January 2022 - RoboCup-mid - lists.robocup.org

Fw:Pre-Robotics: MSL (Saturday January 29, 2022 7-8pm BKK)
by 刘斐 26 Jan '22

26 Jan '22

Hi everyone, As we are preparing for the Pre-robocup event, Jan 27-29, 2022, let me summarize the event for everyone. The pre-robocup event is mainly for participating teams to  recap any new changes to the league (if any). However, we can use this opportunity to promote each league to the general public as well. So if we can help to send the following posters and schedule to anyone/team you think will be interested. For the MSL, we have the final schedule as follows: 7:00pm - 7:05pm  Introducing the speakers by Ler Gullayanon 7:05pm - 7:25pm Introduction to the MSL league by Fei Liu 7:25pm - 7:40pm Rules and Regulations by Ehsan Marjani  7:40pm - 7:55pm Preparing for Middle Size League Challengev by Jorrit Olthuis 7:55pm - 8:00pm Q&A  Please let me know if you have any questions. Best Regards, Ler Rutchanee Gullayanon, Ph.D. Executive Vice President for Research and Innovation King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang 1 Soi Chalongkrung 1, Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand 10520 Mobile: +66 9 1805 5081 email: rutchanee.gu(a)kmitl.ac.th

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Participation Survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
by 刘斐 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Dear All, We would hereby invite you to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. This survey aims to explore the possible challenges and requirements of participants in the event, which will be held in 11-17 July 2022 at Bangkok, Thailand. https://forms.gle/FKJMMRaqWK6rSPLq9 According to the covid-19 pandemic situation, Thailand is gearing up for a return to normalcy by easing some travel restrictions and quarantine requirements and allowing normal tourists to enter the country. In addition, the government has now introduced sandbox programs allowing fully vaccinated travelers from 63 low-risk countries to enter the country without quarantine. For more specific information on situation and arrival requirements, please kindly visit our website on https://2022.robocup.org/. We appreciate the time you have taken to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. We are hoping and looking forward to seeing you at the event. Please finish the survey before January 31. RoboCup 2022 Organizing Team Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2022  

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Participation Survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand
by 刘斐 19 Jan '22

19 Jan '22

Dear All, We would hereby invite you to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. This survey aims to explore the possible challenges and requirements of participants in the event, which will be held in 11-17 July 2022 at Bangkok, Thailand. According to the covid-19 pandemic situation, Thailand is gearing up for a return to normalcy by easing some travel restrictions and quarantine requirements and allowing normal tourists to enter the country. In addition, the government has now introduced sandbox programs allowing fully vaccinated travelers from 63 low-risk countries to enter the country without quarantine. For more specific information on situation and arrival requirements, please kindly visit our website on https://2022.robocup.org/. We appreciate the time you have taken to complete the participation survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand. We are hoping and looking forward to seeing you at the event. Please finish the survey before January 31. RoboCup 2022 Organizing Team Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2022  

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Call for Participation: RoboCup 2022 Middle Size League
by 刘斐 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Call for Participation   RoboCup 2022 Middle Size League July 11 to 17, 2022 (Bangkok, Thailand) https://2022.robocup.org We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2022 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2022  MSL competitions.  1) Pre-registration  For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to rc-msl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org and liufei(a)caa.org.cn containing the following data: · team name · URL of the team’s home page · name of the team leader · e-mail address of team or team leader · affiliation · country · link to the qualification materials  Please send more information about teams to introduce them better on MSL website(https://msl.robocup.org/teams). Sending following information would be optional: · logo · profile (Describe team with at most 150 words). · most research topics (up to 6 topics)  2) Qualification materials  Please note that, according to the rules, the evaluation of some parts of the qualification materials will contribute to the scientific challenge final result.  By the time of pre-registration, please have ready the following qualification materials:  a) A Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (the TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) b) A list of 5 scientiﬁc papers published during the last 5 years of the team which are related to RoboCup. Abstracts of these papers and a complete reference to each paper must also be submitted. When more papers are submitted, only the first 5 will be considered; c) A list of results and awards obtained by the team in the last 3 years; d) A video showing the capabilities of the team’s robots (the maximum duration of the video is 60 seconds; if the submitted video is longer than 60 seconds, only the first 60 seconds will be considered for evaluation); e) A list of contributions of the team to the RoboCup MSL community. f) Declaration if the team will be part of a mixed team. g) Declaration if the team requires 802.11b access-point. h) A mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart (please include size and weight of the robots); i) List of MAC Addresses used by the team, with explicit indication of those that will be used for wireless communication and their type: robots or development computers. All other MAC addresses will be blocked.  The details regarding the qualification materials are contained in the rules and regulations document available at https://msl.robocup.org. Please read it thoroughly.  The qualification materials should be placed in a dedicated page of the team's web page. Please include the link to the qualification materials in the pre-registration information. 3) Important dates  · Deadline for pre-registration and submission of the qualification materials: March 21, 2022 · Announcement of qualified teams: March 28, 2022  4) Rules  The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2022 Middle Size League had been published at: https://msl.robocup.org/rules   The updated rules and regulations had been released by December 31, 2021  5) Publication  Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification materials of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Therefore, teams applying for participation, grant the right of publication of their qualification materials to the MSL league(MAC addresses are an exception and should remain private).  6) Plagiarism  Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see “http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html” for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community.  The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification.  7) Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams  For the 2022 International RoboCup competition, NEW major teams can apply for team fee waiver. A NEW team is defined as a team all of whose team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members.  The 2022 MSL Organizing and Technical Committees

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