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 k******i@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: k******i@vega.aichi-u.ac.jp

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2025/07/21 16:09、Arnoud Visser via RoboCup-rescue-s r**************s@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-competitio... 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 r***************e@lists.robocup.org To unsubscribe send an email to r*********************e@lists.robocup.org _______________________________________________ RoboCup-rescue-s in RoboCup.org Mailing list To send a message to this list send email to r**************s@lists.robocup.org To unsubscribe send an email to r********************e@lists.robocup.org