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Celebrate 25 years of RoboCup Rescue Simulation - deadline July 23, 2025
by Arnoud Visser 24 Jul '25

24 Jul '25

Dear RoboCuppers, The competitions in Salvador Brazil are finished, and unfortunately 2025 was the year last RoboCup Rescue Simulation competition. This is the end of a journey that started in 2000, as described in this article: R. Sheh, S.Schwertfeger and A. Visser, "16 Years of RoboCup Rescue", KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Volume 30, Issue 3, October 2016 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13218-016-0444-x It would be nice to announce the end of this journey to the public with a compilation of the highlights of the developments inside the league. If you have interesting video-material, send this to me this Wednesday, which will allow me to finish the compilation on Thursday. Regards, Arnoud Visser Universiteit van Amsterdam P.S. Note the two lists of publications from the RoboCup Rescue Simulation league. If a publication is missing, now is the time to finalize this lists https://rescuesim.robocup.org/research/publications/agent-competition/ https://rescuesim.robocup.org/research/publications/virtual-robot-competiti… RoboCup has been a uniquely enduring and inspiring force in robotics and AI since its inception. For almost three decades, it has grown through the self-motivation, passion, and remarkable  dedication of you, its participants. This spirit has made RoboCup the world’s largest and most influential robotics competition. Today, we stand at a pivotal moment. The field of robotics and AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace. The emergence of a new generation of robots, AI methods, and technologies is a unique  historical opportunity. RoboCup takes this opportunity to continue to lead. Therefore, we enact changes to the RoboCup international competitions, which is our window to the world. We unite all the advancements from all soccer leagues into one united umbrella focused on humanoid robot soccer. We push the state of the art in robotics and AI by introducing  humanoid robots for general-purpose applications, including the @home, work, and rescue leagues. Let’s write the next chapter of RoboCup together! On behalf of The RoboCup Board of Trustees, Ubbo Visser (President of The RoboCup Federation) ============================ Link to news on robocup.org<https://robocup.org/news/181> Details of Changes for the International RoboCup competition  Note: Existing leagues can continue at super-regionals, opens, and community-driven events. 1. Standard Platform League and Humanoid KidSize League  The SPL and Humanoid League KidSize divisions begin an immediate merger process aiming to form a unified league by 2026 (name to be decided). Teams from across all soccer leagues will be invited to join and shape this process.  2. Small Size League, Middle Size League, and Soccer Simulation Leagues  2027 will be the final year of the international competition for the SSL, MSL, and the soccer simulation leagues, as long as we have sufficient participation. We look forward to transitioning all the scientific advancements from these leagues to humanoid robot soccer.  We welcome proposals from the community to re-imagine how these leagues may  contribute as a bridge to encourage participants from the Junior leagues to continue on with the Major leagues.  3. RoboCupRescue Simulation League The 2025 competition is the final year for RoboCupRescue Simulation as an independent league at the International event. Teams are encouraged to engage with the Rescue Robot League to explore merger concepts and combined evaluation frameworks.  4. RoboCup@Home A single, unified RoboCup@Home league takes effect immediately. The 2025 competition is the last to feature two separate sub-leagues.  5. RoboCupIndustrial The @Work and Logistics sub-leagues will create a new Smart Manufacturing League (SML), merging for the 2026 and 2027 competitions to better address emerging autonomous production and logistics challenges.

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Re: Celebrate 25 years of RoboCup Rescue Simulation - deadline July 23, 2025
by Nobuhiro Ito 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Dear Arnoud, Kazunori and all, I appreciate your kindness, and we are very sorry to hear about the end of the league at RoboCup international competition. We believe that the multi-agent community of RoboCup requires challenges such as the soccer and rescue simulations. Therefore, we would like to continue our research using RRS and participate in competitions, if such competitions are held at RCAP or other regional events. Best regards, Nobuhiro > 2025/07/21 18:20、Kazunori Iwata <kazunori(a)vega.aichi-u.ac.jp>のメール: > > Dear Arnoud > (Cc: Nobuhiro) > > We are sorry to hear about the end of the Rescue Simulation International competition; we would like to continue using RRS as a critical Multi-Agent testbed. > > The following list outlines our papers related to RoboCup Rescue Simulation Agent Competition from recent years. > > > 2025 > Ryuki Yamamoto, Mihono Maruoka, Keisuke Ando, Takesh Uchitane, Naoto Mukai, Kazunori Iwata, Nobuhiro Ito, "Proposal of a Latent Information Visualization System Based on Agent Improvement Flow Analysis", 2025 18th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI) 2025, pp.399-404 > > Shuntaro Fujii, Kouta Katou, Itsuki Matsunaga, Keisuke Ando, Takeshi Uchitane, Naoto Mukai, Kazunori Iwata, Nobuhiro Ito, "Design and Analysis of Experiments for the Relationship between Components of Rescue Strategies and Map Characteristics", 2025 18th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI) 2025, pp. 299-302 > > Koki Yamada, Takeshi Uchitane, Kazunori Iwata, Nobuhiro Ito, "Analysis of Agent Actions on a Rescue Simulation Task Assignment Optimization Problem", 2025 18th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI) 2025, pp. 283-286 > > 2024 > Keisuke Ando, Takeshi Uchitane, Naoto Mukai, Kazunori Iwata, Nobuhiro Ito, Yong Jiang, Naohiro Ishii, "Social Simulations Using Multi-agent Systems", In: Nakamura, S., Sawaki, K., Nakagawa, T. (eds) Probability and Statistical Models in Operations Research, Computer and Management Sciences. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering 2024, pp. 117-133 > https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64597-6_7 > > > 2023 > Itsuki Matsunaga, Haruki Uehara, Ryoya Maeda, Joe Fujisawa, Hiroya Suzuki, Keisuke Ando, Takeshi Uchitane, Kazunori Iwata, Nobuhiro Ito, "Design of Task Assignments based on Ordering and Time Window Constraints for RoboCupRescue Agents", 2023 14th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI) 2023, pp. 406-411 > https://doi.org/10.1109/iiai-aai59060.2023.00085 > > > 2022 > Hiroya Suzuki, Yuki Okado, Toshinari Sakai, Yuki Miyamoto, Taishun Kusaka, Takeshi Uchitane, Kazunori Iwata, Nobuhiro Ito, "Implementation of Pseudo-Communication Module for DCOP Algorithms on RRS and Improvement of Binary Max-Sum", Proc. of 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 23rd International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS), 2022 F-1-G-2 1-7 > https://doi.org/10.1109/SCISISIS55246.2022.10002148 > > 2021 > Akira Hasegawa, Yuki Miyamoto, Haruki Uehara, Takeshi Uchitane, Kazunori Iwata, Nobuhiro Ito, "A comprehensive simulation management platform for RRS on public cloud", 2021 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management 2021 > > > Sincerely yours, > > -- > Kazunori Iwata, Ph. D., Professor > Department of Business Administration > Aichi University > 4-60-6, Hiraike-cho, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, 453-8777, JAPAN > Tel:+81-52-564-6119(Ext. 80368) > Fax:+81-52-564-6211(Main Number) > E-mail: kazunori(a)vega.aichi-u.ac.jp > > >> 2025/07/21 16:09、Arnoud Visser via RoboCup-rescue-s <robocup-rescue-s(a)lists.robocup.org>のメール: >> >> Dear RoboCuppers, >> The competitions in Salvador Brazil are finished, and unfortunately 2025 was the year last RoboCup Rescue Simulation competition. This is the end of a journey that started in 2000, as described in this article: >> R. Sheh, S.Schwertfeger and A. Visser, "16 Years of RoboCup Rescue", KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Volume 30, Issue 3, October 2016 >> http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13218-016-0444-x >> It would be nice to announce the end of this journey to the public with a compilation of the highlights of the developments inside the league. >> If you have interesting video-material, send this to me this Wednesday, which will allow me to finish the compilation on Thursday. >> Regards, >> Arnoud Visser >> Universiteit van Amsterdam >> P.S. Note the two lists of publications from the RoboCup Rescue Simulation league. If a publication is missing, now is the time to finalize this lists >> https://rescuesim.robocup.org/research/publications/agent-competition/ >> https://rescuesim.robocup.org/research/publications/virtual-robot-competiti… >> RoboCup has been a uniquely enduring and inspiring force in robotics and AI since its inception. For almost three decades, it has grown through the self-motivation, passion, and remarkable >> dedication of you, its participants. This spirit has made RoboCup the world’s largest and most influential robotics competition. >> Today, we stand at a pivotal moment. The field of robotics and AI is advancing at an unprecedented pace. The emergence of a new generation of robots, AI methods, and technologies is a unique >> historical opportunity. RoboCup takes this opportunity to continue to lead. >> Therefore, we enact changes to the RoboCup international competitions, which is our window to the world. We unite all the advancements from all soccer leagues into one united umbrella focused on humanoid robot soccer. We push the state of the art in robotics and AI by introducing >> humanoid robots for general-purpose applications, including the @home, work, and rescue leagues. >> Let’s write the next chapter of RoboCup together! >> On behalf of The RoboCup Board of Trustees, >> Ubbo Visser >> (President of The RoboCup Federation) >> ============================ >> Link to news on robocup.org >> Details of Changes for the International RoboCup competition >> >> Note: Existing leagues can continue at super-regionals, opens, and community-driven events. >> 1. Standard Platform League and Humanoid KidSize League >> The SPL and Humanoid League KidSize divisions begin an immediate merger process aiming to form a unified league by 2026 (name to be decided). Teams from across all soccer leagues will be invited to join and shape this process. >> 2. Small Size League, Middle Size League, and Soccer Simulation Leagues >> 2027 will be the final year of the international competition for the SSL, MSL, and the soccer simulation leagues, as long as we have sufficient participation. We look forward to transitioning all the scientific advancements from these leagues to humanoid robot soccer. >> >> We welcome proposals from the community to re-imagine how these leagues may >> contribute as a bridge to encourage participants from the Junior leagues to continue on with the Major leagues. >> 3. RoboCupRescue Simulation League >> The 2025 competition is the final year for RoboCupRescue Simulation as an independent league at the International event. Teams are encouraged to engage with the Rescue Robot League to explore merger concepts and combined evaluation frameworks. >> 4. RoboCup@Home >> A single, unified RoboCup@Home league takes effect immediately. The 2025 competition is the last to feature two separate sub-leagues. >> 5. RoboCupIndustrial >> The @Work and Logistics sub-leagues will create a new Smart Manufacturing League (SML), merging for the 2026 and 2027 competitions to better address emerging autonomous production and logistics challenges. >> _______________________________________________ >> RoboCup-worldwide in RoboCup.org Mailing list >> To send a message to this list send email to robocup-worldwide(a)lists.robocup.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to robocup-worldwide-leave(a)lists.robocup.org >> _______________________________________________ >> RoboCup-rescue-s in RoboCup.org Mailing list >> To send a message to this list send email to robocup-rescue-s(a)lists.robocup.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to robocup-rescue-s-leave(a)lists.robocup.org > > > >

