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Interest attending European MSL event
by Olthuis, Jorrit 31 Jan '25

31 Jan '25

Dear RoboCup MSL Teams, We hope this email finds you well. The 13th RoboCup MSL Workshop, organized by the University of Toulon, occurred on January 24 and 25. During the workshop, several important topics were discussed, including the teams' progress, the league's evolution, advancements toward the 2050 objective, and the upcoming RoboCup 2025 in Brazil. One of the key points of discussion was the high costs associated with participating in RoboCup 2025 in Brazil. It was unanimously acknowledged that the estimated costs, including travel with robots, accommodation, and participation fees, would exceed €50,000 per team. This poses a significant challenge, particularly for teams with limited budgets. In light of this, organizing an alternative MSL event in Europe was proposed. Such an event could be more affordable for both European and Asian teams while still providing a competitive and collaborative platform for all participants. This email aims to inform you of the discussions held during the workshop and to gather your feedback on this matter. Your input is important as we consider the best way forward for the MSL community. We will explore alternatives to the Brazil event and send a follow-up email once we have received feedback from all MSL teams. This situation does not eliminate the need for a qualification process (LINK)<https://msl.robocup.org/uncategorized/2025-call-for-participation> (deadline: February 28), as this will most likely be used in the event, regardless of the location or organization team. Additionally, if the European event does not occur, the qualification remains necessary for teams wishing to compete in Brazil. Please reply to this email with your thoughts and opinions by February 9. To facilitate your response, please find below the key questions to address: - Is your team currently considering a trip to Brazil? - Does your team have the necessary budget for the trip to Brazil? - How likely is your team to participate in a European event? Thank you for your attention and cooperation. We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Executive Committee of RoboCup Middle Size League

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by JosipDujic_RC_MSL_TC 12 Jan '25

12 Jan '25

Hello, My name is Josip Dujić, and I am sorry to inform you that my team, Udruga Mehatroničara from Croatia, was unable to raise enough funds to participate in the 2025 RoboCup MSL competition in Brazil. However, three of us would still like to come and volunteer. Our question is: do we need to pay for registration, and what is the process for us to be there and assist the rest of the team? Best regards, Josip Dujić

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Call for Participation: RoboCup2025 Middle Size League
by 刘斐 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Call for Participation  RoboCup 2025 Middle Size League July 15 to 21, 2025 (Salvador, Brazil) https://2025.robocup.org We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2025 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate, please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2025 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)    A mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart. h)   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, 2025.) i)    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, 2025.): 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 28, 2025 ·   Announcement of qualified teams: March 15, 2025  4)    Rules  The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2025 Middle Size League had been published at: https://msl.robocup.org/rules  The updated rules and regulations had been released by December 31, 2024   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 2025 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 2025 MSL Organizing and Technical Committees Fei Liu OC Chair, Middle Size League, RoboCup 2025  

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Updated rulebook RoboCup 2025
by Olthuis, Jorrit 31 Dec '24

31 Dec '24

Dear MSL teams, The updated rules for RoboCup 2025 have been published. They are available on the MSL website: https://msl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Rulebook_MSL2025_v26.0.p… Best regards, MSL Technical Committee

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13th MSL Workshop - Detailed program - 24-25 January 2025 - Toulon University
by Valentin GIES 20 Dec '24

20 Dec '24

Dear MSL teams, As already announced, the 13th International MSL Workshop will be held on Friday 24th and Saturday 25th January 2025. The workshop location is : Universite de Toulon (Building E - 3rd floor) Avenue de l'Université 83130 La Garde (close to Toulon) France https://www.univ-tln.fr/Campus-de-La-Garde.html Schedule of the workshop is : * Friday 24th morning (starting at 9:00): o Traditional team presentations (20min + 10 minutes Q&A per team) * Friday 24th afternoon : o MSL Roadmap and how to realize it + Short / middle term evolutions + Long term evolutions for reaching 2050 objectives o Brazil 2025 : team participation / difficulties / suggestions for RoboCup Board * Saturday 25th morning (starting à 9:00): o Goalkeepers evolution. o Ensuring safety for MSL / playing with humans * Saturday 25th afternoon : o Quadrupeds / bipeds and MSL o How to get more teams in MSL ? o Additional topics to be defined The Workshop organisation would like to know which teams are coming and the number of participating team-members (for teams who didn't reply yet...). Friday and Saturday lunches and friday dinner will be organized by Toulon University. 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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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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