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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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[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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Open Position in RoboCup Rescue Simulation League
by Farshid Faraji 29 Jul '24

29 Jul '24

Dear RoboCup Rescuers, I hope this message finds you well. This year, we have one open position for EC members for the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League. *Key Responsibilities:* - Participate in regular Executive Committee meetings - Support and promote RoboCup events and initiatives - Collaborate with other committee members to address challenges and opportunities within the community If you are interested in applying, please send your details to robocuprescuesim(a)gmail.com <robocuprescuesim(a)gmail.com>, Thank you for your continued support and commitment to RoboCup. We look forward to receiving your applications and working together to drive our mission forward. Best regards, Farshid Faraji Technical Committee Member of 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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Call for Participation RoboCup 2023 Rescue Agent Simulation League
by Farshid Faraji 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

*Call for Participation* *2023 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competition* *to be held* *Bordeaux - July 04-10, 2023* *https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2023-bordeaux-agent-cfp/ <https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2023-bordeaux-agent-cfp/>* *Co-located with the* *RoboCup 2023* *https://2023.robocup.org/ <https://2023.robocup.org/>* *~ ~ ~* IMPORTANT DATES =============== Registration................: February 28, 2023 (23:55 UTC) Qualification...............: March 05, 2023 TDP submission..............: April 15, 2023 (23:55 UTC) Reviewed TDP submissions....: May 04, 2023 Camera-ready TDP submission.: June 04, 2023 Tournament dates............: July 04-10, 2023 MAJOR CHANGES ============= 1. This year we do not request the TDP submission for the qualification process. Teams that are registered will be qualified to participate in the competition. Qualified teams have to submit their TDP by April 15, 2023 (23:55 UTC), otherwise the team will be disqualified. 2. We encourage teams to develop their code using the new RCRS Core Python ( https://github.com/roborescue/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. 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 =============== 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 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 1, 2023. 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=rcrs2023 no later than February 28, 2023 (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. QUALIFICATION ============= Teams will be qualified based on a first-come first-serve basis constrained by the allowed number of teams per country. Qualified teams have to submit their TDP by April 15, 2023 (23:55 UTC), otherwise the team will be disqualified. TDP SUBMISSION ============== Qualified 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=rcrs2023 no later than April 15, 2023 (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=rcrs2023. 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, 2023 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, 2023. * 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 rcrs2023(a)easychair.org RULES ===== Please read the Agent Simulation Competition Rules document available at https://rescuesim.robocup.org/upcoming-events/2023-bordeaux-robocup/. 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. Hope to see you in Bordeaux Best Regards, RoboCup Rescue Simulation League

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Two additional code-examples
by Arnoud Visser 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Dear all, during the RoboCup 2022 we extended the repository with ROS2 code with two new examples: * Obstacle Avoidance based on sonar * Advanced Obstacle Avoidance based on the depth camera. This two examples are including two open assignments. https://github.com/RoboCup-RSVRL/RoboCup2022RVRL_Demo Enjoy, Arnoud Visser Outlook voor Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> downloaden

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Mapping at DARPA's subterrain challenge
by Arnoud Visser 20 May '22

20 May '22

Read today the IEEE Spectrum article 'Robots Conquer the Underground' https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9771355 [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/assets/img/ieee_logo_smedia_200X200.png]<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9771355> Robots Conquer the Underground: What Darpa's Subterranean Challenge Means for the Future of Autonomous Robots | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9771355> Deep below the Louisville, Ky., zoo lies a network of enormous caverns carved out of limestone. The caverns are dark. They're dusty. They're humid. And during one week in September 2021, they were full of the most sophisticated robots in the world. The robots (along with their human teammates) were there to tackle a massive underground course designed by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research ... ieeexplore.ieee.org I was not only impressed by the map created by Team CSIRO Data61 (Fig 3), but also found this Q&A very relevant for our competition: Q: Autononomy is a necesary part of SubT, but having a human in the loop was critical as well. Do you think taht humans will continue to be a necessary part of effectictive robotic teams, or is full autonomy the future. A: Early in the competition, we saw a lot of hand-holding, with humans giving low-level commands. But teams quickly realized that they neeeded a more autonomous approach. Full autonomy is hard, though, and I think humans will continue to play a pretty big role, just a role that needs to evolve and chane into something that focuses on waht humans do best. .... I hope that this inspires you. See you in Bangkok, Arnoud Visser

