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Patrick MacAlpine
Patrick is researching autonomous multiagent systems and machine learning. His current focus is on using reinforcement learning to develop locomotion skills and strategy for the for the UT Austin Villa RoboCup 3D Simulation League team. Before coming to UT, Patrick worked as a software engineer at Green Hills Software and Acelot, Inc. in Santa Barbara, California. Outside of his research, Patrick enjoys playing soccer, traveling, and following college football.
Homepage:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~patmac
Projects
The UT Austin Villa Robot Soccer team Since 2003
Publications
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UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2018 3D Simulation League Champions Patrick MacAlpine, Faraz Torabi, Brahma Pavse, John Sigmon and Peter Stone In Dirk Holz and Katie Genter and Maarouf Saad and Oskar von Stryk, editors, RoboCup 2018: Robot ... 2019
Overlapping Layered Learning Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone Artificial Intelligence, 254:21--43, January 2018. Elsevier. 2018
Variety Wins: Soccer-Playing Robots and Infant Walking Ori Ossmy and Justine E. Hoch and Patrick MacAlpine and Shohan Hasan and Peter Stone and Karen E. Ad... Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 12:19, 2018. 2018
Evaluating Ad Hoc Teamwork Performance in Drop-In Player Challenges Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In AAMAS Multiagent Interaction without Prior Coordination (MIPC) Workshop, Sao Paulo, Brazil... 2017
Evaluating Ad Hoc Teamwork Performance in Drop-In Player Challenges Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In Gita Sukthankar and Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar, editors, Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Syste... 2017
{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa: {R}obo{C}up 2017 3{D} Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In Claude Sammut and Oliver Obst and Flavio Tonidandel and Hidehisa Akyama, editors, {R}obo{C}up ... 2017
A Study of Layered Learning Strategies Applied to Individual Behaviors in Robot Soccer David L. Leottau and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar and Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In Luis Almeida and Jianmin Ji and Gerald Steinbauer and Sean Luke, editors, {R}obo{C}up-2015: Ro... 2016
{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa: {R}obo{C}up 2015 3{D} Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions Patrick MacAlpine and Josiah Hanna and Jason Liang and Peter Stone In Luis Almeida and Jianmin Ji and Gerald Steinbauer and Sean Luke, editors, {R}obo{C}up-2015: Ro... 2016
Prioritized Role Assignment for Marking Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In Sven Behnke and Daniel D. Lee and Sanem Sariel and Raymond Sheh, editors, {R}obo{C}up 2016: Ro... 2016
{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa RoboCup 3{D} Simulation Base Code Release Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In Sven Behnke and Daniel D. Lee and Sanem Sariel and Raymond Sheh, editors, {R}obo{C}up 2016: Ro... 2016
Adaptation of Surrogate Tasks for Bipedal Walk Optimization Patrick MacAlpine and Elad Liebman and Peter Stone In GECCO Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Optimisation (SAEOpt) Workshop, Denver, Colorado, US... 2016
{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa: {R}obo{C}up 2016 3{D} Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenges Champions Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In Sven Behnke and Daniel D. Lee and Sanem Sariel and Raymond Sheh, editors, {R}obo{C}up 2016: Ro... 2016
Keyframe Sampling, Optimization, and Behavior Integration: Towards Long-Distance Kicking in the RoboCup 3D Simulation League Mike Depinet and Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In H. Levent Akin and Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi and Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Komei Sugiura, editors,... 2015
{SCRAM}: Scalable Collision-avoiding Role Assignment with Minimal-makespan for Formational Positioning Patrick MacAlpine and Eric Price and Peter Stone In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), January... 2015
{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa 2014: {R}obo{C}up 3{D} Simulation League Champion via Overlapping Layered Learning Patrick MacAlpine and Mike Depinet and Peter Stone In Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), January... 2015
{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa: {R}obo{C}up 2014 3{D} Simulation League Competition and Technical Challenge Champions Patrick MacAlpine and Mike Depinet and Jason Liang and Peter Stone In H. Levent Akin and Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi and Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Komei Sugiura, editors,... 2015
{SCRAM}: Scalable Collision-avoiding Role Assignment with Minimal-makespan for Formational Positioning Patrick MacAlpine and Eric Price and Peter Stone In Proc. of 13th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2014. Ac... 2014
The {R}obo{C}up 2013 Drop-In Player Challenges: A Testbed for Ad Hoc Teamwork Patrick MacAlpine, Katie Genter, Samuel Barrett, and Peter Stone In Proc. of 13th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2014. Ac... 2014
The {R}obo{C}up 2013 Drop-In Player Challenges: Experiments in Ad Hoc Teamwork Patrick MacAlpine and Katie Genter and Samuel Barrett and Peter Stone In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)<... 2014
Positioning to Win: A Dynamic Role Assignment and Formation Positioning System Patrick MacAlpine and Francisco Barrera and Peter Stone In {R}obo{C}up-2012: Robot Soccer World Cup {XVI}, 2013. 2013
UT Austin Villa: RoboCup 2012 3D Simulation League Champion Patrick MacAlpine and Nick Collins and Adrian Lopez-Mobilia and Peter Stone In Xiaoping Chen and Peter Stone and Luis Enrique Sucar and Tijn Van der Zant, editors, {R}obo{C}... 2013
Humanoid Robots Learning to Walk Faster: From the Real World to Simulation and Back Alon Farchy and Samuel Barrett and Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In Proc. of 12th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), May 2013. 2013
Simultaneous Learning and Reshaping of an Approximated Optimization Task Patrick MacAlpine and Elad Liebman and Peter Stone In AAMAS Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop, May 2013. 2013
{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa 2011: A Champion Agent in the {R}obo{C}up 3{D} Soccer Simulation Competition Patrick MacAlpine and Daniel Urieli and Samuel Barrett and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Francisco Ba... In Proc. of 11th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'12), June 2012... 2012
{W}right {E}agle and {UT} {A}ustin {V}illa: {R}obo{C}up 2011 Simulation League Champions Aijun Bai and Xiaoping Chen and Patrick MacAlpine and Daniel Urieli and Samuel Barrett and Peter Sto... In {R}obo{C}up-2011: Robot Soccer World Cup {XV}, 2012. 2012
Design and Optimization of an Omnidirectional Humanoid Walk: A Winning Approach at the {R}obo{C}up 2011 3{D} Simulation Competition Patrick MacAlpine and Samuel Barrett and Daniel Urieli and Victor Vu and Peter Stone In Twenty-Sixth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'12), July 2012. 2012
Using Dynamic Rewards to Learn a Fully Holonomic Bipedal Walk Patrick MacAlpine and Peter Stone In AAMAS Adaptive Learning Agents (ALA) Workshop, June 2012. 2012
On Optimizing Interdependent Skills: A Case Study in Simulated 3D Humanoid Robot Soccer Daniel Urieli and Patrick MacAlpine and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Yinon Bentor and Peter Stone In Proc. of 10th Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'11), May 2011. 2011
{UT} {A}ustin {V}illa 2011 3{D} {S}imulation {T}eam Report Patrick MacAlpine and Daniel Urieli and Samuel Barrett and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan and Francisco Ba... Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, December 2011. 2011
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