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Inquiry About TDP Acceptance and Guidance in Virtual Participation
by Rokkash Sahaya Shaanal Veda 10 May '25

10 May '25

Respected Dr. Helal, We are Team 3Rakshak, willing to participate in the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competition. We are writing to confirm whether our Team Description Paper has been accepted. Also, we have received emails from the organisation to register for the upcoming Competition, but it includes the process for participation in Salvador, Brazil. But we heard we could also participate virtually this year, and we want to participate remotely from India. Could you help us in clarifying the process for the same? Thanking you in Anticipation. Yours Sincerely, R. Shaanal, On behalf of the 3Rakshak Team, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India

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Subject: Inquiry Regarding TDP Resubmission - AIT-Rescue
by 鈴木　涼介 28 Apr '25

28 Apr '25

Dear Dr. Helal, We hope this email finds you well. We are writing to you today regarding the Team Description Paper (TDP) that our team, AIT-Rescue, submitted for the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League. Since submitting the TDP, we have worked on further refining the English translation to ensure clarity and accuracy. We believe a more polished version would better represent our work. We would be grateful if you would allow us the opportunity to resubmit our TDP with these improvements to the English text. Please be assured that the core technical content remains the same; the changes are focused solely on enhancing the language and presentation. Could you please let us know if resubmitting the TDP at this stage is permissible? Thank you very much for your time and consideration. We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, --- Ryosuke Suzuki On behalf of Team AIT-Rescue Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan Mail：omni0348(a)maslab.aitech.ac.jp<mailto:omni0348@maslab.aitech.ac.jp> b24710bb(a)aitech.ac.jp<mailto:b24710bb@aitech.ac.jp>

