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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

* Call for Satellite Events * RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-satellite-events/ Submission of proposals: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== We invite you to organize a satellite event for the 25th RoboCup International Symposium, which will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to facilitate the organization of satellite workshops, focus groups, roundtable discussions, and other events that are related to RoboCup itself or the general aim of the RoboCup Symposium. This includes league-specific discussions about rules and/or roadmaps, shared infrastructure projects between leagues, as well as scientific workshops focusing on a particular research topic, among others. League committee members, as well as teams or individuals from RoboCup leagues participating in the Symposium, are invited to submit their proposals. The organizers of a satellite event are free to propose events between 2 and 8 hours in length to be held during or a day after the RoboCup Symposium (17 or 18 July) in a fully virtual, hybrid, or fully local format. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of satellite events: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Proposals will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium as well as their proposed schedule and required resources. Satellite events will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines [0] and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system [1]. Please follow the LaTeX template created by us by either downloading the template file [2] or by creating a private copy of this Overleaf template [3]. Submissions are limited to a 4-page extended abstract, excluding references. Each submission must include the following sections: * Name of the satellite event * A description of the format (e.g., discussion group, workshop, tutorial, invited talks, ...) and intended length of the event * Prefered date and time of the event (17 or 18; morning or afternoon, or the whole day [no lunch will be provided unless it’s on the 17th]) * A description of the content and aim of the satellite event * Names and contacts of all members of the organizing committee/group with one clearly marked person as the corresponding member of the organizing committee * The intended audience and the number of participants expected * Any resources required to organize the workshop After the acceptance of their proposal, organizers are expected to create a short description of their event as well as a website providing further information which will both be linked from the RoboCup symposium page on the RoboCup 2022 website. Organizers of accepted proposals for satellite events will receive a location for their event as well as other required resources (e.g., a projector), if possible. Apart from this, the organizers are responsible for organizing their event independent of the RoboCup Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org [0] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [1] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 [2] https://2022.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Symposium-Satellite-Eve… [3] https://de.overleaf.com/read/gqspxdtvpwsn

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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Next game day on Feb 20, 2022 at 15:00 (CET)
by Alessandra Rossi 17 Feb '22

17 Feb '22

Dear RoboCuppers, We are coming back with a new day of super interesting games on Sunday Feb 20! Grab popcorns, a beer or a warm coffee and join us in enjoying the thrill of RoboCup by sitting in your comfy place! Games will be streamed on Twitch Field A and commented by OCs and teams' members for getting insights on the games, the simulation, robots and software developed by the teams. Have a look at the website for more information about the games, including previous games, scores, and so on. For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Best regards, Alessandra Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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α-Release of ROS2 RCSS3D Agent from ROS Sports
by Kenji Brameld 03 Feb '22

03 Feb '22

Hi 3D Soccer Simulation Teams, This is Kenji from ROS Sports, we are pleased to announce that a ROS2 agent interface to the RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulator <https://rcss3d-agent.readthedocs.io/en/latest/> is now in an alpha release stage! [image: :partying_face:] The motivation behind the ROS2 interface for the Rcss3d Agent is to ease the entry-barrier for the 3d simulation league, and allow the simulator to be reused for other leagues in RoboCup. GIFs are worth a thousand words. It's this easy to interact with an agent in the simulator! [image: image.png] *Sending velocity commands to the head joints* [image: image.png] *Reading the Force Sensors on the feet and the Accelerometer* The rcss3d_agent <https://github.com/ros-sports/rcss3d_agent> package provides: - A general ROS2 library that handles the network connection and parsing/packing of data into the format that the simulator understands (s-expressions) - A basic node that provides a ROS2 pub/sub interface to the library For 3D simulation teams, the basic node is probably all you need. Teams from other leagues such as the humanoid league or SPL, can use the general library to implement their own pub/sub layer to convert the simulator-specific msgs to their own msgs of choice. *Why should you use this package *over continuing to use your own implementation? - *Reduce codebase size and maintenance cost**. Who doesn't like reducing the maintenance cost of their codebase?* - *Encourages contributions to outside the 3d simulation league domain. ** For example, why can't an inverse kinematics library developed in 3d-sim be reused in all Nao applications?* We are actively looking for teams to work with and test out the packages. Please let us know if your team may be interested in working together. Thanks, Kenji Brameld (ijnek)

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Fwd: [RoboCup-exec] 2022 Call for Nominations for Silvia Coradeschi and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Awards
by Marco Simões 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

FYI Sorry for any duplicates. ---------- Forwarded message --------- De: April Foster <april.robocup(a)gmail.com> Date: ter., 1 de fev. de 2022 às 14:02 Subject: [RoboCup-exec] 2022 Call for Nominations for Silvia Coradeschi and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Awards To: <robocup-exec(a)lists.robocup.org> Dear RoboCup Executive Committee Members, Below please find the 2022 Call for Nominations for the Silvia Coradeschi and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Awards. Thank you. Best, April ----- *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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.robocup.org_silvia…>), 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.robocup.org_gkk-5F…>), 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 <april.robocup(a)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 <april.robocup(a)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. _______________________________________________ RoboCup-exec mailing list RoboCup-exec(a)lists.robocup.org https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-exec -- Marco Antonio Costa Simões Nucleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas Operacionais - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra - Campus I Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Mestre em Ciência da Computação - UFPE

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[RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season] Next game day on Jan 23 starting at 3pm (CET)
by Alessandra Rossi 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

Dear Robocuppers, Next game day of the RC-Humanoid League Virtual Season will be on on Jan 23 starting at 3pm (CET). Games will be streaming on Twitch Field A in the following order: 1 Bit-Bots vs NUbots 3:00 pm CET 2 Starkit vs UTRA 3:30 pm CET 3 MRL-HSL vs ITAndroids 4:00 pm CET 4 CIT Brains vs 01. RFC Berlin 4:30 pm CET Have a look at the website for more information about the games, including previous games, scores, and so on. https://humanoid.robocup.org/hl-vs2022/humanoid-league-virtual-season-2021-… For checking the time zone differences, you can use websites such as worldtimebuddy Best regards, Alessandra Dr. Alessandra Rossi Assistant Professor PRISCA research lab Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

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