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Deepest remote operation of robot exploration
by Arnoud Visser 10 Feb '22

10 Feb '22

Dear all, this is a quite nice background story on how realistic the scenario of the Rescue Simulation competition is. The robots had to explore a collapsed mine, where mapping was essential because the lime-mine was all grey, with pillar after pillar (see the hand-draw maps of the 100y old mine in the video). In addition, the robots had to set up a mesh network over a distance of 1.7 km to be able to explore the mine. https://www.therobotreport.com/how-robots-helped-a-collapsed-mine-get-back-…<https://www.therobotreport.com/how-robots-helped-a-collapsed-mine-get-back-…> Regards, Arnoud Visser

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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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LPNMR 2022 - Call for Papers
by cfp 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

[Apologies in case of multiple posting] Call for Papers ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 16th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2022 https://sites.google.com/view/lpnmr2022 Genova, Italy September 5-8, 2022 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AIMS AND SCOPE LPNMR 2022 is the sixteenth in the series of international meetings on logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR is a forum for exchanging ideas on declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. The aim of the conference is to facilitate interactions between researchers and practitioners interested in the design and implementation of logic-based programming languages and database systems, and those working in knowledge representation and non-monotonic reasoning. LPNMR strives to encompass theoretical and experimental studies that have led or will lead to advances in declarative programming and knowledge representation, as well as their use in practical applications. A Doctoral Consortium will also be a part of the program. LPNMR 2022 aims to bring together researchers from LPNMR core areas and application areas of the aforementioned kind in order to share research experiences, promote collaboration and identify directions for joint future research. TOPICS Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research on all aspects of non-monotonic approaches in logic programming and knowledge representation. We invite submissions of both long and short papers on topics detailed below. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Foundations of LPNMR Systems: * Semantics of new and existing languages; * Action languages, causality; * Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning and understanding its laws and nature; * Relationships among formalisms; * Complexity and expressive power; * Inference algorithms and heuristics for LPNMR systems; * Extensions of traditional LPNMR languages such as new logical connectives or new inference capabilities; * Updates, revision, and other operations on LPNMR systems; * Uncertainty in LPNMR systems. 2. Implementation of LPNMR systems: * System descriptions, comparisons, evaluations; * Algorithms and novel techniques for efficient evaluation; * LPNMR benchmarks. 3. Applications of LPNMR: * Use of LPNMR in Commonsense Reasoning and other areas of KR; * LPNMR languages and algorithms in planning, diagnosis, argumentation, reasoning with preferences, decision making and policies; * Applications of LPNMR languages in data integration and exchange systems, software engineering and model checking; * Applications of LPNMR to bioinformatics, linguistics, psychology, and other sciences; * Integration of LPNMR systems with other computational paradigms; * Embedded LPNMR: Systems using LPNMR subsystems. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION LPNMR 2022 welcomes submissions of long papers (13 pages) or short papers (6 pages) in the following categories: * Technical papers * System descriptions * Application descriptions The indicated number of pages includes title page, references and figures. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference to present the work. Submissions must be written in English, present original research, and be formatted according to Springer's guidelines and technical instructions available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Paper submission is enabled via the LPNMR 2022 Easychair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lpnmr2022 The two best papers of general AI interest will be invited for rapid publication in the Artificial Intelligence Journal. Also, the 2-5 best papers with a logic programming focus will be invited for rapid publication in the journal of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY LPNMR 2022 will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also required not to submit their papers elsewhere during LPNMR's review period. However, these restrictions do not apply to previous workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. ASSOCIATED EVENTS LPNMR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - A mentoring event where PhD students have a chance to present their current research, get feedback from peers and senior researchers, and establish contacts for their future career. FURTHER INFORMATION WWW:https://sites.google.com/view/lpnmr2022 Email:lpnmr2022@easychair.org((program) lpnmr2022(a)dibris.unige.it (general matters) Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/lpnmr2022 Twitter:https://twitter.com/lpnmr2022 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lpnmr2022 IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registration: April 23, 2022 * Paper submission: April 30, 2022 * Notification: June 10, 2022 * Final versions due: June 30, 2022 VENUE The main conference will take place in Genova Nervi, Italy, in the Collegio Emiliani (http://www.collegioemiliani.it/, information available only in Italian on this link), which is a college directly situated on the sea. Nervi is a former fishing village, now a suburb of Genoa. Nervi is 7 km east of central Genova. Genova is the capital of Liguria, stretching along the bay of the same name from Nervi to the east as far as Voltri to the west. The pride of Nervi is the sea promenade, a 2 km walkway along the cliffs. The stunning views make it one of Italy's most beautiful promenades. Nervi is also well known for its Parchi, a park of about 22 acres (9 hectares) created from the gardens of the Villa Grimaldi, Villa Groppallo, and Villa Serra. It has typical Mediterranean plant species and many exotic species. Genova's old town district (reachable by local train, by bus, as well as by boat) is one of the largest in Europe, and hosts some remarkable artistic and architectural treasures, including the Palazzi dei Rolli, fifty or so homes of the aristocracy entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In addition to offering a wealth of cultural attractions, Genova is a fascinating destination for tourists, with its scenic vantage points, sea promenades, aristocratic villas and of course the Riviera to the east and west, both easy to reach: Portovenere and Le Cinque Terre (also UNESCO World Heritage Sites), Portofino and Camogli to the east and Alassio, Sanremo, Bordighera to the west. Associated events (workshops) are planned to be held at the University, which is in the city center of Genova. Of course, we will continuously monitor the pandemic situation in order to evaluate whether the conference can be indeed held as an in-person event, or we will need to switch to a hybrid event, if not completely on-line. GENERAL CHAIR Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK PROGRAM CHAIRS Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Marco Maratea, University of Genova, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIR Jessica Zangari, University of Calabria, Italy WORKSHOPS CHAIR Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR Martin Gebser, University of Klagenfurt, Austria LOCAL ORGANIZATION Matteo Cardellini, University of Genova, Italy Angelo Ferrando, University of Genova, Italy (Chair) Marco Mochi, University of Genova, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TBD)

