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RoboCup SPL Newsletter No. 2 2025 - Preliminary rule change announcement
by Caron, Benjamin 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

Dear SPL Teams, Code Release by October 15 This is a reminder that teams who participated in RoboCup 2024 need to publish and announce this at robocup-nao(a)lists.robocup.org<mailto:robocup-nao@lists.robocup.org> by October 15, 2024. Teams who are developing fully open source also need to make the announcement. For reference, see the section A.7 from the rulebook. Shared Autonomous Challenge Code Release Teams who participated in the Shared Autonomous Challenge must also release both the robot code and the interface code developed for the human-operated robot by October 15, 2024. For more information, see section 2.2.10 of the Technical Challenge rulebook. Major rules change for Champion Cup 2025 The Technical Committee (TC) has reviewed feedback from team leaders and suggestions for rule changes. Based on these discussions, the following changes are planned for the 2025 competition: * New Visual Referee Signal for Set Play: Referees will now give a visual signal to indicate which team is performing a Set Play. While the GameController will still send the type of Set Play, it will no longer reveal which team is executing it. * Red Gloves: The referee will no longer use red gloves or any mandatory visual clues to perform the visual signal. * Ready Signal Delay: The delay for the Ready signal from GameController will be 45 seconds, so an Initial Ready signal won't be sent. The Motion In Standby penalty will be updated. * Message Budget Count: Packet messages will now begin being counted from the Standby state. * Direct Kicks: Failing to execute a set play on time gives opposing team one direct kick chance to score. This change is meant to encourage teams to better detect in-game visual signals. * Game Flow Adjustments: Includes a drop ball rule, end of half when the ball comes to a full stop, and early penalty abort option for mistakes. * Glicko Rating Adjustments: The Glicko rating system will now take into account additional factors, such as participation in the Technical Challenges or forking a code base from another team. Major rules change for Challenge Shield 2025 Teams participating in the Challenge Shield should expect to follow most of the rules from this year’s Champion Cup, with some adjustments based on lessons learned (e.g., updates to the Motion In Standby penalty) and minor changes from the 2025 Champions Cup. More details will be provided in the next newsletter. Technical Challenges 2025 * Open Challenge: More information will be released soon. * Kicking a Rolling Ball: Teams are required to kick a ball that rolls down a ramp. * Additional Challenge: A third, inter-league connecting challenge may be introduced, pending further internal discussions. New Skill Leaderboard Starting with this year, the TC will introduce a skill leaderboard, allowing teams to record and compare specific skills over time and across teams. Skills may include categories such as the fastest walk, the strongest kick, and more. Teams are welcome to submit suggestions for skills they would like to see evaluated. Final notes Please reach out by email or on Discord for any questions or comments. These changes will be drafted in the following weeks and made available on SPL website. Best regards, RoboCup SPL TC

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[HULKs] Code Release Shared Autonomy Challenge
by Vivienne Elisa Schwabe 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Dear SPL community, the HULKs code for the Shared Autonomy Challenge can be found here: https://github.com/Narcha/hulk/tree/remote-control-fixes Best regards, Vivienne (on behalf of Team HULKs)

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Naova code release for shared autonomy challenge
by Club Naova 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Hello everyone, I wanted to inform you that our code release for the shared autonomy challenge can be found at the following link: https://github.com/Naova/NaovaRelease/tree/shared-autonomy-2024 Kind regards, [signature_914140835]Olivier St-Pierre | Étudiant en génie logiciel Capitaine du club scientifique Naova École de Technologie Supérieure | 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest Montréal (Qc) Canada | H3C1K3 Tél. : 438-226-6639| Instagram<https://www.instagram.com/clubnaova/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/naorobotique/> | Site Web<https://www.clubnaova.ca/>

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Call for contribution - Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots (WHSR 2024)
by Gregoire Passault 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for contributions to the 2024 edition of the Workshop on Humanoid Soccer Robots (WHSR) , which will be held over a full day during IEEE Humanoids 2024 ( [ https://2024.ieee-humanoids.org/ | https://2024.ieee-humanoids.org/ ] ), Nancy, France Playing soccer is a challenging task and an ideal testbed for humanoid robotics, fostering many multidisciplinary research. The topics range from prototyping new humanoid robots with a robust bipedal locomotion to high level strategy decision making. Full details are available on the website : [ https://whsr-2024.github.io/ | https://whsr-2024.github.io/ ] The workshop will include presentations by two guest speakers: Antonin Raffin from the German Aerospace Center (DLR), who developed Stable-Baselines3, and Rémi Cadene from Hugging Face. Topics Humanoid robots prototyping, Motion planning and control, Perception, Localization, Bipedal locomotion, 3D simulation of humanoid robots, Team coordination, Skill and strategy learning, Dynamic motions, Heterogeneous humanoid robots, Autonomous decisions, Machine learning for robotics Submission instructions Authors are invited to submit full-length extended abstract (up to 2 pages) written in English, and formatted using the IEEE templates. They can present ongoing work, recent results and future directions. Papers accepted by Humanoids 2024 may also be submitted. The submission platform will be soon available on [ https://whsr-2024.github.io/ | https://whsr-2024.github.io/ ] * Submission deadline: October 6, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: October 16, 202 * Workshop date : November 22, 2024 Contact For all questions, please contact the main organizers: [ mailto:gregoire.passault@u-bordeaux.fr | gregoire.passault(a)u-bordeaux.fr ] or [ mailto:melodie.daniel@u-bordeaux.fr | melodie.daniel(a)u-bordeaux.fr ] Best regards, The Humanoid Soccer Robots Workshop organizing committee Mélodie Daniel (University of Bordeaux, France) Grégoire Passault, (University of Bordeaux, France) Alessandra Rossi, (University of Hertfordshire, UK) Sven Behnke (University of Bonn, Germany)

