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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Next game day on Jan 23 starting at 3pm (CET)
by Alessandra Rossi 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

Dear Robocuppers, Next game day of the RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season will be on on Jan 23 starting at 3pm (CET). Games will be streaming on Twitch Field A in the following order: 1 Bit-Bots vs NUbots 3:00 pm CET 2 Starkit vs UTRA 3:30 pm CET 3 MRL-HSL vs ITAndroids 4:00 pm CET 4 CIT Brains vs 01. RFC Berlin 4:30 pm CET Have a look at the website for more information about the games, including previous games, scores, and so on. https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/humanoid-league-virtual-season-2021-… For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Best regards, Alessandra Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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Pre-RoboCup 2022 (tomorrow)
by Arne Hasselbring 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Dear teams, from January 27th to 29th between 12:00 and 15:00 UTC, the virtual Pre-RoboCup 2022 is taking place. This event shall promote and kick-off the upcoming RoboCup 2022. Each league presents an introduction to the league, rule book updates and some technical talk in a one-hour slot. The SPL's presentation is going to be tomorrow*, January 27th, from 13:00-14:00 UTC. In order to participate, you must register here to obtain the WebEx links and password: https://2022.robocup.org/pre-robocup/ Best regards, Arne Hasselbring SPL Organizing Committee * or today, depending on your location

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RoboCup 2022 Participation Survey
by Arne Hasselbring 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Dear Teams, **If you intend to apply for participation in RoboCup 2022:** the RoboCup 2022 organizers would like to understand the factors that influence the decision and ability of teams to participate in RoboCup 2022. Therefore, they invite **all teams that consider applying for RoboCup 2022** to complete the following survey: https://forms.gle/ufN2b3pt9TkgKgYu9 The survey will be open until January 31st. Best regards, Arne Hasselbring SPL Organizing Committee

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Save the date - GORE 3.0 (SPL + Humanoid)
by Patrick Göttsch 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Dear Teams, today we got the confirmation: We have rooms in the centre of Hamburg for on-site GORE 3.0 together with the humanoid teams. Further information about this event, how to register and fees will be published soon. Kind regards and have a nice weekend, Arne Moos and Patrick Göttsch

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Cancellation of GORE 2.0
by Patrick Göttsch 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Dear all, due to the highly increasing numbers of Corona infections in Germany, Arne and I decided to postpone GORE 2.0. Currently we plan for having an (a: on-site, b: hybrid, c: remote) GORE 3.0 in April/May together with Humanoid league. For the moment we wait for the confirmation of the room. Kind regards, Arne Moos and Patrick Göttsch

