Dear Humanoid League Teams,
this April version of our monthly newsletter contains important updates
regarding registration to the 2023 soccer competition in Bordeaux, the
release of the final rule book, as well as information about what
happens next in the Humanoid League Virtual Season.
Early registration ends May 9th
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If your team has qualified to participate in the Humanoid League Soccer
Competition in Bordeaux, you should have received a letter of
qualification together with the required key to officially register to
the event. If you have not received this letter, please reach out to the
Technical Committee as soon as possible!
We would like to remind all teams that the early registration deadline
ends May 9th. While you will be able to register after this deadline,
the prices will increase. For more information, check out the official
registration website: https://2023.robocup.org/en/registration-participants/
Final rule book released
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The final version of the rule book for the 2023 soccer competition has
now been released on the website:
https://humanoid.robocup.org/materials/rules/ - it only has minor
administrative differences compared to the draft we released a few weeks
ago. If you are interested in the exact differences, you can track them
on our official rule repository:
https://github.com/RoboCup-Humanoid-TC/Rules
HLVS - Final stream & upcoming workshop
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We are streaming the game for third place (09:00 am CEST) and final
(10:30 am CEST) of the Humanoid League Virtual Season 2023 this coming
Sunday! Join us on our Twitch channel to watch the games:
https://www.twitch.tv/robocuphumanoidfielda
We are also organizing a workshop concluding this year's virtual season
on May 13th. You can still propose topics for a workshop or talk. For
more information, see: https://humanoid.robocup.org/hlvs2023/workshop/
RoboCup Symposium - Deadline May 1st
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Submissions to the RoboCup Symposium are still open until May 1st! For
more information, visit the official Symposium Website:
https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/
Cheers,
Maike (on behalf of the Humanoid League Technical Committee)
Dear colleagues,
*Apologies for any cross-posting*
Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to *01
May 2023*. The *26th RoboCup International **Symposium* will be held on 10
July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in
Bordeaux, France.
*Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/
*Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023
*Submission deadline* May 1, 2023
Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the
International **Symposium 2023*.
Kindest regards,
Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser
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The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in
conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France.
We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original
research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A
full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found 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 Bordeaux, France. However,
a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it.
In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the
*development
track* encourages 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 specifically working in RoboCup.
*Submission deadline:* May 1st, 2023
List of Topics
- 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
Submission Guidelines
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-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/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>).
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-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj*
<https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-…>
Invited Speakers
- Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)*
- Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
*(confirmed)*
Committees Organizing committee
- Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - cedric.buche(a)enib.fr
- Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy -
a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk
- Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - msimoes(a)uneb.br
- Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - visser(a)cs.miami.edu
Venue
The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des
Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France.
Contact
Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra
Rossi - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk