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An extension on RRS & RRS-ADF for DCOP algorithms
by Nobuhiro Ito 02 Mar '22

02 Mar '22

Dear Rescuers, We will announce the extension program for DCOP algorithms to you again because it is appeared in our open source code of the official website as follows: - The open source code of the RRS official web https://rescuesim.robocup.org/resources/open-source-code/ - DCOP in RCRS (RRS) https://github.com/uiiaoo/dcop.rrs-adf - The document for DCOP extension https://github.com/uiiaoo/dcop.rrs-adf/wiki/Introduction - TDP for the extension https://cdn.robocup.org/rsim/public/competitions/2019-RSL/info/infra/rsl19-… It has been prized as the infrastructure award in RoboCup2019. I guess that my students announced after the event. But we will announce it again. I hope that it will be a convenient extension for your research. Best regards, ITO Nobuhiro, AIT-Rescue

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[robocup-rescue-s] Reminder: CFP RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation competition 2022
by Dina Helal 14 Feb '22

14 Feb '22

Call for Participation 2022 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competitions to be held in Bangkok, Thailand — July 11-19, 2022 2022 RoboCup Rescue Simulation <https://rescuesim.robocup.org/upcoming-events/2022-bangkok-rescue-simulatio…> RoboCup 2022 https://2022.robocup.org IMPORTANT DATES Pre-Registration……………………………......: February 15, 2022 (23:55 GMT) Team Description Paper (TDP) submission…: February 28, 2022 (23:55 GMT) Qualified teams announcement…………..…..: March 15, 2022 Camera-ready TDP submission………….……: May 31, 2022 (23:55 GMT) Tournament dates………………………..……..: July 11-19, 2022 WAIVER OF THE TEAM FEE FOR NEW TEAMS The RoboCup Federation is pleased to introduce a waiver of the team fee for the 2022 international RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues. A NEW team is defined as a team all of whose team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members. NEW FEATURES IN THE SIMULATOR Teams can now choose to implement their agents in Java or Python Python repo: roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python (github.com) <https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python> 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) <https://github.com/roborescue/adf-sample-agent-java> - Documentation: Java ADF manual <https://github.com/roborescue/adf-sample-agent-java/blob/master/docs/manual…> - [NEW] Python: - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python (github.com) <https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python> - [NEW] Docker: - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-docker (github.com) <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 on 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 on the Infrastructure competition must release their source code as an open-source project PRIOR to July 2, 2022. 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 PRE-REGISTRATION Teams must register via the submission system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2022 no later than February 15, 2022 (23:55 UTC). This pre-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. The pre-registration does not imply that the team will be evaluated to participate in the competition, please see section QUALIFICATION below for further information. QUALIFICATION 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=rcrs2022 no later than February 28, 2022 (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=rcrs2022. Teams should prepare their Agent Competition TDP based on the templates available at https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-templates . (overleaf link) All TDPs will be peer-reviewed by at least two PC members. The evaluation criteria of contributions will be based on originality, quality, clarity, and its relevance to the league's aims. The suggestions of the reviewers should be incorporated into an improved version (i.e., Camera-Ready version) of the TDP. The camera-ready version should be uploaded to EasyChair no later than May 31, 2022. - The previous TDPs are accessible here: https://robocup-rescue.github.io/team_description_papers/ - Qualification results will be announced on March 15, 2022. - If you have any questions please reach out to rcrs2022(a)easychair.org RULES Please read the Agent Simulation Competition Rules document available at 2022 RoboCup Rescue Simulation <https://rescuesim.robocup.org/upcoming-events/2022-bangkok-rescue-simulatio…> 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.

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2022 Call for Nominations for Silvia Coradeschi and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Awards
by Arnoud Visser 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

