RoboCup 2018: Robot World Cup XXII

Communication in Soccer Simulation: On the Use of Wiretapping Opponent Teams.- Multi-Robot Fast-Paced Coordination With Leader Election.- Visual SLAM-Based Localization and Navigation for Service Robots: The Pepper Case.- Visual Mesh: Real-time Object Detection Using Constant Sample Density.- Fast Multi-Scale fHOG Feature Extraction Using Histogram Downsampling.- Combining Simulations and Real-Robot Experiments for Bayesian Optimization of Bipedal Gait Stabilization.- Learning Skills for Small Size League RoboCup.- Real-time Scene Understanding Using Deep Neural Networks for RoboCup SPL.- Training a RoboCup Striker Agent via Transferred Reinforcement Learning.- Playing Soccer Without Colors in the SPL: A Convolutional Neural Network.- End-to-End Deep Imitation Learning: Robot Soccer Case Study.- Designing Convolutional Neural Networks Using a Genetic Approach for Ball Detection.- ImageTagger: An Open Source Online Platform for Collaborative Image Labeling.- Mimicking an Expert Team Through the Learning of Evaluation Functions from Action Sequences.- Jetson, Where Is the Ball? Using Neural Networks for Ball Detection at RoboCup 2017.- Bridging the Gap - On a Humanoid Robotics Rookie League.- Context Aware Robot Architecture, Application to the Robocup@Home Challenge.- From Commands to Goal-based Dialogs: A Roadmap to Achieve Natural Language Interaction in RoboCup@Home.-RoboCupSimData: Software and Data for Machine Learning from RoboCup Simulation League.- Generation of Laser-Quality 2D Navigation Maps from RGB-D Sensors.- Towards Long-Term Memory for Social Robots: Proposing a New Challenge for the RoboCup@Home.- eEVA: Real-Time Web-Based Affective Agents for Human-Robot Interface.-  Evaluation of Situations in RoboCup 2D Simulations Using Soccer Field Images.- Near Real-Time Object Recognition for Pepper Based on Deep Neural Networks Running on a Backpack.- Multimodal Movement Activity Recognition Using a Robot's Proprioceptive Sensors.- Survey of Rescue