AUTMan Humanoid Team Description Paper <RoboCup 2012 Humanoid Kid-Size Robot League> Soroush Sadeghnejad 1 , Saeed Salavati Dezfuli, Hafez Farazi, Farzad AhmadiNejad, Mojtaba Karimi, Mojtaba Hosseini, Majid Jegarian, Donya Rahmati Dr. Saeed Shiry Ghidary and Prof. Mohsen Bahrami 1 Humanoid Robotic Laboratory, Amirkabir Robotic Center, Amirkabir University of Technology. (Tehran Polytechnic) No. 424, Hafez Ave., Tehran, IRAN. P. O. Box 15875-4413. 1 S.Sadeghnejad@aut.ac.ir http://www.AUTHumanoid.com Abstract. This document describes AUTMan kid-size humanoid robots team for participating in humanoid robot league in RoboCup 2012, which is going to be held in Mexico City, Mexico. Our humanoid kid-size robot team is a renowned humanoid team in Iran and actively integrates research groups working on different RoboCup leagues at Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT). The focus is to use experience of our previous year participation in RoboCup2011 and also using the Soccer Simulation 3D team and SPL team experiences, which is closely related to the humanoid robot league. For this year, we are going to use new version of our robots which will be introduced in advanced. A brief history of Team AUTMan and its research interests will be described. Future work based on the humanoid kid-size robots will also be discussed. . Our main research interests about the humanoid robots lay within the scope of robust real-time vision and object recognition, machine learning for adaptation and architectures for humanoid decision-making. Key Words: real-time vision, object recognition, machine learning, Omni- Directional, Kalman 1. Introduction Study of humanoid robots and their stability have been the focus of too many re- searches in the last decades. A perfect application for developing humanoid robots that can interact with humans is RoboCup. RoboCup is pursuing the goal which states “By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots to win against the human world cup champion team”. Amirkabir University of Tech- nology (AUT) has been remarkably participating in RoboCup competitions from 2004 in various leagues such as Small Size Soccer Robots, Real Rescue Robot, @Home, 2D Soccer Simulation, 3D Soccer Simulation and Rescue Simulation leagues and lately in Standard Platform League. By achieving experience (as partic- ipants, organizers, league, and symposium Technical Committee Members) through many national and international competitions especially RoboCup and “IRANO- pen”, we have decided to establish the Amirkabir Robotic Center for extending our projects and coordinating all robotic researches and activities at AUT. As the part of this new roadmap, AUTMan humanoid team has formed to begin a new approach on humanoid robot league based on experience of SPL, which has been in progress since June 2010, and Soccer Simulation league which is active since 2004. Our hu- manoid kid-size robot team is a renowned humanoid team in Iran and actively inte- grates research groups working on different RoboCup leagues at AUT; for instance Soccer Simulation 3D Team and SPL Teams, which are closely related to the hu-