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Physics-based Planning
      

 Later this month, Carnegie Mellon's CMDragons small-size
robotic
soccer team will be competing again at RoboCup, to be held in Singapore.
CMDragons has tended to find their edge in their software as opposed to their
hardware. Their latest software
advantage will be their new "physics-based planning", using physics to decide how to
move and turn with the ball in order to maintain control. Previous control strategies
simply planned where the robot should move to and shoot from, assuming a ball placed
at the front center of the dribbler bar would stay there. The goal of Robocup is to create
a humanoid robotic soccer team to compete against human players in 2050. Manuela
Veloso, the professor who leads the Carnegie Mellon robotic soccer lab,  "believe(s) that
the physics-based planning algorithm is a particularly noteworthy accomplishment" that
will take the effort one step closer to the collective goal.
    

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