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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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GameController RoboCup 2022
by Arne Hasselbring 24 May '22

24 May '22

Dear teams, there is a preliminary GameController release for RoboCup 2022 at https://github.com/RoboCup-SPL/GameController/releases/tag/RoboCup2022 (including release notes and a compiled zip archive below Assets). To those teams participating in RoboCup 2022: Could you please check your team name (as you wish it to be displayed by the GameController/TCM), home/away jersey colors (GameController/config/spl/teams.cfg in the zip archive or resources/config/spl/teams.cfg in the repository) and team logo (file named as your team number in the same directory) and send any change request until *June 1*? I am aware that some changes for the 7v7 competition may be necessary if teams use the default jerseys and that remote teams can not use their own jerseys, so if you have special requests here you can contact me as well. If you happen to find easter eggs, bugs or other problems, please report them either directly on GitHub, on Discord, or as an email to me, whatever fits you best. Best regards, Arne Hasselbring

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Final version Rule Book
by Patrick Göttsch 17 May '22

17 May '22

Dear all, the final version of the SPL rule got published here: https://spl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/SPL-Rules-2022.pdf Kind regards, Patrick Göttsch (on behalf of the SPL TC)

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Re: RoboCup SPL Application status update
by Timothy Wiley 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi RoboCup TC, Thank you for writing to us At this stage, we are unable to participate in-person due to RMIT travel rules. I have been waiting on RMIT travel rules update, but can’t guarantee that by the time of the competition. At this stage, we would try to participate remotely in ta couple of the technical challenges, if possible. Regards, Timothy Dr. Timothy Wiley | Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies | RMIT University Building 14, Level 11 (City Campus) | Homepage<https://timothy-wiley.github.io> | CIAIRI<https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/centre-for-industri…> | AI Innovation Lab<http://rmit.edu.au/ailab> On 3 May 2022, at 2:21 am, Stefan Seering <robocup(a)stefan.seeri.ng<mailto:robocup@stefan.seeri.ng>> wrote: Dear Team RedBackBots, Dear Timothy, I am writing you due to your application to RoboCup SPL 2022. In your application you expressed that you are tentative about your commitment to participate in RoboCup SPL 2022. The TC would like if there are any updates available regarding your intent to participate. While we understand that commitments are still hard to make due to the global situation, we would like to know which of the following options is the most likely for you at the moment. a) You will participate in RoboCup SPL 2022 in person. b) You will not participate in person, but have interest in remotely participation in technical challenges if possible. c) You will not participate in RoboCup SPL 2022. You answer is helpful for planning RoboCup SPL 2022. Therefore, we ask you to please respond until Friday this week. Best regards Stefan Seering.

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RC Humanoid League Virtual Season: sim2real event
by Alessandra Rossi 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

Dear everyone, We are very pleased to share with you the program of the 3-day event focused on sim2real transfer organised to conclude an exceptional RC Humanoid League Virtual Season. The event will be on 28-30 April online using the Zoom platform -> Link We are very pleased of having a great invited speaker from the 3D sim league Marco Simões, and a discussion about common and differences with 3D sim will follow. We will also have a mix of medalists and team presentations, workshops, discussions and a sneak peek to the RC-HL VS behind scenes. The full program is available on our website -> Link Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions. We are looking forward to engage you in sim2real discussions! Kind regards, Alessandra on behalf of RC-HL Virtual Season organisers 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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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Semi- and final games
by Alessandra Rossi 13 Apr '22

13 Apr '22

Dear RoboCuppers, We are almost at the end of an exciting season full of great and breath taking games! On April 17th, in conjuction with the GORE event, there will be a double date for the semi- and final games of the Humanoid League Virtual Season starting with the semifinals at 10am (CEST time), and continuing at 11:45 (CEST time) with the finals! Sooo, grab a coffee, a beer or an Ester chocolate egg and join us! Games will be commenting live from the GORE venue, but we will be streaming the games on Twitch Field A -> https://www.twitch.tv/robocuphumanoidfielda For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Do not forget that the RC-HL Virtual Season will be back on April 28-30 with a series of workshops, discussion groups and talks. We welcome proposals from other leagues too! https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/rc-hl-virtual-season-workshops/call-… See you this Sunday! Best regards, Alessandra on behalf of the RC-HL Organisation Committee 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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RoboEireann code usage for GORE 2022
by Rudi Villing 11 Apr '22