2022 Call for Nominations for Silvia Coradeschi and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Awards Prof. Silvia Coradeschi (d. Feb 5, 2014) was a founding trustee of RoboCup and an early visionary in the RoboCup initiative. She served as General Chair of RoboCup 1999 in Stockholm, Sweden, was a frequent competition participant, and was an exemplar of the RoboCup ideal of engaging in cutting-edge AI and Robotics research. Prof. Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar (d. July 24, 2019) joined RoboCup since its beginning in 1997 and significantly contributed to the development of the RoboCup Federation (Trustee since 2004, Vice-President from 2008 to 2016). He was involved in the organization of many of the leagues, with major contributions to RoboCupJunior, RoboCup@Home, and RoboCup@Work. He was General Chair of RoboCup 2016 in Leipzig, Germany. To honor their extraordinary contributions to RoboCup and to honor their memories, the RoboCup Federation created “The Silvia Coradeschi RoboCup Award” in 2014 (https://www.robocup.org/silvia_coradeschi<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>), for a young female RoboCup student, with distinguishing research and the “Gerhard Kraetzschmar RoboCup Distinguished Service Award” in 2021 (https://www.robocup.org/gkk_award<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>), to recognize the outstanding contributions of an individual for his/her exceptional leadership, service, and dedication that benefit RoboCup in any of its leagues. We are now calling for candidates for the 2022 Awards. The award recipients, to be named at RoboCup 2022 will receive: ● a certificate ● a US$1,000 honorarium Nominations for the “Silvia Coradeschi Award”: Eligible candidates for the “Silvia Coradeschi Award” are female graduate students and post-doctoral researchers who received the degree within the past 3 years and who will register for RoboCup 2022. The two criteria are: 1. Distinguishing research as evidenced by, for example, refereed publications. 2. RoboCup leadership, either within a team and/or in the broad RoboCup community. To nominate a female student for the “Silvia Coradeschi Award”, the student's professor should send a nominating email to April Foster <april.robocup(a)gmail.com<mailto:april.robocup@gmail.com>>, by May 1st, 2022. The email must include a letter of recommendation that addresses both criteria. An additional letter of recommendation from a RoboCup community member not affiliated with the student’s team is recommended (but not required) to support the nomination. Nominations for the “Gerhard Kraetzschmar RoboCup Distinguished Service Award”: Eligible candidates for the “Gerhard Kraetzschmar RoboCup Distinguished Service Award” are RoboCup members with an outstanding record of service in one or more of the RoboCup Leagues, including as Technical and Organizing Committees, Executive Committee, and/or Board of Trustees. To nominate a RoboCup member for the “Gerhard Kraetzschmar RoboCup Distinguished Service Award”, send a nominating email to April Foster <april.robocup(a)gmail.com<mailto:april.robocup@gmail.com>> by May 1st, 2022. The email must include a letter of recommendation that addresses the individual’s impact of service and contributions to RoboCup, including diversity, quality, and length of the work done for RoboCup. One or two additional letter(s) of recommendation from RoboCup community members are required to support the nomination. Please attach all letters of recommendation to the nomination email.

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Register to Pre-RoboCup 2022
by Farshid Faraji 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Dear RoboCupers We would like to invite you to “Pre-RoboCup” event which will be held on 27-29 January 2022. The organization team will hold the Pre-RoboCup event where the main objective is not only to promote but also to be the starting point for our RoboCup 2022 event on 11-17 July 2022. In this event, the introduction, updated rule and regulations of each league as well as technical talks will be presented. Please kindly confirm your participation by fill out this registration form. For more detailed information regarding the event, please visit our website at https://2022.robocup.org/pre-robocup. Thank you for your interest. We look forward to seeing you at Pre-RoboCup 2022. Friday January 28, 2022 TimeSession 1Session 2Session 3 7:00 – 8:00 PM (GMT+7) – RoboCupSoccer Small Size – RoboCupRescue Robot – RoboCup@Home Education 8:00 – 9:00 PM (GMT+7) – RoboCupSoccer Humanoid – RoboCup@Home Social Standard Platform – RoboCupJunior Soccer 9:00 – 10:00 PM (GMT+7) – RoboCupIndustrial Logistics – RoboCupRescue Simulation RoboCup 2022 Organizing Team

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[robocup-worldwide] CFP: RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation competition 2022
by Dina Helal 12 Jan '22

