Game Strategies for Physical Robot Soccer Players: A Survey

Systematic Mapping Literature Review of Mobile Robotics Competitions

“…It is possible to notice that robotics competitions found in most of the papers were RoboCup and First Robotics Competition, which is famous competitions focused more on education. The DARPA Robotics Challenge was also cited in most articles, which includes autonomous vehicles and complex tasks [ 3 , 35 , 49 , 53 , 81 ].…”

“…It is possible to see that the competitions most cited by the papers are RoboCup, FIRST and DARPA. The reason is probably that RoboCup is the biggest competition and one of the most famous, including many leagues in several domains, even football games with robots [ 49 , 81 ].…”

“…Some competitions found have sports as a theme and often have soccer games, like RoboCup@Soccer, FIRA HuroCup and WRO football category [ 4 , 24 , 81 ]. Besides that, there are competitions that include magic and dance like IEEE Humanoid Application Challenge [ 65 ], in which the robot needs to perform a magic show and RoboCup@Junior Dance Challenge [ 10 , 29 ] which the robot needs to perform a dance and its focus is more on education.…”

“…The NIARC is a competition that changes the theme every year, in the 2013 edition the theme was the mining industry and in 2014 was the agriculture industry. The EUROBOT competition follows the same way, changing its theme every year, in the 2010 edition the theme was collecting fruits and vegetables and the 2011 edition was a chess game [ 20 , 32 , 53 , 54 , 66 , 81 ].…”

“…It is an international competition which runs by the RoboCup Federation and the goal is: "By the year 2050, a team of fully-autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official FIFA rules, against the winner of the most recent World Cup of Human Soccer" [4,6,8,10,17,26,28,29,36,43,[47][48][49]51,59,76,79,81].…”