DATA VISUALIZATION FOR ANALYZING SIMULATED ROBOTIC SOCCER GAMES

Brígida Faria, Beatriz Sousa Santos, Nuno Lau, Luís Paulo Reis

2010

Abstract

RoboCup is an international cooperative research project aimed at promoting research in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. It includes a simulation league where two teams of 11 players compete in a robotic soccer game very similar to real soccer. Teams exhibit very complex strategies in these games that are very difficult to analyze by conventional observation methods. This paper presents an approach to the visualization of simulated robotic soccer games using the RapidMiner software package. Various visualizations were developed using Andrew´s Curves, Survey Plots, several types of Parallel Coordinate visualizations and Radial Coordinate Visualizations. These visualizations enabled to take some interesting conclusions about the differences between games of FC Portugal robotic soccer team using different formations and against distinct opponents.

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Faria B., Sousa Santos B., Lau N. and Paulo Reis L. (2010). DATA VISUALIZATION FOR ANALYZING SIMULATED ROBOTIC SOCCER GAMES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010) ISBN Not Available, pages 161-168. DOI: 10.5220/0002851301610168


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@conference{ivapp10,
author={Brígida Faria and Beatriz Sousa Santos and Nuno Lau and Luís Paulo Reis},
title={DATA VISUALIZATION FOR ANALYZING SIMULATED ROBOTIC SOCCER GAMES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={161-168},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002851301610168},
isbn={Not Available},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 2: IVAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2010)
TI - DATA VISUALIZATION FOR ANALYZING SIMULATED ROBOTIC SOCCER GAMES
SN - Not Available
AU - Faria B.
AU - Sousa Santos B.
AU - Lau N.
AU - Paulo Reis L.
PY - 2010
SP - 161
EP - 168
DO - 10.5220/0002851301610168