12 Jan '22

Call for Participation 2022 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competitions to be held in Bangkok, Thailand — July 11-19, 2022 2022 RoboCup Rescue Simulation <https://rescuesim.robocup.org/upcoming-events/2022-bangkok-rescue-simulatio…> RoboCup 2022 https://2022.robocup.org IMPORTANT DATES Pre-Registration……………………………......: February 15, 2022 (23:55 GMT) Team Description Paper (TDP) submission…: February 28, 2022 (23:55 GMT) Qualified teams announcement…………..…..: March 15, 2022 Camera-ready TDP submission………….……: May 31, 2022 (23:55 GMT) Tournament dates………………………..……..: July 11-19, 2022 WAIVER OF THE TEAM FEE FOR NEW TEAMS The RoboCup Federation is pleased to introduce a waiver of the team fee for the 2022 international RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues. A NEW team is defined as a team all of whose team members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for team members. NEW FEATURES IN THE SIMULATOR Teams can now choose to implement their agents in Java or Python Python repo: roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python (github.com) <https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python> 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) <https://github.com/roborescue/adf-sample-agent-java> - Documentation: Java ADF manual <https://github.com/roborescue/adf-sample-agent-java/blob/master/docs/manual…> - [NEW] Python: - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python (github.com) <https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-sample-agent-python> - [NEW] Docker: - Repository: roborescue/rcrs-docker (github.com) <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 on 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 on the Infrastructure competition must release their source code as an open-source project PRIOR to July 2, 2022. 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 PRE-REGISTRATION Teams must register via the submission system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2022 no later than February 15, 2022 (23:55 UTC). This pre-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. The pre-registration does not imply that the team will be evaluated to participate in the competition, please see section QUALIFICATION below for further information. QUALIFICATION 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=rcrs2022 no later than February 28, 2022 (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=rcrs2022. Teams should prepare their Agent Competition TDP based on the templates available at https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-templates . (overleaf link) All TDPs will be peer-reviewed by at least two PC members. The evaluation criteria of contributions will be based on originality, quality, clarity, and its relevance to the league's aims. The suggestions of the reviewers should be incorporated into an improved version (i.e., Camera-Ready version) of the TDP. The camera-ready version should be uploaded to EasyChair no later than May 31, 2022. - The previous TDPs are accessible here: https://robocup-rescue.github.io/team_description_papers/ - Qualification results will be announced on March 15, 2022. - If you have any questions please reach out to rcrs2022(a)easychair.org RULES Please read the Agent Simulation Competition Rules document available at 2022 RoboCup Rescue Simulation <https://rescuesim.robocup.org/upcoming-events/2022-bangkok-rescue-simulatio…> 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.

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Call for Papers: Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop @AAMAS 2022
by Francesco Amigoni 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

(Sorry for multiple postings.) *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop 2022 *** Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2022 *** A full-day workshop to be held as part of AAMAS2022 and to accompany the Area of Interest — Robotics May 9-10, 2022 - FULLY VIRTUAL EVENT Website: https://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~agmon/arms2022/ AAMAS Website: https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz *** Fast-track review process for AAMAS extended abstracts, below *** Important Dates ------------ Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2022 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2022 Submission of camera-ready version: end of April, 2022 Overview ------------ Robots are agents, too. Indeed, AAMAS researchers are sometimes inspired by robots, sometimes use robots in motivating examples, and sometimes make contributions to robotics. Both practical and analytical techniques in AAMAS influence, and are being influenced by, research into autonomous robots and multi-robot systems. Areas of particular recent cross-fertilization include (but are not limited to): - market-based methods for coalition formation and task allocation - machine learning in single- and multi-robot (agent) settings - human-robot interaction - multi-robot teamwork - single- and multi-robot path planning - human-robot (agent) teamwork - game-theoretic coordination - analysis of large-scale multi-robot systems and swarms - decision-theoretic single- and multi-robot (agent) planning - imitation and learning by demonstration/example Despite the rich cross-fertilization between AAMAS and robotics research areas, roboticists and agents researchers have only few opportunities to meet and interact. The Area of Interest – Robotics at AAMAS (formerly, Robotics Track) is one such opportunity. The goal of the workshop is to extend and widen this opportunity, by offering a forum where researchers in this field of study can interact and present promising innovative research directions and new results with the goal of discussing and comparing ideas and approaches. The workshop is coordinated and associated with the AAMAS Area of Interest – Robotics to fast-track all papers accepted as extended abstracts at the main conference into the ARMS workshop. Submissions and Publication ----------------------------------- The submission website is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arms2022 Contributions are sought in all areas of robotics, in particular as related to autonomous agents research, but not necessarily so. Theoretical papers are welcome, as long as they clearly address challenges in robotics. Empirical studies should ideally present experiments with real robots, though physical simulation studies are also acceptable. Papers that focus on mechanical aspects and low-level control should make an effort to relate to the agents community. We particularly welcome papers with accompanying demos of real robots, which can come as recorded videos (please use YouTube or general-purpose repositories to share the video if it is ready at submission time) or as live demos from the authors' labs during the workshop. Submissions should follow Springer's LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for instructions, or directly download the LaTeX style file: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip). Papers should not exceed 20 pages in length. Papers will be reviewed by at least 2 reviewers. Criteria for selection of papers will include: originality, readability, relevance to workshop themes, soundness, and overall quality. Papers do not have to be anonymized: We do not follow a double-blind review process. Also this year, there will not be archival proceedings, but papers will be made available to the workshop participants. Fast-Track Review Process --------------------------------- As part of our close coordination with the AAMAS Area of Interest — Robotics, we offer a fast-track review process to papers that have been accepted as extended abstracts ("short papers”) to the AAMAS conference, in the topic of Area of Interest — Robotics or with a robotics keyword. For such papers, please include the original AAMAS paper number with the submission. Organizing Committee ---------------------------- Noa Agmon Bar Ilan University, Israel Francesco Amigoni Politecnico di Milano, Italy Joydeep Biswas University of Texas at Austin, USA Alessandro Farinelli University of Verona, Italy Maria Gini University of Minneapolis, USA Gal Kaminka Bar Ilan University, Israel Pedro Lima Lisbon Technical University, Portugal Mohan Sridharan University of Birmingham, UK The contact organizers are Noa Agmon (agmon(a)cs.biu.ac.il) and Francesco Amigoni (francesco.amigoni(a)polimi.it). --------------------------------------------------------- Francesco Amigoni Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 I-20133 Milano (MI), Italy Voice: +39 02 2399-3475 Email: francesco.amigoni(a)polimi.it Web: https://amigoni.faculty.polimi.it ---------------------------------------------------------

