for your information
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RoboCup WM, Leipzig 2016 - results of the @home-survey 2. part
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The survey was last year (as a module for my thesis about the perception
of service robots) evaluated in the @home liga.
The reduced results you can find under:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eva_Jahn2/publications
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17019.11042
If there are any question, than contact me.
best regards,
Eva Jahn
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Eva Jahn, M.A.
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Institute of Communication Research
Department of Communication Psychology
Postal Address: Ernst-Abbe-Platz 8
Visitor Address: Semmelweisstraße 12
D-07743 Jena
E-Mail: eva.jahn(a)uni-jena.de
Web: www.ifkw.uni-jena.de
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2017 RoboCup@Home League
July 25 - 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan)
http://www.robocup2017.orghttp://www.robocupathome.orghttp://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/@Home_League/
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance
the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions
(RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup
Junior).
The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot
technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications.
It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service
robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is
used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic home
environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited
to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in
dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural
light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviours, Behaviour
Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration.
The RoboCup@Home league is itegrated by three Leagues officially referred as
- Domestic Standard Platform League [DSPL] (Toyota HSR)
- Social Standard Platform League [SSPL] (SoftBank Robotics Pepper)
- Open Platform League [OPL]
This message describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for
RoboCup@Home League 2017.
Important dates:
Feb 5, 2017 Intention of Participation
Mar 12, 2017 Preregistration and Deadline for qualification material
(Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website,
Information in @Home Wiki).
Mar 26, 2017 Qualification announcement
The qualification procedure consists of the following two steps:
*Step 1) Intention of Participation (strongly recommended)*
The team sends an email to the Oranizing Committee <oc(a)robocupathome.org> to
indicate your intention to participate in the RoboCup@Home 2017 event,
including the following basic information:
Team Name:
League:
Platform:
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Web site:
Only one platform can be specified per team.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Participation] (YourTeamName)
Please check the email is encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1
character set.
***** Deadline: Sunday, 5th Feb. 2017 23:59 GMT ******
*Step 2) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)*
The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Oranizing Committee <
oc(a)robocupathome.org> to participate in the qualification process for the
RoboCup@Home 2017 event. Please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
League:
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Link to a team video:
Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts:
Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official
template.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Qualification] (YourTeamName)
Considerations:
- Only one platform can be specified per team.
- All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification
***MUST*** be in the team’s website.
- The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character
set.
*Important Notice: * As platforms are independent, you must send an
application email for each platform you want to compete in, specifying
different team names in each. Qualification Material (e.g. video and TDP)
must match the robot to qualify.
***** Deadline: Sunday, Mar. 12, 2017 23:59 GMT ******
Instructions for the Team Video
===========================
As a proof of running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification
video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, we consider showing the
robot(s) successfully solving at least one test of the current or last
year's rulebook.
*[Standard Platforms Only]* The robot shown in the video must not be
altered or modified in any way.
Instructions for the TDP
===========================
The TDP is an 8-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the
technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including
also the following:
- Innovative technology and scientific contribution
- Photo(s) of the robot
- Focus of research/research interests
- Re-usability of the system for other research groups
- Applicability of the robot in the real world
- Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot's software (e.g. ROS vision
should be included, but not OpenCV).
- *[Open Platform Only] *Brief, compact description of the robot's
hardware.
- *[Standard Platforms Only] *Specify all external computing devices, if
any.
For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format
<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the
RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 8 pages without
altering margins or spacing. You may download a template for the TDP from
here <https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>.
Instructions for the Web site
===========================
While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach
of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader
audience, including:
- Photos of the robot(s)
- Videos of the robot(s)
- Description of the approaches and information on scientific
achievements
- Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download)
- Link to repositories with software for the community
- Team members
- Previous participation in RoboCup
Evaluation criteria:
===========================
Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria:
- Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions,
re-usability by the league, applicability in real world)
- Qualification Video (navigation, human-robot interaction,
people/object recognition, object manipulation and new features)
- Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable
content, open-source software and other contributions)
- Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and
open-source software)
- Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home)
We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general
audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus
on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall
system.
