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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 01 Jan '22

01 Jan '22

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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CFP: RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)
by Asad Norouzi 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

*Apologies for duplicate messages* ============== Call for Participation =============== *RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)* 25-29 November 2021 https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/participation.html RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 Aichi Japan (RCAP 2021) will be held at Aichi Sky Expo (Aichi International Convention & Exhibition Center), November 25-29, 2021. RCAP 2021 will be held in a hybrid ON-SITE and VIRTUAL format. Due to the current uncertainties of Covid-19, ON-SITE competitions will only open to participants from Japan. - ON-SITE Competitions: Participants from Japan. - VIRTUAL Competitions: Participants from all over the world. *LEAGUES:* Virtual Competitions are open to participants from all over the world, with most of the leagues of RoboCup 2021 Worldwide. For details of leagues, please refer to: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/leagues.html *REGISTRATION:* All teams are required to pre-register through the online form: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/registration.html *IMPORTANT DATES:* - Deadline for pre-registration (both online and virtual competitions): 30 September 2021 - Announcement of qualified teams: 14 October 2021 - Deadline for registration: 4 November 2021 *REGISTRATION FEES:* The registration fee is waived for all Japanese teams/members. The registration fee for teams to participate in virtual competitions (except teams from Japan): - Major Team Registration Fee: Waived - Major Staff/Students: USD60/person - Junior Team Registration Fee: Waived - Junior Students/Mentors: USD40/person *SYMPOSIUM:* https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/symposium.html *CONTACT:* For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: - Aichi Local Organizing Committee (General Enquiries, On-site competitions): - rcap2021(a)intergroup.co.jp - RCAP Office (Registration fees and payments, Virtual competitions): - office(a)robocupap.org For more information please visit our official website at https://2021 .robocupap.org/eng/index.html We look forward to welcoming you to RCAP 2021 Aichi Japan! Best Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Office, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021) Organizing Committee ____________________________________

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Call for participations, RCAP2021 Aichi
by Nobuhiro Ito 04 Aug '21

04 Aug '21

Dear RoboCuppers, We are pleased to announce that RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 will be held by competition in person and remote on November 25 - 29, 2021, as follows: * Call for participation: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/participation.html (Pre-registration deadline: 8/15 (in person), 9/15 (in remote)) ++ You can use the TDP which you don't fill in pre-registration.++ When you pre-register to rcap2021, you need the TDP, which you can download on the web. * Official Web: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/index.html In the agent competition of the rescue simulation league, we will follow the rule of RoboCup2021. Best regards, ITO Nobuhiro

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Participation to the Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management
by RoboCup Rescue Simulation 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

[Apologies for the cross-posting] Dear, We invite you to participate in the 2021 Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management that will be held Online on *July 1st, 2021*. The participation is *free of charge*. You can find further information about the Workshop Programme and instructions to connect to the workshop at https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2021-workshop/2021-workshop-schedule/. *IMPORTANT:* Notice that the scheduled time is in UTC time standard (e.g., Japan UTC+9, Iran UTC+4.5, Netherlands UTC+2, Ireland UTC+1, Brazil UTC-3). Please let us know if you have any questions. Kind Regards, RoboCup Rescue Simulation League

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OC/TC Election
by Luis Gustavo Nardin 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

Dear RoboCup Rescuers, This year, we have 1 OC and 1 TC member term expiring for the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League. We would like to invite anyone interested in becoming OC or TC to send us an email. We will have the election Saturday morning in our Team Leaders' Meeting. Thank you, RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League

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Keynote speakers symposium
by Arnoud Visser 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Dear all, as you may have seen, is the schedule of keynote speakers now distributed over several days. I personally can recomment the keynote of Prof. Dieter Fox on Wednesday June 23 (14:00-15:00 UTC) https://2021.robocup.org/symposium [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/JvTZvdRmYXidXpq15HGIOWlmBxoY1yKqR5CX0_Oam…]<https://2021.robocup.org/symposium> RoboCup 2021 - Symposium<https://2021.robocup.org/symposium> Overview The 24th RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction with RoboCup 2021 in a purely online setting, from 22 June to 28 June 2021. The symposium will feature contributed papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial 2021.robocup.org On Friday, one of the keynote speakers of the previous RoboCup symposium gives a keynote on another venue (Intelligent Autonomous Systems conference). If you missed Peter Corke presentation on the RoboCup 2019, I can recomment also his presentation (see the attached public program) on Friday June 25 (5:00-5:40 UTC) https://www.ias-16.com/#plenary Finally, next week there will also be the workshop organized by our league (2021 Workshop on AI and Simulation for Natural Disaster Management). This workshop will on Thursday July 1st (9:00-12:00 UTC): https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2021-workshop/2021-workshop-schedule/ Hope to see you all there! Regards, Arnoud Visser

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