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Survey about Fire in the Competition Scenarios
by Farshid Faraji 31 Dec '21

31 Dec '21

Dear RoboCup Rescue Teams and developers Please take one minute to complete this survey, which will help with our future planning. This survey aims to gather Rescue Agent Simulation teams and developers feedback concerning the use of fires in the scenarios for the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League (RSL) competitions. Extinguishing fire was one of the challenges of the RSL competitions until 2020, but fires had been removed from the scenarios of the 2021 competitions. The committee members would like to hear what you think about scenarios with NO FIRE based on your experience in the 2021 competitions. To participate in this survey, please fill-up the form on this link: https://cloud.robocup.org/apps/forms/rrik64zkQw6oiLST Best Regards, Farshid Faraji On behalf of RoboCup Rescue Simulation Committee members

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Re: [RoboCup-rescue-s] Understanding RCRS software package
by Yuki Okado 15 Nov '21

15 Nov '21

Dear James Here are some sites that may be helpful in developing RRS. This site is a Google translation of a Japanese tutorial on RRS for beginners. https://maslab-aitech-ac-jp.translate.goog/rcrs-tutorial2021/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_… This is a tutorial on how to set up the simulation system with AWS that will be used in RoboCup Asia Pacific 2021. https://maslab.aitech.ac.jp/codimd/s/Q-TsAp87r If you have any questions, please feel free to send me at this email address. Best Regards. 2021年11月13日(土) 17:20 Yuki Okado <haido7562088ak47(a)gmail.com>: > Dear James > > Here are some sites that may be helpful in developing RRS. > This site is a Google translation of a Japanese tutorial on RRS for > beginners. > > https://maslab-aitech-ac-jp.translate.goog/rcrs-tutorial2021/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_… > This is a tutorial on how to set up the simulation system with AWS that > will be used in RoboCup Asia Pacific 2021. > https://maslab.aitech.ac.jp/codimd/s/Q-TsAp87r > If you have any questions, please feel free to send me at this email > address. > > Best Regards. > > 2021年11月8日(月) 0:26 Luis Gustavo Nardin via RoboCup-rescue-s < > robocup-rescue-s(a)lists.robocup.org>: > >> Dear James, >> >> Follow some further information complementing Shunki's answers to your >> questions. >> >> The idea behide the ADF Framework is to provide a module agent >> architecture to the Rescue Simulation that you can be used as the basis to >> implement your own team by replacing only the modules you want to focus >> your implementation. Previously, each team had to implement all modules to >> compete like PathPlanning, Target Decision, Clustering, etc. It was a very >> laborious task, so we released (Thanks to the Japanese research group) the >> ADF allowing teams to implement only the module they were interested and >> reuse the other modules from the sample implementation or from another >> team. You can find more information about the ADF implementation and design >> at >> >> Takami, S., Takayanagi, K., Jaishy, S., Ito, N. & Iwata, K. (2017). >> Design of agent development framework for RoboCupRescue Simulation. In R. >> Lee (Eds.), *Computational Science/Intelligence and Applied Informatics* >> (Vol. 726, pp. 185-199). Cham: Springer. >> >> available open source at https://files.tkms.jp/ijsi-adf2018.pdf. >> >> The ADF Framework is divided into 2 repositories. The rcrs-adf-core >> repository contains the abstract and interface classes defining the >> structure of the ADF framewrok, while the rcrs-adf-sample repository >> contains a sample implementation of the ADF and the implementation of a >> team. An example of an agent team code resides in the rcrs-adf-sample >> repository under the src/adf/test_team folder. >> >> The agents' behaviors are defined in the Tactics package >> (src/adf/sample/tactics folder). The