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RoboCup Humanoid League Virtual Season: second day of games
by Alessandra Rossi 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Dear RoboCuppers, The Humanoid League would like to invite you at the second day of games of the HL-Virtual Season. Teams are competing in a virtual tournament that will go every two weeks from Dec 19th to May 1st. Second day of games will be streamed on Sunday Jan 9th at 10am (CET time) on https://www.twitch.tv/robocuphumanoidfielda Full game schedule and more info are available on our website -> humanoid.robocup.org For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Kind regards, Alessandra Dr. Alessandra Rossi Research Fellow PRISCA research lab University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Visiting Researcher Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Adaptive Systems Research Group University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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RoboCup 2022 SPL Call for Participation
by Stefan Seering 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Call for Applications for Participation RoboCup 2022 Standard Platform League spl.robocup.org <http://spl.robocup.org/> Monday 11th July through Sunday 17th July 2022 Bangkok, Thailand 2022.robocup.org <https://2022.robocup.org> RoboCup <https://www.robocup.org/> is an international initiative that fosters research and education in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence through a variety of competitions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, RoboCupJunior) involving mostly multi-robot systems. RoboCup currently includes a number of different robot soccer leagues that focus on different research challenges. *The Standard Platform League (SPL)* is characterized by all the teams using an identical robot platform. Participating researchers focus on algorithmic development for fully autonomous robots, i.e., robots that operate with no external control. The SPL at RoboCup 2022 will use V6, V5 or older versions of the NAO humanoid robot manufactured by SoftBank Robotics <https://www.softbankrobotics.com/emea/en/nao>. The SPL robot soccer team competition games at RoboCup 2022 will be played indoor and outdoor between teams of five robots on a 6m x 9m playing surface. Teams should be able to play on a randomly assigned indoor or outdoor field within one hour. The RoboCup 2022 SPL will host: * A 5 vs. 5 team competition as the main competition of the event. * A 7 vs. 7 competition. * A visual referee technical challenge. * A dynamic ball handling technical challenge. * A video analysis and statistics open research challenge. The 5 vs. 5 team competition will consist of a similar number of games for most teams compared to recent years. The structure from 2019 will be used to allow all teams to play games against teams with similar skill levels. See Appendix A.4 of the preliminary rulebook <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/> for more details. The teams participating in the team competition should also compete in some of the additional technical challenges. The 7 vs. 7 side competition extends the ideas from the mixed team competition, and 1 vs. 1 remote challenge from RoboCup 2021 to a standardized 7 vs. 7 NAO V6 on-site competition. Its goal is to encourage more collaborative game play and offer a chance for teams to work together more closely. Participating in 7 vs. 7 is recognized as participation in a technical challenge. Additional technical challenges offered at the competition are the visual referee challenge and the dynamic ball handling challenge. The open research challenge aims to provide the SPL with long term performance statistics based on video analysis. Please note that the open research challenge comes with additional deadlines as mentioned in the rulebook. All challenges will be detailed further with the release of the SPL rules document. To assist in adoption of V6 Robots source code examples and documentation regarding V6 robots were published on the SPL website <https://spl.robocup.org/v6-support/>. One can also find example code working with V6 Robots in the code released by participating teams. These examples allow teams to adapt their competition code from recent years more easily to encourage use of V6 Robots. If you need access to the RoboCup NAOqi Image and the specific documentation, please write an email (mentioning your team affiliation) to rc-spl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org. Survey The RoboCup Federation is committed to supporting an in-person event in Thailand from July 11th-17th, as long as the LOC in Thailand decides it is possible. For this purpose, the RoboCup Federation plans to send a survey to all teams considering to apply for RoboCup 2022. If you are considering to apply for participation this year, please send an email stating your interest in RoboCup SPL to rc-spl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org by 12th of January 2022 in addition to your regular application. Qualification All interested teams must submit an original qualification document. For the qualification document to be considered, it must (1) be no longer than *6 pages* and (2) include all the following information in *sections with the specified headings*: 1. *Team Information:* the team name, the team leader(s), and the university/company affiliation(s) of the team 2. *Code Usage:* Acknowledge the team’s use of any other team’s code (1) previously from 2017 to present and (2) anticipated at RoboCup 2022. If code is used from other teams, is this code integrated into a code base that is mainly designed by the applying team? If the applying team does not use any other team’s code, state so. For further details, please have a look into the rule book, section A.1 <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/>. 3. *Own Contribution:* Describe in detail the ‘research publishable’ significant advancements the applying team has made and is going to use at RoboCup 2022, in accordance with the rule book, section A.1 <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/>. 