CS Freiburg’s participation at RoboCup ’98: The World Champions in robotic soccer[1]This work has been partially supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) as part of the graduate school on Human and Machine Intelligence,by Medien‐ und Filmgesellschaft Baden‐Würtemberg mbH (MFG) and by SICK AG,who provided the laser range finders.

Abstract

Robotic soccer is a challenging research domain that can be used to explore new problems and to demonstrate new techniques. We participated in RoboCup ’98 in order to explore the problems of cooperation in multi‐robot‐systems and to demonstrate our self‐localization techniques based on laser range finders. In this paper we sketch the main technical points of our team, give a description of the process of developing our team before and during the competition, and describe how we viewed the competition in general.