*Note to experienced competitors:* Major changes are being done in the
rulebook. You may download the latest version from: https://github.com/RoboC
upAtHome/RuleBook
With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Nagoya,
The 2017 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees
IJCAI 2017 HUMAN-ROBOT ENGAGEMENT in the Home, Workplace and Public Spaces
WORKSHOP
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Social robots are poised to have a profound impact on business, society and
the global economy. They are a disruptive technology. A self-driving
vehicle is an example of a social robot, not only does it need to drive on
the road safely but it must also create enjoyable experiences for humans
inside the vehicle, while at the same time communicating with and
anticipating nearby cars, pedestrians, city infrastructure, land and space
based technologies.
The key to success of any social robot is how well it can engage people
around it as it pursues its design goals. The critical research question is
how can we design social robots to enhance the human experience and improve
people's lives?
The purpose of this workshop is to explore how social robots can generate
value and create engaging experiences for people in the home, workplace and
public spaces. The workshop will focus on social robots in the home,
workplace and public spaces. Robot encounters in public spaces will be
different to those in workplaces where a robot is a long-term partner and
expected to help humans be more productive. The key research challenges are
autonomy, proactivity and intelligence, sociability.
Social robotics is a transdisciplinary field. We seek to bring together
research interests that are not traditionally 'close'. In particular, the
workshop will provide a venue for fruitful discussion between artificial
intelligence researchers exploring pervasive computing, social robotics,
cognitive science, software engineering, law, AI planning and knowledge
representation.
In addition to presented papers the Workshop will involve an ideation
session and much lively discussion and debate on the applications and
implications of social robotics.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited, to the following:
- Human-robot interaction and collaboration
- Social intelligence for proactive autonomous robots
- Law abiding autonomous robots
- Engagement and disengagement in HRI
- Human attention, proactive decision making and behaviour
- Autonomy, learning and intelligence
- Joint attention and emotional connection
- Social robots in an Internet of Things ecosystem
- Privacy and security for Social Robotics
- Legal and ethical implications of social robots
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Submission Deadline: *May 15, 2017 *(EasyChair Submission Website
will Open in March)
Acceptance Notification: *June 8, 2017*
Camera-Ready Version: *June 22, 2017*
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submitted papers must be original work of no more than 6 pages in length
and formatted according to IJCAI guidelines and submitted electronically
through the Workshop submission site, which will be available in March from
Workshop website.
Formatting Guidelines, LaTeX Styles and Word Template can be dowloaded from
here <http://ijcai-17.org/FormattingGuidelinesIJCAI-17.zip>.
Submissions must be in electronic form. Additional material such as videos
may also be submitted. At least one author of each accepted paper is
required to attend the workshop to present the work.
Submissions received after the deadline or that do not meet the length or
formatting requirements will not be considered for review. No email or fax
submissions will be accepted. Notification of receipt of an electronically
submitted paper will be emailed to the designated contact author soon after
receipt.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
*Mary-Anne Williams*, University of Technology Sydney and CodeX Stanford
University (Chair)
*Benjamin Johnston*, University of Technology Sydney
*William Judge*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
*Amit Kumar Pandey*, Softbank Robotics Europe
*Meg Tonkin*, University of Technology Sydney
*Jonathan Vitale,* University of Technology Sydney
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
*Nic Carey*, Harvard University, USA
*Xiaoping Chen*, University of Science and Technology of China
*Jesse Clark,* University of Technology Sydney, Australia
*Tony Cohn*, Leeds University, UK
*Kate Darling*, MIT, USA
*Peter Gärdenfors*, Lund University, Sweden
*Georg Gottlob*, Oxford University, UK
*Daniel Grollman*, Sphero, USA
*Michael Genesereth*, CodeX and the Dept of Computer Science, Stanford
University, USA
*Hatice Gunes*, University of Cambridge, UK
*George Konidaris*, Brown University, USA
*Eryk Korfel*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
*Mahya Knox*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
*Séverin Lemaignan*, University of Plymouth, UK
*William Mailer*, Commonwealth Bank of Australia
*Lilia Moshkina*, Neato Robotics, USA
*Yukie Naga*i, Osaka University, Japan
*Bernhard Nebel*, University of Freiburg, Germany
*Suman Ojha*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
*David Parkes*, Harvard University, USA
*Pavlos Peppas*, Patras University, Greece
*Sammy Pfeiffer*, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
*Brian Scassellati*, Yale University, USA
*Julie Shah*, MIT, USA
*Harry Surden,* University of Colorado and Stanford University, USA
*Manuela Veloso*, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
*Roland Vogl*, CodeX and the Law School, Stanford University, USA
*Holly Yanco*, UMass Lowell, USA
*Xun Wang*, University of Technology Sydney and Commonwealth Bank of
Australia
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Place: IJCAI-17 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
<http://ijcai-17.org/>, Melbourne, Australia.