4. *Past History:* provide game results in RoboCup Open competitions as well as main RoboCup competitions from 2018 onward. Include opponents and game scores from each competition in a table. State if the team plans to participate in any RoboCup Open competitions or friendlies prior to RoboCup 2022. 5. *Impact:* What is the impact of the team’s participation and research in RoboCup on (1) the SPL, (2) the team’s university/community? 6. *Video presentation:* Include a link to a video (maximum 5 minutes long, uploaded on the team’s web site or on some video server) that demonstrates the status of the team. The organizing committees use the video to determine the readiness of the team to compete effectively, and hence should focus on the team’s ability to play soccer. Teams who did not participate in the team competition at RoboCup 2019 or any challenge at RoboCup 2021 *must* include footage of at least one robot attempting to kick off and score (this footage must be captured as a single wide shot with no cuts). If robots from multiple teams are active in the footage (e.g., game footage), please include a textual overlay or additional document denoting which robots belong to the applying team for every scene. Videos of simulation contributions will also be accepted, but only when a real robot is unavailable. Preference will be given to teams that use real robots to show soccer skills in their video. 7. *Other:* Present any other information that you believe supports your application. If your application mentions more than one e-mail address, please specify which one should be used to contact your team regarding your application. Pre-Qualification Teams are given the chance to pre-qualify based on their performance at RoboCup 2019 and 2021. Teams will be pre-qualified for RoboCup 2022, if they submit the following original qualification document. Teams able to pre-qualify include: * B-Human * UNISABANA Herons SPL * rUNSWift * HULKs * Bembelbots * Berlin United- Nao TH * Nao Devils * HTWK Robots * UT Austin Villa The original qualification document must include: 1. *Team Information:* the team name, the team leader(s), and the university/company affiliation(s) of the team 2. *Code Usage:* Acknowledge the team’s use of any other team’s code (1) previously from 2017 to present and (2) anticipated at RoboCup 2020. If code is used from other teams, is this code integrated into a code base that is mainly designed by the applying team? If the applying team does not use any other team’s code, state so. For further details, please have a look into the rule book, section A.1 <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/>. 3. *Own Contribution:* Describe in detail the ‘research publishable’ significant advancements the applying team has made and is going to use at RoboCup 2022, in accordance with the rule book, section A.1 <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/>. 4. *TRR:* a link to a team research report describing their work for RoboCup 2019 or 2021 or both (which must be published in a publicly available location) 5. *Code Release:* a link to a public code release as detailed in the 2019 SPL rulebook If a joint 2019 team splits, only one team can be pre-qualified for 2022 (please, indicate which one). Qualification for Regional Opens Only Teams may also submit a short intent to participate in a regional open if they do not wish to participate in the 2022 RoboCup competition. Although teams may participate in regional opens without submitting this intent to participate, teams who submit an intent to participate and become qualified will be eligible for future special robot pricing. Special robot pricing for team competing in RoboCup Events are still being discussed. Updates about special prices will be announced as soon as offers and conditions are finalized. Teams must submit the following information by 15th of February 2022: (1) The team name, leader(s), and the university/company affiliation(s) of the team and (2) a short statement describing the status/progress of the team. A link to a short video showing robot soccer behaviours and/or game play (using robots or in simulation) may be included if available. Submission and Evaluation All applications with the (pre-)qualification material must be submitted by *15th of February 2022*, by email to rc-spl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org. Applications must not be sent to personal SPL TC/OC email addresses and must not contain video attachments. Note that applying serves as a statement of commitment to participate in the RoboCup 2022 SPL. The organizing committees are aware of the ongoing COVID situation and assume that all applications are subject to withdrawal due to COVID. Applications are not required to mention uncertainties related to COVID to avoid negative effects on future applications. We would rather encourage teams to plan optimistically and sign up with the possibility of withdrawing if situation requires it. For situations other than COVID: If you have doubts regarding the ability of your team to participate (due to funding, visas, etc.), please apply by the deadline but note this in your application. Declining to participate in any competition after the official early registration period has opened may negatively affect future applications (the later you decline, the worse it will affect future applications). Teams are encouraged to consider joint participation. Joint proposals will be judged on combined merit. Applications will be evaluated to consider a variety of components including: 1. Potential to play competitive games at RoboCup 2022 (demonstrated ability to play soccer, previous results, etc.) 2. Contributions (and potential contributions) to league (code releases/papers, active in organization, developing own code, etc.) 3. Diversity (region, team make-up, unique characteristics, etc.) Qualification decisions, including alternate lists, will be announced by 29th of February 2022. Robot Acquisition Teams who submit an intent to participate and become qualified will be eligible for potential future special robot pricing. Special robot pricing for team competing in RoboCup Events are still being discussed. Updates about special prices will be announced if offers and conditions are finalized. /RoboCup 2022 Standard Platform League Technical and Organizing Committees/