tactics define the sequence of steps >> the agent take to perform their task, i.e., FireBrigade - Rescue Civilian, >> Ambulance Team - Transport Civilian to Refuge, and Police Force - Clean the >> roads. These sequence of steps are defined through method calls to the >> other classes like TargetAllocator, BuildingDetector, etc... The latter are >> the ones you should implement for your team, see >> src/adf/test_team/module/AStarPathPlanning, src/adf/test_team/module/complex/center/TestAmbulanceTargetAllocator >> and src/adf/test_team/module/complex/self/TestBuildingDetector. The link >> between the implementation in the src/adf/test_team package and the tactics >> is done via a configuration file config/module_sample.cfg. In this config >> file, you point which classes should be used to perform the task of each >> module of the ADF. So, you can change the module's configuration to point >> to your module's implementation and keep the others the same. >> >> *IMPORTANT:* Note that the config/launch.cfg file is the configuration >> file that points to the module's config file. The default configuration on >> the GitHub repository points to the config/module_sample.cfg, but you can >> change it to point to another modules' configuration file if you do not >> want to change the module_sample.cfg. For example, you can create a copy of >> the module_sample.cfg and name it module_myteam.cfg, then you can replace >> the following line in the launch.cfg >> >> FROM adf.agent.moduleconfig.file: config/module_sample.cfg >> TO adf.agent.moduleconfig.file: config/module_myteam.cfg >> >> *NOTE:* There is a typo in the ADF Manual, the directory is not >> src/adf/sample/extraction, but src/adf/sample/extaction. >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 3:03 PM James KDH via RoboCup-rescue-s < >> robocup-rescue-s(a)lists.robocup.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I am completely new to this RCRS league and I only have a basic >>> familiarity with Java. I have read through the documentation given in the >>> website but I have the following questions: >>> >>> According to the documentation ... >>> >>> src/adf/sample/centralized >>> - source codes for central agents. This is the type of agent whose only >>> interaction with the world is through radio communication. There are three >>> types of central agents: Ambulance Centers, Fire Stations and Police >>> Office, and they are represented as buildings in the simulation server. >>> >>> src/adf/sample/extraction >>> - codes of combining actions described in the directory below. >>> >>> src/adf/sample/module >>> - concrete codes of algorithms, e.g., path planning, clustering, target >>> detection, etc. The directory contains two directories: >>> • src/adf/sample/module/algorithm >>> • src/adf/sample/module/complex >>> >>> My main questions are where is the source code for each of the >>> individual Agents implemented? And what does src/adf/sample/extraction is >>> supposed to be specifically? I have looked through a couple of past RCRS >>> participant's source codes but I still couldn't get a good idea. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> RoboCup-rescue-s mailing list >>> RoboCup-rescue-s(a)lists.robocup.org >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> RoboCup-rescue-s mailing list >> RoboCup-rescue-s(a)lists.robocup.org >> > > > -- > ─────────────────────────────────────────────── > 愛知工業大学大学院経営情報科学研究科博士前期課程経営情報科学専攻 > Department of Information Science, > Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan > 岡戸優樹 / OKADO YUKI > TEL: 090-8130-7219 > Email: b20708bb(a)aitech.ac.jp <pg23(a)maslab.aitech.ac.jp> > ─────────────────────────────────────────────── > -- ─────────────────────────────────────────────── 愛知工業大学大学院経営情報科学研究科博士前期課程経営情報科学専攻 Department of Information Science, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan 岡戸優樹 / OKADO YUKI TEL: 090-8130-7219 Email: b20708bb(a)aitech.ac.jp <pg23(a)maslab.aitech.ac.jp> ───────────────────────────────────────────────

