This book constitutes the ninth official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It documents the achievements presented at the RoboCup 2005 International Symposium, held in Osaka, Japan in July 2005 in conjunction with the RoboCup Competition.
The 34 revised full papers and 38 revised short papers presented together with 2 award-winning papers from 21 countries went through two rounds of reviewing and improvements and were selected from 131 submissions.
The book is a valuable source of reference and inspiration for R and D professionals active or interested in robotics or distributed intelligence, and is a mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community.