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RoboCup Humanoid League Virtual Season
by Alessandra Rossi 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

Dear Robocuppers, The TCs and OCs of the Humanoid League would like to invite you at the HL-Virtual Season. Teams will compete in a virtual tournament. First games will be streamed on Sunday Dec 19th at 3pm (CET time) on https://www.twitch.tv/robocuphumanoidfielda More info -> humanoid.robocup.org For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Kind regards, Alessandra Dr. Alessandra Rossi Postdoctoral researcher PRISCA research lab University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy Visiting Researcher Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Adaptive Systems Research Group University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

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GORE_2 - Call for Participation
by Patrick Göttsch 16 Dec '21

16 Dec '21

*Call for Participation*- *GORE_2* 3rd of February till 6th of February 2022 (Remote) RoboCup is an international initiative that fosters research and education in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence through a variety of competitions (RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCup@Home, RoboCupJunior) involving mostly multi-robot systems. RoboCup currently includes a number of different robot soccer leagues that focus on different research challenges. In addition to the SPL RoboCup events in 2022, we would like to offer GORE_2. GORE started as an replacement event for the cancelled GermanOpen in 2021 and focuses on 5 vs. 5 game play in two remote arenas in Europe. To maximize the number of played games, we use a modified version of the swiss tournament system. All human members of the teams stay at home or in their lab but only the robots will travel to one of the hosting arenas. The former rules for GORE 2021 can be found in this document: https://collaborating.tuhh.de/HULKs/gore/-/blob/master/GORe-Rules.pdf. For the GORE_2 event the new rules will be based on the once from 2021 but integrate the rule changes for RoboCup 2022 being drafted at the moment. The RoboCup rules have been modified regarding robot safety and standardization to make it easier for hosting teams to manage robots. We will update you as soon as they are out and we adapted to them. The website https://gore-event.netlify.app/ will also be updated soon. Here you find all key dates for GORE_2. 2021-12-01 Rules for GORE_2 2021-12-15Commitment to participate 2021-12-15 Commitment to host an arena 2021-12-20Confirmation for participants and hosting arenas 2022-01-24Submission of credentials for arena access 2022-01-24Arena network access contact 2022-01-24Sending robots to hosting arenas 2022-01-24Fill out robot id data 2022-02-03field_dimensions.json available 2022-02-03Upload images of the field 2022-02-03Welcome, Setup Day 2022-02-04Competition Day 1 2022-02-05Competition Day 2 2022-02-06Competition Day 3 2022-02-08Return robots back to teams If you have further questions or remarks, please let us know. Registration We plan to register 8 teams, four for each arena. All interested teams must submit an application for participation as team or as hosting team via email. Please include the following information into your email: 1. Team Name 2. Contact person name and email 3. Commitment to participate 4. Can and do you want to provide a host arena? 5. How many V6 NAOs (at least 4) do you sent to a hosting arena?* 6. Do you comply to the Code of Honor? 7. Providing a return address for robots * If you cannot sent or you are not allowed to sent your robots unattended, you could ask another team or teams to provide more robots, to enable your participation. Submission and Evaluation All applications must be submitted by* 15th of December 2021*, by email to gore.organisation(a)gmail.com Applications will be evaluated and a variety of components will be considered. Qualification decisions, including alternate lists, will be announced by *20th of December 2021*. Arne Moos and Patrick Göttsch Organisers of GORE_2

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RCF asks for news from you
by Patrick Göttsch 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Dear Teams, we got an request from April for the RoboCup Federation. She asks all of us: With the start of a new month, I am writing to ask that you please let me know if there is anything that has happened in your lab or any of the RoboCup labs associated with your league that might be worth posting about on our RoboCup social media channels. A reminder that the news does not all have to be directly RoboCup-related. We'd like to post on our channels about all of the successes and achievements of RoboCup participants. Please write her or us, if you have anything interesting to report. Hope to see you at vRoHOW (www.rohow.de) tomorrow and the whole weekend. Kind regards, Patrick (on behalf of the TC)

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Fwd: [RoboCup-worldwide] RCAP 2021
by Patrick Göttsch 02 Dec '21

