Title
Using Monte Carlo Search With Data Aggregation to Improve Robot Soccer Policies.
Abstract
RoboCup soccer competitions are considered among the most challenging multi-robot adversarial environments, due to their high dynamism and the partial observability of the environment. In this paper we introduce a method based on a combination of Monte Carlo search and data aggregation (MCSDA) to adapt discrete-action soccer policies for a defender robot to the strategy of the opponent team. By exploiting a simple representation of the domain, a supervised learning algorithm is trained over an initial collection of data consisting of several simulations of human expert policies. Monte Carlo policy rollouts are then generated and aggregated to previous data to improve the learned policy over multiple epochs and games. The proposed approach has been extensively tested both on a soccer-dedicated simulator and on real robots. Using this method, our learning robot soccer team achieves an improvement in ball interceptions, as well as a reduction in the number of opponents’ goals. Together with a better performance, an overall more efficient positioning of the whole team within the field is achieved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-68792-6_21
RoboCup
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1606.00285
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Riccio166.28
Roberto Capobianco2409.78
Daniele Nardi35968545.67