CMUNITED-98 Simulator Team

The CMUMTTED-98 simulator team became the 1998 RoboCup simulator league champion by winning all 8 of its games, outscoring opponents by a total of 66-0. CMUNITED-98 builds on the successful CMUNITED-97 implementation but also improves on it in many ways. This article gives an overview of the CMUNITED-98 agent skill and multiagent coordination strategies, emphasizing the recent improvements. agent positioning in anticipation of passes from teammates. The success of CMUNITED-98 also depends on our previous research innovations, including layered learning, a flexible teamwork structure, and a novel communication paradigm (Stone 1998).