11 Apr '22

Dear all, RoboEireann wish to declare that after many years working with our own codebase, this year we have chosen to use the B-Human Code Release 2021 as the basis for our entry in the GORE 2022 event. We have replaced two modules to date: * the cards and skills behaviour architecture of the code release was replaced with our own coroutine based behaviour architecture * the original correlation-based whistle recognizer was replaced with our own whistle detector * We've also made some changes to support event-based communication. Finally, Low level vision is expected to be replaced going forward but this change is not ready at this time. We'd like to take the opportunity to thank B-Human for their significant open-source contributions to the SPL community and the high quality of their code release. Best regards, Rudi (on behalf of RoboEireann)

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[RC-HL] EXTENDED DEADLINE : Call for Workshop proposals
by Alessandra Rossi 08 Apr '22

08 Apr '22

Dear Robocuppers, We decided to extend the submission deadline for the workshop proposals for the RoboCup Humanoid League Virtual Season. RC-HL virtual season organisers will hold a three days event on April 28-30, 2022 focused on exploring the sim2real transfer topic. It will be a great opportunity for both exploring future collaborations between different leagues, and sharing knowledge and experiences on techniques and approaches in simulated environments. Each workshop will be of half hour, and we welcome proposals for discussion groups, tutorials or interactive activities. More info on how to submit your proposal are here -> https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/rc-hl-virtual-season-workshops/call-… Moreover, we want to invite you at the Semi-Final and Final that will be streamed on April 17th from the joint event German Open Replacement Event (GORE) organised by SPL and Humanoid League which takes place in Hamburg (Germany) from 12.04. to 17.04.22. Looking forward to receive your valuable inputs and contributions. Feel free to contact me for further information. Best regards, Alessandra On behalf of the RC-HL virtual organisation committee 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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League News
by Patrick Göttsch 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Dear Teams, we are getting closer and closer to RoboCup 2022 in Thailand and a lot of different RoboCup related events (like GORE 2022 https://gore-event.github.io) are going to take place. The RoboCup federation asks all teams, if you have league-related news you would like to share with the communiy over RoboCup's social media channels. If so, please sent an email to April foster april.robocup(a)gmail.com. Kind regards and hope to see you around Patrick (on behalf of SPL TC and OC commitee)

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Final Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

* Final Call for Satellite Events * RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-satellite-events/ Submission of proposals: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== We invite you to organize a satellite event for the 25th RoboCup International Symposium, which will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to facilitate the organization of satellite workshops, focus groups, roundtable discussions, and other events that are related to RoboCup itself or the general aim of the RoboCup Symposium. This includes league-specific discussions about rules and/or roadmaps, shared infrastructure projects between leagues, as well as scientific workshops focusing on a particular research topic, among others. League committee members, as well as teams or individuals from RoboCup leagues participating in the Symposium, are invited to submit their proposals. The organizers of a satellite event are free to propose events between 2 and 8 hours in length to be held during or a day after the RoboCup Symposium (17 or 18 July) in a fully virtual, hybrid, or fully local format. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of satellite events: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Proposals will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium as well as their proposed schedule and required resources. Satellite events will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines [0] and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system [1]. Please follow the LaTeX template created by us by either downloading the template file [2] or by creating a private copy of this Overleaf template [3]. Submissions are limited to a 4-page extended abstract, excluding references. Each submission must include the following sections: * Name of the satellite event * A description of the format (e.g., discussion group, workshop, tutorial, invited talks, ...) and intended length of the event * Prefered date and time of the event (17 or 18; morning or afternoon, or the whole day [no lunch will be provided unless it’s on the 17th]) * A description of the content and aim of the satellite event * Names and contacts of all members of the organizing committee/group with one clearly marked person as the corresponding member of the organizing committee * The intended audience and the number of participants expected * Any resources required to organize the workshop After the acceptance of their proposal, organizers are expected to create a short description of their event as well as a website providing further information which will both be linked from the RoboCup symposium page on the RoboCup 2022 website. Organizers of accepted proposals for satellite events will receive a location for their event as well as other required resources (e.g., a projector), if possible. Apart from this, the organizers are responsible for organizing their event independent of the RoboCup 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 [0] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [1] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 [2] https://2022.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Symposium-Satellite-Eve… [3] https://de.overleaf.com/read/gqspxdtvpwsn

