The VUB AI-lab team is mainly interested in the two loosely linked
aspects of on-board control and heterogeneity. One major effort for
forstering both aspects within RoboCup's small robots league is our
development of a so-to-say robot construction-kit, allowing to
implement a wide range of players with on-board control. For the '99
competition, the existing RoboCube controller-hardware has been
further improved. In addition, some solid and precise mechanical
building-blocks were developed, which can easily be mounted on
differently shaped bottom-plates. On top of these engineering
efforts, we report here a computational inexpensive but efficient
algorithm for motion-control, including obstacle avoidance.
Furthermore, we shortly address the issue of increased diffulties of
coordinating so-to-say multiple teams due to the possible variations
based on heterogeneity. Operational semantics based on abstract
data-types and patter matching capabilities can be a way out of this
problem.
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