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Results of an Analysis of 2D Log Files of Recent Tournaments
by Prof. Dr. Thomas Gabel 16 May '23

16 May '23

Dear 2D Community! [Same text will be shared in Discord as well!] TL&DR; We analyzed the log files of major competitions during past years and found a degradation of the reliability of the hardware setup and its computational power provided to the teams. In particular, we observed that - starting in 2022 - many teams' players did frequently miss to send a command within 100ms. If you have any questions or remarks on this, please share them. Best regards, Thomas Gabel (on behalf of the FRA-UNIted team). =====FULL EXPLANATION===== ~~Assumptions~~ We assume that all teams do, in general, send at least one command to the soccer server each time step. By commands we refer to their (A) body-related commands (dash, kick, turn, catch, tackle) and their (B) other-parts-related commands (attentionto, turn_neck, say, change_view, pointto). It is standing to reason to assume that each player sends at least one of those commands to the server each time step. Moreover, most teams do indeed send one of the body-related commands (dash, kick, turn, catch, tackle) to the server each time step. ~~Definitions~~ If some agent does not send a command in one time step at all (neither from category (A) nor from category (B)), then usually something is wrong. In accordance to Ralf Berger from the first Soccer Simulation 2D Champion team ever (AT-Humboldt'97) we call this situation a HOLE. If some agent sends in one time step t more than one command, then usually something is very wrong (e.g. two dashes, or a dash and a turn). It usually means that this agent did not manage to send the first of the two commands within the 100ms of the previous time step t-1, i.e. it is being sent one step too late. Simultaneously, the agent sends the command of the current time step t. Thus, the server receives the command from the previous *and* the current time step in the same cycle. In accordance to Ralf Berger from the first Soccer Simulation 2D Champion team ever (AT-Humboldt'97) we call this situation a BLACK HOLE. ~~History~~ Holes and black holes are bad things for any agent. They used to be a big issue in the early days of soccer simulation 2D, when computational resources were scarce (e.g. the 12 processes of one team had to be run on just one or two single-core PC) as well as when the network connections needed for exchanging messages via UDP were not as reliable as they are today. While we believed that holes and black holes are a problem of another decade and they occur only very rarely or due to programming errors by some team nowadays, we observed their systematic return in competitions of the last and current year where, as far as we can tell, for the first times tournaments were run on 12 docker instances for each team and one for the rcssserver (in total 25 docker instances) entirely on one single machine (which, of course, is equipped with a sufficient amount of cores, e.g. 64 cores). ~~Methodology~~ We took the log files from the 2019, 2021 and 2022 world championships plus the very recent IranOpen 2023 tournament and analyzed the rcl files for the occurrence of holes and black holes. Our analysis tool and script are available on request. ~~Findings~~ In RoboCup 2019, there were no problems across all teams (with the exception of Ri-One which we think to be due to a team-internal problem). And a minor issue for YuShan2019 (with, however, less than 1 black hole in the course of two matches). Team Name, #matches, #holesTotal, #blackholesTotal, holesPerMatch, blackHolesPerMatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Receptivity, 22, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 MT2019, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 ITAndroids, 21, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Fractals2019, 22, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Ri-one, 21, 18938, 572, 901.8095, 27.238094 YuShan2019, 21, 9, 9, 0.42857143, 0.42857143 CYRUS2019, 22, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HillStone, 21, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Razi2018, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 FRA-UNIted, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 FCP, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 RoboCIn, 22, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HfutEngine2019, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HELIOS2019, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Titas2019, 20, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Likewise, there were no issues for RoboCup 2021: Team Name, #matches, #holesTotal, #blackholesTotal, holesPerMatch, blackHolesPerMatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Austras2D, 35, 812029, 0, 23200.828, 0.0 Persepolis, 35, 7916, 0, 226.17143, 0.0 Oxsy, 35, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 YuShan2021, 36, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 CYRUS, 36, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HfutEngine2021, 38, 11, 0, 0.28947368, 0.0 ITAndroids, 38, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Hades2D, 36, 1034, 0, 28.722221, 0.0 RoboCIn, 36, 16, 0, 0.44444445, 0.0 MT2021, 36, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 ARAS, 35, 6, 0, 0.17142858, 0.0 Jyo, 35, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 HELIOS2021, 35, 8, 1, 0.22857143, 0.028571429 FRA-UNIted, 37, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Alice2021, 35, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 