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Betreff: RoboCup German Open 2018: Registration is open
Datum: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 11:30:43 +0200
Von: RoboCup German Open 2018 <info(a)robocupgermanopen.de>
Antwort an: RoboCup German Open 2018 <info(a)robocupgermanopen.de>
An: RoboCup German Open 2018 <info(a)robocupgermanopen.de>
Dear team leader,
we are happy to announce, that the registration for the 16th RoboCup
German Open 2018 has been opened at
https://robocupgermanopen.de/en/major/teaminfos.
Please see the call for participation below. The registration deadline
is December 15, 2017.
We hope to meet all of you and new teams in Magdeburg.
Best regards,
Ansgar
(on behalf of the Major OC)
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RoboCup German Open 2018
Call for Participation
https://robocupgermanopen.de
27 - 29 April 2018
MESSE MAGDEBURG, Germany
The RoboCup German Open 2018 will be the 16th open RoboCup
competition held in Germany. The event will take place in Magdeburg
at MESSE MAGDEBURG.
-- RoboCup Major Leagues (international teams) ----------------------
Competitions are offered in the following leagues:
- RoboCupSoccer Standard Platform League
- RoboCupSoccer Humanoid League (Kid-Size)
- RoboCupRescue Robot League
- RoboCup@Home League
- RoboCupIndustrial Logistics League
- RoboCupIndustrial RoboCup@Work League
The registration opens *** 15 October 2017 ***.
The registration deadline is *** 15 December 2017 ***.
Visit https://robocupgermanopen.de to register your RoboCup Major
League team. Details on the registration (fee, accommodation, rules)
are available on the web site. Booking of blocked accommodation with
special rates is possible after your registration.
The Major Leagues Organising Committee:
- Thomas Röfer (Standard Platform League)
- Reinhard Gerndt (Humanoid League)
- Johannes Pellenz (Rescue Robot League)
- Sven Wachsmuth, Raphael Memmetsheimer (RoboCup@Home League)
- Ulrich Karras (Logistics League)
- Sebastian Zug (RoboCup@Work League)
-- RoboCup Junior ----------------------------------------------------
The German RoboCup Junior qualification for RoboCup 2018 is performed
in two steps. German teams qualify in seven local tournaments in
Bad Zwischenahn, Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Mannheim, Sankt Augustin
and Vöhringen for the final of the 18th German RoboCup Junior
Championship which is held within the RoboCup German Open 2018. The
best Junior teams will qualify for RoboCup 2018 in Canada.
-- Important dates --------------------------------------------------
15.09.2017 Publication of Call for Participation
15.10.2017 Registration opens
15.12.2017 Registration deadline RoboCup Major teams
15.02.2018 Registration deadline team members with names
15.04.2018 Registration fee due
25.04.2018 Set-up day Major League teams
26.04.2018 Set-up day Major League teams
27.04.2018 Competition day (open to public)
28.04.2018 Competition day (open to public)
29.04.2018 Competition day, finals (open to public)
Please contact info(a)robocupgermanopen.de for any questions.
See you all again at the 16th RoboCup German Open 2018!
Best regards,
Ansgar Bredenfeld
(Chair RoboCup German Open)
RoboCup German Open is organized on behalf of the German RoboCup
Committee by Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg and Dr. Bredenfeld UG.
--
Besten Gruß
Das RoboCup German Open Orga-Team 2018
=== RoboCup@Home Education Challenge 2017 @ RCAP 2017 ===
December 12 ~ 18, 2017
Bangkok, Thailand
http://www.robocupathomeedu.org
<<Introduction>>
RoboCup@Home Education is a special education program providing
support for new teams in the context of a simplified RoboCup@Home
competition oriented on forming new teams and preparing them to the
main competitions.
After running successfully for 3 years in RoboCup Japan Open 2015,
2016, 2017, the RoboCup@Home Education Challenge will be hosted in
RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 [http://www.robocup-ap2017.org].
With the educational purpose and to promote new team participation,
robot building workshop sessions will be conducted before the
competition to facilitate inexperienced teams.
- Workshop and Setup: December 12 ~ 14, 2017
- Competition: December 15 ~ 17, 2017
For more details and competition rules, please visit
http://www.robocupathomeedu.org/challenges/robocup-home-education-challenge…
<<How to Participate>>
1. Interested teams are required to apply by sending an email with the
following information to the Organizing Committee
oc(a)robocupathomeedu.org
- Team Name:
- Country/Region:
- Affiliation:
- Team Leader Name:
- E-mail:
The e-mail subject should be: [@HomeEDU2017] (Your Team Name)
2. A registration code will be sent to the e-mail above to proceed the
registration at http://www.robocup-ap2017.org/en/registration.php
<<Important Dates>>
Application: October 10 - November 10, 2017
Registration: October 10 - December 8, 2017
Please visit the official website for more information. You can
contact us via oc(a)robocupathomeedu.org
Best Regards,
RoboCup@Home Education Challenge 2017 Organizing Committee
Call for Participation RoboCup@Home Open Platform League 2018
June 16 - June 22, 2018 (Montreal, Canada)
http://www.robocup2018.orghttp://www.robocupathome.org/https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook
*Note:* The qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home 2018 will be
differentiated for the three sub-leagues (OPL, DSPL, SSPL) to better
accommodate different organization needs. For each call please visit
http://www.robocupathome.org/.
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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 Behaviors, Behavior
Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration.
This message describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for
RoboCup@Home League 2018.