Workshop Date to be Advised: August 19, 20 or 21, 2017
Website: http://ijcaihumanrobotengagement.webnode.com
Contact: Mary-Anne Williams <http://mary-annewilliams.com/>, The Magic Lab,
UTS
*Apologies for duplicate messages*
*Call For Participation*
*RoboCup IranOpen 2017*
*April 03 - 07*
The 12th RoboCup IranOpen competitions will be held in April 03-07, 2017.
Having had the experience of 11 years successful organization of these
competitions, we look forward to an even more glorious event with more teams
competing in this major robotics event from all over the world.
Last year, we had 272 teams from Afghanistan, Canada, China, Germany, Iran,
South Korea, Peru, UK, and USA.
RoboCup IranOpen is an attempt to further promote AI and Robotics research.
These competitions will provide a chance for all researchers to present and
share their experiences and achievements.
The RoboCup IranOpen 2017 competitions leagues are as follows:
- RoboCupSoccer
- Humanoid (Entry Level, Kid Size, Teen Size, Adult Size)
- Middle Size
- Small Size
- Standard Platform
- Soccer 3D Simulation
- Soccer 2D Simulation
- RoboCupRescue
- Rescue Robot
- Rescue Simulation
- Rescue Virtual Robot
- RoboCup@Home
- RoboCupIndustrial
- RoboCup@Work
- RoboCupJunior
- Junior Soccer Open
- Junior Soccer B Light Weight
- Junior Rescue A Primary
- Junior Rescue A Secondary
- Junior Rescue B
- Junior CoSpace Rescue
The following leagues will be also be organized in conjunction with RoboCup
IranOpen 2017:
- Middle Size Intelligent Deminer Robots
- Small Size Intelligent Deminer Robots
- Tele-operated Deminer Robots
- Deminer Technical Challenge
- IranOpenROV (Radio Operated Vehicles - underwater robots)
- Explorer Category
- Navigator Category (for Junior only)
- IranOpenUAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Indoor and Outdoor)
- Indoor Category
- Outdoor Category
- Major Demo
- Junior Demo Common Challenge
- Junior Demo Open Challenge
Participation:
All teams are required to pre-register through the online form available in
the website. The pre-registered teams should then submit the relevant
qualification materials.
Last year 316 teams were qualified from 624 pre-registered teams.
Important dates:
- Pre-Registration: November 21, 2016 - January 29, 2017
- Submission of qualification materials: refer to leagues pages in the
website
- Qualification: January 20 - February 03, 2017
- Early Registration: February 04 - 24, 2017
- Late Registration: February 25 - March 10, 2017
For further information please visit our official website at
http://2017.iranopen.ir
For inquiries please contact us via the below email addresses:
- General Inquiries: info(a)iranopen.ir
- Registration: registration(a)iranopen.ir
- Visa & International Affairs: visa(a)iranopen.ir
- Travel Support (for international teams): asadollah_norouzi(a)sp.edu.sg
Social Media Links
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robocupiranopen/
- Google+: https://plus.google.com/communities/111497896135259743202
Regards On behalf of,
Iranian RoboCup Regional Committee
RoboCup IranOpen 2017 Organizing Committe
Deadline for submission: March 31, 2017
Place: Nagoya, Japan
Date: July 31, 2017
Web page URL: http://www.robocup2017.org/
********************************************************************
Call for Papers
RoboCup International Symposium 2017
********************************************************************
OVERVIEW
The 21st Annual RoboCup International Symposium will be held in
conjunction with RoboCup 2017. The Symposium is a primary venue for
presentation and discussion of scientific contributions to a variety
of research areas related to all RoboCup divisions (RoboCup Soccer,
RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup at Home, RoboCup at Work, and RoboCup
Junior). Its scope includes, but is not restricted to, research and
educational activities in robotics and artificial intelligence.
Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the Symposium offers a unique
venue for exploring both theory and practice in wide spectrum of
research fields. The experimental, interactive, and benchmark
character of the RoboCup initiative presents an opportunity to
disseminate novel ideas and promising technologies, rapidly adopted
and field-tested by a large, and still growing, community.
SUBMISSION
We solicit submissions of papers reporting high-quality, original
research with relevance to the areas mentioned below. Researchers in
these areas, even if not actively participating in RoboCup teams, are
urged to submit their work. We welcome both papers describing real-
world research and papers reporting theoretical results, as well as
combinations thereof. We also encourage the submission of high-
quality overview articles for any field related to the general scope
of RoboCup.
The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium are published
and archived within the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) series. Submitted papers are limited to 12 pages
formatted according to the LNAI requirements
(http://www.springer.com/series/1244) and must be electronically
submitted through the symposium web site.
All contributions are peer-reviewed by a number of reviewers, and evaluated
by members of the senior program committee.
DEVELOPMENT TRACK
To encourage open-source release of hardware and software components,
a special track on open-source development will be part of the 2017
RoboCup International Symposium. Contributions to this track are
limited to eight pages, formatted according to LNAI requirements.
Contributions should include evidence of impact of the released
component on the RoboCup community. Review of these contributions
will be based on technical contribution and benefit to the RoboCup
community.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of full papers: March 31, 2017
* Notification to authors: May 5, 2017
* Submission of camera-ready copies: May 19, 2017
* RoboCup 2017 Symposium: 31 July 2017
SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS
Hidehisa Akyama
Oliver Obst
Claude Sammut
Flavio Tonidandel
AREAS OF INTEREST
* Robot Hardware and Software
- mobile robotics
- humanoid robotics
- sensors and actuators
- embedded and mobile devices
- robot construction and new materials
- robotic system integration
- robot software architectures
- robot programming environments and languages
- real-time and concurrent programming
- robot simulators
* Perception and Action
- 3D perception
- distributed sensor integration
- sensor noise filtering
- real-time image processing and pattern recognition
- motion and sensor models
- sensory-motor control
- robot kinematics and dynamics
- high-dimensional motion control
* Robot Cognition and Learning
- world modeling and knowledge representation
- learning from demonstration and imitation
- localization, navigation, and mapping
- planning and reasoning
- decision making under uncertainty
- reinforcement learning
- complex motor skill acquisition
- motion and sensor model learning
* Multi-Robot Systems
- team coordination methods
- communication protocols
- learning and adaptive systems
- teamwork and heterogeneous agents
- dynamic resource allocation
- adjustable autonomy
* Human-Robot Interaction
- human-robot interfaces
- speech synthesis and natural language generation
- visualization
- emotion recognition
- understanding human intent
- affect detection and synthesis
- robot response to external disturbances
- safety and dependability
* Education and Edutainment
- robotics and artificial intelligence education
- educational robotics
- robot kits and programming tools
- robotic entertainment
* Applications and Benchmarking
- search and rescue robots
- robotic surveillance
- service and social robots
- robots at home
- performance metrics
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Orebro University, Sweden, seeks a postdoctoral researcher with
experience in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics to work in a
European project on culturally aware assistive robots.
Application deadline: January 31, 2017
Expected starting date: March 1, 2017
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Task Description
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We seek a postdoctoral researcher who will work at the AASS research
center of Orebro University, in the context of the EU project CARESSES.
