RoboCup 2021: Robot World Cup XXIV [electronic resource] /

Ball Path Prediction for Humanoid Robots: Combination of k-NN Regression and Autoregression Methods -- Enabling Modern Application Development with Swift On The Nao/Pepper Robots -- Step Adjustment for a Robust Humanoid Walk -- Inter-Task Similarity Measure for Heterogeneous Tasks -- Dataset and Benchmarking of Real-Time Embedded Object Detection for RoboCup SSL -- TORSO-21 Dataset: Typical Objects in RoboCup Soccer 2021 -- Object Pose Estimation using Keypoints and Part Affinity Fields -- Real-time Pose Estimation for Multi-Humanoid Robots -- Improving Sample Efficiency in Behavior Learning by Using Sub-optimal Planners for Robots -- Soccer robots modeling project based on RoboCupJunior: Simulation environment for physical robot improvement -- Closing the Reality Gap with Unsupervised Sim-to-Real Image Translation -- Engineering Features to Improve Pass Prediction in Soccer Simulation 2D Games -- Learning from the Crowd: Improving the Decision Making Process in Robot Soccer using the Audience Noise -- rSoccer: A Framework for Studying Reinforcement Learning in Small and Very Small Size Robot Soccer -- Optimized Wireless Control and Telemetry Network for Mobile Soccer Robots -- A Telemetry-based PI Tunning Strategy for Low-level Control of an Omnidirectional Mobile Robot -- Soccer Field Boundary Detection Using Convolutional Neural Networks -- Towards building rapport with a Human Support Robot -- Faster YOLO-LITE: Faster Object Detection on Robot and Edge Devices -- RoboCup 2021 SSL Champion TIGERs Mannheim - A Decade of Open-Source Robot Evolution -- Starkit: RoboCup Humanoid KidSize 2021 Worldwide Champion Team Paper -- Robocup@Home 2021 Champion Team Paper: SSPL Winner Uchile Peppers -- homer@UniKoblenz: Winning team of the RoboCup Virtual @Home Open Platform League 2021 -- RoboCup@Home 2021 Domestic Standard Platform League Winner -- B-Human 2021 - Playing Soccer Out of the Box -- UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2021 3D Simulation League Competition Champions -- Vision-based Machine Learning in Robot Soccer -- Improving Dribbling, Passing, and Marking Actions in Soccer Simulation 2D Games Using Machine Learning -- Humanoid Adult Size Champion 2021 Sweaty.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th RoboCup International Symposium which was held online during June 22 - June 28, 2021. The 19 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions; the volume also includes 10 RoboCup Champions Papers. In addition to presenting the proceedings of the RoboCup 2021 Symposium, the book highlights the approaches of champion teams from the competitions. Due to the complex research challenges set by the RoboCup initiative, the RoboCup International Symposium offers a unique perspective for exploring scientific and engineering principles underlying advanced robotic and AI systems.