March 2022 - RoboCup-humanoid - lists.robocup.org

Open Call for participation in validating the EUROBENCH framework (FSTP-2)
by Grzegorz Ficht 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Dear Humanoid League members, This is an announcement regarding: =========================================================================== Open Call for participation in validating the EUROBENCH framework (FSTP-2). =========================================================================== - About the EUROBENCH project: The EUROBENCH project aims to create the first unified benchmarking framework for robotic systems in Europe. This framework will allow companies and/or researchers to test the performance of their robots at any stage of development. The project is mainly focused on bipedal machines, i.e. exoskeletons, prosthetics and humanoids, but aims to be also extended to other robotic technologies. - Who is elligible for contributing? Every Humanoid League team from previous physically held competitions. Simulation data is outside the scope of the project. - How can you contribute? By providing how your robot performed during previous RoboCup competitions. This data will be incorporated into the EUROBENCH benchmarking framework. - How will this benefit your team and the RoboCup community? The RoboCup community will receive an assessment on how the competition and it’s competitors progressed throughout the years. Additionally, teams will be able to cross-compare their performance to other teams, as well as platforms from outside the community through a uniform framework. If a team’s robot is a product prototype, this is a perfect opportunity to quantify it’s performance. - What experimental data should you provide? We are accepting your performance data from walking, push recovery and obstacle clearance. The data should be isolated from your robots RoboCup performance, and should target at least one of the scenarios: Forward walking for an extended period of time Push recovery during standing and/or walking Walking over obstacles (e.g. stomping the opponent feet, unexpected items laying on the football field). - What data files and formats are necessary for participation? The information required consists of two different classes of files related to the performance: Bipedal system specification: file providing specification of the dimension of any bipedal system. File format: URDF (Unified Robot Description Format, *.urdf) written in XML. This file contains the number of joints, its labels, number of degrees of freedom, sensors, and allows for enhancements using tags for simulation purposes. Naming should follow the convention “robot_TeamName_RobotName_info” Pre-processed data: Files containing actual measurements relevant to the performance of your robot. File format: CSV (Comma Separated Values, *.csv). These files should contain sensory information (e.g. joint states, joint torques, IMU, ground reaction forces). For an explanation on sensory information types, structure and naming convention please look here: https://eurobench.github.io/sofware_documentation/latest/data_format.html#s… (Optional) Raw experimental data: Complete unspliced data from the run in the form of a rosbag. For more information on data specification, please refer to: https://eurobench.github.io/sofware_documentation/latest/data_format.html - What other information do you need to provide? The submission does need to include the statement: “With this submission, it is agreed upon that the data provided can be further processed and incorporated into the EUROBENCH database and published within the EUROBENCH project. All rights are waived to holding team NimbRo, the University of Bonn, the EUROBENCH consortium or any other project participant accountable for any damage taken in the process.” - How should the data be submitted? The submission should be sent to nimbro-soccer(a)ais.uni-bonn.de, include the specified data in their respective data format. Any other forms of submission such as unspecified data formats, compressed files or external links will be ignored and not treated as a valid submission. This also holds true for submissions lacking the necessary statement. - Until when can the data be submitted? The deadline for this Open call is midnight (CEST) of the 30th of April, 2022. Any submissions made after this date will not be considered. - Questions? The Humanoid League forum will be used to answer any questions that might arise in the process of preparing the data. The relevant topic can be found here: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/open-call-for-participation-in-validating-th… Best Regards, Grzegorz Ficht -- Universität Bonn Informatik VI - Autonome Intelligente Systeme Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8 53115 Bonn

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I have a few questions about robocup 2022 humanoid KidSize(physical competition)!
by 김성준 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Dear Sir, Hello! I have the following questions, so I send you an email. 1. (About Registration Fees) 1)For humanoid kidssize is it part of Major Leagues registration? 2)If our team is 10 people, is the team registration fee of $790 and the student registration fee of $380 per person, a total of $4590? -Above of the questions are written in the material, but I will ask for confirmation. 2.(About Lows of the Game) - KidSize, physical competition RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League Laws of the Game 2021/2022 describes the ball, but can you give more detailed information about the ball (photo of the ball)? Thank you for your help in this matter!

