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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
[Source: http://www.robocupathome.org/call-for-participation/cfp-all-2018]
*Important Notice: *This second Call for Participation is open to all teams
targeting all leagues, including those teams who missed the previous calls
or didn't attain qualification. Teams that already submitted qualification
material and were not accepted can resubmit an improved version of it.
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Second Call for Participation RoboCup@Home 2018 (DSPL · OPL · SSPL)
June 16 - June 22, 2018 (Montreal, Canada)
http://www.robocup2018.orghttp://www.robocupathome.org/https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook
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:
Nov. 22, 2017 Publication of the Call for Participation
Dec. 31, 2017 Deadline for Intention of Participation
Jan. 15, 2018 Deadline for submission of qualification material and
preregistration.
(Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website).
Jan. 31, 2018 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: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ]
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, 31th Dec. 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: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ]
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: Monday, Jan. 15, 2018 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, and commits to attend to the event.
To confirm participation, please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
League: [ DSPL | OPL | SSPL ]
Country:
Hereby [Team Name] of [Country] confirms/revokes its attendance to the
RoboCup@Home [League].
The e-mail subject should be: [@Home2018-Confirmation] (YourTeamName)
*Remark: *Qualified teams who miss the participation confirmation will be
disqualified automatically and may be banned from the 2019 event.
***** 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>
- *Standard Platforms Only:* Teams are allowed to use any robot in their
Team Video, but the use of the standard robot is advised.
*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 at convenience.
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
- TDP length is 8 pages + annex.
- 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 all external computing devices, if any
(in annex).
- *OPL Only:* Brief, compact description of the robot's hardware (in
annex).
- *DSPL and SSPL:* When the robot depicted in the TDP or Team Video is
different from the league's standard one, the TDP must clearly state how
the addressed approach and described software will be adapted to the
standard platform robot.
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 (including references but excluding the annex).
You may download a template for the TDP from here
<https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate>. Exceeding the number of
pages will automatically void your application.
*Remark: *The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all
additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be
translated.
*Copyright note:*All TDPs sent for qualification may be made publicly
available in the RoboCup @Home Wiki for further reference. On submitting,
teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home and the RoboCup
Federation to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to
promote the event and the league at convenience.
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
*Remark: *Only documented active software repositories are considered as
contributions to the league. It must be clear and straightforward to other
teams how to use your software.
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)
- Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions.
- 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 Montreal,
The 2018 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees
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**** Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Special Issue on
Semantic Policy and Action Representations for Autonomous Robots***
**********************************************************************************************
----Call for Papers---
It is our pleasure to announce the Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS)
special issue on Semantic Policy and Action Representations for
Autonomous Robots (SPAR). This special issue is a follow-up outcome of
two successful IROS workshops held in 2015 and 2017. We would like to
invite all interested researchers to submit their papers in the areas of
reasoning, perception, control, planning, and learning applied to
robotic systems.
***RAS-SPAR Special issue URL***
http://www.ics.ei.tum.de/en/www.ics.ei.tum.de/workshopiros/ras-special-issu…
Contact email: spar.workshop(a)gmail.com
*** Important Dates ***:
Paper submission deadline: 25th March 2018
Notification of acceptance: 15th June 2018
Final Submission: 3rd August 2018
Publication date: September 2018
*** Special issue objectives ***
Service and industrial robots are expected to be more autonomous and
work effectively around/ alongside humans. This implies that robots
should have special capabilities, such as interpreting and understanding
human intentions in different domains. The major challenge is to find
appropriate mechanisms to explain the observed raw sensor signals such
as poses, velocities, distances, forces, etc., in a way that robots are
able to make informative and high-level descriptive models out of that.
These models will, for instance, permit the understanding of, what is
the meaning of the observations/demonstrations, infer how they could
generate/produce a similar behavior in other conditions/domains?, and
more importantly, allow robots to communicate with the user/operator
about why they infer that behavior. One promising way to achieve that is
using high-level semantic representations. Several methods have been
proposed, for example, linguistic approaches, syntactic approaches,
graphical models, etc.
This special issue is focused on highlighting the recent developments in
semantic reasoning representations and semantic policy generation from
low level (sensory signal) to high level (planning and execution). More
importantly, this special issue will gather information about various
bottom-up and top-down approaches for semantic action perception and
executions in different domains. Furthermore, we are aiming to compare
various state-of-the-art approaches for generic action and reasoning
representations in both computer vision and robotic communities, looking
for a common ground to combine assumable different approaches for
autonomous capability and reliability. Overall, this special issue aims
to present the main benefits of this new emerging type of methods such
as allowing robots to learn generalized semantic models for different
domains as well as the next breakthrough topics in this area, e.g. the
scalability of the learned models that can adapt to new
scenarios/domains in a way that the robot can transfer all the acquired
knowledge and experience from existing data to new domains with very
little human intervention.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
*AI-Based Methods
--Learning and adaptive systems & Probability and statistical methods
--Action grammars/libraries & Spatiotemporal event encoding
--Machine learning techniques for semantic representations
*Reasoning Methods in Robotics and Automation
--Signal to symbol transition (Symbol grounding) & Different levels
of abstraction
--Semantics of manipulation actions & Semantic policy representation
--Context modeling methods
*Human Behavior Recognition
--Learning from demonstration & Object-action relations
--Bottom-up and top-down perception
*Task, Geometric, and Dynamic Level Plans and Policies
--PDDL high-level planning & Task and motion planning methods
*Human-Robot interaction
--Prediction of human intentions & Linking linguistic and visual data
*** Guest editors ***
Karinne Ramirez-Amaro, Technical University of Munich,
https://www.ics.ei.tum.de/people/ramirez
Yezhou Yang, Arizona State University, USA,
https://yezhouyang.engineering.asu.edu
Neil T. Dantam, Colorado School of Mines, USA, http://www.neil.dantam.name/
Eren Erdal Aksoy, Lund University, Sweden,
http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lucat/user/er0201ak
Gordon Cheng, Technical University of Munich,
https://www.ics.ei.tum.de/en/people/cheng
--
Dr.-Ing. Karinne Ramirez Amaro
Institute for Cognitive Systems
Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Address: Karlstr. 45, 2.OG. 80333 Munich, Germany
Room: 2008
Web page: http://web.ics.ei.tum.de/~karinne/Ramirez/index.html
email: karinne.ramirez(a)tum.de
Telephone: +49-89-289-26791