- robocup-rescue-v - lists.robocup.org

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

1 0

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 ---------------------------------------------------------

1 0

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

1 0

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 ---------------------------------------------------------

1 0

[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

1 0

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

2 1

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

1 0

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!

1 0

Place to upload pictures
by Arnoud Visser 27 Jun '21

27 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

1 0

RoboCup Rescue Victim Dataset
by Arnoud Visser 27 Jun '21

27 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

1 0