MCT Susano Logics 2015 Team Description
Shota Aoki, Masato Shimizu, Takuya Nishikori, Taihei Degawa,
Koji Watanabe, Kazuhiro Fujihara, Yuta Notsu, Toshiyuki Beppu
National Institute of Technology, Matsue College, 14-4, Nishi-Ikuma, Matsue,
Shimane, 690-8518, Japan
beppu@matsue-ct.jp
http://www.matsue-ct.ac.jp/
Abstract.
This paper describes both defense and offense strategies, and
a newly developed omni-wheel of MCT Susano Logics. We introduced a
man-to-man defense to the defense and an autonomous pass play and
screen plays to the offense. An omni-wheel with 26 small disks was de-
veloped to improve the running performance of the robot.
1
Introduction
Susano Logics tried to use our new defense strategy of man-to-man defense at
the games in RoboCup 2014. The defense strategy worked well, but the running
performance of our robots were poor, and our offense strategy was not good, so
we won only a game. We brushed up our both defense and offense strategies and
developed a new type omni-wheel to improve the running performance of the
robot.
2
AI Strategies
We introduced basketball strategies to our AI program to get shooting and
passing opportunities. The SSL game is similar to basketball game because the
number of the player is same besides the goalkeeper. Players in both games
use passes rather than dribbles to carry a ball. The non-kinematic basketball
techniques seemed to be easy to adopt for our game strategies.
2.1
Man-to-man defense
In our previous defensive strategy, a goalkeeper was placed in the defense area
and 2 robots stayed just outside the defense area to defend opponent’s shoot.
The other robots ran to the ball to possess it. The robots near the defense area
did not serve in the game when a ball position was far from our goal.
For the quick turning to offense formation, we adopted a defensive strategy
to a man-to-man defense that is the primary defense technique in the basket-
ball. On the basketball man-to-man defense scheme, a defender stands and faces
at between an opponent player and the basket. On our man-to-man defense