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RoboCup 2023 - Regional Committee meeting
by António Fernando Macedo Ribeiro 01 Jul '23

01 Jul '23

Dear RoboCup Regional Committee representative: The 2023 Regional Committee Meeting will be held on July 6th, 2:30-4:00 pm (local time). The room where the meeting will take place will be announced shortly. This meeting intends to discuss your region's activities in the last year, and any other subject you might be pertinent to raise related to your region. From this year on, we would like to collect and archive the annual reports of the RoboCup Regional Committees in a systematic manner via an online form. Please be aware that the annual report refers to the "RoboCup year", i.e., the time since the last RoboCup: July 2022 - June 2023. The online form can be found here: https://form.s1.robocup.org/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=regional-commit… To access it, the regional representative first needs to create a personal account via the "New user? Register" button on this web page. Then a new report for the regional committee can be created via "Add New". The draft of the report can be saved by the "Save Draft" button in the right upper corner. Only the owner of the form can update it. "Publish" means finalizing the report by the owner and making it available. After publishing the report cannot be updated anymore. Thanks in advance. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. Best Regards, Fernando Ribeiro RoboCup Regional Committees RoboCup is a non-commercial, scientific and cultural activity to promote artificial intelligence, robotics, and other related science and technologies through robots and simulated robots competitions. A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth "region") with significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a "RoboCup Regional Committee." The purposes of these committees are to 1. Promote RoboCup within your region. 2. Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens. 3. Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. 4. Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition. 5. Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region. 6. Ensuring proper user of RoboCup emblems (names and logos) in your region. There are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which should also be run with regional committee participation but must be approved by the board of trustees. The regional committee is expected to send a report following each event summarizing the participation and organization of the event, including how many people and teams participated, from where, etc., as well as a financial report including registration fees, regional sponsorship, events and operational cost, etc. If there are many local events in a given year, they can be grouped together into a single annual report. Each regional committee should have a single chair who serves as the main point of contact with the RoboCup Board of Trustees for questions that are relevant to the region. There should be representation on the committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your region is active (including RoboCupJunior). If not already established, we encourage the regional committees to initiate the formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCup@Home. To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants from your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared, please contact the RoboCup Trustees with the following information: 1. The members and affiliations of the committee. 2. The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the Major teams represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your region). In the case of RoboCupJunior, include the name of the Junior regional representative, and his/her affiliation and email address. It is not necessary to include the list of all Junior teams from your region. 3. The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see http://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees for some examples). The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup website. The representatives of all RoboCup Regional Committees meet at least once a year during the annual RoboCup event to discuss with the Trustees the development of RoboCup in their regions and in general. Furthermore, while vacancies exist in the Board of Trustees, one appointment is reserved for election by the regional committees (one vote per regional committee).

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RoboCup Brazil Open 2023
by patricia.vergara＠robocup.org.br 29 Jun '23

29 Jun '23

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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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Regional Committee meeting
by A. Fernando Ribeiro 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

Dear RoboCup Regional Committees: The 2022 Regional Committee Assembly will be held in Bangkok during RoboCup. The meeting will take place on July 13th, 4:30-6:30pm (the meeting room will be announced later). We would like to remind you that one of the things that will happen, like last year, will be the election of a new RoboCup Trustee by the Regional Committees. Each Regional Committee will have one vote. Please send us your nominations by 8th July 12:00 GMT. How to nominate and vote: The RoboCup bylaws specify that anyone who has been an Executive Committee member or Trustee in the past is eligible to be elected. Attached, we are including the list of current and former Execs and Trustees. All candidates must have a Ph.D. (or are at a similar career stage - not a student) and have been on the Executive Committee or Board of Trustees within the past five years. If you would like to see any of these people nominated for the election to become a RoboCup Trustee, please send us up to 3 nominations by [Time, Date]. Anyone who receives 3 nominations will be included on the ballot (as long as he or she is interested in being nominated). If you would like to consult with your committee for the nominations, please do. Or else, please act on your own as the committee chair. The vote will be at the Regional Committee Assembly, where every committee that has representation at RoboCup 2022 will get one vote. So please make sure someone from your committee attends the Assembly. Thanks in advance. We look forward to seeing you at the assembly. *RoboCup Regional Committees* RoboCup is a non-commercial, scientific and cultural activity to promote artificial intelligence, robotics, and other related science and technologies through robots and simulated robots competitions. A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth "region") with significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a "RoboCup Regional Committee." The purposes of these committees are to: 1. Promote RoboCup within your region. 2. Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens. 3. Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. 4. Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition. 5. Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region. 6. Ensuring proper use of RoboCup emblems (names and logos) in your region. There are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which should also be run with regional committee participation, but must be approved by the board of trustees. The regional committee is expected to send a report following each event summarizing the participation and organization of the event, including how many people and teams participated, from where, etc., as well as a financial report including registration fees, regional sponsorship, events and operational cost, etc. If there are many local events in a given year, they can be grouped together into a single annual report. Each regional committee should have a single chair who serves as the main point of contact with the RoboCup Board of Trustees for questions that are relevant to the region. There should be representation on the committee from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your region is active (including RoboCupJunior). If not already established, we encourage the regional committees to initiate the formation of all aspects of RoboCup activities, including RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and RoboCup@Home. To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants from your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared, please contact the RoboCup Trustees with the following information: 1. The members and affiliations of the committee. 2. The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the Major teams represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your region). In the case of RoboCupJunior, include the name of the Junior regional representative, and his/her affiliation and email address. It is not necessary to include the list of all Junior teams from your region. 3. The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists (see http://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees for some examples). The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup website. The representatives of all RoboCup Regional Committees meet at least once a year during the annual RoboCup event to discuss with the Trustees about the development of RoboCup in their regions and in general. Furthermore, while vacancies exist in the Board of Trustees, one appointment is reserved for election by the regional committees (one vote per regional committee). All the best, RoboParty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gdCw-vlY2U