The CARESSES project aims to make assistive robots that are culturally
aware, meaning that they adapt to the culture of their assistee. The
researcher will develop methods for making the actions and behaviors of
the robots consonant to a given cultural profile, and will implement
those methods on real assistive robots. The researcher will also work
in close collaboration with other partners within the project. This
includes taking part in extensive user evaluation campains involving
elderly volunteers living in assistive residences in the UK.
In order to perform the above tasks, applicants are expected to have a
strong background in Artificial Intelligence as well as good programming
skills. The appointed researcher must be able to successfully work in a
large international team, and to cope with project committments and
deadlines. The appointed researcher must also be willing and available
to travel within and ouside the EU, and to spend extensive periods of
time in the UK during the evaluation campains. A proven record of
working with robots is a plus, as well as previous experience in
human-robot interaction, in user-centered design, and in user-based
evaluation of welfare technologies.
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Eligibility and Assessment Criteria
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To qualify for this position appplicants must hold a doctoral degree in
Computer Science or related subjects. The degree must have been awarded
at most three years before the application deadline. Candidates who
obtained a degree earlier may be considered if there are specific
reasons like illness, parental leave, or other similar circumstances.
Applicants should show that that they have the competences needed to
perform this project as well as the ability to work collaboratively in a
scientific environment. Proficiency in spoken and written English is
necessary. Special importance will be given to the following additional
criteria:
- The applicant should show evidence of scientific excellence, e.g.,
impact of conducted research both before and after the obtainment of
the PhD degree;
- The applicant should show the ability to work within collaborative
international projects, e.g., experience in previous EU projects.
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Application
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The position is a full-time position for a bounded term of two years.
The salary depends on the successful candidate's qualifications and
experience. Our ambition is to create a place of work that is
characterised by gender equality and diversity.
Applications must be sent through the Orebro University website here:
https://www.oru.se/english/working-at-orebro-university/jobs-and-vacancies/…
Applications must include:
* Covering letter
* CV
* An account of research qualifications
* Copies of relevant course/degree certificates and references
* Copies of scientific publications (maximum of 10)
The application deadline is January 31, 2017, strict.
Inquiries: Prof Alessandro Saffiotti <asaffio(a)aass.oru.se>
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About the Host Institution
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Orebro University (www.oru.se) is a modern university which currently
enrolls more than 15,000 students. It is located in Orebro, a city of
130,000 inhabitants situated in central Sweden.
The Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS, aass.oru.se)
is one of the Strong Research Environments at Orebro University. It
carries out multi-disciplinary research at the intersection of
robotics and artificial intelligence. The research and human
environment at AASS is young and enthusiastic. Researchers come from a
dozen different countries and have different scientific and cultural
backgrounds. AASS frequently hosts international researchers and is
involved in many national and international projects, both in
fundamental and applied research.
AASS is internationally renowned for its research in mobile robotics,
cognitive robotic systems, robot ecologies, assistive technologies,
and artificial olfaction. The work will be carried out at the
Cognitive Robotic Systems laboratory of AASS.
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*Apologies for duplicate messages*
*Call For Participation*
*RoboCup IranOpen 2017*
*April 03 - 07*
The 12th RoboCup IranOpen competitions will be held in April 03-07, 2017.
Having had the experience of 11 years successful organization of these
competitions, we look forward to an even more glorious event with more teams
competing in this major robotics event from all over the world.
Last year, we had 272 teams from Afghanistan, Canada, China, Germany, Iran,
South Korea, Peru, UK, and USA.
RoboCup IranOpen is an attempt to further promote AI and Robotics research.
These competitions will provide a chance for all researchers to present and
share their experiences and achievements.
