RoboCup 2007: Robot Soccer World Cup XI (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) (v. 11)

The 11th RoboCup International Symposium was held during July 9–10, 2007 at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA, immediately after the 2007 Soccer, Rescue and Junior Competitions. The RoboCup community has observed an incre- ing interest from other communities over the past few years, e.g., the robotics community.RoboCupisseenasasigni?cantapproachtotheevaluationofnew- developed methods to many di?cult problems in robotics. Atlanta was also the location of a RoboCup@Space demonstration, which re?ected the role of AI and robotics in space exploration. Prior to the symposium, space agencies had - pressed an interest in cooperating with RoboCup. A ?rst step in this direction was a successful demonstration at RoboCup 2007, which was accompanied with aninvitedtalkgivenbyaleadingscientistfromtheJapanAerospaceExploration Agency JAXA. Thesymposiumrepresentedthecoremeeting forthepresentationanddisc- sionofscienti?ccontributionsindiverseareasrelatedto the mainthreadswithin RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue and RoboCupJunior. Its scope encompassed, but was not restricted to, research and education activities within the ?elds of arti?cialintelligence and robotics.The RoboCup InternationalSymposium 2007 featured 18 full papers for oral presentation and 42 posters. These were selected by the program committee from a total of 133 submissions, which meant an - ceptancerateof 13,5%for full papers.Eachpaper wasreviewedby at leastthree program committee members, usually two experts and one person outside the immediate area of the paper. After the initial reviewing period, papers that had not received unanimous recommendations were discussed among the reviewers, moderated by the Co-chairs, and a consensus was reached in all cases. The ?nal decisions were made by the Co-chairs.