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RoboCupJunior Survey 2022
by April Foster 06 Jul '22

06 Jul '22

Dear Regional Representatives for RoboCupJunior, -- If you are not the Junior representative in your region, please forward this email to the person in charge. -- The RoboCup Federation Trustees would like to collect feedback from all RoboCup Regional Committees having Junior activities. We kindly ask you to answer the online poll for your region: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/WKD57BY We also ask you to make sure to involve your regional Junior community well in order to provide representative answers for the Junior community and teams of your region. Please answer the survey by not later than *** Monday, July 11 *** to make sure it will be considered in the consultations about the anonymized summary report by RCF Trustees in Bangkok. However, in case you cannot meet this deadline, we will keep the survey open until July 31st. Then your belated feedback will be used in an updated report. We are looking very much forward to your feedback! Please feel free to contact me in case of any questions. Best regards, Oskar von Stryk (On behalf of RoboCup Junior Trustees and RCF IT Team)

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RoboCup Exec Meeting Announcement
by A. Fernando Ribeiro 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

Dear EXEC members, Once again during RoboCup, there will be two EXECs meetings to discuss each league in particular. Expected from you is information about: - Summary of activities held in the last year - Major developments in the league - Plans for the next 5 years - Name/appoint the new EXECs/OCs/TCs for 2023 The two meetings are scheduled for: July 12th, 4:00-6:00 pm July 15th, 2:00-3:00 pm The meetings will be held on the second floor of the venue ("SILK 2"). All the best, RoboParty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gdCw-vlY2U

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RoboCup 2022 Regional Committee Assembly: Upcoming Report and Election
by April Foster 09 May '22

09 May '22

Dear RoboCup Regional Committees: The 2022 Regional Committee Assembly will be held during RoboCup 2022 Bangkok. We would like to remind you that the RoboCup Trustees will soon ask you to submit a summary report of RoboCup activities and events held in your region over the last year. Additionally, you will be asked to consider and submit nominations for the Trustee election. The election will be held during the Regional Assembly meeting to select a new RoboCup Trustee, and each Regional Committee will have one vote. Please look for additional information via email next month. Best Regards, April

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Reminder: RoboCup Regional Committee Meeting, June 23rd
by April Foster 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Dear Regional Committee Members, This is a reminder that the RoboCup Regional Committee Meeting will take place tomorrow, June 23rd, 3:00-5:00 pm UTC. Here is the Zoom link for the meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93167911912?pwd=U3BSbWNtalRpWlNZZVVQN1lqVy9hQT09 We look forward to meeting with you. Best Regards, April

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RoboCup 2021 Regional Committee
by A. Fernando Ribeiro 18 Jun '21

18 Jun '21

Dear RoboCup Regional Committees member, Following my email message dated June 3rd, the 2021 Regional Committee Meeting will be held on June 23rd, 3:00-5:00 pm UTC. I kindly ask you to select the region that you represent, by answering one question on this GoogleForm: https://forms.gle/om88Z89CiPj79cvm9 Not answering this GoogleForm might prevent you from participating in the meeting. Please reply to it. If you have problems answering, please contact me immediately, by replying to this email. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Fernando Ribeiro RoboCup Trustee A. Fernando Ribeiro fernando(a)dei.uminho.pt Prof. Associado com Agregação fernando(a)robotica.pt Dep. Electrónica Industrial – Robótica http://www.dei.uminho.pt/~fernando Universidade do Minho Tel. +351 253510394 (Lab. Robótica) Campus de Azurém Tel. +351 253510195 (Gabinete) 4800-058 Guimarães – Portugal Tel. +351 253510190 (Secretaria) RoboParty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gdCw-vlY2U