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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Workshops and next games
by Alessandra Rossi 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Dear Robocuppers, The first round of games for RC-HL virtual season just ended. We streamed the last game of the Round Robin phase last Sunday (20 March). We will now enter in the Quarterfinals, which they will be streamed on April 3rd starting at 10am (CEST time). The Semi-Final and Final will be streamed on April 17th from the joint event German Open Replacement Event (GORE) organised by SPL and Humanoid League which takes place in Hamburg (Germany) from 12.04. to 17.04.22. At the end of the games, RC-HL virtual season organisers will hold a three days event on April 28-30, 2022 focused on exploring the sim2real transfer topic. It will be a great opportunity for both exploring future collaborations between different leagues, and sharing knowledge and experiences of applying realistic computational resources and scenario to the virtual competition, and the other way around. We welcome proposals for half hour workshops. More info on how to submit your proposal are here -> https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/rc-hl-virtual-season-workshops/call-… Looking forward to receive your valuable inputs and contributions. Best regards, Alessandra On behalf of the RC-HL virtual organisation committee More info on our website: https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022 We will be streaming all of our games on Twitch Field A For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy 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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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - 2nd Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

* 2nd Call for Satellite Events * RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-satellite-events/ Submission of proposals: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== We invite you to organize a satellite event for the 25th RoboCup International Symposium, which will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to facilitate the organization of satellite workshops, focus groups, roundtable discussions, and other events that are related to RoboCup itself or the general aim of the RoboCup Symposium. This includes league-specific discussions about rules and/or roadmaps, shared infrastructure projects between leagues, as well as scientific workshops focusing on a particular research topic, among others. League committee members, as well as teams or individuals from RoboCup leagues participating in the Symposium, are invited to submit their proposals. The organizers of a satellite event are free to propose events between 2 and 8 hours in length to be held during or a day after the RoboCup Symposium (17 or 18 July) in a fully virtual, hybrid, or fully local format. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of satellite events: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Proposals will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium as well as their proposed schedule and required resources. Satellite events will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines [0] and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system [1]. Please follow the LaTeX template created by us by either downloading the template file [2] or by creating a private copy of this Overleaf template [3]. Submissions are limited to a 4-page extended abstract, excluding references. Each submission must include the following sections: * Name of the satellite event * A description of the format (e.g., discussion group, workshop, tutorial, invited talks, ...) and intended length of the event * Prefered date and time of the event (17 or 18; morning or afternoon, or the whole day [no lunch will be provided unless it’s on the 17th]) * A description of the content and aim of the satellite event * Names and contacts of all members of the organizing committee/group with one clearly marked person as the corresponding member of the organizing committee * The intended audience and the number of participants expected * Any resources required to organize the workshop After the acceptance of their proposal, organizers are expected to create a short description of their event as well as a website providing further information which will both be linked from the RoboCup symposium page on the RoboCup 2022 website. Organizers of accepted proposals for satellite events will receive a location for their event as well as other required resources (e.g., a projector), if possible. Apart from this, the organizers are responsible for organizing their event independent of the RoboCup 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 [0] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [1] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 [2] https://2022.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Symposium-Satellite-Eve… [3] https://de.overleaf.com/read/gqspxdtvpwsn