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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Workshops and next games
by Alessandra Rossi 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Dear Robocuppers, The first round of games for RC-HL virtual season just ended. We streamed the last game of the Round Robin phase last Sunday (20 March). We will now enter in the Quarterfinals, which they will be streamed on April 3rd starting at 10am (CEST time). The Semi-Final and Final will be streamed on April 17th from the joint event German Open Replacement Event (GORE) organised by SPL and Humanoid League which takes place in Hamburg (Germany) from 12.04. to 17.04.22. At the end of the games, RC-HL virtual season organisers will hold a three days event on April 28-30, 2022 focused on exploring the sim2real transfer topic. It will be a great opportunity for both exploring future collaborations between different leagues, and sharing knowledge and experiences of applying realistic computational resources and scenario to the virtual competition, and the other way around. We welcome proposals for half hour workshops. More info on how to submit your proposal are here -> https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/rc-hl-virtual-season-workshops/call-… Looking forward to receive your valuable inputs and contributions. Best regards, Alessandra On behalf of the RC-HL virtual organisation committee More info on our website: https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022 We will be streaming all of our games on Twitch Field A For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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Release of the final rule book for the 2022 competition in Bangkok
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Dear Humanoid League teams, the Technical Committee has voted to accept the rule book for the 2022 competition in Bangkok, Thailand. The final version is now published on our website - as always, with and without changes marked: https://humanoid.robocup.org/materials/rules/ Please note that minor changes could still be made to the rule book in case mistakes or inconsistencies are spotted. However, no substantial changes will be made and no new rules will be introduced for the 2022 competition. We are also working on a release of the updated version of the roadmap, which we will share with the league soon. Cheers, Maike (for the RoboCup Humanoid League Technical Committee) -- Dr. Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann Postdoctoral Researcher Foundations of Computational Linguistics Laboratory University of Potsdam, Germany Pronouns: she / her More information: https://www.maike-paetzel.de/

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - 2nd Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

* 2nd Call for Satellite Events * RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-satellite-events/ Submission of proposals: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== We invite you to organize a satellite event for the 25th RoboCup International Symposium, which will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to facilitate the organization of satellite workshops, focus groups, roundtable discussions, and other events that are related to RoboCup itself or the general aim of the RoboCup Symposium. This includes league-specific discussions about rules and/or roadmaps, shared infrastructure projects between leagues, as well as scientific workshops focusing on a particular research topic, among others. League committee members, as well as teams or individuals from RoboCup leagues participating in the Symposium, are invited to submit their proposals. The organizers of a satellite event are free to propose events between 2 and 8 hours in length to be held during or a day after the RoboCup Symposium (17 or 18 July) in a fully virtual, hybrid, or fully local format. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of satellite events: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Proposals will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium as well as their proposed schedule and required resources. Satellite events will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines [0] and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system [1]. Please follow the LaTeX template created by us by either downloading the template file [2] or by creating a private copy of this Overleaf template [3]. Submissions are limited to a 4-page extended abstract, excluding references. Each submission must include the following sections: * Name of the satellite event * A description of the format (e.g., discussion group, workshop, tutorial, invited talks, ...) and intended length of the event * Prefered date and time of the event (17 or 18; morning or afternoon, or the whole day [no lunch will be provided unless it’s on the 17th]) * A description of the content and aim of the satellite event * Names and contacts of all members of the organizing committee/group with one clearly marked person as the corresponding member of the organizing committee * The intended audience and the number of participants expected * Any resources required to organize the workshop After the acceptance of their proposal, organizers are expected to create a short description of their event as well as a website providing further information which will both be linked from the RoboCup symposium page on the RoboCup 2022 website. Organizers of accepted proposals for satellite events will receive a location for their event as well as other required resources (e.g., a projector), if possible. Apart from this, the organizers are responsible for organizing their event independent of the RoboCup Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org [0] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [1] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 [2] https://2022.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Symposium-Satellite-Eve… [3] https://de.overleaf.com/read/gqspxdtvpwsn