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Code Release / Challenge Code Release reminder
by Caron, Benjamin 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Dear SPL Teams, Code Release by October 15 This is a reminder that teams who participated in RoboCup 2024 need to publish and announce this at robocup-nao(a)lists.robocup.org<mailto:robocup-nao@lists.robocup.org> by October 15, 2024. Teams who are developing fully open source also need to make the announcement. For reference, see the section A.7 from the rulebook. Challenge Code Release Teams who participated in the Shared Autonomous Challenge also need to release code developed for the human-operated robot (both robot code and interface code). For more information, see section 2.2.10 of the Technical Challenge rulebook. Best regards, RoboCup SPL TC

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[HULKs] Code Release
by Ole Felber 01 Oct '24

01 Oct '24

Dear SPL community, the HULKs codebase is completely open source since 2022. The code used during the RoboCup 2024 tournament can be found here: https://github.com/HULKs/hulk/releases/tag/robocup2024. Best Regards Ole (on behalf of Team HULKs)

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Berlin-United Code Release 2024
by Heinrich Mellmann 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Dear RoboCup SPL Teams, here you can find the release of our code from the RC2023 competition with minor fixes and cleanups: https://github.com/BerlinUnited/NaoTH/releases/tag/release/rc2024 We are doing a rolling release: our stable 'develop' brunch is continuously automatically made public. So you are welcome to drop by from time to time for new updates :) https://github.com/BerlinUnited/NaoTH Cheers, - Heinrich on Behalf of the Team "Berlin United"

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[Save the Date] 🤖 RoboCup GermanOpen 2025 🤖
by Heinrich Mellmann 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Dear SPL Teams, we have received first infos regarding the RoboCup GermanOpen 2025. Save the dates in your calendar! - Where: Frankenhalle, Messe Nürnberg, Germany - When: 12.03.2025 - 16.03.2025 Tentative schedule: 12.03.2025 - setup major teams 13.03.2025 - competition day 1 / setup junior teams 14.03.2025 - competition day 2 15.03.2025 - competition day 3 16.03.2025 - finals + award ceremonies major and junior More info and an official call will be coming soon. Best, - Heinrich -- Dipl.-Math., Dipl.-Inf. Heinrich Mellmann Institut für Informatik Adaptive Systeme (RUD25, Raum 3.110) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Unter den Linden 6 Telefon: +49 (0)30 2093-41173 10099 Berlin E-mail: mellmann(a)informatik.hu-berlin.de URL: http://www.heinrich-mellmann.de http://berlin-united.de

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Clarification on Publishing Competition Data Sets
by Timothy Wiley 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Hello SPL Teams, We, the exec, would like to provide clarity on teams publishing data sets that have been collected at competition, such as, data sets containing audio/video logged from robots during competition games. In consultation with the Trustees, we are able to advise that teams are able to publish such data sets. The data sets may include recordings of participants and audience. Competition participants during registration, and public visitors when purchasing ticket, consent that they may be recorded, and consent that such recordings made available through team materials. In publishing data sets, we would encourage teams to consider taking additional steps such as: * Processing and curating the data set for potential inappropriate content, which could include: * Screening of sound to remove inadvertent identifying (or embarrassing) audio. * Blurring faces of people in videos, especially children. * Providing a mechanism by which people could request to be removed from the data set. Kind Regards, Timothy Wiley On behalf of the RoboCup Soccer SPL Executive Committee. Dr. Timothy Wiley | Executive Committee | RoboCup Soccer Standard Platform League (SPL) SPL Website<https://spl.robocup.org> | RoboCup Federation<https://www.robocup.org> Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies | RMIT University Building 14, Level 11 (City Campus) | Homepage<https://timothy-wiley.github.io/> | CIAIRI<https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/centre-for-industri…> | AI Innovation Lab<http://rmit.edu.au/ailab>

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TR : RoboCup SPL Newsletter No. 1 2025
by Caron, Benjamin 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Dear SPL Teams, Code Release by October 15 This is a reminder that teams who participated in RoboCup 2024 need to publish and announce this at robocup-nao(a)lists.robocup.org<mailto:robocup-nao@lists.robocup.org> by October 15, 2024. Teams who are developing fully open source also need to make the announcement. For reference, see the section A.7 from the rulebook. League Advancement Survey Result Results of the league advancement survey are attached to this newsletter. 14 teams filled this form. 8 Champions Cup teams answered, along with 6 teams from Challenge Shield. Teams are invited to discuss these results on Discord in the channel #rule-book<https://discord.com/channels/721967993860521996/723447525230510101> . The TC will consider any input from this into their discussion. RoboCup 2024 Champions Cup Survey The OC would like to receive some feedback on the Champions Cup tournament structure used during RoboCup 2024. Complete this form<https://forms.gle/VsbEHL8CyvFTbzEe9> to help us improve RoboCup 2025. SPL Schedule Communication Survey The OC would appreciate your input on how we can ensure everyone is informed and up to date on the game schedule during upcoming competitions. Kindly, fill out this survey<https://forms.gle/97rYHnri3r5wuqAv8> <https://forms.gle/97rYHnri3r5wuqAv8> to help us keep competitions running smoothly for all. Best regards, RoboCup SPL TC and O

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