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Main Authors: Galbiati, Federico, Gran, Ranier X., Jacques, Brendan D., Mulhern, Sullivan J., Ngan, Chun-Kit
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00031
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author Galbiati, Federico
Gran, Ranier X.
Jacques, Brendan D.
Mulhern, Sullivan J.
Ngan, Chun-Kit
author_facet Galbiati, Federico
Gran, Ranier X.
Jacques, Brendan D.
Mulhern, Sullivan J.
Ngan, Chun-Kit
contents This research work aims to develop an analytical approach for optimizing team formation and predicting team performance in a competitive environment based on data on the competitors' skills prior to the team formation. There are several approaches in scientific literature to optimize and predict a team's performance. However, most studies employ fine-grained skill statistics of the individual members or constraints such as teams with a set group of members. Currently, no research tackles the highly constrained domain of the FIRST Robotics Competition. This research effort aims to fill this gap by providing an analytical method for optimizing and predicting team performance in a competitive environment while allowing these constraints and only using metrics on previous team performance, not on each individual member's performance. We apply our method to the drafting process of the FIRST Robotics competition, a domain in which the skills change year-over-year, team members change throughout the season, each match only has a superficial set of statistics, and alliance formation is key to competitive success. First, we develop a method that could extrapolate individual members' performance based on overall team performance. An alliance optimization algorithm is developed to optimize team formation and a deep neural network model is trained to predict the winning team, both using highly post-processed real-world data. Our method is able to successfully extract individual members' metrics from overall team statistics, form competitive teams, and predict the winning team with 84.08% accuracy.
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spellingShingle An Integrated Framework for Team Formation and Winner Prediction in the FIRST Robotics Competition: Model, Algorithm, and Analysis
Galbiati, Federico
Gran, Ranier X.
Jacques, Brendan D.
Mulhern, Sullivan J.
Ngan, Chun-Kit
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
This research work aims to develop an analytical approach for optimizing team formation and predicting team performance in a competitive environment based on data on the competitors' skills prior to the team formation. There are several approaches in scientific literature to optimize and predict a team's performance. However, most studies employ fine-grained skill statistics of the individual members or constraints such as teams with a set group of members. Currently, no research tackles the highly constrained domain of the FIRST Robotics Competition. This research effort aims to fill this gap by providing an analytical method for optimizing and predicting team performance in a competitive environment while allowing these constraints and only using metrics on previous team performance, not on each individual member's performance. We apply our method to the drafting process of the FIRST Robotics competition, a domain in which the skills change year-over-year, team members change throughout the season, each match only has a superficial set of statistics, and alliance formation is key to competitive success. First, we develop a method that could extrapolate individual members' performance based on overall team performance. An alliance optimization algorithm is developed to optimize team formation and a deep neural network model is trained to predict the winning team, both using highly post-processed real-world data. Our method is able to successfully extract individual members' metrics from overall team statistics, form competitive teams, and predict the winning team with 84.08% accuracy.
title An Integrated Framework for Team Formation and Winner Prediction in the FIRST Robotics Competition: Model, Algorithm, and Analysis
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00031