02 Dec '21

Dear all RoboCuppers, I like to share about the news of RoboCup Asia Pacific (RCAP) 2021 Aichi, Japan. In the last weekend, RCAP 2021 was successfully held in person. The following article reports about the event. https://robotstart.info/2021/11/28/rcap21-report.html Unfortunately, the article is in Japanese, but you can see several photo and movies that provide RoboCup atmosphere!!! --Itsuki Noda _______________________________________________ RoboCup-worldwide mailing list RoboCup-worldwide(a)lists.robocup.org https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-worldwide

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First Draft of the 2022 SPL Rules
by Patrick Göttsch 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Dear SPL teams, today, we published the first draft of the SPL 2022 rules. You can find them under - https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/ or - https://github.com/RoboCup-SPL/Rules We published also a PDF Version of the diff, to give you an overview of the changes since 2019. We kindly ask you to review the draft version of the rules. On the upcoming RoHOW 2022 in the beginning of December we will have a session to discuss the proposed draft. Please sent us your comments and remarks via email or as github issue until the 10th of December. The TC will than review your comments and create a 2nd draft until the end of this year. Thanks a lot and have a good day Patrick (On the behalf of the TC)

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vRoHOW 2021 - Call for participation
by Patrick Göttsch 03 Nov '21

03 Nov '21

Dear fellow RoboCup teams, This is the Call for participation of the virtual Robotic Hamburg Open Workshop (vRoHOW) 2021. The event will take place over the weekend from 3rd to 5th of December. As last year, the event will be driven by contributions in the form of talks, presentations and workshops. Discord will be our venue with multiple rooms and areas prepared. Combined with additional tools and your participation we will bring the virtual RoHOW to life. For participation do the following: Send a message to hulks(a)tuhh.de until the 15th of November 2021 expressing your interest in participation. This message should include your team name and a contact person. There will be no participation fee! We are looking forward to see you during the event! Keep safe and stay healthy Team HULKs

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GermanOpen 2022 canceled
by Patrick Göttsch 19 Oct '21

19 Oct '21

Dear SPL-Teams, you may have already heard or read it, the GermanOpen 2022 in Magdeburg got canceled. The regional RoboCup organization team is working on a solution for 2023 onwards, but due to the lack of time not for 2022. But I will with support form my team and other try to organize like this year an on-site GermanOpen replacement event in northern Germany for the time around April/May. I will keep you updated when I have further information for you. Have a nice day and I wish you all the best Best regards, Patrick

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vRoHOW 2021
by Patrick Göttsch 13 Oct '21

13 Oct '21

Dear fellow RoboCup teams, We are proud to announce the next virtual Robotic Hamburg Open Workshop (vRoHOW) 2021. The event will take place from 3th to 5th of December. This year's vRoHOW will have the same goals as every year: Exchanging knowledge in workshops and discussions, expanding your horizon in talks, and chatting together with a cold beer or soft drink. Discord will be our venue with multiple rooms and areas prepared. Combined with additional tools and your participation we will bring the virtual RoHOW to life. Sounds good? There will be no participation fee! A detailed "Call for participation" will follow in the near future. As we currently are in a creative and early planning stage, we encourage you to send us ideas, feedback or any other vRoHOW related input. Inspired by the captivating and warm atmosphere of previous RoHOWs, we are looking forward to build this virtual event with you together. See you soon Team HULKs

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Updates on rules changes for RoboCup 2022
by Timothy Wiley 16 Sep '21

