Introduction

Project AIBO is our course project to fill the requirements of CS295-1 Sensor Data Magement course offered in Department of Computer Science, at Brown University. In this project, we have tried to build an application in which two AIBO robots pass the ball to each other and finally score a goal on a soccer field while avoiding obstacles on the playing field. The main objective underlying this project is to investigate the Robocup Soccer domain and to explore the possible research oppurtunities in that area.
In this document, we describe our project progress and present our system design. We also talk about Robocup Soccer domain whenever possible and mention the possible research directions we have discovered while working on this project.
This document is structured as follows: In section 2 we describe the application that we propose for this project in detail. In section 3 we explain the development environment and the tools we have used in this project. Then in section 4 we talk about our current progress on the project, describe our system design and present our successes and failures in this project. We also talk about our team behaviour selection mechanism. In section 5, we provide related work in Robocup Soccer and give some examples of research in this area. Finally, in section 6 we make our final comments and conclude this report.