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RoboCup Humanoid League Newsletter - March 2022
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Dear Humanoid League Teams, this is the March version of our monthly newsletter in which we will give you some updates on the preparation for the RoboCup 2022 world championship as well as a workshop we are organizing as part of the Virtual Season in the end of April 2022. Rule Voting & Update Process ----------------------------- Based on the voting of the Humanoid League teams, the Technical Committee has prepared a final version of the rule book for the 2022 competition. It can be found here: https://humanoid.robocup.org/materials/rules/ For a summary of the voting results and respective changes, have a look at this forum post: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/results-of-the-2022-rule-voting/550 The period for teams to make comments about the final draft ends tomorrow. So if you haven't done so, please have a look at the draft and provide comments here: https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/discussion-final-draft-of-the-hl-2022-rule-b… We are planning to release the final rule book early next week. Qualification for RoboCup 2022 ------------------------------- The qualification process for RoboCup 2022 has finished and the list of qualified teams can now be found here: https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-2022/teams/ Congratulations to all teams that were qualified for the competition! You will receive an official letter of acceptance together with further instructions for registration soon. Save the date! Online workshop in the Humanoid League ------------------------------------------------------ On 28-30 April 2022 the Humanoid League organizes a virtual workshop specifically dedicated to sim2real learning! The aim of the workshop is to reflect on the lessons learned from the first Virtual Season and discuss about a path forward within the Humanoid League but also together with the 3D simulation league. The workshop will feature an invited talk by Marco Simões from the 3D simulation league as well as champions talks from the teams placed first, second and third in the virtual season. The remaining time slots are for the participants to design and we currently have an open call for workshop proposals (see Alessandra's e-mail for more information). We will soon have more information available on our website, but make sure you already mark the days in your calendar! Cheers, Maike (for the Humanoid League Technical Committee) -- Dr. Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann Postdoctoral Researcher Foundations of Computational Linguistics Laboratory University of Potsdam, Germany Pronouns: she / her More information: https://www.maike-paetzel.de/

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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Call for Workshop proposals on sim2real transfer
by Alessandra Rossi 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Dear RoboCuppers, The Technical and Virtual Organising committees of the Humanoid League invite proposals for Workshops that will be held as part of the Humanoid League Virtual Season on April, 28-30, 2022. The event will be fully online and free of attendance. The theme of this three-days event is sim2real transfer. In particular, we want to teams the opportunity to share their knowledge and experiences of applying realistic computational resources and scenario to the virtual competition, and the other way around. A second aim is too have a specific roundtable to talk about possible ideas for collaboration between the 3Dsim and the Humanoid League. However, inputs and contributions from different leagues are valuable and appreciated. The event will be organised through different time-zones to allow the participations from all over the world. Detailed schedule of the event will be posted on the website of the Humanoid League email and social media. Website: https://humanoid.robocup.org/ Twitter: @HumanoidLRC IMPORTANT DATES Proposal Submission deadline: April 8, 2022 (AoE) Workshop days: April, 28-30, 2022. HOW TO SUBMIT We are welcoming workshop proposals related to the sim2real topic from teams of the different RC leagues. Each workshop will be of half hour. Teams can submit more than one proposal, but they need to provide separate submissions. Prospective workshop organisers are invited to submit a proposal in a PDF format via https://cloud.robocup.org/s/CrqjiD3DdscRKcg Proposals should include the following information: • Workshop title • Short description of topic and objective of the workshop • Organisers names, email and affiliation For any questions and further information about the Workshop proposal and the event, please email rc-hl-tc <AT> lists.robocup.org or rc-hl-oc <AT> lists.robocup.org Alessandra On behalf of the Humanoid League TC and V-OC committees Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Next game day on March 6th, 2022 at 10:00 (CET)
by Alessandra Rossi 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Dear RoboCuppers, We are coming back with a new games day on Sunday March 6th! Games will be streamed on Twitch Field A and commented by OCs and teams' members for getting insights on the games, the simulation, robots and software developed by the teams. Have a look at the website for more information about the games, including previous games, scores, and so on. For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Kind regards, Alessandra Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Papers
by Nuno Lau 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Dear RoboCuppers, Please consider submitting your paper to this year's symposium! Call for papers RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-papers/ 17 July 2022 Bangkok, Thailand (hybrid setting) The 25th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bangkok, Thailand, with remote participation options for both presenters and attendees. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 17 April 2022 Notification to authors: 5 June 2022 Submission of camera-ready copies: 26 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium 2022: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup on 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-… TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning * Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning * Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2021, we expand the scope of this track to include datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community and the research topics listed above. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego CONTACT robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org<mailto:robocupsymposium2022@easychair.org>

