Emergent cooperation in RoboCup: A review

Abstract

This article presents a survey of prevalent research results pertaining to emergent cooperation in RoboCup soccer. Results reviewed maintain particular reference to research that uses biologically inspired design principles and concepts, such as emergence and evolution, as a means of attaining cooperative behavior. The core of this article argues that even though emergent cooperative behavior derived within RoboCup (and the larger field of multi-robot systems) is still in its infancy, it holds considerable future potential, as a problem solver in domains where systems comprising many interacting components must cooperatively solve a global task. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006.