This book constitutes the seventh official archival publication devoted to RoboCup. It
documents the achievements presented at the 7th Robot World Cup Soccer and Rescue Competition
and Conferences held in Padua Italy in July 2003. The 39 revised full papers and 35 revised
poster papers presented together with an overview and roadmap for the RoboCup initiative and 3
invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 125 symposium paper submissions. This
book is mandatory reading for the rapidly growing RoboCup community as well as a valuable
source of reference and inspiration for R&D professionals interested in robotics distributed
artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems.