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Subject: Inquiry Regarding TDP Resubmission - AIT-Rescue
by 鈴木　涼介 26 Apr '25

26 Apr '25

Dear Dr. Helal, We hope this email finds you well. We are writing to you today regarding the Team Description Paper (TDP) that our team, AIT-Rescue, submitted for the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League. Since submitting the TDP, we have worked on further refining the English translation to ensure clarity and accuracy. We believe a more polished version would better represent our work. We would be grateful if you would allow us the opportunity to resubmit our TDP with these improvements to the English text. Please be assured that the core technical content remains the same; the changes are focused solely on enhancing the language and presentation. Could you please let us know if resubmitting the TDP at this stage is permissible? Thank you very much for your time and consideration. We look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, --- Ryosuke Suzuki On behalf of Team AIT-Rescue Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan

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[Reminder] RoboCup 2025 Rescue Agent Simulation Competition - Call for Participation
by Farshid Faraji 08 Feb '25

08 Feb '25

Call for Participation 2025 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competitions to be held in Salvador, Brazil – July 15-21, 2025 Co-located with the RoboCup 2025 https://2025.robocup.org IMPORTANT DATES Registration……………………............……..: February 20, 2025 (23:55 UTC) Acceptance Notification……………….……..: February 25, 2025 TDP submission……………………………….: April 15, 2025 (23:55 UTC) Reviewed TDP submission…………….....…: May 04, 2025 Camera-ready TDP submission……............: June 04, 2025 Tournament dates………..............………….: July 15-21, 2025 AGENT SIMULATION COMPETITION This initiative focuses on promoting the use of Artificial Intelligence to support teamwork coordination and decision-making of ground rescue teams in a post-disaster urban setting. It maintains a computer simulation platform that can realistically represent natural disaster scenarios where Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) plans can be assessed. This platform is a comprehensive artificial simulation environment that can be used as a testbed to the effectiveness of coordination strategies of USAR teams, coalition formations of heterogeneous teams, rescue plans to explore large-scale environments with limited set of resources to search for survivors, disaster response public policies, among others. The RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competition involves primarily evaluating the performance of teams of agents in regards to their distributed coordination and planning algorithms for rescuing civilians in a city after an earthquake. The goal is evaluating the effectiveness of Ambulance Team, Police Force, and Fire Brigade agents on rescuing civilians in earthquake scenarios. Here are some of the challenges that can be tackled in this competition: - Decision Making Algorithms - Task Allocation Methods - Multi-Agent Coordination and Team Formation Methods - Path Finding - Search Algorithms ADF Java: - Documentation: Java ADF manual: https://roborescue.github.io/adf-sample-agent-java/ - Quick Start Example in Java: https://github.com/roborescue/adf-sample-agent-java Python (New): - Adf-core-python documentation: https://roborescue.github.io/adf-core-python/ - Quick Start Example in Python: https://github.com/adf-python/adf-sample-agent-python - You can reuse JAVA ADF modules in ADF python. We encourage all the teams to develop their new modules using Python ADF Docker: - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-docker ( https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-docker) - Using docker is optional for teams that wish to have an environment that is already setup for development INFRASTRUCTURE COMPETITION The Infrastructure competition involves the presentation of tools or simulators related to disaster management issues already developed by the participating team. The aim is to evaluate possible enhancements and expansions of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League environment (both the agent simulator and frameworks and the virtual robot platform) based on the new ideas and concepts proposed in these tools and simulators. The evaluation will be done by a panel of experts and the winner chosen according to a set of factors related to the technical aspects of the tool or simulator and the presentation. The winner tool will be selected for further integration with the simulation platform.The participation in the Infrastructure competition requires the submission of a detailed Team Description Paper (TDP) describing the tool or