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LPNMR 2022 - Call for Workshops
by cfp 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. Please distribute to interested parties.] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOPS 16th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning LPNMR 2022 https://sites.google.com/view/lpnmr2022 Genova, Italy September 5-8, 2022 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 16th International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-monotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2022) will be held in Genova, Italy. The objective of the LPNMR workshop program is to stimulate the discussion and the exchange of ideas on topics related, but not limited, to declarative logic programming, non-monotonic reasoning, and knowledge representation. We aim at creating a forum where researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines may interact and have an opportunity to promote collaboration and identify directions for joint future research. Accordingly, we solicit workshop proposals on theoretical and applied research topics. Workshop proposals should explain and motivate the topic of the workshop, and discuss the format of presentation of the contributes. Workshops will likely be half-day or one-day in duration, but we may consider longer programs. DATES * Workshop proposals submissions: February 25th, 2022 * Workshop proposals notifications: March 7th, 2022 * Workshop program: September 5th, 2022 (tentative date) SUBMISSION Proposals must be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=lpnmrws2022 Proposals should clearly specify the following: * Workshop title and acronym * A brief description, emphasizing why this workshop would appeal to audiences from LPNMR * A list of organizers with email addresses, web page URLs, and a short description of their experience in organizing events * A short description of the format of planned activities (talks, posters, panels, invited speakers if any, etc.) * The proposed duration (half day, one day, etc.) * A description of the history of the workshop (if any) * Expected number of participants VENUE Workshops are planned to be held at the University, which is in the city center of Genova. Genova is the capital of Liguria, stretching along the bay of Genova from Nervi to the east as far as Voltri to the west. Its old town district is one of the largest in Europe, and hosts some remarkable artistic and architectural treasures, including the Palazzi dei Rolli, fifty or so homes of the aristocracy entered on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In addition to offering a wealth of cultural attractions, Genova is a fascinating destination for tourists, with its scenic vantage points, sea promenades, aristocratic villas and of course the Riviera to the east and west, both easy to reach: Portovenere and Le Cinque Terre (also UNESCO World Heritage Sites), Portofino and Camogli to the east and Alassio, Sanremo, Bordighera to the west. The main conference will take place in Genova Nervi, Italy, in the Collegio Emiliani (http://www.collegioemiliani.it/, information available only in Italian on this link), which is a college directly situated on the sea. Nervi is a former fishing village, now a suburb of Genoa. Nervi is 7 km east of central Genova. Of course, we will continuously monitor the pandemic situation in order to evaluate whether the conference can be indeed held as an in-person event, or we will need to switch to a hybrid event, if not completely on-line. GENERAL CHAIR Georg Gottlob, Oxford University, UK PROGRAM CHAIRS Daniela Inclezan, Miami University, USA Marco Maratea, University of Genova, Italy PUBLICITY CHAIR Jessica Zangari, University of Calabria, Italy WORKSHOPS CHAIR Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIR Martin Gebser, University of Klagenfurt, Austria LOCAL ORGANIZATION Matteo Cardellini, University of Genova, Italy Angelo Ferrando, University of Genova, Italy (Chair) Marco Mochi, University of Genova, Italy CONTACT For any details on workshops, please contact the Workshop Chair: viviana.mascardi(a)unige.it

