Call for Applications for Participation
RoboCup 2023 – RoboCup at Work
https://2023.robocup.org
Venue: Bordeaux, France
Tuesday, July 4th through Monday, July 10th, 2023
RoboCup at Work: Competing for the Factory of the Future
RoboCup at Work is a league of the RoboCup competition that replicates the
use of robots in autonomous, industrial scenarios.
It aims to promote research and development that enables the use of
innovative mobile robots with advanced manipulators for cutting-edge
industrial applications. Such applications include complex tasks ranging
from manufacturing, automation, and parts handling to general logistics, as
well as interaction with human workers.
The RoboCup at Work league is characterized by an industrial environment.
This consists of manipulation objects including nuts and bolts, arena
elements such as shelves, bins, and platforms of different sizes, and
networked automation devices like conveyor belts and drilling machines.
The actual competition tasks to be performed in the environment are defined
in a set of so-called tests. Each test addresses various mobile
manipulation capabilities such as grasping, transportation, precision
placement, and visual serving. The complete rules of RoboCup@Work as well
as further technical details are (will be) posted on the RoboCup@Work
website (https://atwork.robocup.org).
Participation in the Competition
All teams that intend to participate in the competition have to perform the
following steps:
1. Submission of qualification materials including a Team Description Paper
and a video of their robot performance. Details are below.
2. Final registration (qualified teams only)
Qualification
The qualification process serves a dual purpose: It should allow the
Technical Committee (aka TC) to assess the safety of the robots a team
intends to bring to the competition, and it should allow ranking teams
according to a set of evaluation criteria in order to select the most
promising teams for a competition, if not all interested teams can be
permitted. The TC will select the qualified teams according to the
qualification materials provided by the teams.
The evaluation criteria will include:
- Team description paper
- Relevant scientific contributions/publications
- The professional quality of the robot and software
- Novelty of approach
- Relevance to industry
- Performance in previous competitions
- Contribution to RoboCup at Work league, e.g. by Organization of events
and/or provision and sharing of knowledge
- The quality of the robot's performance of a task (selected by the team)
shown in a video
- Team website
Team Description Paper
The Team Description Paper (TDP) is a central element of the qualification
process and has to be provided by each team as part of the qualification
process. The TDP should at least contain the following information in the
author/title section of the paper:
- Name of the team (title)
- Team members (authors), including the team leader
- Link to the team website
- Contact information
The body of the TDP should contain information on the following:
- the focus of research/research interest
- a description of the hardware, including an image of the robot(s)
- a description of the software, esp. the functional and software
architectures
- innovative technology (if any)
- reusability of the system or parts thereof
- applicability and relevance to industrial tasks
- usage of components (software or hardware) developed by other RoboCup at
Work teams
The team description paper should cover the technical and scientific
approach in detail, while the team website should be designed for a broader
audience. Both the website and the TDP have to be in English.
All TDPs must be written using the following template:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…
Submission and Evaluation
All applications with the qualification material must be submitted by
February 12th, 2023 through the following online form:
https://forms.gle/19mWkrN2RUDTuKba9
Qualified teams will be tentatively announced by February 25th, 2023.
Important Links of RoboCup@Work League
Official Website: https://atwork.robocup.org
Discord: https://discord.gg/WaBHRdZq
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14158849/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/communities/1606361981937754115
Mailing List: https://lists.robocup.org/mm/lists/rc-work.lists.robocup.org/
Regards,
RoboCup@Work EC/TC/OC