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Late call for applications to participate on-site and remotely in RoboCup 2022 Standard Platform League
by Stefan Seering 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Dear SPL Teams, This email is a*late call for applications to participate *in RoboCup 2022 Standard Platform League in some capacity, either on-site as normal or remotely in a limited capacity. While we encourage all teams that are able to travel, even with a small number of member, to join us in Bangkok, the TC is aware that some teams have limitations on their ability to travel to Bangkok for the 2022 competition. Therefore, we would also like to encourage as many teams as possible to participate in RoboCup, whether on-site or in a remote setting. This is to maintain connections with the teams in our community and encourage teams to continue in their RoboCup research and software development. Teams competing on-site will be able to participate in the soccer competition and challenges. Teams that compete remotely, would be able to participate only in the following technical challenges: * Visual Referee Challenge * Dynamic Ball handling Challenge * Open Research Challenge Remote teams will be unable to participate in the soccer competition, or the 7 vs 7 Technical Challenge. This is because of limited on-site technical and volunteer support, along with an insufficient pool of robots. If you have questions about this late call for applications to participate on-site or remotely, please email the RoboCup TC (rc-spl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org). Additionally, if you are unsure about the teams status and unable to apply by the deadline, but may wish to make a late application, please express your interest in a late application by the deadline. Details of the call follow below: Late call for applications to participate in RoboCup 2022 Standard Platform League spl.robocup.org <https://spl.robocup.org/> Monday 11th July through Sunday 17th July 2022 Bangkok, Thailand 2022.robocup.org <https://2022.robocup.org/> RoboCup <https://spl.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. In this late call we encourage applications to participate in the RoboCup 2022 SPL either on-site in Bangkok or remotely. On-site participation 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 <mailto:rc-spl-tc@lists.robocup.org>. Remote participation in challenges For those teams that are not able to travel and compete on-site, we offer the possibility of remote participation in the following challenges: * Visual Referee Technical Challenge * Dynamic Ball handling Technical Challenge * A video analysis and statistics open research challenge Remote teams will be unable to participate in the soccer competition, or the 7 vs 7 Technical Challenge. Teams that wish to compete remotely may do so via a live stream of their technical challenge performance at their assigned time, similar to participation in RoboCup 2021. (For the dynamic ball handling challenge the TC is currently considering a limited on-site robot pool to allow teams to participate if they do not have 6 functional robots with which to conduct the challenge demonstration. However, a final decision on this has not yet been made.) Qualification All interested teams (whether participating on-site or remotely) 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. Submission and Evaluation All applications with the (pre-)qualification material must be submitted by*13**th of April 2022*, by email to rc-spl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org <mailto:rc-spl-tc@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 or participate in challenges 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.) Late qualification decisions will be announced shortly after the late application deadline above. 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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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Call for Workshop proposals on sim2real transfer
by Alessandra Rossi 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Dear RoboCuppers, The Technical and Virtual Organising committees of the Humanoid League invite proposals for Workshops that will be held as part of the Humanoid League Virtual Season on April, 28-30, 2022. The event will be fully online and free of attendance. The theme of this three-days event is sim2real transfer. In particular, we want to teams the opportunity to share their knowledge and experiences of applying realistic computational resources and scenario to the virtual competition, and the other way around. A second aim is too have a specific roundtable to talk about possible ideas for collaboration between the 3Dsim and the Humanoid League. However, inputs and contributions from different leagues are valuable and appreciated. The event will be organised through different time-zones to allow the participations from all over the world. Detailed schedule of the event will be posted on the website of the Humanoid League email and social media. Website: https://humanoid.robocup.org/ Twitter: @HumanoidLRC IMPORTANT DATES Proposal Submission deadline: April 8, 2022 (AoE) Workshop days: April, 28-30, 2022. HOW TO SUBMIT We are welcoming workshop proposals related to the sim2real topic from teams of the different RC leagues. Each workshop will be of half hour. Teams can submit more than one proposal, but they need to provide separate submissions. Prospective workshop organisers are invited to submit a proposal in a PDF format via https://cloud.robocup.org/s/CrqjiD3DdscRKcg Proposals should include the following information: • Workshop title • Short description of topic and objective of the workshop • Organisers names, email and affiliation For any questions and further information about the Workshop proposal and the event, please email rc-hl-tc <AT> lists.robocup.org or rc-hl-oc <AT> lists.robocup.org Alessandra On behalf of the Humanoid League TC and V-OC committees 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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GameController Packet - Relevant for Dynamic Ball Handling Challenge
by Arne Hasselbring 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Hi everyone, since the defender images for the dynamic ball handling challenge need to be handed in in a few days, they must already be compatible with a GameController that will be used at RoboCup. Therefore, I'd like to notify you about the changes in RoboCupGameControlData.h (which you can find here: https://github.com/RoboCup-SPL/GameController/blob/master/include/RoboCupGa…). I hope that this file does not need to be changed again for RoboCup. Otherwise, I will make sure that at least for the Dynamic Ball Handling Challenge there is a GameController that can handle both the current version of the packet and the one that will be current then (because I guess that would be what the attackers use). The changes in RoboCupGameControlData compared to 2021 are: - increased version number - increased MAX_NUM_PLAYERS to 7 (affects the size of TeamInfo and therefore RoboCupGameControlData) - updated COMPETITION_TYPE macros - added messageBudget field to TeamInfo - indicates how many messages a team has left RoboCupGameControlReturnData has also changed (this is what makes robots show up as active in the GameController): https://github.com/RoboCup-SPL/GameController/commit/a9f113e2f0f0e40ac6deca… It is now similar to the SPLStandardMessage, such that a TCM running on the GC computer could still visualize the robots' poses and ball observations at an acceptable rate (remember that this is unicast to the GC host anyway). Although the return packets are already received by the TCM, merging them into the visualization is still work in progress. Best regards, Arne Hasselbring

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Papers
by Nuno Lau 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Dear RoboCuppers; Please consider submitting your paper to this year's symposium! Call for papers RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-papers/ 17 July 2022 Bangkok, Thailand (hybrid setting) The 25th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed 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 Bangkok, Thailand, with remote participation options for both presenters and attendees. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging 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 working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 17 April 2022 Notification to authors: 5 June 2022 Submission of camera-ready copies: 26 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium 2022: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup on 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS 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-gu…) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022). 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-… TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * 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 DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2021, we expand the scope of this track to include datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community and the research topics listed above. 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 CONTACT robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org<mailto:robocupsymposium2022@easychair.org>

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