simulator. In addition to the submission of the TDP, teams interested in participating in the Infrastructure competition must release their source code as an open-source project PRIOR to July 1, 2025. Participant teams should address topics including, but not limited to - Improvements to the Virtual Robot Simulator - Improvements to the Agent Development Framework - Increase the number of participants on the RoboCup Rescue league - Provide agent development kits that render easy the participation of newcomers - Integrate the Agent and Virtual Robot competitions - Improve the RoboCup Rescue sub-simulators REGISTRATION Teams must register via the submission system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2025 no later than February 15, 2025 (23:55 UTC). This registration requires only teams to fill the “Title” field and the name, institution, and contact information of all team members. The “Title” field should be “Agent_[TeamName]” to participate in the Agent Competition and “Infrastructure_[TeamName]” for the infrastructure competition, where [TeamName] should be replaced by the name of the team. Teams are not requested to submit a TDP for registering to participate in the 2025 RoboCup Agent Competition. Registered teams will be accepted to participate in the competition based on a first-come first-serve basis constrained by the allowed number of teams per country. We encourage teams to develop their code using the new RCRS Core Python in order to take advantage of state-of-the-art Machine Learning tools and algorithms, such as SciKit, TensorFlow, PyTorch, among others. Qualified teams have to submit their TDP by April 15, 2025 (23:55 UTC), otherwise the team will be disqualified. Qualified teams will be allowed to participate remotely. GETTING STARTED GUIDE Here are some pointers to get started with the agents development TDP SUBMISSION Accepted teams must submit a Team Description Paper (TDP) (in English) describing the strategy and recent advancements implemented in the team. The TDP is limited to 16 pages and must be electronically submitted as PDF through the submission system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2025 no later than April 15, 2025 (23:55 UTC). The TDP file name has to be “Agent_[TeamName]” for the Agent Competition, where [TeamName] is the name of the team submitting the TDP. This format should be also used in the “Title” field in the submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2025. Teams should prepare their Agent Competition TDP based on the templates available at https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-templates. All TDPs will be peer-reviewed by at least two PC members. The suggestions of the reviewers will be released on May 04, 2025 and they should be incorporated into the camera-ready version of the TDP. The camera-ready version should be uploaded to EasyChair no later than June 04, 2025. * Previous TDPs can be found in the Participating Teams links https://rescuesim.robocup.org/past-events/past-competitions/ * If you have any questions please reach out to rcrs2025(a)easychair.org RULES Please read the Agent Simulation Competition Rules document available at 2025 RoboCup Rescue Simulation for further details. ABOUT ROBOCUP RESCUE AGENT SIMULATION LEAGUE Natural disasters are major adverse events that cause large-scale economic, human, and environmental losses. They are usually difficult to predict and even more challenging to prevent from happening. These characteristics demand disaster management strategies to be in place to mitigate damaging consequences after a natural disaster.The mission of the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League is to promote research and development in the socially significant domain of natural disaster with focus on multiagent teamwork coordination and decision support systems. The effective implementation of this mission is translated into three main objectives. First, the league aims to provide a simulator able to realistically represent natural disaster scenarios where response rescue plans can be assessed. Second, it aims to define evaluation benchmarks for response plans elaborated by policy-makers. Finally, it aims to promote research and development by organizing competitions to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experience between researchers and practitioners. These aims are designed to help in the development of more sophisticated and formalized response plans to effectively respond to natural disasters and reduce the negative impacts on society. Best Regards Farshid Faraji on behalf of RoboCup Rescue Simulation League

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RoboCup 2025 Rescue Agent Simulation Competition - Call for Participation
by Dina Helal 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