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Register to Pre-RoboCup 2022
by Farshid Faraji 28 Jan '22

28 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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Call for Papers: Autonomous Robots and Multirobot Systems (ARMS) Workshop @AAMAS 2022
by Francesco Amigoni 08 Jan '22

08 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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AAMAS-2022 - Call for Papers
by Francesco Amigoni 29 Sep '21

29 Sep '21

******************************************************************** * CALL FOR PAPERS * AAMAS-2022: The 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems Auckland, New Zealand, 9-13 May 2022 https://aamas2022-conference.auckland.ac.nz/ ******************************************************************** We invite you to submit your best work in the area of agents and multiagent systems to AAMAS-2022, the 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-2022). We hope to be able to welcome all of you to Auckland next year, but a final decision on the conference modality (fully in presence, fully virtual, hybrid) will be only taken by the end of 2021. In the meantime, we look forward to your AAMAS-2022 exciting papers! Please visit the conference website for the full Call for Papers. ******************************************************************** AREAS OF INTEREST & SPECIAL TRACKS ******************************************************************** We welcome the submission of technical papers describing significant and original research on all aspects of the theory and practice of autonomous agents and multiagent systems. Areas of interest include: Coordination, Organisations, Institutions, and Norms Markets, Auctions, and Non-Cooperative Game Theory Social Choice and Cooperative Game Theory Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Planning Learning and Adaptation Modelling and Simulation of Societies Humans and AI / Human-Agent Interaction Engineering Multiagent Systems >>> Robotics <<< Innovative Applications AAMAS-2022 will also feature three special tracks, the Blue Sky Ideas Track, the JAAMAS Track, and the Demo Track, each with a separate Call for Papers. ******************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************************************************** Abstract submission: October 1st 2021 Full paper submission: October 8th 2021 Authors rebuttal: November 22nd-25th 2021 Notification: December 20th 2021 Camera Ready submission: January 28th 2022 Tutorials/DC/Workshops: May 9-10, 2022 Main Conference: May 11-13, 2022 ******************************************************************** QUESTIONS ******************************************************************** If you have any questions please contact the Programme Chairs, Piotr Faliszewski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland, and Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Genova, Italy. ******************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------- 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<mailto:francesco.amigoni@polimi.it> Web: https://amigoni.faculty.polimi.it ---------------------------------------------------------