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GORE_3 - Team and Participants Registration & Updates
by Stelter, Sebastian 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Dear teams, this is a mail dealing with the official registration for the GORE_3 from the 12.04. till 17.04.22 in Hamburg, Germany. You can always find the latest information here on our website: https://gore-event.github.io/ GORE_3 - 2022 Registration Fees and Deadlines: MAJOR FEES: * Major Team €200 * Major Participant (Faculty/Staff/Student) €75 * Major Participant late registration €100 TEAM REGISTRATION: * Until March 20, 2022 PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION (ON-SITE): * Until March 20, 2022 Note: Remote teams only need to register the team. The official invoice will be sent out at the beginning of April with possible reduced costs due to sponsors. GORE_3 - 2022 Registration: For the registration process the team leader(s) collects all participants (including themselves) and then fills out this registration form: https://forms.gle/Qfg2MzPutGzGRpot7 All data entered in the registration form will only be used for the purpose of registration, payment processing and creation of badges. Directly after the event this data will be deleted! Since we have some teams that only participate remotely and cannot ship robots we ask all teams to provide a few robots for a shared robot pool. These robots can always be used for your own team if you need them and Softbank Robotics will be onsite for direct repairs! Shortly before the event, we will send out a document regarding the use of photos and videos taken during the event, which all participants must sign and bring with them. More information on this in a later mail. Note: In order to modify the number of participants you can send a copy of the form to your mail (slider at the end of the registration form) and with this you can modify your registration. Or the registration form must be completely filled out another time (only the last submission before the deadline counts). Also late registration of participants, after the deadline, is possible but at a higher fee for the late registered participants! GORE_3 - 2022 Venue: For teams participating on-site, the venue is located in the Handelskammer<https://www.hk24.de/en/servicemarken/event-management/room-boersensaal-1159…> (Chamber of Commerce) of Hamburg. There we use the "Börsensaal" where two SPL fields will be set up. Around them are the team zones, Softbank Robotics, a Junior competition and space for the audience. Since the venue is located in the center of Hamburg and there are enough hotels around it, we did not book a contingent at certain hotels. VENUE ADDRESS: * Adolphsplatz 1 20457 Hamburg Germany<https://www.google.de/maps/place/Handelskammer+Hamburg/@53.549812,9.9888133…> Instructions for the on-site delivery or the exact address for shipping robots will be available in a later mail. GORE_3 - 2022 Covid19/Corona Rules: Due to the current Covid19/Corona situation, we will be paying attention to the health of all participants at this event. Therefore, access (both participants and spectators) is only possible under the 2G+ rule (vaccinated or recovered both with an additional official negative test or for boostered people a self-test). For this you need a proof which is valid in the EU. Even if many of the Corona rules could be dropped before the event, we currently assume, since we are staying with many people in an indoor area, that we require you to wear a medical mask all the time and do an official Corona test or self-test every day. All in all let's create a safe environment together so that no one has to worry about their health and can concentrate on playing robot soccer. GORE_3 - 2022 Drinks and food: For the thirst in between we provide refrigerators from which you can take drinks at the retail price. We do not offer catering/food booths because we are located in the center of Hamburg and there are many possibilities around to get food. GORE_3 - 2022 SPL-Rules: You can find the adapted SPL rules with added robot safety enhancements from the last GORE_1/2 under the following link: https://github.com/RoboCup-SPL/Rules/tree/GORE_3 In general, please note that we will already play with the new Event-Based-Communication at the GORE_3. Also, some of the robot safety rules from the previous GORE rules could been relaxed and this will be decide at the first team leader meeting on site together with the teams. If you are interested in a committed participation in the GORE_3, please fill out the registration form<https://forms.gle/Qfg2MzPutGzGRpot7> from above. For further questions and remarks please send us a mail at gore.organisation(a)gmail.com<mailto:gore.organisation@gmail.com>. See you soon in Hamburg and stay healthy. The GORE_3 organizing committee Arne, Jörn, Patrick and Sebastian

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