RoboCup 2004: ELeague

Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIDIA)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

http://www.cs.uns.edu.ar/

Universidad Nacional del Sur – Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Tel. ++54 291 4595135 / Fax. ++54 291 4595136

Team Description

Videos

Matebots training video prior to RoboCup 2004 – 1:08 min (8 Mb)

Final game of the ELeague 2004 finals (courtesy of the University of Manitoba) – 60 min (418 Mb)

Visit our sponsors, and the Spanish version of this page at:

http://cs.uns.edu.ar/~ajg/matebots/

Team Name: MateBots

Laboratory

Our team is part of the Cognitive Robotics Group of the Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur.

People

The team members are (from left to right, and top to bottom):

  • Nicolás D. Rotstein (ndr@cs.uns.edu.ar)

Undergraduate student of the Computer Engineering programs at Universidad Nacional del Sur. At age 22, he is currently a Fifth year Senior in the program.


  • Sebastián Gottifredi (sg@cs.uns.edu.ar)

Undergraduate student of the Licenciatura in Computer Science, and Computer Engineering programs at Universidad Nacional del Sur. At age 22, he is currently a Fourth year Senior in both programs.

  • Dr. Alejandro J. García (ajg@cs.uns.edu.ar)

Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Research interests include Defeasible Argumentation, Multi-agent Systems, Logic Programming, and Cognitive Robotics. (see http://www.cs.uns.edu.ar/~ajg).

  • Lic. Diego R. García (drg@cs.uns.edu.ar)

Graduate student at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Currently TA in the course “Foundations of Computer Science”. Research interests include Machine Learning, Multi-agent Systems, Planning, and Cognitive Robotics.

  • Lic. Telma Delladio (td@cs.uns.edu.ar)

Graduate student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Currently TA in the courses “Algorithms and Complexity”, and “Artificial Intelligence”. Research interests include Machine Learning, Inductive Logic Programming, Cognitive Robotics, and Multi-agent Systems.

  • Mariano Tucat (mt@cs.uns.edu.ar)

Undergraduate student of the Computer Engineering programs at Universidad Nacional del Sur. At age 22, he is currently a Fifth year Senior in the program.

  • Lic. Gerardo I. Simari (gis@cs.uns.edu.ar)

Graduate student at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur. Currently TA in the courses “Foundations of Computer Science”, and “Elements of Data Bases”. Research interests include Intelligent Agents, Multi-agent Systems, Cognitive Robotics, Logic Programming, and Belief Revision (see http://cs.uns.edu.ar/~gis).

  • Fernando A. Martín (fam@cs.uns.edu.ar)

Undergraduate student of the Computer Engineering programs at Universidad Nacional del Sur. At age 22, he is currently a Fifth year Senior in the program.

Resources

The project is being developed within the Cognitive Robotics Group of the Research and Development in Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (LIDIA) of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur.

The selected robotic kit for the development of the robots is Lego Mindstorms™  (www.legomindstorms.com). Our funding for equipment and travel expenses comes from an ACM grant, offered to us by Dr. Elizabeth Sklar (sklar@cs.columbia.edu) of Columbia University in New York, and from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur.

The following are some preliminary designs for our robots:

 


Acknowledgements

We are very thankful to Dr. Elizabeth Sklar, who offered us a grant from ACM to cover the expenses for equipment and travel to the competition. We are also thankful to the Columbia University ELeague Team (Elizabeth Sklar, Jake Porway, and Gaurav Singal) for offering their help with setting up our team.

We are also thankful to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Universidad Nacional del Sur for their support.