FCP_GPR_2014 Free Challenge: Joining Setplays from FCPortugal with Reinforcement Learning from GPR2D to Improve Decision-Making in Multi-Option Setplays
João Alberto Fabro, Bruno de Oliveira Oenning, Vinícius Brenner, Luis Carmelo Rada Mota, Paulo Roberto Jansen dos Reis, Nuno Lau · 2014
FCPortugal 2D is a team from Portugal (Universities of Aveiro, Minho and Porto) that participates in Robocup for a long time (since 1999, being the 2000 world champion in the 2D simulation category) with research focusing on multi-robot coordination methodologies. GPR, that stands for Grupo de Pesquisa em Robotica (Robotics Research Group as written in portuguese) is a 2D soccer simulation team from Brazil that uses Machine Learning techniques to improve the decision making of the robotic agents during the match. This document presents the approach developed by the joining of the two teams. From FCPortugal where used the base team, and the Setplay library. From GPR came the reinforcement learning techniques, that allow the decision making to be based on experience during simulated matches. Simulations results show that the proposed approach retains the good characteristics of the previous teams, and unite their strengths.