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DutchNaoTeam announce HULKs code usage
by Gijs de Jong 03 Jun '23

03 Jun '23

Dear RoboCup 2023 Standard Platform League Technical Committee, Dear RoboCup SPL teams, In accordance with the terms and conditions of the HULKs license, the Dutch Nao Team announces the use of HULKs code for the RoboCup 2023. We use the HULKs framework, including walking, whistle detection, ball detection, localisation and behaviours. We modified and use our own implementation of: - Robot-to-robot communication - GameController communication - Behaviours We would like to extend our sincere appreciation to the HULKs Team for graciously sharing their code and significantly contributing to the RoboCup SPL, fostering collaboration and innovation within the robotic soccer community! Kind regards, Gijs de Jong Technical Lead - Dutch Nao Team

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SPQR Team announce B-Human 2021 code usage
by Vincenzo Suriani 02 Jun '23

02 Jun '23

Dear RoboCup 2023 Standard Platform League Technical Committee, Dear RoboCup SPL teams, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the B-Human code release 2021's license, the SPQR Team announces the use of the B-Human code from the release 2021 for the RoboCup 2023. We use some of the native B-Human modules including walking, simulation, whistle recognition, calibration, and the Skills and Card behavior design system. Instead, we use our own code for coordination, multi-robot distributed decision-making, and part of the robot's perception. The following parts of the SPQR Team code are original: - Visual perception (Ball Perception <https://github.com/SPQRTeam/SPQRBallPerceptor>, Robot perception, Referee gesture recognition) - Team coordination and strategy, including planners <https://github.com/EmanueleMusumeci/RoboCup-coach> - Behaviors - Motion primitives (besides get-ups) and ball-approaching controller The following parts are modifications of the original B-Human code: - Dynamic network adaptation - Data fusion among the robots We would like to thank the B-Human Team for sharing their code and acknowledge their contribution to the RoboCup SPL. Kind regards, Vincenzo Suriani - team leader SPQR Team

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RedBackBots Code-Use Notification
by Timothy Wiley 02 Jun '23

02 Jun '23

Dear RoboCup SPL Teams, The RMIT University RedbackBots team is excited as we gear up for our participation in the main competition at the 2023 RoboCup SPL Tournament in Bordeaux, France. Today, we would like to express our gratitude and acknowledge contributions from various sources that have shaped the codebase for the RMIT University RedbackBots in 2023. We acknowledge the use of the 2019 code release of rUNSWift, in accordance with the license conditions, as the foundation of our codebase. We also acknowledge their support in running aspects of their codebase and providing training data/models for vision modules. RedBackBots has made significant enhancements to robot behaviours, skills, audio detection, communication, and various code adaptations throughout. We have notable focus on adapting the build and sync scripts, vision, and infrastructure. We acknowledge the use of the Build infrastructure from the B-Human 2022 code release, in accordance with the license conditions. Specifically, we note the use of the infrastructure to build and create a bootable Nao-Image, and the use of the Nao V6 Camera driver that is compatible with the Nao-image. We also acknowledge the contributions of NaoDevils to this infrastructure. We have integrated this infrastructure with the rUNSWift codebase and intend to release this work as part of the requirements of the 2023 rules. We have also acknowledged this code-use in our SPL qualification application. The expertise and insights of these teams, and the wider RoboCup SPL community has been a substantial aid in our team's software development. We are keen to contribute to the advancement of the RoboCup community. We look forward to joining the community in person, forging new friendships, and witnessing outstanding robot soccer matches. Sincerely, RedbackBots School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University 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>

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[meetings][CFP] EXTENDED Deadline for paper submission at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Alessandra Rossi 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to *01 May 2023*. 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* May 1, 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:* May 1st, 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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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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