Strategy Learning for a Team in Adversary Environments

Team strategy acquisition is one of the most important issues of multiagent systems, especially in an adversary environment. RoboCup has been providing such an environment for AI and robotics researchers. A deliberative approach to the team strategy acquisition seems useless in such a dynamic and hostile environment. This paper presents a learning method to acquire team strategy from a viewpoint of coach who can change a combination of players each of which has a fixed policy. Assuming that the opponent has the same choice for the team strategy but keeps the fixed strategy during one match, the coach estimates the opponent team strategy (player’s combination) based on game progress (obtained and lost goals) and notification of the opponent strategy just after each match. The trade-off between exploration and exploitation is handled by considering how correct the expectation in each mode is. A case of 2 to 2 match was simulated and the final result (a class of the strongest combi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ROBOCUP
• Authors: Yasutake Takahashi, Takashi Tamura, Minoru Asada
• Keywords: Opponent Team Strategy, ROBOCUP 2001, Robotics, Team Strategy, Team Strategy Acquisition