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Participation on Survey on ROS Collaboration and Package Reuse (10 min approx.)
by Luz Martinez 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

Hi, As part of my thesis, I’m studying the phenomenon of package reuse within the ROS community and the way that the community collaborates. To have a deeper insight on these topics, I designed a survey and *your participation is extremely valuable*. To *take the survey* go to: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ROSPkgReuse This information may be relevant for you: 1. It should take *10 minutes approximately* 2. Answers are confidential and will be treated anonymously 3. A summary of the results will be sent if you are interested* 4. *Three Amazon Gift Cards* will be raffled* among participants 5. The *deadline* to answer is *Friday 18th*. I would be grateful If you could *forward this e-mail with your colleagues* and other people with any degree of experience using ROS. Thanks in advance, Pablo Estefó <pestefo(a)dcc.uchile.cl> *: *You e-mail will be requested at the end of the survey to send the summary of the results and to be able to deliver the gift card to the raffle winners. It will not affect our confidentiality and anonymity policy on use of the data.*

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how to Call for Participation
by freedom 21 Aug '17

21 Aug '17

Hi, I am a sutdent from China , we have a wish to enter the competition.Please tell us how to participate in this competition.If you have a PDF for participation, please send to me.Thank you very much!

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RoboCup Asia Pacific 2017 - Call for Participation
by Asad Norouzi 11 Aug '17

11 Aug '17

******************** Apologies for duplicate messages *********************** ########################### Call for Participation ########################## The 1st RoboCup Asia Pacific Competitions 12-17 December 2017, Competitions 18 December 2017, Symposium Bangkok, Thailand http://www.robocup-ap2017.org ########################## RoboCup Asia Pacific 2017 ######################## The 1st RoboCup Asia Pacific (RCAP) competitions and symposium will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, 12-18 December 2017. This is the first official RoboCup Super Regional event in the Asia Pacific region. The RoboCup Asia Pacific 2017 competitions leagues are as follows: RoboCupSoccer: - Humanoid Kid Size - Humanoid Teen Size - Humanoid Adult Size - Middle Size - Small Size - Standard Platform - Soccer 3D Simulation - Soccer 2D Simulation RoboCupRescue: - Rescue Robot - Rescue Simulation Agent - Rescue Simulation Virtual Robot RoboCup@Home: - RoboCup@Home Open Platform - RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform - RoboCup@Home Domestic Standard Platform RoboCupIndustrial: - RoboCup@Work - RoboCup Logistics RoboCupJunior: - Junior Soccer Lightweight Primary - Junior Soccer Lightweight Secondary - Junior Soccer Open - Junior Rescue Line - Junior Rescue Maze - Junior CoSpace Primary - Junior CoSpace Secondary - Junior OnStage Primary - Junior OnStage Secondary The RoboCup Asia Pacific (RCAP) Challenges: The RoboCup Asia Pacific 2017 Organizing Committee will be organizing RCAP Industry Sponsored Leagues and RCAP Challenges (e.g. Healthcare Challenge, UAV Challenge, CoSpace Challenge, etc). Details will be announced shortly. Participation: All teams (including Junior teams) are required to pre-register through the online form available below. The pre-registered teams should then submit the relevant qualification materials as per the leagues requirements. Google Form: https://goo.gl/forms/WGeNfdddf3mbGqAj1 If Google is not available in your region, please complete the attached PDF Form and submit it to registration(a)robocupap.org. Important dates: Pre-Registration: 10 August - 10 September, 2017 Submission of qualification materials: 10 August - 10 September, 2017 Announcement of qualified teams: 18 September, 2017 Early Registration: 18 September - 27 October, 2017 Regular Registration: 28 October - 10 November, 2017 Late Registration: 11 November - 08 December, 2017 *No team registration will be accepted after 10 November 2017 For further information please visit our official website at http://www.robocup-ap2017.org For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: General Inquiries: info(a)robocup-ap2017.org Registration, Competitions, Leagues: registration(a)robocupap.org Thank You! Regards, RoboCup Asia Pacific Office RoboCup Asia Pacific 2017 Organizing Committee

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Call for Participation: RoboCup@Home 2018 Social Standard Platform
by Luca Iocchi 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

================================================================== Call for Participation: RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform League 2018 ================================================================== The second RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform League (RoboCup@Home SSPL) competition, with SoftBank Pepper robots as standard platform, will be held at RoboCup 2018 in Montreal, Canada. Teams willing to participate in RoboCup@Home SSPL 2018 must submit the qualification material as described in http://www.robocupathome.org/cfp-sspl-2018 This qualification process is valid for all teams, including new teams that already have a Pepper robot and new teams that want to purchase a Pepper robot with the RoboCup conditions. Deadline for submission of qualification material ***October 15, 2017*** Best regards, Luca Iocchi (on behalf of the SPL Selection Committee)

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RoboCup@Home 2018: Calls for participation
by Luca Iocchi 09 Aug '17

09 Aug '17

Dear RoboCup@Home teams, please notice that the qualification procedures for RoboCup@Home 2018 will be differentiated among the three sub-leagues. Some deadlines for submitting the qualification material will be anticipated with respect to past years. All the calls will be published in this page and announced through public mailing lists. http://www.robocupathome.org/call-for-participation Best regards, RoboCup@Home Execs/TC/OC and RCF Trustees in charge of RoboCup@Home

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league photos
by Komei Sugiura 04 Aug '17

04 Aug '17

Dear participants, I've received the following two league photos and uploaded them to github. https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/Nagoya2017/blob/master/LOC/league_photo17_… https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/Nagoya2017/blob/master/LOC/league_photo17_… I'm looking forward to seeing you in Montreal!! Best, Komei

