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Reminder: RoboCup SPL Call for Applications for Participation 2023
by Stefan Seering 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Call for Applications for Participation 2023 - RoboCup Standard Platform League Call for Applications for Participation RoboCup 2023 Standard Platform League spl.robocup.org <https://spl.robocup.org/> Tuesday 4th July through Monday 10th July 2023 Bordeaux, France Further details can be found in the full CfP <https://spl.robocup.org/call-for-applications-for-participation-2023/>. All applications with the (pre-)qualification material must be submitted by 15th of February 2023. /RoboCup 2023 Standard Platform League Technical and Organizing Committees/

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Newsletter RoboCup SPL 2023/1
by Patrick Göttsch 23 Jan '23

23 Jan '23

# RoboCup SPL - Newsletter 2023/1 Dear Teams, 2023 has started and we are already in the third week. Less than six months until we meet again. This time in Bordeaux. During the next months you will receive further newsletters updating you with recent information and reminding you about important tasks. We wish you and your team all the best and hope to see your application for RoboCup 2023 soon in <a href="mailto:rc-spl-tc@lists.robocup.org">our mailbox</a>. Best regards, Your OC & TC ## Reminder Call for Participation The deadline for submitting your application for RoboCup 2023 is approaching (2023-02-15). We encourage every team which is interested in participating in SPL at RoboCup 2023 to submit their application. Even if you are unsure about your funding situation or facing other issues, please submit your application with a note about your issues. We will try our best to support you. **Important**: The <a href="https://spl.robocup.org/call-for-applications-for-participation-2023/">application process</a> has been slightly changed. Please review your submissions. ## Timeline towards RoboCup 2023 Here are some important dates listed: - 2023-01-20: Rule Book - 2023-02-15: Application deadline - 2023-02-28: Announcement of (preliminary, i.e. including "on probation") qualification decisions - 2023-03-15: Additional qualification material deadline for "on probation" teams - 2023-03-31: Final qualification decisions - 2023-05-01: Jersey submission by teams - 2023-05-14: DBHC defender image deadline - 2023-05-31: Release of the official DBHC defender images - 2023-06-01: Announcement of major color by teams - 2023-06-15: Announcement of the competition mode at RoboCup 2023 - 2023-06-XX: Referee Workshop - 2023-07-04: RoboCup 2023 starts ## Discord We ask all teams of the RoboCup SPL to register for the <a href="https://discord.gg/SfQ5AzD4jj">SPL Discord Server</a>. Before and during RoboCup it will be an important communication channel to stay in contact with you and your team members and to connect all teams with each other. It will also be used for announcements and challenge execution coordination. ## Rules Drafts of the 2023 rule book and technical challenges are published <a href="https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/#2023" >on the SPL website</a>. If you have questions, have found an issue, or have a proposal, please submit an issue to <a href="https://github.com/RoboCup-SPL/Rules">the Rules repository</a>. ## Jerseys As you might have seen, the rules for the jerseys have been changed. The Champions Cup will play 7 vs. 7 by default and the goalkeeper has to wear a jersey of different colour. A jersey of a third colour is needed for this purpose. If you can't manufacture a third colour until RoboCup: the TC/OC can provide you with standard red or blue jerseys with number one. ## Community Defender Images This year we are going to have a revised version of last year's Dynamic Ball Handling Challenge. Similar to last year, we ask teams to prepare Defender images for this challenge. If you want to start preparations for this challenge already: you can use the defender images from last year until the new images are available and the GameController version is updated. You can download them from the following links: https://b-human.informatik.uni-bremen.de/public/DynamicBallHandlingDefender/ https://openlarry.de/-C3j8NDz2jdjCfjd ## Code Releases from Open Research Challenge 2022 The code releases of the three highest ranked teams in the Open Research Challenge 2022 are available at https://spl.robocup.org/rc2022/#open-research-challenge.

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[meetings][CFP] First call for papers at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Alessandra Rossi 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* We are very pleased to invite you to 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* April 16, 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 [image: image.png] 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:* April 16, 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

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