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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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Virtual Robots Competition - Requesting Assistance
by Maurice Pagnucco 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Dear Virtual Robot Competitors, I’m from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. We have a long history of competing in RoboCup, particular the Standard Platform League in soccer, RoboCup Rescue and RoboCup@Home. We’re currently in the process of starting a new team to hopefully compete in the RoboCup Rescue Virtual Robots Competition next year (2022) and have spent a few months familiarising ourselves with the competition. However, we could do with some help and guidance. I have put together a team of undergraduate students from my university who are interested in participating in the competition The students have spent the better half of this year investigating more about the competition and trying to learn the technical skills needed including ROS, Gazebo, etc. A group of students from the team are focusing on the object recognition part of the competition and experimenting with technologies such as YOLO and Detectron2 to detect victims in the maps. We went through papers from the past few year submitted by previous participating teams and noticed that most of them use a dataset of victims to train their image recognition models. However, we could not find the source of the datasets anywhere in the papers, internet or the RoboCup website. We did find some soccer datasets but none is specific for the object recognition task. Would someone be able to let me know if there are any such technical datasets/resources that we can access to assist with our participation in the competition next year? I also noticed that training workshops were held for some of the previous iterations of this competition. Is there any such training workshop(s) planned for next year or can we access the material from one of the previous workshops? Lastly, if anyone from the community would be interested in presenting to our group over videoconference at some point, we would be very grateful. Thanks and best wishes to all, Morri. __ Professor Maurice Pagnucco Deputy Dean (Education), UNSW Engineering Deputy Director, Creative Robotics Laboratory PLuS Alliance Fellow Professorial Fellow, UNSW iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research UNSW Sydney Dean’s Unit, Faculty of Engineering Level 6, Building K17 UNSW SYDNEY 2052 E: morri(a)cse.unsw.edu.au, m.pagnucco(a)unsw.edu.au W: unsw.edu.au T: +61 (0)2 9385 5000 Executive Assistant: Rachel Lewis E: rachel.lewis(a)unsw.edu.au CRICOS Provider Code 00098G

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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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RoboCup Major awards ceremony today
by Arnoud Visser 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

At the main stage of the Underline website today: Between noon and 2pm UTC, there will be the RoboCup Junior awards ceremony (noon), the Handover ceremony for everyone with a preview of RoboCup 2022 (12:45), and the RoboCup Major awards ceremony (1:15). All participants are strongly encouraged to attend - whether or not you won an award!

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Place to upload pictures
by Arnoud Visser 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

If you have a good picture with an impression of this year competition, you could upload them to: https://cloud.robocup.org/s/9xQ8zNcsG8WeKfy Regards, Arnoud

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RoboCup Rescue Victim Dataset
by Arnoud Visser 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Concerning our discussion of today on realistic victims. The Real Robot League has published this dataset: RoboCup Rescue Victim Dataset. Peter Lorenz, Gerald Steinbauer, 2018. Annotated images from RoboCup rescue. https://osf.io/dwsnm/ - See more at: https://robocup.org/robocup_datasets#sthash.DjrmNE0S.dpuf Regards, Arnoud

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Open positions in the League
by Arnoud Visser 25 Jun '21

25 Jun '21

Dear RoboCup Rescuers, This year, we have open positions for a 1 new OC, 1 TC member and 1 EC member for the Virtual Robot competition inside RoboCup Rescue Simulation League. We would like to invite anyone interested in becoming EC, TC or OC to send me an email. We will have the election Saturday morning in our Team Leaders' Meeting. Thank you, Arnoud Visser

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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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Fwd: robocup-rescue-v list migration
by Ali Modaresi 18 May '21

18 May '21

Dear robocup-rescue-v subscribers, RoboCup IT Team is currently migrating the mailing lists which are still hosted at Georgia Tech, to a server at robocup.org, because the old mailing list is being blocked by an increasing number of servers. The new address of the list (to be used to send messages to all the subscribers) is robocup-rescue-v(a)lists.robocup.org The old address is not working anymore, therefore, please update the list address with the new one and remove the old one. Please note that the old passwords are not usable anymore. In order to get your password please enter your email address on https://lists.robocup.org/options/robocup-rescue-v and then click on the remind button. You will receive an email with your password immediately. In addition, you can share the list link via https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-rescue-v Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Best regards, ╔════════════════════╗ ║ Ali Modaresi ║ ║ RoboCup IT support ║ ╚════════════════════╝

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