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Fwd: RoboCup German Open 2018: Registration is open
by Sven Wachsmuth 14 Dec '17

14 Dec '17

-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

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Call for Participation: RoboCup@Home Education Challenge 2017 @ RCAP 2017
by Jeffrey Tan 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

=== 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

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[@Home2018] Call for Participation: Open Platform League
by Mauricio Matamoros 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Call for Participation RoboCup@Home Open Platform League 2018 June 16 - June 22, 2018 (Montreal, Canada) http://www.robocup2018.org http://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/. --------------------------------------------- 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

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RCAP2017 @HOME League Qualified team announcement
by Dr. KANJANAPAN SUKVICHAI 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

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: ------ [1] mailto:info@robocup-ap2017.org

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Call for Participation: RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform League 2018 - Deadline October 15, 2017
by Luca Iocchi 10 Oct '17

10 Oct '17

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)

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Announcement of Qualified teams for the RoboCup Asia Pacific 2017 (RCAP2017) @Home Open Platform League.
by Dr. KANJANAPAN SUKVICHAI 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

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.

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