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13th MSL Workshop : 24-25 January 2025 - Toulon University - France
by Valentin GIES 01 Dec '24

01 Dec '24

Dear MSL teams, The 13th International MSL Workshop will be held on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January 2024. The workshop location is Toulon University - Building E, Avenue de l'Université, 83130 La Garde. It is close to Toulon, 20mn drive from Toulon/Hyeres Airport, 1h drive from Marseille airport and 1h20 drive from Nice airport. The main topics are: The traditional team presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A per team) The MSL Roadmap and how to realize it Ensuring safety for MSL Other topics (some in parallel sessions) will be decided by the TC/EC comittees. The Workshop organisation would like to know which teams are coming and the number of participating team-members. Please contact Margaux (preferable via email : walter.margaux2(a)gmail.com and contact(a)robotclubtoulon.com) to register your team for the MSL workshop. If the registration is received, a confirmation will be sent . With kind regards, The MSL workshop organisation Margaux, Maelig, Charline and Valentin -- Margaux Walter Mobile: +33 7 83 75 27 04 e-mail: walter.margaux2(a)gmail.com

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MSL Rule and Roadmap Proposals
by Olthuis, Jorrit 12 Nov '24

12 Nov '24

Dear MSL teams, We would like to ask your ideas on 2 topics: * Every year, the Technical Committee updates the rulebook based on proposals by MSL community. Next to the normal open question for rule change proposals, we are looking for suggestion on how to improve human safety on the field. Teams are generally looking to becoming more powerful, therefore we want to ensure safety (e.g., for referees, human players, and during repairs). Please fill out this form before November 30: https://forms.gle/pTyWAHHNpdxZtJubA * The Executive Committee is looking at possible future directions for the MSL league. This involves evolving the rules over multiple years to move the league, step by step, into a (research) direction and to make steps towards the RoboCup wide goal of beating the human world champions in 2050. As a first step, we would like to hear from you. What direction(s) do you believe the MSL league should be going in the next 5 year? What should be the major new developments in MSL? Later, at the MSL workshop in Toulon in January, we will continue the discussion about this. Please submit your ideas through this online form: https://forms.gle/8aA5nYLb22TV7qcD8. Best regards, MSL Technical Committee

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RoboCup Early Visa Invitation Letters
by 2024＠robocup.org 21 Jan '24

21 Jan '24

Dear RoboCuppers, We are very much looking forward to inviting all of you to Eindhoven, The Netherlands for RoboCup 2024! To allow more teams to join RoboCup 2024, we offer early visa invitation letters. Participants that require a visa to join RoboCup in The Netherlands may apply for an early visa invitation letter. This letter allows for making an earlier appointment at an embassy to request a visa, rather than only after completing registration. There are some constraints on who can receive a visa invitation letter. You can find the details, as well as the request form, on the RoboCup 2024 website: https://2024.robocup.org/?page_id=2998 We hope to see you at RoboCup 2024! Best regards, RoboCup 2024 Organisation 2024(a)robocup.org <mailto:2024@robocup.org>

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Call for Participation: RoboCup2024 Middle Size League
by 刘斐 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Call for Participation  RoboCup 2024 Middle Size League July 15 to 22, 2024 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) https://2024.robocup.org We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2024 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate, please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2024 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. 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. (Modifications are allowed before the competition, no later than July 8, 2024.) j)    List of size and weight of the robots (If there are many different robots, please give the data for each type separately. Modifications are allowed before the competition, no later than July 8, 2024.): Dimensions: Length*Width*Height(cm) Weight: (kg)  For being able to participate in the RoboCup competition, teams have to ensure, at least, the minimum cumulative following criteria: ·   Demonstrate in the video that they are able to perform the basic actions to be able to play. ·   Produce a Team Description Paper (TDP) according to the above definition. ·   Obtain a minimum of 50 points in the overall qualification procedure.  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: February 29, 2024 ·   Announcement of qualified teams: March 15, 2024  4)    Rules  The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2024 Middle Size League had been published at: https://msl.robocup.org/rules  The updated rules and regulations had been released by December 31, 2023   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 “https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism.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 2024 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 2024 MSL Organizing and Technical Committees Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2024  

