neurocognitive science and quantum physics. This innovative collection provides readers with interdisciplinary applications of multi-agent systems, ranging from economics to engineering.

Multi-Agent Applications with Evolutionary Computation and Biologically Inspired Technologies: Intelligent Techniques for Ubiquity and OptimizationMulti-agent systems have become an important interdisciplinary scientific subject of study. The editors contend that "when computer science becomes more social and the social sciences become more computational, publications that can facilitate the talks between the two disciplines are demanded. This edited volume demonstrates our efforts to work this out. It is our hope that more books or edited volumes as joint efforts among computer scientists and social scientists will come, and, eventually, computer science will help social scientists to piece together their "fragmental" social sciences, and the social sciences will constantly provide computer scientists with fresh inspiration in defining and forming their new and creative research paradigm. The dialogue between artificial automata and natural automata will then continue and thrive." For more information on this publication, please visit www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=40266.

To complement this reference, IGI Global recommends the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems (IJATS) (Editor-in-chief Goran Trajkovski, Laureate Education Inc., USA). This journal focuses on all aspects of agents and multi-agent systems, with a particular emphasis on how to modify established learning techniques and create new learning paradigms to address the many challenges presented by complex real-world problems. The journal serves as an inclusive forum for discussion of theoretical and practical issues of intelligent agent technologies and multi-agent systems while bringing together scientists from different areas of computer science as well as researchers from various fields studying similar concepts. For more information on IJATS including subscription information and a free sample copy, please visit www.igi-global.com/ijats.

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