Welcome to the CORAL research group, led by
Manuela Veloso.
We research on the scientific and engineering challenges of
creating teams of intelligent agents in complex, dynamic, and
uncertain environments, in particular adversarial environments,
such as robot soccer. Our passion is to research on robots that Cooperate, Observe the world,
Reason, Act, and Learn!
A special note from Manuela Veloso: "I would like to invite
all to listen to the late Professor Herbert A. Simon's view
on "Forecasting the Future, or Shaping
It?". a fantastic keynote address at the Earthware
Symposium, at Carnegie Mellon in October 2000. (Stay tuned
for around minute 26 and beyond for Professor Simon's remarkable
thoughts on robot soccer.)"
News
Our CMDragons'07 small-size robot soccer team is
the RoboCup 2007 World Champion! CMDragons'07 are
the same robots as our defending champion team from
last year, CMDragons'06. The research team, advised
by Manuela Veloso, is James Bruce (team leader, CS
PhD Dec'06), Michael Licitra, Stefan Zickler, with
the help also of Luisa Lu. CMDragons'07 is a
fantastic team that faced tough competition - we won
the final game to PlasmaZ, a great team from
Thailand, after penalty shots that followed our tied
game of 6-6. CMDragons'07 made history as the first
winning RoboCup team to be the same hardware in two
consecutive years.
Our CMDash'07 team of AIBO soccer robots brought
home bronze as the third place of the RoboCup 2007
4-legged robot league! The research team is Manuela
Veloso, Juan Fasola (team leader, 5th year CS),
Michael Phillips (CS sophomore), Somchaya
Liemhetcharat (CS senior), and Gregory Delmar (CS
sophomore). A great accomplishment and the first
International trophy since 2002!
