Robot World Cup Soccer: The Power of UTS Unleashed!

in a matter of months designed and developed a competitive team of soccer playing robots from scratch. The team only lost one soccer match, and came fifth overall in the Soccer Challenges at RoboCup 2003. The main objective of UTS Unleashed! for RoboCup 2003 was to build an ag-ile and competitive team, so that we could gain automatic entry to RoboCup 2004 by performing well and being amongst the very best teams. We achieved our objective and can now focus on our longer term goals and aspirations which include building a robot soccer team that knows it is playing soccer, and explor-ing innovative knowledge representation solutions to managing complex informa-tion in dynamic environments. In this paper we describe the overall architecture and the individual compo-nents of the UTS Unleashed! Robot Soccer System. The architecture imple-ments a classical sense-think-act-cycle that relies on modules dedicated to the main soccer functions, namely locomotion, sensory information management, lo-calisation, actions and behaviours.