*Call for Participation* *2025 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competitions* *to be held in Salvador, Brazil – July 15-21, 2025* *Co-located with the* *RoboCup 2025* *https://2025.robocup.org* *IMPORTANT DATES* Registration………………………..................…..: February 20, 2025 (23:55 UTC) Acceptance Notification……………………..: February 25, 2025 TDP submission……………………………….....: April 15, 2025 (23:55 UTC) Reviewed TDP submission…………….....…: May 04, 2025 Camera-ready TDP submission…….........: June 04, 2025 Tournament dates…………………..................: July 15-21, 2025 *AGENT SIMULATION COMPETITION* This initiative focuses on promoting the use of Artificial Intelligence to support teamwork coordination and decision-making of ground rescue teams in a post-disaster urban setting. It maintains a computer simulation platform that can realistically represent natural disaster scenarios where Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) plans can be assessed. This platform is a comprehensive artificial simulation environment that can be used as a testbed to the effectiveness of coordination strategies of USAR teams, coalition formations of heterogeneous teams, rescue plans to explore large-scale environments with limited set of resources to search for survivors, disaster response public policies, among others. The RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competition involves primarily evaluating the performance of teams of agents in regards to their distributed coordination and planning algorithms for rescuing civilians in a city after an earthquake. The goal is evaluating the effectiveness of Ambulance Team, Police Force, and Fire Brigade agents on rescuing civilians in earthquake scenarios. Here are some of the challenges that can be tackled in this competition: * Decision Making Algorithms * Task Allocation Methods * Multi-Agent Coordination and Team Formation Methods * Path Finding * Search Algorithms *ADF Java: - Documentation: Java ADF manual: https://roborescue.github.io/adf-sample-agent-java/ - Quick Start Example in Java: https://github.com/roborescue/adf-sample-agent-java *Python (New): - Adf-core-python documentation: https://roborescue.github.io/adf-core-python/ - Quick Start Example in Python: https://github.com/adf-python/adf-sample-agent-python - *You can reuse JAVA ADF modules in ADF python. We encourage all the teams to develop their new modules using Python ADF* *Docker: - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-docker https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-docker - Using docker is optional for teams that wish to have an environment that is already setup for development *INFRASTRUCTURE COMPETITION* The Infrastructure competition involves the presentation of tools or simulators related to disaster management issues already developed by the participating team. The aim is to evaluate possible enhancements and expansions of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League environment (both the agent simulator and frameworks and the virtual robot platform) based on the new ideas and concepts proposed in these tools and simulators. The evaluation will be done by a panel of experts and the winner chosen according to a set of factors related to the technical aspects of the tool or simulator and the presentation. The winner tool will be selected for further integration with the simulation platform. The participation in the Infrastructure competition requires the submission of a detailed Team Description Paper (TDP) describing the tool or simulator. In addition to the submission of the TDP, teams interested in participating in the Infrastructure competition must release their source code as an open-source project *PRIOR to July 1, 2025*. Participant teams should address topics including, but not limited to * Improvements to the Virtual Robot Simulator * Improvements to the Agent Development Framework * Increase the number of participants on the RoboCup Rescue league * Provide agent development kits that render easy the participation of newcomers * Integrate the Agent and Virtual Robot competitions * Improve the RoboCup Rescue sub-simulators *REGISTRATION* Teams must register via the submission system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2025 no later than February 15, 2025 (23:55 UTC). This registration requires only teams to fill the “Title” field and the name, institution, and contact information of all team members. The “Title” field should be “Agent_[TeamName]” to participate in the Agent Competition and “Infrastructure_[TeamName]” for the infrastructure competition, where [TeamName] should be replaced by the name of the team. Teams are not requested to submit a TDP for registering to participate in the 2025 RoboCup Agent Competition. Registered teams will be accepted to participate in the competition based on a first-come first-serve basis constrained by the allowed number of teams per country. We encourage teams to develop their code using the new RCRS Core Python in order to take advantage of state-of-the-art Machine Learning tools and algorithms, such as SciKit, TensorFlow, PyTorch, among others. *Qualified teams have to submit their TDP by April 15, 2025 (23:55 UTC), otherwise the team will be disqualified. Qualified teams will be allowed to participate remotely.* *GETTING STARTED GUIDE* Here are some pointers to get started with the agents development *TDP SUBMISSION* Accepted teams must submit a Team Description Paper (TDP) (in English) describing the strategy and recent advancements implemented in the team. The TDP is limited to 16 pages and must be electronically submitted as PDF through the submission system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2025 no later than April 15, 2025 (23:55 UTC). The TDP file name has to be “Agent_[TeamName]” for the Agent Competition, where [TeamName] is the name of the team submitting the TDP. This format should be also used in the “Title” field in the submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2025. Teams should prepare their Agent Competition TDP based on the templates available at https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-templates. All TDPs will be peer-reviewed by at least two PC members. The suggestions of the reviewers will be released on May 04, 2025 and they should be incorporated into the camera-ready version of the TDP. The camera-ready version should be uploaded to EasyChair no later than June 04, 2025. * Previous TDPs can be found in the Participating Teams links https://rescuesim.robocup.org/past-events/past-competitions/ * If you have any questions, please reach out to rcrs2025(a)easychair.org *RULES* Please read the Agent Simulation Competition Rules document available at 2025 RoboCup Rescue Simulation for further details. *ABOUT ROBOCUP RESCUE AGENT SIMULATION LEAGUE* Natural disasters are major adverse events that cause large-scale economic, human, and environmental losses. They are usually difficult to predict and even more challenging to prevent from happening. These characteristics demand disaster management strategies to be in place to mitigate damaging consequences after a natural disaster. The mission of the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League is to promote research and development in the socially significant domain of natural disaster with focus on multiagent teamwork coordination and decision support systems. The effective implementation of this mission is translated into three main objectives. First, the league aims to provide a simulator able to realistically represent natural disaster scenarios where response rescue plans can be assessed. Second, it aims to define evaluation benchmarks for response plans elaborated by policy-makers. Finally, it aims to promote research and development by organizing competitions to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experience between researchers and practitioners. These aims are designed to help in the development of more sophisticated and formalized response plans to effectively respond to natural disasters and reduce the negative impacts on society. Best Regards, Dina Helal on behalf of RoboCup Rescue Simulation League