ThunderLeague, 36, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 Some teams (e.g. Austras or Persepolis) seem to refrain from sending a command in each time step, producing what we call a hole. Each team must decide for itself whether this is intended, or acceptable, or bad behavior (so we assume that this large amount of holes is fine for the two team mentioned). Anyways, black holes are always most likely a bad thing for any team. If we count the total number of black holes for RoboCup 2021, we see that there was just a single black hole in the entire tournament (by HELIOS2021). Unfortunately, things changed in RoboCup 2022 where, for the first time, a docker-based environment was used. Unfortunately, the entirety of logs for that year can no longer be found on archive.robocup.info which is why our analysis focuses only on the fraction of logs that we downloaded during the tournament: Team Name, #matches, #holesTotal, #blackholesTotal, holesPerMatch, blackHolesPerMatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MT2022, 32, 52, 12, 1.625, 0.375 YuShan2022, 36, 416, 248, 11.555555, 6.888889 Alice2D, 32, 73671, 7, 2302.2188, 0.21875 ITAndroids, 34, 53, 6, 1.5588236, 0.1764706 Oxsy, 32, 70, 19, 2.1875, 0.59375 HELIOS2022, 31, 21, 12, 0.67741936, 0.38709676 RoboCIn, 34, 51, 16, 1.5, 0.47058824 Hfutengine2022, 38, 129, 56, 3.3947368, 1.4736842 Tehran2D, 36, 72, 18, 2.0, 0.5 CYRUS, 33, 51, 17, 1.5454545, 0.5151515 FRA-UNIted, 32, 161, 139, 5.03125, 4.34375 Hades2D, 32, 59, 7, 1.84375, 0.21875 The summed number of black wholes has been increased to 557 in the entire tournament - a number which is certainly far beyond anything that is acceptable. Apparently, all teams were affected where YuShan2022 was affected most with almost 7 black holes per game on average. As a safety check, we ran our analysis also on a big part of the log files produced by the recent IranOpen 2023 tournament which was also held in a docker-based environment with each agent/coach running in its own docker instance, all on the same single machine. Team Name, #matches, #holesTotal, #blackholesTotal, holesPerMatch, blackHolesPerMatch --------------------------------------------------------------------------- YuShan2023, 15, 63, 32, 4.2, 2.1333334 FRA-UNIted, 22, 113, 100, 5.1363635, 4.5454545 Mcafee, 8, 26, 4, 3.25, 0.5 Mrl, 14, 361, 289, 25.785715, 20.642857 The8, 20, 54, 13, 2.7, 0.65 Robo2D, 7, 242, 131, 34.57143, 18.714285 Pyrus, 14, 50, 23, 3.5714285, 1.6428572 Apollo2d, 9, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 RoboCIn, 15, 11, 0, 0.73333335, 0.0 ThunderLeague, 12, 11, 0, 0.9166667, 0.0 Zina-AI, 17, 44, 21, 2.5882354, 1.2352941 R3CESBU, 4, 22, 0, 5.5, 0.0 football-iauk, 9, 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0 EMPEROR, 7, 46, 14, 6.571429, 2.0 This time, some teams where affected even more severely, e.g. Mrl or Robo2D each with nearly 20 black holes per match on average. The negative impact on our own team was nearly the same in RoboCup 2022 and IranOpen 2023 with ca. 4.5 black holes per match. Of course, one might argue that the prevention of black holes is in the responsibility of each team itself. However, we strongly belief that the wide re-occurrence of black holes from 2022 onward points to some inherent problem with the way the simulation environment has been set up recently. As an additional safety check (for our team, FRA-UNIted, only), we also ran a large amount of matches with our team against various opponents on standard PCs (without docker or other virtualizations) using exactly the same version as we employed recently in the IranOpen 2023 tournament. We observed no black hole at all. ~~Details~~ Our analysis reveals that often the entire simulation seems to be "frozen" for one time step or for time steps that are near to one another. We can only speculate about the reasons; one such speculation would be that other docker environments (of another match that is running in parallel on the same machine) are initialized at match start-up/clean-up and this increases the overall system load for a few seconds. Please, see the detail analysis of the exemplary match between RoboC2 and YuShan2023 during the recent IranOpen 2023 tournament in which these teams were affected by 51 and 32 black holes, respectively. All these black holes occur between time steps 600 and 800. In some time steps many players are affected simultaneously (see below: Appendix). ~~Conclusion~~ The hardware, virtualization, and software setup for upcoming tournaments must be very critically questioned in order to allow for fair competitions. =====Appendix===== Detail analysis of one exemplary match from IranOpen 2023: Program arguments: ./GGHv1WP_server1_Robo2D_1-vs-YuShan2023_4.rcl I extracted 2 team names: Robo2D, YuShan2023 I extracted 22 agent names: Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11. t=623: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_10 -> {Robo2D=4} t=624: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=624: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=624: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=624: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=680: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_7, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_10 -> {Robo2D=4, YuShan2023=7} t=681: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_4 t=681: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_4 t=681: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=681: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_8 t=748: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_10 -> {Robo2D=10, YuShan2023=7} t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_7 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_9 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_2 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_3 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_6 t=749: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_10 t=751: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11 -> {Robo2D=11, YuShan2023=9} t=752: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11 -> {Robo2D=11} t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_2 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_3 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_5 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_6 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_9 t=752: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_10 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_2 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_4 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_7 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_9 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=753: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=758: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11 -> {Robo2D=11, YuShan2023=11} t=759: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11 -> {Robo2D=11} t=759: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_1 t=759: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_3 t=759: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=759: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_11 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_2 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_4 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_7 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_9 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=760: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=762: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11 -> {Robo2D=11} t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_2 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_4 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_7 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_9 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=763: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=779: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_9, Robo2D_10, Robo2D_11, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11 -> {Robo2D=10, YuShan2023=8} t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_1 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_3 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_6 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_8 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_10 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_11 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_4 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_5 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_6 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_8 t=780: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_9 t=799: Holes for Robo2D_1, Robo2D_2, Robo2D_3, Robo2D_4, Robo2D_5, Robo2D_6, Robo2D_7, Robo2D_8, Robo2D_10, YuShan2023_1, YuShan2023_2, YuShan2023_3, YuShan2023_4, YuShan2023_5, YuShan2023_6, YuShan2023_7, YuShan2023_8, YuShan2023_9, YuShan2023_10, YuShan2023_11 -> {Robo2D=9, YuShan2023=11} t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR Robo2D_5 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_1 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_2 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_3 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_4 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_5 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_6 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_7 t=800: BLACK HOLE FOR YuShan2023_8 TOTALHBH, Robo2D, 92, 51, YuShan2023, 53, 32, Second example in full detail (with less black holes): I extracted 2 team names: Tehran2D, FRA-UNIted I extracted 22 agent names: Tehran2D_1, Tehran2D_2, Tehran2D_3, Tehran2D_4, Tehran2D_5, Tehran2D_6, Tehran2D_7, Tehran2D_8, Tehran2D_9, Tehran2D_10, Tehran2D_11, FRA-UNIted_1, FRA-UNIted_2, FRA-UNIted_3, FRA-UNIted_4, FRA-UNIted_5, FRA-UNIted_6, FRA-UNIted_7, FRA-UNIted_8, FRA-UNIted_9, FRA-UNIted_10, FRA-UNIted_11. t=2: Holes for Tehran2D_2, Tehran2D_10 -> {Tehran2D=2} t=3: BLACK HOLE FOR Tehran2D_2 t=3: BLACK HOLE FOR Tehran2D_10 t=1014: Holes for FRA-UNIted_5 -> {FRA-UNIted=1} t=1015: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_5 t=1019: Holes for FRA-UNIted_8 -> {FRA-UNIted=1} t=1020: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_8 t=2753: Holes for FRA-UNIted_10 -> {FRA-UNIted=1} t=2754: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_10 t=4791: Holes for FRA-UNIted_2 -> {FRA-UNIted=1} t=4792: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_2 t=5039: Holes for FRA-UNIted_5, FRA-UNIted_6, FRA-UNIted_7, FRA-UNIted_9 -> {FRA-UNIted=4} t=5040: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_5 t=5040: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_6 t=5040: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_7 t=5040: BLACK HOLE FOR FRA-UNIted_9 TOTALHBH, Tehran2D, 2, 2, FRA-UNIted, 8, 8, ~~The End~~ Thanks for reading! -- Prof. Dr. Thomas Gabel Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Fachbereich 2: Informatik und Ingenieurwissenschaften Nibelungenplatz 1, Raum 1-202 D-60318 Frankfurt am Main Tel.: +49(0)69-1533-2538 tgabel(a)fb2.fra-uas.de http://www.frankfurt-university.de/tgabel

