ChaMeleons/OWL 2001 Home Page

This is the home page for the simulated robotic soccer team (ChaMeleons) and coach (OWL) that participated in RoboCup2001 in Seattle, WA USA. The simulated robotic soccer competition was run with the SoccerServer system , and RoboCup2001 was an official event of the RoboCup Federation .

Overview

The ChaMeleons team is built upon the publicly released portions of CMUnited99 and the OWL coach is built upon the coach of ATTCMUnited2000 . In addition, the coach and players used the open source library libscoach to parse, store, and process standard coach language messages. See the download section for the relevant licenses. In particular, if you use the binaries for producing results which are published, you must cite the paper listed here .

Our soccer simulation groups focuses on adaptability, imitation, adjustable autonomy, and multi-agent modelling. Some of the interesting features of the team are:

A flexible behavior architecture designed to incorporate external advice in a natural manner.
The coach can try to imitate other teams by learning formations that other teams use as well as learning rules describing the passing behavior of the team.
Planning for setplays (performed by the coach) with the plans communicated in the standard coach language.
A simple player type substitution scheme based on empirical evaluation of players' low level skills.

Download

Please be sure to read the README and License files before trying to use these binaries!

The README file about the binaries
The License file for the use of these binaries.
These binaries use libscoach, which is released under the GNU LGPL. Read the libscoach license, or go to the libscoach home page.
A tarball of the ChaMeleons/OWL binaries.
The ChaMeleons object files (you need these if you make changes to libscoach and wish to relink the binary)
The OWL object files (you need these if you make changes to libscoach and wish to relink the binary)

Our Research Papers

A bib file for these papers.

Papers about or closely linked to ChaMeleons/OWL

Recognizing probabilistic opponent movement models,
Patrick Riley and Manuela Veloso.
In Proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium , 2001.
(poster paper).
Planning for distributed execution through use of probabilistic opponent models,
Patrick Riley and Manuela Veloso.
In IJCAI-2001 Workshop PRO-2: Planning under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information , 2001.
Layered disclosure: Revealing agents' internals,
Patrick Riley, Peter Stone, and Manuela Veloso.
In C. Castelfranchi and Y. Lesperance, editors, Intelligent Agents VII. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages --- 7th. International Workshop, ATAL-2000, Boston, MA, USA, July 7--9, 2000, Proceedings , Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Berlin, 2001.
In this volume, Publisher's Webpage© Springer-Verlag.

Papers more generally related

Defining and using ideal teammate and opponent models,
Peter Stone, Patrick Riley, and Manuela Veloso.
In Proceedings of the Twelfth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-2000) , 2000.
AAAI Homepage.
On behavior classification in adversarial environments,
Patrick Riley and Manuela Veloso.
In Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS-2000) , 2000.

For More Information

Contact Paul Carpenter (carpep@cs.cmu.edu) if you have questions about the players (ChaMeleons), and contact Patrick Riley (pfr@cs.cmu.edu) if you have questions about the coach (OWL)

Team Members:

Patrick Riley <pfr@cs.cmu.edu > home page
Paul Carpenter <carpep@cs.cmu.edu > home page
Gal Kaminka <galk@cs.cmu.edu > home page
Manuela Veloso <mmv@cs.cmu.edu > home page
Ignacio Thayer <iet@andrew.cmu.edu > home page
Robert Wang <rywang@andrew.cmu.edu >
Patrick Markiewicz <pfm2@andrew.cmu.edu > home page

Last modified: 8/31/2001