RoboCup 2003 : New Scientific and Technical Advancements
This paper reports on the RoboCup-2003 event. RoboCup is no longer just the Soccer World Cup for autonomous robots, but has evolved to become a coordinated initiative encompassing four different robotics events: Soccer, Rescue, Junior (focused on education) and a Scientific Symposium. RoboCup-2003 took place from the 2nd to the 11th of July 2003 in Padua (Italy), and it was co-located with other scientific events in the field of AI and Robotics. In this paper, in addition to reporting on the results of the games, we highlight the Robotics and AI technologies exploited by the teams in the different leagues and describe the most meaningful scientific contributions.