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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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Many illegal wifi ap found
by Yuki Furuta 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Dear @home TC, As announced beforehand, using wifi ap except official one is strictly prohibited. We at least found unofficial wifi ap as followings: Where should we report to wifi police? ESSID:"work" ESSID:"BumbleBee5G" ESSID:"AUPAIR_WIFI_5G" ESSID:"test-5g" ESSID:"Amazon1" ESSID:"NETGEAR15-5G-2" ESSID:"501HWa-8FB5C6" ESSID:"robotto5G" ESSID:"Logistics" ESSID:"SSL_48ch_OP-AmP" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"HL_FIELD_C_a" ESSID:"MSL_FIELD_A_a" ESSID:"MSL_FIELD_B_a" ESSID:"ASUS_5G" ESSID:"robotto" ESSID:"iPhone" ESSID:"work" ESSID:"AUPAIR_WIFI" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"HL_FIELD_A_a" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"501HWa-6C5E54" ESSID:"HL_FIELD_D_g" ESSID:"SPL_E" ESSID:"HUAWEI MAIMANG 5" ESSID:"TP-LINK_9AB1" ESSID:"Project Millenium Falcon" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"FAPS_robots" ESSID:"NETGEAR15-5G-1" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"HL_FIELD_D_a" ESSID:"SPL5G" ESSID:"HL_FIELD_B_a" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"HL_FIELD_E_a" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"\x00" ESSID:"work" ESSID:"p-athome-sspl-aupair" ESSID:"\x00" -- ⌘ Yuki Furuta

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When is the first team meeting to be held?
by Yuki Furuta 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Dear @Home TC, When the first team meetings are planned to be held? Is there any materials that we can check all the schedule? Thanks in advance! -- ⌘ Yuki Furuta

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About groceries used in @home task
by Yuki Furuta 25 Jul '17

25 Jul '17

Dear all, We are still not be informed about groceries used in @home task. We asked directly to TC and they said that they are now preparing them and we can receive them in few hours. Since we cannot get reached any information unless asking directly to TCs, let's share useful information and save our time! :) -- ⌘ Yuki Furuta

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Re: [robocup-athome] Buy lead acid battery in Nagoya
by Cristopher Andrés Gómez 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Thank you all. We finally found the batteries. See you in Robocup! On 24 Jul 2017 3:22 pm, "Alexander Moriarty" <alexander.moriarty(a)gmail.com> wrote: To narrow the search a little: Dropped Pin near 〒460-0011 Aichi Prefecture, Nagoya, Naka Ward, Osu, 3 Chome−14−43, 第2アメ横ビル gram https://maps.google.com/?q=near%20gram%2C%20%E3%80%92460- 0011%20Aichi%20Prefecture%2C%20Nagoya%2C%20Naka%20Ward%2C% 20Osu%2C%203%20Chome%E2%88%9214%E2%88%9243%2C%20%E7%AC% AC2%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A1%E6%A8%AA%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB&hl=en-CA&gl=ca This location has 12V 7.2 Ah for ¥2000 タケイムセン "Takeimysen" is the name of the shop. The nearest shop to the centre with motorcycle batteries sold Honda batteries, 12V 14.7 Ah, for ~100 dollars, YB14L-A2 http://yamiya750.com/ For larger batteries, they all said to go outside of the city to find a motorcycle parts shop. Cheers, Alex Sent from my iPhone On Jul 24, 2017, at 10:16, Juxi Leitner <j.leitner(a)qut.edu.au> wrote: Hello all, is there a list of DIY shops in the vicinity of the convention centre available somewhere? I think that would be helpful for a few of us :) //Juxi -- Juxi Leitner | http://Juxi.net <http://juxi.net/> Research Fellow | ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision E: j.leitner(a)qut.edu.au <mailto:j.leitner@qut.edu.au <j.leitner(a)qut.edu.au>> | W: www.roboticvision.org | P: +61 7 3138 2363 <+61%207%203138%202363> Science and Engineering Faculty | Queensland University of Technology Gardens Point, S Block 11 30 | 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000 | CRICOS No. 00213J On 23 Jul 2017, at 12:38, Noriaki Mitsunaga <mnoriaki(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello all, If you want to buy a car battery, I suggest DIY shop. If you need some other types, please visit Ameyoko building. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xxVMDzEtqvQ3M5NMFxIgxuO8KCAGa VLZUCAIw1swz9Q/edit?usp=sharing Hope this helps. // Noriaki Mitsunaga 2017-07-24 0:54 GMT+09:00 Cristopher Andrés Gómez <cristopher.gomez(a)ug.uchile.cl>: Hello everybody, Does anyone know where to buy lead acid batteries in Nagoya? This information would be really helpful for us. Regards, Cristopher. _______________________________________________ robocup-athome mailing list robocup-athome(a)lists.robocup.org http://lists.robocup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robocup-athome _______________________________________________ robocup-athome mailing list robocup-athome(a)lists.robocup.org http://lists.robocup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robocup-athome _______________________________________________ robocup-athome mailing list robocup-athome(a)lists.robocup.org http://lists.robocup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/robocup-athome

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Buy lead acid battery in Nagoya
by Cristopher Andrés Gómez 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

Hello everybody, Does anyone know where to buy lead acid batteries in Nagoya? This information would be really helpful for us. Regards, Cristopher.

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Fwd: [robocup-humanoid] Electricity & Solder Iron
by Hiroyuki Okada 24 Jul '17

24 Jul '17

---------- 転送メッセージ ---------- From: "Hideaki Minakata" <hideaki.minakata(a)it-chiba.ac.jp> 日付: 2017/07/24 午前10:10 件名: [robocup-humanoid] Electricity & Solder Iron To: "robocup-humanoid" <robocup-humanoid(a)cc.gatech.edu> Cc: Dear all, You can not use electricity after the hall is closed. So you can not charge your battery in midnight due to the safety reason. Besides, the organizer prohibit to use solder iron in your team space. We have 2 tables for solder iron. Please use there. Sincerely, Hideaki Minakata (LOC) _______________________________________________ robocup-humanoid mailing list robocup-humanoid(a)cc.gatech.edu https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-humanoid

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