The RoboCup IranOpen 2017 competitions leagues are as follows:
- RoboCupSoccer
- Humanoid (Kid Size, Teen Size, Adult Size)
- Middle Size
- Small Size
- Standard Platform
- Soccer 3D Simulation
- Soccer 2D Simulation
- RoboCupRescue
- Rescue Robot
- Rescue Simulation
- Rescue Virtual Robot
- RoboCup@Home
- RoboCupIndustrial
- RoboCup@Work
- RoboCupJunior
- Junior Soccer Open
- Junior Soccer B Light Weight
- Junior Rescue A Primary
- Junior Rescue A Secondary
- Junior Rescue B
- Junior CoSpace Rescue
The following leagues will be also be organized in conjunction with RoboCup
IranOpen 2017:
- Middle Size Intelligent Deminer Robots
- Small Size Intelligent Deminer Robots
- Tele-operated Deminer Robots
- Deminer Technical Challenge
- IranOpenROV (Radio Operated Vehicles - underwater robots)
- Explorer Category
- Navigator Category (for Junior only)
- IranOpenUAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Indoor and Outdoor)
- Indoor Category
- Outdoor Category
- Major Demo
- Junior Demo Common Challenge
- Junior Demo Open Challenge
Participation:
All teams are required to pre-register through the online form available in
the website. The pre-registered teams should then submit the relevant
qualification materials.
Last year 316 teams were qualified from 624 pre-registered teams.
Important dates:
- Pre-Registration: November 21, 2016 - January 19, 2017
- Submission of qualification materials: refer to leagues pages in the
website
- Qualification: January 20 - February 03, 2017
- Early Registration: February 04 - 24, 2017
- Late Registration: February 25 - March 10, 2017
For further information please visit our official website at
http://2017.iranopen.ir
For inquiries please contact us via the below email addresses:
- General Inquiries: info(a)iranopen.ir
- Registration: registration(a)iranopen.ir
- Visa & International Affairs: visa(a)iranopen.ir
- Travel Support (for international teams): asadollah_norouzi(a)sp.edu.sg
Social Media Links
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robocupiranopen/
- Google+: https://plus.google.com/communities/111497896135259743202
Regards On behalf of,
Iranian RoboCup Regional Committee
RoboCup IranOpen 2017 Organizing Committee
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2017 RoboCup@Home League
July 25 - 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan)
http://www.robocup2017.orghttp://www.robocupathome.orghttp://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/@Home_League/
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance
the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions
(RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup
Junior).
The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot
technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications.
It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service
robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is
used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic home
environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited
to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in
dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural
light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviours, Behaviour
Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration.
The RoboCup@Home league is itegrated by three sub-leagues officially
referred as
- Domestic Standard Platform sub-league (Toyota HSR)
- Social Standard Platform sub-league (SoftBank Robotics Pepper)
- Open Platform sub-league
This message describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for
RoboCup@Home League 2017.
Important dates:
Feb 5, 2017 Intention of Participation
Mar 12, 2017 Preregistration and Deadline for qualification material
(Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website,
Information in @Home Wiki).
Mar 26, 2017 Qualification announcement
The qualification procedure consists of the following two steps:
*Step 1) Intention of Participation (strongly recommended)*
The team sends an email to the Oranizing Committee <oc(a)robocupathome.org> to
indicate your intention to participate in the RoboCup@Home 2017 event,
including the following basic information:
Team Name:
Sub-league:
Platform:
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Web site:
Only one platform can be specified per team.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Participation] (YourTeamName)
Please check the email is encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1
character set.
***** Deadline: Sunday, 5th Feb. 2017 23:59 GMT ******
*Step 2) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)*
The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Oranizing Committee <
oc(a)robocupathome.org> to participate in the qualification process for the
RoboCup@Home 2017 event. Please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
Sub-league:
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Link to a team video:
Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts:
Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official
template.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Qualification] (YourTeamName)
Considerations:
- Only one platform can be specified per team.
- All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification
***MUST*** be in the team’s website.
- The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character
set.
*Important Notice: * As platforms are independent, you must send an
application email for each platform you want to compete in, specifying
different team names in each. Qualification Material (e.g. video and TDP)
must match the robot to qualify.
***** Deadline: Sunday, Mar. 12, 2017 23:59 GMT ******
Instructions for the Team Video
===========================
As a proof of running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification
video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, we consider showing the
robot(s) successfully solving at least one test of the current or last
year's rulebook.
*[Standard Platforms Only]* The robot shown in the video must not be
altered or modified in any way.
