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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 06 May '22

06 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 25 Apr '22

25 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 14 Apr '22

14 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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