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RoboCup Early Visa Invitation Letters
by 2024＠robocup.org 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Dear RoboCuppers, We are very much looking forward to inviting all of you to Eindhoven, The Netherlands for RoboCup 2024! To allow more teams to join RoboCup 2024, we offer early visa invitation letters. Participants that require a visa to join RoboCup in The Netherlands may apply for an early visa invitation letter. This letter allows for making an earlier appointment at an embassy to request a visa, rather than only after completing registration. There are some constraints on who can receive a visa invitation letter. You can find the details, as well as the request form, on the RoboCup 2024 website: https://2024.robocup.org/?page_id=2998 We hope to see you at RoboCup 2024! Best regards, RoboCup 2024 Organisation 2024(a)robocup.org <mailto:2024@robocup.org>

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RoboCup 2024 Rescue Agent Simulation Competition - Call for Participation
by Farshid Faraji 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Call for Participation 2024 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competitions to be held in Eindhoven, Netherlands – July 15-21, 2024 https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2024-eindhoven-agent-cfp/ Co-located with the RoboCup 2024 https://2024.robocup.org IMPORTANT DATES Registration…………………………..: February 15, 2024 (23:55 UTC) Acceptance Notification…………………………..: February 20, 2024 TDP submission…………………….: April 15, 2024 (23:55 UTC) Reviewed TDP submission……: May 04, 2024, June 15, 2024 Camera-ready TDP submission.: June 04, 2024 July 1, 2024 Tournament dates………………….: July 15-21, 2024 AGENT SIMULATION COMPETITION This initiative focuses on promoting the use of Artificial Intelligence to support teamwork coordination and decision-making of ground rescue teams in a post-disaster urban setting. It maintains a computer simulation platform that can realistically represent natural disaster scenarios where Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) plans can be assessed. This platform is a comprehensive artificial simulation environment that can be used as a testbed to the effectiveness of coordination strategies of USAR teams, coalition formations of heterogeneous teams, rescue plans to explore large-scale environments with limited set of resources to search for survivors, disaster response public policies, among others. The RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competition involves primarily evaluating the performance of teams of agents in regards to their distributed coordination and planning algorithms for rescuing civilians in a city after an earthquake. The goal is evaluating the effectiveness of Ambulance Team, Police Force, and Fire Brigade agents on rescuing civilians in earthquake scenarios. Here are some of the challenges that can be tackled in this competition: - Decision Making Algorithms - Task Allocation Methods - Multi-Agent Coordination and Team Formation Methods - Path Finding - Search Algorithms GETTING STARTED GUIDE Here are some pointers to get started with the agents development ADF Java: - Repository: roborescue/adf-sample-agent-java: RoboCup Rescue Agent Development Framework Sample Agent Java (github.com) - Documentation: Java ADF manual Python: - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-core-python (github.com) - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python (github.com) Docker: - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-docker (github.com) - Using docker is optional for teams that wish to have an environment that is already setup for development INFRASTRUCTURE COMPETITION The Infrastructure competition involves the presentation of tools or simulators related to disaster management issues already developed by the participating team. The aim is to evaluate possible enhancements and expansions of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League environment (both the agent simulator and frameworks and the virtual robot platform) based on the new ideas and concepts proposed in these tools and simulators. The evaluation will be done by a panel of experts and the winner chosen according to a set of factors related to the technical aspects of the tool or simulator and the presentation. The winner tool will be selected for further integration with the simulation platform. The participation in the Infrastructure competition requires the submission of a detailed Team Description Paper (TDP) describing the tool or simulator. In addition to the submission of the TDP, teams interested in participating in the Infrastructure competition must release their source code as an open-source project PRIOR to July 1, 2024. Participant teams should address topics including, but not limited to - Improvements to the Virtual Robot Simulator - Improvements to the Agent Development Framework - Increase the number of participants on the RoboCup Rescue league - Provide agent development kits that render easy the participation of newcomers - Integrate the Agent and Virtual Robot competitions - Improve the RoboCup Rescue sub-simulators REGISTRATION Teams must register via the submission system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsl2024 no later than February 15, 2024 (23:55 UTC). This registration requires only teams to fill the “Title” field and the name, institution, and contact information of all team members. The “Title” field should be “Agent_[TeamName]” to participate in the Agent Competition and “Infrastructure_[TeamName]” for the infrastructure competition, where [TeamName] should be replaced by the name of the team. Teams are not requested to submit a TDP for registering to participate in the 2024 RoboCup Agent Competition. Registered teams will be accepted to participate in the competition based on a first-come first-serve basis constrained by the allowed number of teams per country. We encourage teams to develop their code using the new RCRS Core Python in order to take advantage of state-of-the-art Machine Learning tools and algorithms, such as SciKit, TensorFlow, PyTorch, among others. Qualified teams have to submit their TDP by April 15, 2024 (23:55 UTC), otherwise the team will be disqualified. TDP SUBMISSION Accepted teams must submit a Team Description Paper (TDP) (in English) describing the strategy and recent advancements implemented in the team. The TDP is limited to 16 pages and must be electronically submitted as PDF through the submission system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsl2024 no later than April 15, 2024 (23:55 UTC). The TDP file name has to be “Agent_[TeamName]” for the Agent Competition, where [TeamName] is the name of the team submitting the TDP. This format should be also used in the “Title” field in the submission system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsl2024. Teams should prepare their Agent Competition TDP based on the templates available at https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-templates. All TDPs will be peer-reviewed by at least two PC members. The suggestions of the reviewers will be released on May 04, 2024 and they should be incorporated into the camera-ready version of the TDP. The camera-ready version should be uploaded to EasyChair no later than June 04, 2024. * Previous TDPs can be found in the Participating Teams links https://rescuesim.robocup.org/past-events/past-competitions/ * If you have any questions please reach out to rsl2024(a)easychair.org RULES Please read the Agent Simulation Competition Rules document available at 2024 RoboCup Rescue Simulation for further details. ABOUT ROBOCUP RESCUE AGENT SIMULATION LEAGUE Natural disasters are major adverse events that cause large-scale economic, human, and environmental losses. They are usually difficult to predict and even more challenging to prevent from happening. These characteristics demand disaster management strategies to be in place to mitigate damaging consequences after a natural disaster. The mission of the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League is to promote research and development in the socially significant domain of natural disaster with focus on multiagent teamwork coordination and decision support systems. The effective implementation of this mission is translated into three main objectives. First, the league aims to provide a simulator able to realistically represent natural disaster scenarios where response rescue plans can be assessed. Second, it aims to define evaluation benchmarks for response plans elaborated by policy-makers. Finally, it aims to promote research and development by organizing competitions to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experience between researchers and practitioners. These aims are designed to help in the development of more sophisticated and formalized response plans to effectively respond to natural disasters and reduce the negative impacts on society. Best Regards, Farshid Faraji on behalf of RoboCup Rescue Simulation League

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Agent Simulation ROS Option
by Wimer, Bailey 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Hello, this is Bailey Wimer, the Agent Simulation Team (ATR_Paprika) leader from Kent State University. Is there an option to use ROS for the RRSL Agent competition? Please let me know if this is a possibility. Thank you for your time. Best, Bailey

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