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[meetings] CFP to IROS 2017 Workshop: Semantic Policy and Action Representations for Autonomous Robots (SPAR) --Deadline extended to Aug 12, 2017
by Dr.-Ing. Karinne Ramírez Amaro 01 Aug '17

01 Aug '17

********************************************************************************************** ****2nd Workshop on Semantic Policy and Action Representations for Autonomous Robots (SPAR)*** ********************************************************************************************** ----Call for Posters and Demonstrations--- We are calling for contributions to our IROS 2017 workshop. We would like to invite the attendees of this workshop to submit an extended abstract explaining their current work or developed systems in the areas of reasoning, perception, control, planning, and learning applied to robotic systems. This workshop is intended for roboticists interested in improving the reliability and autonomy of robots. We hope to bring together outstanding researchers and graduate students to discuss current trends, problems, and opportunities in semantic action (policy) representations, encouraging communication and common practices such as sharing datasets among scientists in this field. *** Important Dates ***: Paper submission deadline (EXTENDED): 12th August 2017 Notification of acceptance: 15th August 2017 Camera ready submission: 1st September 2017 Workshop day: 24th September 2017 *** Call for contributions *** We encourage 1-2 pages extended abstract of relevant work that has been previously published, or is to be presented at the main conference. The accepted abstracts will be posted on the workshop website in a compiled yearbook and will not appear in the official IEEE proceedings. Furthermore, we particularly call for live demonstrations to be presented on the workshop day. We encourage researchers as well as companies (both hardware and software companies) to contribute to the workshop. The reviewing is single blind and will be carried out by the workshop chairs. Please submit your abstract to the workshop official email address <spar.workshop(a)gmail.com> before August 12, 2017. The accepted demonstrations can show their systems and its benefits to a broader audience. The accepted papers will have the opportunity to present their work/ideas in a poster session. Two selective submissions will give a 15 min talk at the workshop. Please indicate in your email if you want to present as a poster, oral, and/or live demonstration. Furthermore, a selective number of papers from the poster sessions will be invited to submit their novel work to the Special Issue we are proposing in the journal “Robotics and Autonomous Systems”. This special issue will cover the main topics of interest of this workshop. ***Workshop URL*** https://www.ics.ei.tum.de/workshop-iros-spar17/ Contact email: spar.workshop(a)gmail.com *** Workshop objectives *** The aim of this one-day workshop is two-fold. First, we intend to highlight to the robotics community the recent developments in semantic reasoning representations and semantic policy generation from low level (sensory signal) to high level (planning and execution). More importantly, we want to reconcile and integrate various bottom-up and top-down approaches for semantic action perception and executions in different domains. Second, 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 assumedly different approaches for autonomous capability and reliability. For this, we would like to propose and define different data sets that could be potentially used as benchmarks to compare the presented methods. We would like to take advantage of the recent efforts that some laboratories took by making their testing data sets publicly available. In addition, we would like to encourage this best practice to the participants of this workshop. This workshop will present the main benefits of this new emerging type of methods such as allowing robots to learn generalized semantic models for different domains. We will also like to discuss 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 *** Invited Speakers *** (in alphabetical order, all confirmed) 1) Yiannis Aloimonos University of Maryland, USA 2) Tamim Asfour Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 3) Heni Ben Amor Arizona State University, USA 4) Gordon Cheng Technische Universität München, Germany 5) Gregory D. Hager, Johns Hopkins University, USA 6) Tetsunari Inamura, National Institute of Informatics, Japan 7) Lydia E. Kavraki, Rice University, USA 8) Manuela M. Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University, USA *** Organizers *** 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, Rice University, http://www.neil.dantam.name Eren Erdal Aksoy, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, http://h2t.anthropomatik.kit.edu/english/21_947.php 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

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Official YouTube Live stream for Nagoya 2017
by Komei Sugiura 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

Hi all, We have an official YouTube Live broadcasting as follows. @Top page for RoboCup 2017 on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxbXbNOZT7BNLQNNNAU6e_w @Live stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggwuKFfxbx4 Please share with others. Thanks! Komei

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Object recognition data
by Raphael Memmesheimer 26 Jul '17

26 Jul '17

Hi all, we hereby share the data [1] we used for object recognition training. I think this could be useful for other teams. If you also collected nice data you may want to share it too. Best, Raphael - homer@UniKoblenz [1]: https://owncloud.uni-koblenz-landau.de/owncloud/s/5oVzJNbPsbv5yc8 -- M.Sc. Raphael Memmesheimer | Tel: +49 261 287-2971 Universität Koblenz-Landau, ICV | Fax: +49 261 287-100-2971 Universitätsstr. 1 | http://homer.uni-koblenz.de 56070 Koblenz | Office: B323

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Rough layout in Nagoya 2017
by Komei Sugiura 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Dear @Home participants, Since there we have many new teams this year, it might be helpful for them to know how the @Home area looks like. Therefore, we decided to disclose a *rough* layout. The followings are @Home conventions/rules. - The layout is fixed on-site on July 26. Until then, the layout is not fixed. - Precise layout is not disclosed. It will be disclosed after the competition finished. - There might be any changes about the layout. Teams cannot complain about it. I'm looking forward to seeing you in Nagoya!! Regards, Komei -- ***************************************************************** Komei Sugiura, Ph.D. Senior Researcher, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology 3-5 Hikaridai, Seika, Soraku, Kyoto 619-0289, Japan Email: komei.sugiura(a)nict.go.jp URL: http://komeisugiura.jp/index_en.html *****************************************************************

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