Dear Humanoid League Teams,
this is the May version of our monthly newsletter in which we will give
you some updates on changes to the rules and the ongoing discussion
about the Humanoid League RoadMap. We are also providing a link to the
recordings of the Humanoid League - Virtual Season and to sign up for
the Humanoid Robot Soccer School to be held hybrid later in May. As
always, you will find all details below.
Rule book update - CoM & Parcour Device
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As announced in our last newsletter, the Technical Committee voted to
include the measurement device for the robot's center of mass in the
official rule book. It is now clarified that the center of mass is
determined using the device provided in the Appendix. The Appendix
contains instructions that both LOCs and teams can use to build the
device that was used during the last official RoboCup Humanoid
competitions. The changes are already published in the latest version of
the rules on the website:
http://humanoid.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/RC-HL-2022-Rules-Changes-Mar…
In the last meeting, the Technical Committee has decided to also make a
technical drawing of the parkour device part of the rule book. Hence, we
will have another update of the rule book containing this device soon.
Please note that this is again not a change of the rules but rather a
clarification that will make it easier for teams to prepare for the
upcoming competition.
RoadMap Update
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This is a reminder that we are currently in the discussion period about
the latest draft of the roadmap. It can be found here:
http://humanoid.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/roadmap_2022.pdf
During the discussion period, we welcome all requests for additions or
changes and will consider them carefully in the Technical Committee. The
discussion is still open until May 15th. Afterwards, we plan vote to
approve the RoadMap in the beginning of June.
The discussion takes place in the Humanoid League forum:
https://hl.forum.robocup.org/t/discussion-updates-to-the-roadmap-document/5…
Humanoid League - Virtual Season: Workshop Recordings Available
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In case you missed the Virtual Season Workshop that was held last week,
you can watch most of the talks on the league's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXeeDL_LV4o&list=PLgdIO6u3RLU_LgntQKIHiZrF3…
The workshop has concluded this edition of the Virtual Season and we
would like to take the opportunity to thank all of those who supported
and participated in the Virtual Season and congratulate the winning
teams CIT Brains (1st place), Hamburg Bit-Bots (2nd place) and 01. RFC
Berlin (3rd place).
If you would like to see the virtual season continue next winter, please
consider joining the organizing team! We will send around a call for
contribution in early autumn.
Humanoid Soccer Robot School 2022
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Supported by the RoboCup Federation, the National Kaohsiung University
of Science and Technology (NKUST) is organizing a Humanoid Summer School
from 18th to 20th of May 2022. The event will be hybrid and you can
still register until 11th of May. For more information, see
https://bit.ly/3jrYaXR
Cheers,
Maike (on behalf of the Humanoid League Technical Committee)
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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/