16 Sep '21

Dear SPL Teams, The TC is in the process of determining the rules for the 2022 competition. We’d like to keep the league up-to-date on decision that have been made, which may help teams plan and prepare for 2022. In-Person RoboCup 2022 At this stage, the TC is proceeding under the presumption that RC2022 will be held in-person, as scheduled in Thailand. If this changes, we’ll keep the league informed. Structure of the Competition RC2022 will return to a classic SPL competition structure, featuring: * Main Competition * Champions Cup (12 teams) * Challenge Shield (12 teams) * 7 vs 7 competition: * A 7 vs 7 competition (7 players per side) will replace the mixed-team competition * Follows standard rules (with minor modifications for 7 players) * Some robots may be drawn from a pool of available robots to facilitate teams participating in the competition * Technical Challenges * The TC are considering a variety of technical challenges, and have narrowed down the possibilities to: * Visual Referee Challenge: robots will have to recognise some visual signal(s) from the referee. * Ball Handling Challenge: details to be confirmed, but triangle or give-and-go passing between robots in a game-like situation could be an example * Video Analysis / Game Statistics Challenge: detect game actions (e.g. ball touches, passes, time under control) from the sideline elevated go-pro type camera viewpoint Separation of Championship Cup and Challenge Shield The TC is also considering “separating” the Championship Cup and Challenge Shield for an individual year, so that teams would not move between the two leagues within the same competition. We have gathered responses from Challenge Shield teams and are considering whether to proceed on this change. Rules Changes At this time, the TC believe that many teams are still implementing the rules changes originally intended for the 2020/2021 competitions. Thus, the TC are not planning of significant rules changes for the main competition. The only significant rules changes are: * Limitation to Event-based communication (limited messages per game instead of limited messages per second). * Continuation of standardising the game set-up and execution procedures from last year. Regards, Timothy Wiley On behalf of the RoboCup Soccer SPL TC.

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LAST CALL - RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi teams, Last days to sign up for RoboCup Brazil Open! Do not leave to the last minute! The event will be online, streamed live on our youtube channels. Already registered? Did you check if everyone on the team is registered correctly? If you have any questions, please send it to us by email at organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org ! *Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open* *The event will be virtual, with the same categories of RoboCup Federation* RoboCup Brazil launches the RoboCup Brazil Open, a virtual event with the same categories of the Robocup WorldWide. Registrations are now open for teams from all over the world. All the categories have been adapted and will happen in a fully remote format, using simulators, challenges and submission of articles written by the teams. Our goal is to disseminate the studies and technologies developed by universities in the field of robotics and IA. The event will happen in October 11th-15th, and will be broadcast through lives on the RoboCup Brazil Youtube channel. *Categories:* RoboCup Open Flying Robot Trial League Small Size Soccer Humanoid League Standard Plataform League (SPL) Simulation 2D Simulation 3D RoboCup at@Home IEEE Humanoid Robot Racing (HRR) IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit (SEK) IEEE Very Small Size Soccer RoboCup Junior Soccer Open RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Open * Registration* To participate, you and your team must register by september 15th, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 50 per team. *RoboCup Brasil is a non-profit civil association, organized by volunteer professors and researchers. The association holds the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, the Brazilian Robotics Competition and the National Robotics Show.-- Patrícia VergaraComunicação RoboCup Brasil(11) 9.8686-4993www.robocup.org.br <http://www.robocup.org.br>*

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vRoHOW 2021 - Save the date
by Patrick Göttsch 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Dear fellow RoboCup teams, We are proud to announce the next virtual Robotic Hamburg Open Workshop (vRoHOW) 2021. The event will take place from 3rd to 5th of December. This year's vRoHOW will have the same goals as every year: Exchanging knowledge in workshops and discussions, expanding your horizon in talks, and chatting together with a cold beer or soft drink. Discord will be our venue with multiple rooms and areas prepared. Combined with additional tools and your participation we will bring the virtual RoHOW to life. Sounds good? There will be no participation fee! A detailed "Call for participation" will follow in the near future. As we currently are in a creative and early planning stage, we encourage you to send us ideas, feedback or any other vRoHOW related input. Inspired by the captivating and warm atmosphere of previous RoHOWs, we are looking forward to build this virtual event with you together. See you soon Team HULKs

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Feedback on potential rule change(s) separating Challenge Shield and Champions Cup
by Timothy Wiley 05 Sep '21