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Re: [RoboCup-nc] RoboCup 2021 Regional Committee meeting
by A. Fernando Ribeiro 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Dear RoboCup Regional Committees members, This email is a gentle reminder of the deadline for sending me the nominations for the election of a new RoboCup Trustee, which ends on June 15th (Tomorrow). Please send it to me, replying to this email, and stating clearly the Region which you represent, and the three names you nominate. Regarding the activities report from your region, you must submit a PDF file (whose name is your region), the deadline is June 19th, on the following link: https://cloud.robocup.org/s/7pACA8sSxRjANXS I look forward to receiving your files and nominations. All the best, On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 10:10, A. Fernando Ribeiro <fernando(a)dei.uminho.pt> wrote: > Dear RoboCup Regional Committees members, > > > The 2021 Regional Committee Meeting will be held on June 23rd, 3:00-5:00 > pm UTC. > > Two main topics will be discussed on this meeting: > > 1) Summary of your region activities and any other subject you might > feel is pertinent to raise, related with your region > > 2) Election of a new RoboCup Trustee by the regional committees > > > > Regarding the first topic, we would like you to prepare a short report > that best describes all activities held in your region during the last > year, or a couple of years (see template attached). > > Regarding the second topic, we would like to remind you that each regional > committee will have one vote. We ask you to send us your nominations by > June 15th. > > How to nominate and vote: > > The RoboCup bylaws specify that anyone who has been an executive committee > member or trustee in the past is eligible to be elected. Attached, we are > including the list of current and former Execs and Trustees. All candidates > must have a Ph.D. (or are at a similar career stage - not a student) and > have been on the executive committee or board of trustees within the past > five years. If you would like to see any of these people nominated for the > election to become a RoboCup Trustee, please send us up to 3 nominations by > June 15th. Anyone who receives 3 nominations will be included on the > ballot (as long as he or she is interested in being nominated). If you > would like to consult with your committee for the nominations, please do > so. Or else, please act on your own as the committee chair. > > The vote will be at the Regional Committee Meeting, where every committee > that has representation at RoboCup 2021 will get one vote. So please make > sure someone from your committee attends the Meeting. > > Thanks in advance. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting. > > Best Regards, > > Fernando Ribeiro > RoboCup Trustee > > > > > > *RoboCup Regional Committees* > > RoboCup is a non-commercial, scientific and cultural activity to promote > artificial intelligence, robotics, and other related science and > technologies through robots and simulated robots competitions. > > > > A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from any > nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth "region") with > significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a > "RoboCup Regional Committee." > > > > The purposes of these committees are to > > 1. Promote RoboCup within your region. > > 2. Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens. > > 3. Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. > > 4. Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within > your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through > friendly competition. > > 5. Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website > describing the RoboCup activities in your region. > > 6. Ensuring proper user of RoboCup emblems (names and logos) in your > region. > > > > There are local events smaller than regional "open" competitions, which > should also be run with regional committee participation, but must be > approved by the board of trustees. > > The regional committee is expected to send a report following each event > summarizing the participation and organization of the event, including how > many people and teams participated, from where, etc., as well as a > financial report including registration fees, regional sponsorship, events > and operational cost, etc. If there are many local events in a given year, > they can be grouped together into a single annual report. > > > > Each regional committee should have a single chair who serves as the main > point of contact with the RoboCup Board of Trustees for questions that are > relevant to the region. There should be representation on the committee > from all of the different RoboCup leagues in which your region is active > (including RoboCupJunior). If not already established, we encourage the > regional committees to initiate the formation of all aspects of RoboCup > activities, including RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue, RoboCupJunior, and > RoboCup@Home. > > > > To form a committee, please get together with all of the participants from > your region. Once the list of committee members is prepared, please contact > the RoboCup Trustees with the following information: > > 1. The members and affiliations of the committee. > > 2. The names, affiliations, and email addresses of all the Major teams > represented by the committee (hopefully all the teams from your region). In > case of RoboCupJunior, include the name of the Junior regional > representative, and his/her affiliation and email address. It is not > necessary to include the list of all Junior teams from your region. > > 3. The URL of your current webpage, if it already exists > > (see *http://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees > <http://www.robocup.org/organization/regional_committees>* for some > examples). > > > > The Trustees will then check that all the represented teams agree to be > represented in this way, and then link the committee to the RoboCup website. > > > > The representatives of all RoboCup Regional Committees meet at least once > a year during the annual RoboCup event to discuss with the Trustees about > the development of RoboCup in their regions and in general. Furthermore, > while vacancies exist in the Board of Trustees, one appointment is reserved > for election by the regional committees (one vote per regional committee). > > -- > > Cumprimentos, > > > > A. Fernando Ribeiro fernando(a)dei.uminho.pt > > Prof. Associado com Agregação fernando(a)robotica.pt > > Dep. Electrónica Industrial – Robótica http://www.dei.uminho.pt/~fernando > > Universidade do Minho Tel. +351 253510394 (Lab. > Robótica) > > Campus de Azurém Tel. +351 253510195 > (Gabinete) > > 4800-058 Guimarães – Portugal Tel. +351 253510190 (Secretaria) > > RoboParty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gdCw-vlY2U > > > -- Cumprimentos, A. Fernando Ribeiro fernando(a)dei.uminho.pt Prof. Associado com Agregação fernando(a)robotica.pt Dep. Electrónica Industrial – Robótica http://www.dei.uminho.pt/~fernando Universidade do Minho Tel. +351 253510394 (Lab. Robótica) Campus de Azurém Tel. +351 253510195 (Gabinete) 4800-058 Guimarães – Portugal Tel. +351 253510190 (Secretaria) RoboParty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gdCw-vlY2U

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