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12th MSL Workshop - request for registration
by Jurge van Eijck 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

Dear MSL teams, The 12th International MSL Workshop will be held on Friday 19th and Saturday 20th January 2024. The workshop location is Strand 365 <https://strand365.nl/en/location/> Veldhoven (next to Einhoven). The main topics are: - The traditional team presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q&A per team) - The MSL Roadmap and how to realize it - Artificial Intelligence for MSL Other topics (some in parallel sessions) would included: - Mixed Team / Playing with Humans - MSL Reference Architecture - Maintenance and licensing of MSL GitHub Repositories The Workshop organisation would like to know which teams are coming and the number of participating team-members. Please contact me (preferable via email) to *register your team *for the MSL workshop. If the registration is received, a confirmation will be sent . With kind regards, The MSL workshop organisation Ton, Lex, Lekhaj & Jurge

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12th International MSL Workshop
by Jurge van Eijck 09 Nov '23

09 Nov '23

Hello everyone, The Falcons and Robotsports are organizing the 12th international MSL workshop. The workshop will be in Eindhoven (the Netherlands) on Friday 19th January and Saturday 20th January 2024. Time schedule, exact location will follow soon. On behalf of Robotsports and the Falcons, Jurge, Lekhaj, Lex & Ton

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MSL rule proposals
by Olthuis, Jorrit 03 Oct '23

03 Oct '23

Dear MSL teams, On behalf of the Technical Committee I would like to ask you for suggestions for new/improved rules for 2024. For these suggestions we are at least looking for: * A description of your proposed change/addition. * In case of a change, which rule number should be changed. * A short motivation why this is an improvement to the league. We would like to ask you to submit the proposals by October 31st, such that the TC has time discuss the proposals and update the rulebook. Please send your proposals to rc-msl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org<mailto:rc-msl-tc@lists.robocup.org>. Best regards, The MSL Technical Committee

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MSL Rulebook Update - Ambition Challenge
by Olthuis, Jorrit 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Dear MSL teams, The Technical Committee has added the Ambition Challenge to the rulebook. This challenge uses a simplified set of rules and allows new teams to play matches at RoboCup, even before their robots satisfy the complete set of MSL rules. Version 24.1 of the rules, including the Ambition Challenge, can be found at https://msl.robocup.org/rules. Teams that wish to participate in this challenge at RoboCup 2023 are kindly requested to indicate their interest at the time of qualification. Teams that participate in the Ambition Challenge, and not in the regular competition, are only required to submit a Team Description Paper and Qualification Video in order to qualify. Best regards, On behalf of the MSL Technical Committee, Jorrit Olthuis

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MSL Rulebook 2023
by Olthuis, Jorrit 31 Dec '22

31 Dec '22

Dear MSL teams, The MSL rulebook has been updated for RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux, France. The new rulebook can be found here: https://msl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Rulebook_MSL2023_v24.0.p…. There is also an overview of the most important changes, this document is available here: https://msl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/RuleChangesSummary_MSL20… Both documents will soon also be available on the MSL website. The Technical Committee is looking into the possibility of having a challenge for new teams with a reduced set of rules. If this challenge will take place at RoboCup 2023, it will be added to the rulebook in January of 2023. In case you have any questions or remarks, please direct them to the Technical Committee at rc-msl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org<mailto:rc-msl-tc@lists.robocup.org>. Best regards, On behalf of the MSL Technical Committee 2023, Jorrit Olthuis

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11th International RoboCup MSL planning and deadline
by Peter Teurlings 14 Nov '22

14 Nov '22

Dear MSL Community, As you might already know VDL Robot Sports and Tech United Eindhoven will host the 11th International RoboCup Middle Size League Workshop on December 16th and 17th. In the appendix you can find the time planning and the invitation. Please make sure you register before the deadline of the 26th of November. For more information about the workshop please do not hesitate to send an email to: - Peter Teurlings: p.teurlings(a)tue.nl - Gabriel Levy: g.b.a.levy(a)student.tue.nl We are looking forward to seeing you on the 16th and 17th on the University campus in Eindhoven. Kind regards, Peter Teurlings Tech United MSL

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