05 Sep '21

Dear SPL Teams, For the attention of teams who participate in the RoboCup Challenge Shield. One of the proposals that the TC is considering is having a separation in rules between the Champions Cup and the Challenge Shield. The purpose of this is to allow the top teams to be sufficiently challenged by rule changes without forcing every team to make the same rate of progress. The implications of this change are as follows: * Teams would not be able to move between the Challenge Shield and Champions Cup at a single RoboCup event. * This would permit the rule set for the Challenge Shield to be a subset of the the Champions Cup rules within the same year. * Between years if a team was “promoted" from the Challenge Shield to the Champions Cup, they would need some extra effort to step up to the rule set of the Champions Cup. * Possible real differences include: * Different number of robots on each team such as 5v5 in the challenger league and 7v7 in the championship league. * New rules changes might start in the Champions Cup and then be rolled out to the Challenge Shield in later years. We would like the feedback of the Challenge Shield teams (who had limited representation at RoboCup 2021 team leader meetings) on potential change to see if this would be a change that they would support. Please respond by reply to this email by September 5th if with your comments and feedback on this change and if your team supports a split in the rules between the two leagues within a given year. Regards, Timothy Wiley On behalf of the RoboCup Soccer SPL TC.

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CFP: RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)
by Asad Norouzi 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

*Apologies for duplicate messages* ============== Call for Participation =============== *RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)* 25-29 November 2021 https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/participation.html RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 Aichi Japan (RCAP 2021) will be held at Aichi Sky Expo (Aichi International Convention & Exhibition Center), November 25-29, 2021. RCAP 2021 will be held in a hybrid ON-SITE and VIRTUAL format. Due to the current uncertainties of Covid-19, ON-SITE competitions will only open to participants from Japan. - ON-SITE Competitions: Participants from Japan. - VIRTUAL Competitions: Participants from all over the world. *LEAGUES:* Virtual Competitions are open to participants from all over the world, with most of the leagues of RoboCup 2021 Worldwide. For details of leagues, please refer to: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/leagues.html *REGISTRATION:* All teams are required to pre-register through the online form: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/registration.html *IMPORTANT DATES:* - Deadline for pre-registration (both online and virtual competitions): 30 September 2021 - Announcement of qualified teams: 14 October 2021 - Deadline for registration: 4 November 2021 *REGISTRATION FEES:* The registration fee is waived for all Japanese teams/members. The registration fee for teams to participate in virtual competitions (except teams from Japan): - Major Team Registration Fee: Waived - Major Staff/Students: USD60/person - Junior Team Registration Fee: Waived - Junior Students/Mentors: USD40/person *SYMPOSIUM:* https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/symposium.html *CONTACT:* For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: - Aichi Local Organizing Committee (General Enquiries, On-site competitions): - rcap2021(a)intergroup.co.jp - RCAP Office (Registration fees and payments, Virtual competitions): - office(a)robocupap.org For more information please visit our official website at https://2021 .robocupap.org/eng/index.html We look forward to welcoming you to RCAP 2021 Aichi Japan! Best Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Office, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021) Organizing Committee ____________________________________

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RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Hi teams, *Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open* *The event will be virtual, with the same categories of RoboCup Federation* RoboCup Brazil launches the RoboCup Brazil Open, a virtual event with the same categories of the Robocup WorldWide. Registrations are now open for teams from all over the world. All the categories have been adapted and will happen in a fully remote format, using simulators, challenges and submission of articles written by the teams. Our goal is to disseminate the studies and technologies developed by universities in the field of robotics and IA. The event will happen in October 11th-15th, and will be broadcast through lives on the RoboCup Brazil Youtube channel. In 2020, more than 700 students from Latin American attended the event. *Categories:* RoboCup Open Flying Robot Trial League Small Size Soccer Humanoid League Standard Plataform League (SPL) Simulation 2D Simulation 3D RoboCup at@Home IEEE Humanoid Robot Racing (HRR) IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit (SEK) IEEE Very Small Size Soccer RoboCup Junior Soccer Open RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Open * Registration* To participate, you and your team must register by August 30th, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 50 per team. *RoboCup Brasil is a non-profit civil association, organized by volunteer professors and researchers. The association holds the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, the Brazilian Robotics Competition and the National Robotics Show.* -- Patrícia Vergara Comunicação RoboCup Brasil +55 (11) 9.8686-4993 www.robocup.org.br

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Softbank warranty extensions
by Rico Tilgner 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Hi teams, Good news for everyone that needs to extend warranties on their Naos! :) We've managed to extend the 540EUR warranty extension offer from https://spl.robocup.org/softbank-pricing-2021/. The offer now applies to both 2018 and 2019 bought Nao v6 and will be available until the end of August. Rico

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SPQR Team announce B-Human code usage
by Vincenzo Suriani 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Dear RoboCup 2021 Standard Platform League Technical and Organizing Committees, Dear RoboCup SPL teams, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the B-Human code release license, the SPQR Team announces the use of the B-Human code for the ongoing RoboCup 2021. We use some of the native B-Human modules including walking, simulation, whistle recognition, calibration, and behavior design system. Instead, we use our own code for perception, coordination, and multi-robot distributed decision making. The following parts of the SPQR Team code are original: - Visual perception - Team coordination - Data fusion among the robots - Behaviors - Motion primitives (besides get-ups) - Reinforcement Learning Integration The following parts are modifications of the original B-Human code: - Localization - Communication network We would like to thank the B-Human Team for sharing their code and acknowledge their contribution to the RoboCup SPL. We finally apologize for the delayed communication. Kind regards, Vincenzo Suriani, on behalf of the SPQR Team

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R-ZWEI KICKERS announce B-Human code usage
by Adrian Müller 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Dear Robocup SPL Community, in accordance to the terms and conditions of the BHuman code release license we - the team R-ZWEI KICKERS, UAS Kaiserslautern, Germany - like to announce the use of part of the B-Human 2019 code in the upcoming competitions 2021. Currently, our code base is a modified version of the B-Human Code Drop 2019. We modified: - team behaviour control and the SimRobot environment to allow for automatic test procedures. - We developed completely custom features including the teach-in of robot behaviour (using PS4-controller, mapping key presses to skills and recording them for playback), and - a data mining analysis which clusters the robot poses to identify trigger points for our teach-in cards, and - coupled the data mining classifier to a reinforcement learning (Q-learning) module that learns the most-effective combination of rule-based and teach-in cards while playing simulated games. - Additionally, we developed our own image recognition and a multi-object detection model, based on Keras/Yolo - Currently, we develop our own kick motions and dribbling skills, and we start applying - data augmentation to increase the robustness of our object detection and - expand the automatic referee to apply the passing-challenge rules, so we can use Q-learning here as well. This email is sent respecting the code usage of the B-Human team available on their github page. R-ZWEI KICKERS would like to thank B-Human for developing this great platform! You can reach us at http://smart-machines.hs-kl.de/projekte/hs-kl-robocup/ If you are interested in more technical details please mail me for a copy of our white paper. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Prof. Adrian Müller, PSM-1, CSM http://www.hs-kl.de/~amueller Projektleitung AK Smart-Machines http://smart-machines.hs-kl.de/ tel: +49 631/3724-5329 fax: -5313 office: H243 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hochschule Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich I/MST Department of Computer Sciences and Microsystem Technology Amerikastr. 1 D 66482 Zweibruecken -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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robocup nao list migiration
by Ali Modaresi 18 May '21

18 May '21

Dear robocup-nao subscribers, RoboCup IT Team is currently migrating the mailing lists which are still hosted at Georgia Tech, to a server at robocup.org, because the old mailing list is being blocked by an increasing number of servers. The new address of the list (to be used to send messages to all the subscribers) is robocup-nao(a)lists.robocup.org The old address is not working anymore, therefore, please update the list address with the new one and remove the old one. Please note that the old passwords are not usable anymore. In order to get your password please enter your email address on https://lists.robocup.org/options/robocup-nao and then click on the remind button. You will receive an email with your password immediately. In addition, you can share the list link via https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-nao Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Best regards, ╔════════════════════╗ ║ Ali Modaresi ║ ║ RoboCup IT support ║ ╚════════════════════╝

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