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Call for papers: ICIRA 2017, International Workshop on Benchmarking and Measuring Service Robots
by Wei Shuai 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

Call for Papers The Second International Workshop on Benchmarking and Measuring Service Robots The 2nd International Workshop on Benchmarking and Measuring Service Robots will be held in Wuhan, China on August 15-18, 2017. It is organized jointly with the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2017, http://www.icira2017.org). All papers accepted to be presented at the conference as well as the workshop are to be published in LNAI/LNCS series of Springer (indexed in EI Engineering Index). The CFP for ICIRA 2017 can be found at http://www.icira2017.org/index.php?id=paper1&cate=call-for-papers Important Dates Paper Submission Due: April 20 Acceptance Notice: May 10 Final Version Submission Due: May 31 Conference: August 15 - 18 Keynote Speakers (Confirmed) David Hsu, Professor of National University of Singapore, Singapore Xiaogang Song, Acting President of China Robot Industry Alliance, China Topics The related themes or topics of this workshop include but do not limit to: - Methodologies of benchmarking and measuring service robots - Quantitative measurement and/or analysis on navigation, SLAM, manipulation, task planning, vision, robot design, human-robot interaction, etc. - Quantitative measurement and analysis on performance of service robots - Autonomous calibration for service robots - Standard platforms and test-beds for service robots - Techniques and applications based on motion perception of service robots Guideline of Submission http://www.icira2017.org/index.php?id=paper1&cate=paper-submission Organization Committee Xiaoping Chen, University of Science and Technology of China Luca Iocchi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Feng Wu, University of Science and Technology of China Wanmi Chen, Shanghai University, China -- Regards Multi-Agent System Lab University of Science and Technology of China W. Shuai

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[@Home217] Third Call For Participation
by Mauricio Matamoros 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

Call for Participation RoboCup -2017 RoboCup@Home League July 25 - July 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan) http://www.robocup2017.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 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. 12, 2017 Intention of Participation (Extended) Mar. 12, 2017 *Deadline for submission of qualification material* and preregistration (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 Organizing 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: 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 Organizing 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): Web site: 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-Participation] (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]* If the robot shown in the video is a Standard Platform one (Toyota HSR or SoftBank Robotics Pepper), it must not be altered or modified in any way. However, *teams are allowed to use any * other* robot for the video* but, in that case, the TDP must clearly state how your approach will be adapted to fit into a SPL robot (e.g., stereo vision instead of an active RGB-D commercial camera for a popular videogame). 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>. *Remark [Standard Platforms Only]: *If the robot shown in the Team Video for Qualification is not a standard one, the TDP must also specify the approach used to adapt what is shown in the video and explained in the TDP into the Standard Platform Robot. 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

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RO-MAN 2017 Intention in Social Robotics Special Session
by Mary-Anne Williams 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2017 <http://www.ro-man2017.org/>, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 28 to 31 of August 2017. We are organizing a special session on *Intention in Social Robotics <http://www.ro-man2017.org/site/node/12>. * The *submission* *due date is March 26*. If you would like to submit a paper to our special the session, please use the code (588fb) in the paper submission system. Submission instructions are available at the main RO-MAN conference website <http://www.ro-man2017.org/>. Imagine an intelligent robot with social skills that was fun to work with and that could help you achieve tasks efficiently, i.e. a social robot. Social robots are a disruptive technology, poised to have a profound impact on business, society and the global economy. This exciting RO-MAN Special Session on Intention in Social Robotics <http://www.ro-man2017.org/site/node/12> will focus on predicting and exploiting Intention in Social Robotics. A self-driving vehicle is a social robot, not only does it need to drive on the road safely but it must communicate with and anticipate the behaviour of nearby cars and people; a delivery robot has to anticipate the behaviour of people in workplaces. Understanding human intention is critical to anticipating human behaviour. The critical research question is how can we design social robots able to understand human intention and anticipate human motion and desires. Conversely, the question of how robots can indicate intention to help humans is also important. The purpose of this special session is to explore how social robots can understand and predict people's intention without requiring humans to explicitly indicate or express what they are trying to do or about to do next. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: ● Human-robot interaction and collaboration ● Human and/or Robot attention and intention ● Natural low cognitive load methods for signaling intention ● Privacy and security ● Legal and ethical implications of social robots The goal of special sessions at RO-MAN is to provide a forum for oral presentations that are highly specialized in some particular theme, focused on new topics or innovative applications of established approaches. A special session consists of four to six papers, which, addresses a particular theme or consist of work done in some particular international project. Best wishes, *Tony Cohn* (Leeds University) *William Judge* (Commonwealth Bank of Australia) *Reid Simmons* (Carnegie Mellon University) *Mary-Anne Williams* (University of Technology Sydney) *Professor Mary-Anne Williams <http://mary-annewilliams.com>* *Director, Disruptive Innovation* University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Founder and Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Lab <http://themagiclab.org/> (The Magic Lab) Fellow, Stanford University <https://law.stanford.edu/directory/mary-anne-williams/> Twitter: @SwizzleFish <https://twitter.com/swizzlefish>

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[@Home2017] Third Call For Participation
by Mauricio Matamoros 03 Mar '17

03 Mar '17

Call for Participation RoboCup -2017 RoboCup@Home League July 25 - July 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan) http://www.robocup2017.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 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. 12, 2017 Intention of Participation (Extended) Mar. 12, 2017 *Deadline for submission of qualification material* and preregistration (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 Organizing 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: 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 Organizing 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): Web site: 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-Participation] (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]* If the robot shown in the video is a Standard Platform one (Toyota HSR or SoftBank Robotics Pepper), it must not be altered or modified in any way. However, *teams are allowed to use any * other* robot for the video* but, in that case, the TDP must clearly state how your approach will be adapted to fit into a SPL robot (e.g., stereo vision instead of an active RGB-D commercial camera for a popular videogame). 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>. *Remark [Standard Platforms Only]: *If the robot shown in the Team Video for Qualification is not a standard one, the TDP must also specify the approach used to adapt what is shown in the video and explained in the TDP into the Standard Platform Robot. 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

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