A Quadratic Programming Formulation of a Moving Ball Interception and Shooting Behaviour, and Its Application to Neural Network Control

  • Authors:
  • Frédéric Maire;Doug Taylor

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • RoboCup 2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

A desirable elementary behaviour for a robot soccer player is the moving ball interception and shooting behaviour, but generating smooth, fast motion for a mobile robot in a changing environment is a difficult problem. We address this problem by formulating the specifications of this behaviour as a quadratic programming optimisation problem, and by training a neural network controller on the exact solution computed off-line by a quadratic programming problem optimiser. We present experimental results showing the validity of the approach and discuss potential applications of this approach in the context of reinforcement learning.