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Understanding RCRS software package
by James KDH 07 Nov '21

07 Nov '21

Hello, I am completely new to this RCRS league and I only have a basic familiarity with Java. I have read through the documentation given in the website but I have the following questions: According to the documentation ... src/adf/sample/centralized - source codes for central agents. This is the type of agent whose only interaction with the world is through radio communication. There are three types of central agents: Ambulance Centers, Fire Stations and Police Office, and they are represented as buildings in the simulation server. src/adf/sample/extraction - codes of combining actions described in the directory below. src/adf/sample/module - concrete codes of algorithms, e.g., path planning, clustering, target detection, etc. The directory contains two directories: • src/adf/sample/module/algorithm • src/adf/sample/module/complex My main questions are where is the source code for each of the individual Agents implemented? And what does src/adf/sample/extraction is supposed to be specifically? I have looked through a couple of past RCRS participant's source codes but I still couldn't get a good idea. Thanks!

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[CFP] Oct 1, International Rescue Robotics Symposium (last call for participation)
by Arnoud Visser 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

The German Rescue Robotics Center (DRZ) invites participants to the International Symposium on the Current State and Challenges for Intelligent Robotic Assistance in Disaster Response When: 1 Oct 2021, 13:00-16:30 (CET) Where: Online and onsite in Dortmund, Germany What: Invited talks by leading researchers and practitioners and a round table discussion The symposium will highlight the current status and future challenges in intelligent ground and aerial robotic systems assisting in disaster response from the perspectives of research, development, training, and application. Confirmed speakers: * Emanuele Gissi, Italian Fire and Rescue Service * Adam Jacoff, NIST, USA * Jean-Paul Monet, Bouches-du-Rhone Fire Department * Robin Murphy, Texas A&M University, USA * Tomas Svoboda, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic * Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University, Japan We welcome a broad audience, including first responders, industry, academia and general public. For more details and updates on the program and to register (free of charge) please visit the website: https://rettungsrobotik.de/en/symposium<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frettungsr…> The International Symposium Rescue Robotics is part of the Rescue Robotics Days 2021: https://rettungsrobotik.de/en/rettungsrobotiktage/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frettungsr…> Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova and Oskar von Stryk (Symposium Co-Chairs) ----- Ing. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Ph.D. Senior researcher Talking Robots Group Multilinguality and Language Technology Lab DFKI, Saarbrücken Campus Building 3.1 Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany Tel.: +49(0)681-85775.5356 http://www.dfki.de/~ivana/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfki.d…> http://www.dfki.de/mlt/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfki.d…> - ----- Ing. Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Ph.D. Senior researcher Talking Robots Group Multilinguality and Language Technology Lab DFKI, Saarbrücken Campus Building 3.1 Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany Tel.: +49(0)681-85775.5356 http://www.dfki.de/~ivana/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfki.d…> http://www.dfki.de/mlt/<https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfki.d…> ----------------------------------------------------- Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Kuenstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzende) Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr.-Ing. Gabriël Clemens Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313 ----------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ Unsubscribe: HRI-ANNOUNCEMENT-signoff-request(a)LISTSERV.ACM.ORG If you don't already have a password for the LISTSERV.ACM.ORG server, we recommend that you create one now. A LISTSERV password is linked to your email address and can be used to access the web interface and all the lists to which you are subscribed on the LISTSERV.ACM.ORG server. To create a password, visit: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?GETPW1 Once you have created a password, you can log in and view or change your subscription settings at: https://LISTSERV.ACM.ORG/SCRIPTS/WA-ACMLPX.CGI?SUBED1=HRI-ANNOUNCEMENT

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