Rocco: A RoboCup Soccer Commentator System

With the attempt to enable robots to play soccer games, the RoboCup challenge poses a demanding standard problem for AI and intelligent robotics research. The rich domain of robot soccer, however, provides a further option for the investigation of a second class of intelligent systems which are capable of understanding and describing complex time-varying scenes. Such automatic commentator systems o er an interesting research perspective for additional integration of natural language and intelligent multimedia technologies. In this paper, rst results concerning the realization of a fully automated RoboCup commentator will be presented. The system called Rocco is currently able to generate TV-style live reports for arbitrary matches of the RoboCup simulator league. Based upon our generic approach towards multimedia reporting systems, step-by-step even more advanced capabilities are to be added with future versions of the initial Rocco prototype.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ROBOCUP
• Authors: Dirk Voelz, Elisabeth André, Gerd Herzog, Thomas Rist
• Keywords: Intelligent Robotics Research, RoboCup, ROBOCUP 1998, RoboCup Challenge, Robotics