Instructions for the TDP
===========================
The TDP is an 8-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the
technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including
also the following:
- Innovative technology and scientific contribution
- Photo(s) of the robot
- Focus of research/research interests
- Re-usability of the system for other research groups
- Applicability of the robot in the real world
- Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot's software (e.g. ROS vision
should be included, but not OpenCV).
- *[Open Platform Only] *Brief, compact description of the robot's
hardware.
- *[Standard Platforms Only] *Specify all external computing devices, if
any.
For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format
<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the
RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 8 pages without
altering margins or spacing. You may download a template for the TDP from
here <https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>.
Instructions for the Web site
===========================
While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach
of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader
audience, including:
- Photos of the robot(s)
- Videos of the robot(s)
- Description of the approaches and information on scientific
achievements
- Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download)
- Link to repositories with software for the community
- Team members
- Previous participation in RoboCup
Evaluation criteria:
===========================
Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria:
- Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions,
re-usability by the league, applicability in real world)
- Qualification Video (navigation, human-robot interaction,
people/object recognition, object manipulation and new features)
- Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable
content, open-source software and other contributions)
- Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and
open-source software)
- Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home)
We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general
audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus
on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall
system.
*Note to experienced competitors:* Major changes are being done in the
rulebook. You may download the latest version from: https://github.com/RoboC
upAtHome/RuleBook
With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Nagoya,
The 2017 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2017 RoboCup@Home League
July 25 - 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan)
http://www.robocup2017.org<http://www.robocup2017.org/>
http://www.robocupathome.org<http://www.robocupathome.org/>
http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/@Home_League/
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior).
The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviours, Behaviour Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration.
The RoboCup@Home league is itegrated by three sub-leagues officially referred as
* Domestic Standard Platform sub-league (Toyota HSR)
* Social Standard Platform sub-league (SoftBank Robotics Pepper)
* Open Platform sub-league
This message describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home League 2017.
Important dates:
Feb 5, 2017 Intention of Participation
Mar 12, 2017 Preregistration and Deadline for qualification material
(Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website, Information in @Home Wiki).
Mar 26, 2017 Qualification announcement
The qualification procedure consists of the following two steps:
Step 1) Intention of Participation (strongly recommended)
The team sends an email to the Oranizing Committee <oc(a)robocupathome.org<mailto:oc@robocupathome.org>> to indicate your intention to participate in the RoboCup@Home 2017 event, including the following basic information:
Team Name:
Sub-league:
Platform:
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Web site:
Only one platform can be specified per team.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Participation] (YourTeamName)
Please check the email is encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set.
**** Deadline: Sunday, 5th Feb. 2017 23:59 GMT *****
Step 2) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)
The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Oranizing Committee <oc(a)robocupathome.org<mailto:oc@robocupathome.org>> to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup@Home 2017 event. Please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
Sub-league:
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Link to a team video:
Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts:
Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Qualification] (YourTeamName)
Considerations:
* Only one platform can be specified per team.
* All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the team’s website.
* The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set.
Important Notice: As platforms are independent, you must send an application email for each platform you want to compete in, specifying different team names in each. Qualification Material (e.g. video and TDP) must match the robot to qualify.
**** Deadline: Sunday, Mar. 12, 2017 23:59 GMT *****
Instructions for the Team Video
===========================
As a proof of running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, we consider showing the robot(s) successfully solving at least one test of the current or last year's rulebook.
[Standard Platforms Only] The robot shown in the video must not be altered or modified in any way.
Instructions for the TDP
===========================
The TDP is an 8-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following:
* Innovative technology and scientific contribution
* Photo(s) of the robot
* Focus of research/research interests
* Re-usability of the system for other research groups
* Applicability of the robot in the real world
* Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot's software (e.g. ROS vision should be included, but not OpenCV).
* [Open Platform Only] Brief, compact description of the robot's hardware.
* [Standard Platforms Only] Specify all external computing devices, if any.
For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 8 pages without altering margins or spacing. You may download a template for the TDP from here<https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>.
