RoboCup 2023: Robot World Cup XXVI

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th RoboCup International Symposium which was held in Bordeaux, France, during July 4-10, 2023.

Play Everywhere: A Temporal Logic based Game Environment.- Independent Approach for Playing Soccer with Robots.- Neural Network and Prior Knowledge Ensemble for Whistle Recognition.- RoboNLU: Advancing Command Understanding with a Novel Lightweight BERT-based Approach for Service Robotics.- 3D Multimodal Socially Interactive Robot with ChatGPT Active Listening.- Human Presence Probability Map (HPP): a Probability propagation based on Human Flow Grid.- Neural Network-based Joint Angle Prediction for the NAO Robot.- Multi-Robot Path Planning with Safety Based Control applied to the Small Size League Robots.- Improving Inertial Odometry through Particle Swarm Optimization in the RoboCup Small Size League.- Hybrid Inverse Kinematics for a 7-DOF Manipulator Handling Joint Limits and Workspace Constraints.- Calibration of Inverse Perspective Mapping for a Humanoid Robot.- Using Neural Factorization of Shape and Reflectance for Ball Detection.- Hybrid Methods for Real-time Video Sequence Identification of Human Soccer Referee Signals.- Temporal Planning and Acting in Dynamic Domains.- SUSTAINA-OP: Kid-sized Open Hardware Platform Humanoid Robot.- An Opponent Formation Classifier for Simulated Robot Soccer.- Swing foot pose control disturbance overcoming algorithm based on reference ZMP preview controller for improving humanoid walking stability.- Structural Pruning for Real-Time Multi-Object Detection on NAO Robots.- Dynamic Joint Control for A Humanoid Walk.- RL-X: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Library (not only) for RoboCup.- Orienting a humanoid robot in a soccer field based on the background.- Autonomous Waiter Robot System for Recognizing Customers, Taking Orders, and Serving Food.- Anthropomorphic Human-Robot Interaction Framework: Attention Based Approach.- Crossing Real and Virtual : Pepper Robot as an Interactive Digital Twin.- Improving Applicability of Planning in the RoboCup Logistics League using Macro-actions Refinement.- In Defense of Scene Graph Generation for Human-Robot Open-Ended Interaction in Service Robotics.- RobôCIn SSL-Unification: a Modular Software Architecture for Dynamic Multi-Robot Systems.- Rhoban Football Club: RoboCup Humanoid Kid-Size 2023 Champion Team Paper.- RoboCup 2023 Humanoid AdultSize Winner NimbRo: NimbRoNet3 Visual Perception and Responsive Gait with Waveform In-walk Kicks.- b-it-bots: Winners of RoboCup@Work 2023.- Robust Integration of Planning, Execution, Recovery and Testing to Win the RoboCup Logistics League.- RoboCup@Home SSPL Champion 2023: RoboBreizh, a fully embedded Approach.- HELIOS2023: RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 2D competition Champion.- B-Human 2023 - Object and Gesture Detection.- RoboCup 2023 SSL Champion TIGERs Mannheim - Improved Ball Interception Trajectories.- FC Portugal: RoboCup 2023 3D Simulation League Champions.- Tech United Eindhoven Middle Size League Winner 2023.