Important dates:
Sept. 22, 2017 Publication of the Call for Participation
Oct. 15, 2017 Deadline for Intention of Participation
Nov. 5, 2017 Deadline for submission of qualification material and
preregistration.
(Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website).
Nov. 26, 2017 Qualification announcement
Feb. 25, 2018 Deadline for Participation Confirmation
The qualification procedure consists of the following two steps:
Step 1) Intention of Participation (strongly recommended)
The team sends an email to the Organizing Committee (oc(a)robocupathome.org)
to indicate your intention to participate in the RoboCup@Home 2018 event,
including the following basic information:
Team Name:
League: Open Platform League
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Web site:
Only one team leader can be specified per team.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2018-Participation] (YourTeamName)
Please check the email is encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1
character set.
***** Deadline: Sunday, 15th Oct. 2017 23:59 GMT ******
Step 2) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)
The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee (
oc(a)robocupathome.org) to participate in the qualification process for the
RoboCup@Home 2018 event. Please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
League: Open Platform League
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Rank in local tournaments:
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: [@Home2018-Participation] (YourTeamName)
Considerations:
- Only one platform can be specified per team.
- Only one team leader can be specified per team.
- Only one contact email 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.
***** Deadline: Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017 23:59 GMT ******
Step 3) Participation confirmation (mandatory)
All qualified teams ***MUST*** send an email to the Organizing Committee (
oc(a)robocupathome.org) to confirm (or cancel) their participation in the
RoboCup@Home 2018 event. Confirming attendance implies that the team has
sufficient resources to register commits to attend to the event.
To confirm participation, please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
League: Open Platform League
Country:
Hereby [Team Name] of [Country] confirms/revokes its attendance to the
RoboCup@Home Open Platform League.
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2018-Confirmation] (YourTeamName)
*Remark:* Qualified teams who miss the participation confirmation will be
disqualified automatically.
***** Deadline: Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018 23:59 GMT ******
Instructions for the Team Video
===========================
In order to proof a running hardware, each team has to provide a
qualification video.
As a minimum requirement for qualification, the video must show the
robot(s) successfully solving a task involving the integration of at least
5 different abilities, such as: environmental reasoning, high-level task
planning, human-robot interaction, localization, manipulation, object
recognition, people recognition, etc. Is strongly advised to show at least
one Stage 2 test of the current or last year's rulebook.
*Remarks:*
- The shown task execution must look continuous, smooth, and robust.
- When speeding-up video, the speed factor must be indicated.
- The language spoken and shown in the video must be English. When using
any other languages, translations must be included.
- We strongly suggest upload videos to Youtube.
- Videos sent will be uploaded/displayed in the league's youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists"
<http://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkdCpT0xrFMMt-_N8wSVew/playlists>
*Copyright note:*When sending videos for qualification, teams implicitly
grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup Federation to copy,
modify, distribute, upload, publish, and use the multimedia material to
promote the event and the league as we find convenient.
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
- Focus of research/research interests
- Re-usability of the system for other research groups
- Applicability of the robot in the real world
- Photo(s) of the robot (in annex).
- Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot's software (e.g. ROS vision
should be included, but not OpenCV. In annex).
- Brief, compact description of the robot's hardware (in annex).
- Brief, compact description of all external computing devices, if any
(in annex).
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>.
*Remark: *The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all
additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be
translated.
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
- Participation and rankings in local RoboCup tournaments
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)
- Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions.
- 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 Montreal,
The 2018 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees
Dear @Home Teams,
As the LOC of RCAP2017, I am glad to announce
the qualified team who qualified for participating in the RoboCup Asia
Pacific 2017 RoboCup@Home League.
Here is the list of qualified teams:
@Home Open Platform & EDU
* DONGYANG Thailand
* KameRider OPL
China
* Machinilog Pakistan
* MRL@home Iran
* Skuba JR Thailand
* Sun@Home China
@Home Social Standard Platform
* Center for
Robolution India
* KameRider SSPL China
Our general qualifying
process is based on the team qualification materials (Videos & TDP).
Qualified Team Videos show robots solving complex tasks that require
full integration of most abilities used in @Home
Teams the
registration code, visa info., invitation letter and etc, will be
provided by RCAP 2017 office (info(a)robocup-ap2017.org [1] )
See you in
Bangkok
Thank you,
--
Dr. KANJANAPAN SUKVICHAI
RoboCitizen
Laboratory.
Dept. of Electrical Engineering.
Kasetsart University.
Links:
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[1] mailto:info@robocup-ap2017.org
Dear @Home teams,
if you are interested in participating in RoboCup@Home 2018 Social
Standard Platform League
(with SoftBank Pepper robot) in Montreal, please remind that the
deadline to submit the qualification material is
***October 15, 2017***
More details are available in
http://www.robocupathome.org/cfp-sspl-2018
Best regards,
Luca Iocchi (on behalf of RoboCup@Home OC)
Dear @Home Teams,
As the LOC of RCAP2017, I glad to announce the
qualified team who qualified for participating in the RoboCup Asia
Pacific 2017 @Home Open Platform League.
Here is the list of qualified
teams:
* DONGYANG Thailand
* KameRider OPL China
* Machinilog
Pakistan
* MRL@home Iran
* Skuba JR Thailand
* Sun@Home China
Our
general qualifying process is based on the team qualification materials
(Videos & TDP). Qualified Team Videos show robots solving complex tasks
that require full integration of most abilities used in @Home
--
Dr.
KANJANAPAN SUKVICHAI
RoboCitizen Laboratory.
Dept. of Electrical
Engineering.
Kasetsart University.