Instructions for the Web site
===========================
While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including:
* Photos of the robot(s)
* Videos of the robot(s)
* Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements
* Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download)
* Link to repositories with software for the community
* Team members
* Previous participation in RoboCup
Evaluation criteria:
===========================
Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria:
* Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world)
* Qualification Video (navigation, human-robot interaction, people/object recognition, object manipulation and new features)
* Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions)
* Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software)
* Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home)
We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system.
Note to experienced competitors: Major changes are being done in the rulebook. You may download the latest version from: https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook
With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Nagoya,
The 2017 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2017 RoboCup@Home League
July 25 - 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan)
http://www.robocup2017.orghttp://www.robocupathome.orghttp://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/@Home_League/
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance
the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions
(RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup
Junior).
The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot
technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications.
It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service
robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is
used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic home
environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited
to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in
dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural
light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviours, Behaviour
Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration.
The RoboCup@Home league is itegrated by three sub-leagues officially
referred as
- Domestic Standard Platform sub-league (Toyota HSR)
- Social Standard Platform sub-league (SoftBank Robotics Pepper)
- Open Platform sub-league
This message describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for
RoboCup@Home League 2017.
Important dates:
Feb 5, 2017 Intention of Participation
Mar 12, 2017 Preregistration and Deadline for qualification material
(Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website,
Information in @Home Wiki).
Mar 26, 2017 Qualification announcement
The qualification procedure consists of the following two steps:
*Step 1) Intention of Participation (strongly recommended)*
The team sends an email to the Oranizing Committee <oc(a)robocupathome.org> to
indicate your intention to participate in the RoboCup@Home 2017 event,
including the following basic information:
Team Name:
Sub-league:
Platform:
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Web site:
Only one platform can be specified per team.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Participation] (YourTeamName)
Please check the email is encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1
character set.
***** Deadline: Sunday, 5th Feb. 2017 23:59 GMT ******
*Step 2) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)*
The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Oranizing Committee <
oc(a)robocupathome.org> to participate in the qualification process for the
RoboCup@Home 2017 event. Please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
Sub-league:
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Link to a team video:
Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts:
Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official
template.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2017-Qualification] (YourTeamName)
Considerations:
- Only one platform can be specified per team.
- All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification
***MUST*** be in the team’s website.
- The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character
set.
*Important Notice: * As platforms are independent, you must send an
application email for each platform you want to compete in, specifying
different team names in each. Qualification Material (e.g. video and TDP)
must match the robot to qualify.
***** Deadline: Sunday, Mar. 12, 2017 23:59 GMT ******
Instructions for the Team Video
===========================
As a proof of running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification
video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, we consider showing the
robot(s) successfully solving at least one test of the current or last
year's rulebook.
*[Standard Platforms Only]* The robot shown in the video must not be
altered or modified in any way.
Instructions for the TDP
===========================
The TDP is an 8-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the
technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including
also the following:
- Innovative technology and scientific contribution
- Photo(s) of the robot
- Focus of research/research interests
- Re-usability of the system for other research groups
- Applicability of the robot in the real world
- Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot's software (e.g. ROS vision
should be included, but not OpenCV).
- *[Open Platform Only] *Brief, compact description of the robot's
hardware.
- *[Standard Platforms Only] *Specify all external computing devices, if
any.
For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format
<http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0> used in the
RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 8 pages without
altering margins or spacing. You may download a template for the TDP from
here <https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>.
Instructions for the Web site
===========================
While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach
of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader
audience, including:
- Photos of the robot(s)
- Videos of the robot(s)
- Description of the approaches and information on scientific
achievements
- Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download)
- Link to repositories with software for the community
- Team members
- Previous participation in RoboCup
Evaluation criteria:
===========================
Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria:
- Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions,
re-usability by the league, applicability in real world)
- Qualification Video (navigation, human-robot interaction,
people/object recognition, object manipulation and new features)
- Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable
content, open-source software and other contributions)
- Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and
open-source software)
- Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home)
We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general
audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus
on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall
system.
*Note to experienced competitors:* Major changes are being done in the
rulebook. You may download the latest version from: https://github.com/RoboC
upAtHome/RuleBook
With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Nagoya,
The 2017 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees