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B-Human service subscriptions
by Thomas Röfer 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Dear members of the RoboCup SPL Community, we are excited to announce the availability of three new tiers of service subscriptions. Our goal is to help you improve and progress the league by providing you with valuable resources, support, and access to our team of experts. Our three tiers are designed to cater to different needs, from a base start so that you can 'hit the ground running' to strategy sessions with experienced SPL participants. To apply for any of these tiers, please fill out the form on our website<https://b-human.de/subscriptions.html> [1], selecting the tier and season you are interested in. We will get back to you as soon as possible. We hope that these offerings will help you and your team excel in the upcoming RoboCup competition. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best regards, Team B-Human [1] https://b-human.de/subscriptions.html

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[meetings][CFP] Third call for papers at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Marco Simões 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '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 -- Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

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National Robotics Festival - Portugal
by Patricia Vergara 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Hello good morning: We are almost ready for the 23rd edition of the National Robotics Festival - Portugal - FNR’2023 event. We are pleased to address this invitation to invite you to participate in the 2023 Portuguese Robotics Open (FNR'2023) which is promoted by the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT) and the Portuguese Robotics Society (SPR) and which will take place at the Municipal Pavilion of Tomar, from April 28 to 30, 2023. Categories: Major: DRAGSTAR FREEBOTS MANIPULADORES ROBÓTICOS ROBOT@FACTORY LITE ROBOT@FACTORY 4.0 CONDUÇÃO AUTÓNOMA LIGA DE SIMULAÇÃO 3D @HOME Junior: RCJ RESCUE SIMULATION ROBOT@FACTORY LITE FIRST CHALLENGER FREEBOTS JÚNIOR ONSTAGE BUSCA E SALVAMENTO – LINHA BUSCA E SALVAMENTO – LABIRINTO ROBOCUP SOCCER (MSL) The registration form is now available on the event's website! If you register before April 2nd, in addition to guaranteeing your spot, you are entitled to a discount on your team's registration. Click the button below for more details and access to our website! https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2023/ If you have any questions, you can contact the organization through the official email: info(a)festivalnacionalrobotica.pt We look forward to your participation and present our best regards, The Organizing Committee -- Patrícia Vergara

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Announcement of Code Usage
by Maximilian Schmidt 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

Dear fellow SPL-Teams, The GORE is taking place in about a month, and Team HULKs is going to use the neural network weights of the B-Human robot detection. We hereby announce the usage of the HDF5-file [1] containing the weights. Thanks to Team B-Human for contributing to the SPL community with open source code releases. See you at GORE! Team HULKs [1]: https://github.com/bhuman/BHumanCodeRelease/blob/677b53b702fdb6a9ee3285e4f1…

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GORE 2023 - Expression of interest - Reply by 27.02.22
by Arne Moos 24 Feb '23

24 Feb '23

Dear everyone, as many of you have already read, there will be again *NO* German Open this year. To provide a reasonable alternative, the SPL and Humanoid League joined together again to organize a next version of the GORE. The event will take place *in Hamburg at the DESY <https://www.desy.de/research/cooperations__institutes/cfel/index_eng.html> between the 25.04. and 30.04.23*. The setup days will be on the 25th and 26th and the competition days from the 27th to the 30th of April. To get a better feeling about the size of the event, we would like to ask if you and your team would like to participate? /For the SPL:/ * URG/Aldebaran has been contacted, but we are still waiting for an official confirmation that they will be on site. * Remote participation should also be possible, as it was last year. For this we need your help: o *Presence* teams: It would be good if you could also tell us if you would be willing to provide the remote teams with robots as part of a common robot pool. o *Remote* teams: It is not yet clear whether we can realize your participation in the competition. We try to give our best, but it can also be that it ends up with only a few friendly games. We expect the participation to cost about *200€ per team plus 75€ per team member*, we will let you know the exact numbers as soon as we have them, and it is likely to become less again. If you are interested in participating in the GORE 2023, send a reply to gore.organisation(a)gmail.com containing: * Your team's name * Your teams league (SPL or Humanoid) * An approximate count of how many people you will bring? * /SPL:/ Whether you want to participate in presence or remote? * /SPL:/ Are you willing to provide robots for a robot pool? Please send your *replies by February 27th*, so that we can plan better. You will receive further information via upcoming newsletter. See you soon. The GORE 2023 organizing committee. Arne, Jasper, Jörn and Patrick -- M.Sc. Arne Moos Robotics Research Institute Section Information Technology TU Dortmund University Otto-Hahn-Str. 8 44227 Dortmund, Germany arne.moos(a)tu-dortmund.de https://ds.etit.tu-dortmund.de/ Phone: +49 231 755 7047 Fax: +49 231 755 3251 Important note: The information included in this e-mail is confidential. It is solely intended for the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail please contact the sender and delete this message. Thank you. Without prejudice of e-mail correspondence, our statements are only legally binding when they are made in the conventional written form (with personal signature) or when such documents are sent by fax.

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[meetings][CFP] Second call for papers at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Alessandra Rossi 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '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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Reminder: RoboCup SPL Call for Applications for Participation 2023
by Stefan Seering 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '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. To clarify some potentially confusing wording for the application process of pre-qualified teams: The code release should encompass features the teams has developed for the RoboCup 2022 competition. Additional info requested: In your application please state your robot purchase plans. State how many NAO robots your team plans to buy this year. /RoboCup 2023 Standard Platform League Technical and Organizing Committees/

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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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RoboCup SPL Call for Applications for Participation 2023
by Stefan Seering 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

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 2023.robocup.org <https://2023.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, RoboCupIndustrial, RoboCupJunior) involving mostly multi-robot systems. RoboCupSoccer 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 robot soccer team competition games at RoboCup 2023 will be played between teams of fully autonomous NAO robots. Participating teams may use V6, V5 or older versions of the NAO humanoid robot manufactured by Aldebaran <https://www.aldebaran.com/en/nao>. Teams should be able to play on a randomly assigned field within one hour. The RoboCup 2023 SPL will host: * A soccer team competition as the main competition of the event. * A visual referee technical challenge. * A dynamic ball handling technical challenge. * The introduction of at least one in-game challenge: network data minimization. The soccer team competition will consist of a similar number of games for most teams compared to recent years. A rule book will be released by 15th of January 2023 on the downloads page <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/>. The league operates two divisions: Champions Cup (CC) and Challenge Shield (CS). Teams in the champions cup division will compete in 7 vs. 7 matches. Teams in the challenge shield division will compete in 5 vs. 5 matches. Teams will be assigned to CC and CS based on previous results during the application phase. New teams will be assigned to the CS. The teams participating in the team competition should also compete in some of the additional technical challenges. Technical challenges offered at the competition are the visual referee challenge and the dynamic ball handling challenge. Both challenges are continuations of previous challenges with modified rules. Teams are encouraged to improve their skills in these challenges so aspects of these challenges can be included in the main competition in future years. More details regarding technical challenges will be given in the rule book <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/>. This competition introduces one in-game challenge: network data minimization. In-game challenges are scored during regular matches of the main soccer team competition. The amount of network data sent of participating teams during matches will be scored. Teams will be ranked according to their score, the goal being to use as little data as possible. More details regarding in-game challenges will be given in the rule book <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/>. Joining the League The league is always ready to welcome new teams. If you consider joining: the league has prepared information for you <https://spl.robocup.org/joining-robocup-spl/> to support you in your first steps. We encourage you to contact the organizing committees and other teams if you have questions. To assist in adoption of NAO 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. 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. Qualification All interested teams must apply by sending an email to the Technical Committee (see below). A valid application must contain: 1. *Team Description Paper:* See below. The TDP must be *attached as PDF file* to the email. 2. *Preference to compete in the Champions Cup or Challenge Shield:* State whether you prefer to compete in CC or CS. If you prefer to compete in CS, please state if you would accept an assignment to CC to balance the competition. 3. *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 2022 *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. Pre-Qualification Teams that reached the quarter-finals or finished in the top 5 of the technical challenges at RoboCup 2022 will be pre-qualified for RoboCup 2023, if they submit a valid application as detailed below. The following teams can make use of pre-qualification: * Bembelbots * B-Human * HTWK Robots * HULKs * Nao Devils * NomadZ * rUNSWift * SPQR Team * UT Austin Villa A valid application for pre-qualified teams must contain: 1. *Team Description Paper:* See below. The TDP must be *attached as PDF file* to the email. 2. *Preference to compete in the Champions Cup or Challenge Shield:* State whether you prefer to compete in CC or CS. If you prefer to compete in CS, please state if you would accept an assignment to CC to balance the competition. 3. *Code Release:* a link to a public code release as detailed in the 2022 SPL rulebook <https://spl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/SPL-Rules-2022.pdf>. If a joint 2022 team splits, only one team can be pre-qualified for 2023 (please indicate which one). Team Description Paper Both regular and pre-qualified teams must submit a team description paper (TDP) attached as PDF file to their application email. For the TDP to be considered, it must: * be formatted according to the *Springer LNCS author guidelines <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>*. * be no longer than *8 pages* (including references). * be structured in the following *sections with the specified headings*: 1. *Team Information:* o team name (the one true spelling, considering capitalization, spaces, hyphens, etc.) o team leader(s) o team contact email address o team website URL (if available) o country of origin o university/company affiliation(s) of the team 2. *Code Usage:* Acknowledge the team’s use of any other team’s code (1) previously from 2018 to present and (2) anticipated at RoboCup 2023. 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 2023, 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 2019 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 2023. 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. *Other:* Present any other information that you believe supports your application. Please note that the TDP is not a reviewed publication and will not appear in any collection apart from the RoboCup TDP archive <https://tdp.robocup.org>. 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 2023 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 may be eligible for future special robot pricing. Special robot pricing for teams 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 2023: (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 2023*, by email to rc-spl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org. Please use a subject matching the pattern *RoboCup 2023 Application <team name>*. Applications must not be sent to personal SPL TC/OC email addresses and must not contain video attachments. By submitting your application, you grant the SPL committees the rights to publish the TDP and application video / code release link. Note that applying serves as a statement of commitment to participate in the RoboCup 2023 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 email. 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 2023 (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.) Starting with 2023 the competition rules will be changed to require all teams to release novel contributions in form of source code. More details regarding code releases will be given in the rule book <https://spl.robocup.org/downloads/>. All teams can expect to be required to publish a contribution. The form will be similar to the releases required of pre-qualified teams as stated in the 2022 rulebook. As part of the application phase teams will be assigned into the CC and CS divisions. Assignments will be judged based on previous performance and application material. The organizing committees will do their best to honor teams' preferences. However, the necessity might arise to assign teams into divisions against their preference. All teams applying for CC are expected to be able to compete in CS. Teams will be notified during the application phase if they are assigned into a division against their preference Qualification decisions, including alternate lists, will be announced by 28th of February 2023. 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 2023 Standard Platform League Technical and Organizing Committees/

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VRoHOW 2022
by Patrick Göttsch 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

Dear fellow Robocuppers, Only two weeks left until this year's vRoHOW! As last year we will use Discord as our virtual venue. If you haven't already, you can join the event server here: https://discord.gg/XrSbTzsYEP The content, i.e. talks, presentations and workshops, will be scheduled after 22:00 UTC+1 on Friday (2022-12-02). Please inform us about your interests and talks via the MOPAD (https://mopad.rohow.de/). You should be able to create an account for yourself by selecting your respective team name. Note that you have to create new accounts for this year. All additional information and schedule is available at rohow.de We are looking forward to see you on Friday (2022-12-02) at 19:00 UTC+1 for the opening ceremony in the Discord TownHall voice channel. Gretings from Hamburg, Team HULKs

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VRoHOW 2022
by Patrick Göttsch 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

Dear fellow Robocuppers, Only two weeks left until this year's vRoHOW! As last year we will use Discord as our virtual venue. If you haven't already, you can join the event server here: https://discord.gg/XrSbTzsYEP The content, i.e. talks, presentations and workshops, will be scheduled after 22:00 UTC+1 on Friday (2022-12-02). Please inform us about your interests and talks via the MOPAD (https://mopad.rohow.de/). You should be able to create an account for yourself by selecting your respective team name. Note that you have to create new accounts for this year. All additional information and schedule is available at rohow.de We are looking forward to see you on Friday (2022-12-02) at 19:00 UTC+1 for the opening ceremony in the Discord TownHall voice channel. Gretings from Hamburg, Team HULKs

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B-Human Code Release 2021
by Tim Laue 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

Hi RoboCuppers! The team B-Human announces the availability of our 2021 code release at https://github.com/bhuman/BHumanCodeRelease It is the most advanced B-Human code ever! Many thousands of lines of open source code together with a detailed documentation. The software released is a cleaned-up version of the system we used in the 2021 competitions. In contrast to previous years, the documentation is from now on split into two parts: A PDF that briefly describes the approaches that have been implemented since 2019 is located in the GitHub repository. All technical details, such as the installation guide and descriptions of our software architecture and tools, are now in a separate wiki that you can find at https://wiki.b-human.de/coderelease2021/. The improvements that have been made in the previous two years include (but are not limited to): - A fully lighting independent vision system, including - a CNN-based field border detection - A procedure for autonomous camera calibration - A new motion infrastructure - Higher walking stability, based on - improved support foot switching, - in-walk kicks that are capable to adjust to the ball position, and - the detection of walking on another robot’s foot and acting accordingly. Our software is released with its own 3-D simulator. Microsoft Windows 64 bit, Linux 64 bit, and macOS (on Apple Silicon as well as on Intel processors) are fully supported. Please note that the new code is released within the same repository that we used for our previous releases. The old releases are marked with tags in that repository. Furthermore, please also note that our license has changed for the first time in a long while. We strongly believe in sharing our developments and look forward to the code releases of others. Have fun :-) Team B-Human -- _______________________________________________________________ Dr. Tim Laue Multi-Sensor Interactive Systems Group Faculty 3 - Mathematics and Computer Science University of Bremen Cartesium 0.53 Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 5 28359 Bremen www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~timlaue Telephone: +49 (421) 218-64209

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VRoHOW 2022
by Patrick Göttsch 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Dear fellow SPL and Humanoid RoboCup teams, This is the call for participation of the virtual Robotic Hamburg Open Workshop (vRoHOW) 2022. The event will take place virtually over the weekend from 2nd to 4th of December. As usual, the event will be driven by your contributions in the form of talks, presentations and workshops. Once again, Discord will be our venue with multiple rooms and areas prepared. For participation do the following: Send a message to hulks(a)tuhh.de until the 15th of November 2022 expressing your interest in participation. This message should include your team name and a contact person. There will be no participation fee. We are excited to see you at the event! Best regards, Team HULKs

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RoboCup GermanOpen 2023
by Patrick Göttsch 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

Dear Teams, currently we start planning the RoboCup GermanOpen 2023 (27.04. - 30.04.2023) this time in Kassel. It is a new place. But to get an estimate of the needed space for tables, chairs and fields, we would like to know, * if you would like to travel to Kassel to participate in RoboCup German Open 2023 and with how many members, * if you would like to participate in RoboCup German Open 2023 remotely (there has no decision made if this will be offered in the end) and you would just send robots. * if you currently do not know. It would be really nice, if you could send me an email by the 11th of September. Kind regards and have a nice weekend, Patrick Göttsch

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B-Human's Video Analysis App
by Thomas Röfer 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

Hi, B-Human's contribution to the Video Analysis Challenge is now available at: https://github.com/bhuman/VideoAnalysis <https://github.com/bhuman/VideoAnalysis> We also prepared a simple list that provides links to videos, TCM logs (both hosted on Berlin United’s server), and GameController logs (hosted on our server). It currently only lists games from RoboCup 2018 and 2019, but we plan to add the 2022 games as well as soon as their directory structure on Berlin United’s server is finalized. The list can be found at: https://github.com/bhuman/SPLGames <https://github.com/bhuman/SPLGames> Many thanks to the team Berlin United for recording and hosting the videos and for providing the code for camera calibration that we built on. Also many thanks to Arne Moos for organizing the challenge and all the teams who labeled the images! Have fun! Thomas Röfer (B-Human)

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Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open The event will be held in São Bernardo do Campo - São Paulo, Brazil, from october 17 to 22. Remote Participation is available in Simulation Leagues. Registrations are now open for teams all over the world.To participate, the teams must register until july 31, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 170 per team or US$100 in simulation leagues. ============== Important Dates: ============== Pre-Registration Deadline: *July 31* TDP Submission: Check each league's schedule on the website or contact the league's chair by e-mail Early Registration:* September 1 to 23* Registration: *September 24 to October 9* If you have any doubt about the pre-registration or registration process, please contact organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org ======= Leagues ======= RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D RoboCup Small Size Soccer (SSL) RoboCup Humanoid League RoboCup Standard Platform League RoboCup @Home RoboCupJunior RoboCup Brazil Flying Robots Trial League IEEE Humanoid Racing IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit IEEE Very Small Size Soccer 3x3 and 5x5 -- Patrícia Vergara Comunicação RoboCup Brasil (11) 9.8686-4993 www.robocup.org.br

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RoboCup Symposium 2022 - Info Room for Satellite Event
by alessandra.rossi＠unina.it 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

Dear everyone, The RC-HL satellite event "Open Humanoid Competition" will be in room *Silk 4 *reserved from *19:00 to 21:00* on *14th of July*. You can find the room in the attached floor plan towards the bottom left. Looking forward to seeing you. Kind regards, Alessandra

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Team HULKs are going Open Source
by Hendrik Sieck 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

Dear SPL Community, Team HULKs proudly announce that we are open sourcing our entire code base. At the end of last year we started reimplementing our previous C++ software in Rust. We feel RoboCup 2022 is a great opportunity to kick off more transparency in our community and follow the original vision of RoboCup: Beating human players in 2050. We think this is only possible if we work together as a league and share our knowledge. Our current state of development is available at https://github.com/HULKs/HULKsCodeRelease without any exceptions. It is updated every Wednesday evening at ~22:00 UTC and during this RoboCup we will push it daily. A proper documentation will be provided after RoboCup. We are looking forward to your comments and contributions. Team HULKs

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Robot warranties (for European teams)
by Patrick Göttsch 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

Hi Teams, The following information is for European teams for which warranty is handled by URG. I'll send a separate email concerning warranties for teams in other regions (contracts with Softbank Japan, Softbank China, and RobotLab) once I have information from them. First off some good news: If you took the discounted warranty extension last year that stated to extend your robot warranty until "July 1 2022 (after the Thailand event)" (because the event was scheduled for end of June at that point) you don't need to worry. URG just confirmed that all those warranties have been extended until July 31, so the competition is covered, as is sending the robots to France after the event. :) Now some changes introduced by URG: If you've ever forgotten to extend your robot's warranty and then contacted Softbank Europe you'll have noticed that they usually extended the warranty retroactively from the date the previous warranty expired no matter what state the robot was in. URG is handling this slightly differently: If your robot doesn't currently have a warranty they require a "check-up" which will cost 100€ to determine whether the robot will need repairs before being able to be under warranty again. The new warranty will then start from the date of the "check-up" and the 100€ fee will be credited towards the price of the warranty extension. If damage that would require repairs is found during the check-up, the repairs will have to be done and paid for outside of the warranty before the robot qualifies for a warranty again. URG told me that they will be more lenient with Robocup teams than with "normal" customers and things like broken fingers, etc. will be ignored during the check-up. The usual 4 year warranty limit still applies, i.e. it won't be possible to extend the warranty once a robot is more than 4 years old. For those cases URG will offer a repair package at events (as they are doing for Robocup in Thailand this year). URG will also remind teams to extend their warranties before they expire so that the check-up won't be necessary. Let me know if you have any questions about the process or if you run into any problems with URG. Rico Tilgner SPL Executive Committee

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Newsletter - RoboCup 2022 SPL
by Patrick Göttsch 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

# Newsletter - RoboCup 2022 SPL ## Live Streaming As for GORE 2022 we are going to set-up a similar setup for RoboCup 2022. You will find live streams from the fields here on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/c/RoboCupSPL). ## Team Leader Meetings There are four team leader meetings planned. We will try to conduct them in a hybrid fashion, so that remote teams **and teams not participating in RoboCup 2022** can also participate. We are going to use Field A in Discord (if you do not have access to Discord, please let us know) for remotely joining teams. ## League Advancements (Reminder) To prepare for the discussion of league advancements during our team leader meetings at RoboCup 2022, we ask you and your team, **even if you do not particpate in RoboCup 2022**, to discuss your ideas for rule changes, technical challenges, etc. Please submit your ideas in written form in this document: https://writemd.rz.tuhh.de/CXy3y2PGTCaA-vaOsPOZMg by the **9th of July**. As these are just teasers (Ideas will be explained in detail at RC2022), do not use more than two times 140 chars. ## Publications, Datasets, Open Source (Reminder) The SPL website contains sections of publications (https://spl.robocup.org/publications/), datasets (https://spl.robocup.org/datasets/), and open source releases (https://spl.robocup.org/open-source/) that were created in the context of the SPL. We would like to keep those lists up-to-date and therefore ask you to send SPL-related research output from the past two years (i.e. bibliographical information for publications, links and descriptions for public datasets and code) to rc-spl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org by July 9th. This also helps representing the state of the SPL to the trustees. Thanks to the teams who have replied so far! Thanks a lot, Have a nice day, Patrick (on behalf of the SPL OC&TC) -- Patrick Göttsch, M.Sc. Research Assistant Institute of Control Systems / E-14 Hamburg University of Technology Eißendorfer Str. 40 Building N (Room 1.010) D-21073 Hamburg E-Mail: patrick.goettsch(a)tuhh.de Phone: +49-40-42878-3115 https://www.tuhh.de/ics/

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RC-HL 2022: Invitation to participate at Humanoid League Satellite Event
by Alessandra Rossi 05 Jul '22

05 Jul '22

Dear RoboCuppers, The Humanoid League is organising the event "Open Humanoid Competition" as part of the Symposium Satellite Events on 14 July 2022, 19:00-21:00 (local time) Bangkok, Thailand. This satellite event is meant to be a discussion group during which we will foster discussions between members of different Leagues, trustees, members of the Technical and Organising Committees to tackle some fundamental requirements to facilitate new teams to join or participate in the games of the Humanoid League. Best regards, Alessandra on behalf of the Humanoid League TCs *Abstract*: "Since the Humanoid League's first games in 2002, the competitions progressively developed its scientific challenges to successfully meet the goal of RoboCup to play against the human world soccer champion in 2050. Such increasing scientific difficulties have been catching the attention and interest of researchers, but, at the same time, make it prohibitive for new and, in consequence, often less experienced teams to join the Humanoid League. The main difficulties faced by new teams are related both to the cost of taller robots, and the challenges of developing hardware and software for such taller robots. We also expect that such costs for research, components and equipment for one or a full team of humanoid robots may soon become inapproachable for new teams. For these reasons, in this satellite event for the 25th RoboCup International Symposium, we want to focus on addressing the challenges and development of the creation an initial process or a sub-event to the Humanoid League main competition that can ease the path for new teams and to guide them towards a final full participation. To this extent, we will foster discussions between members of different Leagues, trustees, members of the Technical and Organising Committees to tackle some fundamental requirements to facilitate new teams to join the Humanoid League." *Website*: https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-2022/satellite-event/ -- Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor 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 International Symposium 2022 - Final Call for Research Showcases
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

* Final Call for Research Showcases* The 25th RoboCup International Symposium https://2022.robocup.org/ Submission of abstracts: 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. This year, we are inviting the submission of poster proposals to facilitate scientific discussions about ongoing projects and late-breaking results during the RoboCup 2022 Symposium. This call is specifically for poster presentations to showcase teams’ ongoing work and/or the latest results relevant to the RoboCup community. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to promote exciting conversations during the coffee break over posters, discussing scientific results, finding other research groups with similar interests, and strengthening connections between different teams as well as RoboCup leagues. Any team, research group, or individual is welcome to propose a poster presentation with the content relevant to the RoboCup community. To ensure this and to group posters into the poster sessions, we ask everyone interested in such poster presentations to submit a proposal with the title and short abstract of max 250 words by June 20th (using the Research Showcase Track). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of poster abstracts (Research Showcase Track): 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 Upload of poster pdfs for website (optionally): 8 July RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Abstracts will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium. Poster abstracts will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be 250 words in plain text and must be submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 POSTER FORMAT ============== Posters presented at the Symposium should be in A0 portrait format. Presenters will receive a poster board as well as material for attaching the posters from the organizers. Please note that the Symposium Co-Chairs will not be able to assist with printing posters in Bangkok, so please bring your printed poster with you to the Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Research Showcases
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

* Call for Research Showcases* The 25th RoboCup International Symposium https://2022.robocup.org/ Submission of abstracts: 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. This year, we are inviting the submission of poster proposals to facilitate scientific discussions about ongoing projects and late-breaking results during the RoboCup 2022 Symposium. This call is specifically for poster presentations to showcase teams’ ongoing work and/or the latest results relevant to the RoboCup community. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to promote exciting conversations during the coffee break over posters, discussing scientific results, finding other research groups with similar interests, and strengthening connections between different teams as well as RoboCup leagues. Any team, research group, or individual is welcome to propose a poster presentation with the content relevant to the RoboCup community. To ensure this and to group posters into the poster sessions, we ask everyone interested in such poster presentations to submit a proposal with the title and short abstract of max 250 words by June 20th (using the Research Showcase Track). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of poster abstracts (Research Showcase Track): 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 Upload of poster pdfs for website (optionally): 8 July RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Abstracts will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium. Poster abstracts will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be 250 words in plain text and must be submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 POSTER FORMAT ============== Posters presented at the Symposium should be in A0 portrait format. Presenters will receive a poster board as well as material for attaching the posters from the organizers. Please note that the Symposium Co-Chairs will not be able to assist with printing posters in Bangkok, so please bring your printed poster with you to the Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org

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