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[meetings][CFP] EXTENDED Deadline for paper submission at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Marco Simões 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to *01 May 2023*. The *26th RoboCup International **Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. *Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/ *Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023 *Submission deadline* May 1, 2023 Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the International **Symposium 2023*. Kindest regards, Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser [image: image.png] The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However, a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it. In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the *development track* encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup. *Submission deadline:* May 1st, 2023 List of Topics - Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning - Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control - Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning - Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour - Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy - Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment - Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction Submission Guidelines All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines ( *https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines* <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system ( *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: *https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj* <https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-…> Invited Speakers - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)* - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *(confirmed)* Committees Organizing committee - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - cedric.buche(a)enib.fr - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - msimoes(a)uneb.br - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - visser(a)cs.miami.edu Venue The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France. Contact Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra Rossi - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk -- Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

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[meetings][CFP] EXTENDED Deadline for paper submission at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Alessandra Rossi 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to *01 May 2023*. The *26th RoboCup International **Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. *Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/ *Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023 *Submission deadline* May 1, 2023 Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the International **Symposium 2023*. Kindest regards, Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser [image: image.png] The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However, a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it. In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the *development track* encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup. *Submission deadline:* May 1st, 2023 List of Topics - Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning - Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control - Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning - Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour - Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy - Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment - Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction Submission Guidelines All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines ( *https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines* <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system ( *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: *https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj* <https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-…> Invited Speakers - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)* - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *(confirmed)* Committees Organizing committee - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - cedric.buche(a)enib.fr - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - msimoes(a)uneb.br - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - visser(a)cs.miami.edu Venue The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France. Contact Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra Rossi - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk

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Robotica2023: Tomar, Portugal - 3D Simulation - Call for Participation - Deadline Extended
by Nuno Lau 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

============================================================= ---------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ----------------- ============================================================= (Our apologies for any cross-posting) ROBOTICA 2023 - 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2023/en April 28 to 30, 2023 Tomar, Portugal The Portuguese Robotics Open is a RoboCup Event that aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robotic competitions. We would like to invite you to participate in the 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open which will take place from April 28 to 30, 2023, in Tomar, Portugal. If you are interested in participating, please register your team in one of the promoted competitions. 3D Simulation competition ALLOWS for the participation of REMOTE TEAMS. == Schedule == Early Registration deadline (250 euros): April 7, 2023 ** EXTENDED ** Late Registration deadline (300 euros): April 16, 2023 Remote Team Late Registration deadline (100 euros): April 16, 2023 Portuguese Robotics Open: April 28-30, 2023 All deadlines are 23:59 GMT. == 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE == Robot scientific competitions are a growing trend worldwide and particularly at the European level in the past few years. The 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE provides a great opportunity to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot hardware. It facilitates experimenting using different learning and optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. Since the games are played with teams of 11 players, the league is also a very good environment for experimenting on multi-robot coordination methodologies. --------- The official rules of this League for the 2023 edition, can be found at: https://ssim.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/3D-Rulebook2022.pdf --------- --------- Important resources for the 3D Simulation League, including mailing lists, an installation guide for the server and 3D viewer, team binaries, source-code releases, game replays and other documents can be found at: https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/ --------- == Registration == Registration is performed through the on-line form at: https://forms.gle/7WnmRiTnLAmHLTxj8 == Description and History == The Portuguese Robotics Open (also known as Festival Nacional de Robótica) had its 1st edition in 2001. The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors and also includes an international IEEE conference where national and international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics (https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/). The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of the Portuguese Robotics Society. Hoping to see you at the Portuguese Robotics Open! Kind Regards, The Portuguese Robotics Open Organizing Committee

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[meetings][CFP] Third call for papers at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Marco Simões 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* We are very pleased to invite you to the *26th RoboCup International * *Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. *Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/ *Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023 *Submission deadline* *April 16, 2023* Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the International **Symposium 2023*. Kindest regards, Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser [image: image.png] The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However, a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it. In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the *development track* encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup. *Submission deadline:* April 16, 2023 List of Topics - Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning - Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control - Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning - Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour - Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy - Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment - Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction Submission Guidelines All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines ( *https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines* <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system ( *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: *https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj* <https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-…> Invited Speakers - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)* - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *(confirmed)* Committees Organizing committee - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - cedric.buche(a)enib.fr - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - msimoes(a)uneb.br - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - visser(a)cs.miami.edu Venue The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France. Contact Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra Rossi - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk -- Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

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National Robotics Festival - Portugal
by Patricia Vergara 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Hello good morning: We are almost ready for the 23rd edition of the National Robotics Festival - Portugal - FNR’2023 event. We are pleased to address this invitation to invite you to participate in the 2023 Portuguese Robotics Open (FNR'2023) which is promoted by the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT) and the Portuguese Robotics Society (SPR) and which will take place at the Municipal Pavilion of Tomar, from April 28 to 30, 2023. Categories: Major: DRAGSTAR FREEBOTS MANIPULADORES ROBÓTICOS ROBOT@FACTORY LITE ROBOT@FACTORY 4.0 CONDUÇÃO AUTÓNOMA LIGA DE SIMULAÇÃO 3D @HOME Junior: RCJ RESCUE SIMULATION ROBOT@FACTORY LITE FIRST CHALLENGER FREEBOTS JÚNIOR ONSTAGE BUSCA E SALVAMENTO – LINHA BUSCA E SALVAMENTO – LABIRINTO ROBOCUP SOCCER (MSL) The registration form is now available on the event's website! If you register before April 2nd, in addition to guaranteeing your spot, you are entitled to a discount on your team's registration. Click the button below for more details and access to our website! https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2023/ If you have any questions, you can contact the organization through the official email: info(a)festivalnacionalrobotica.pt We look forward to your participation and present our best regards, The Organizing Committee -- Patrícia Vergara

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Robotica2023: Tomar, Portugal - 3D Simulation Competition - Call for Participation
by Nuno Lau 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

============================================================= ---------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ----------------- ============================================================= (Our apologies for any cross-posting) ROBOTICA 2023 - 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2023/en April 28 to 30, 2023 Tomar, Portugal The Portuguese Robotics Open is a RoboCup Event that aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robotic competitions. We would like to invite you to participate in the 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open which will take place from April 28 to 30, 2023, in Tomar, Portugal. If you are interested in participating, please register your team in one of the promoted competitions. 3D Simulation competition allows for the participation of remote teams. == 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE == Robot scientific competitions are a growing trend worldwide and particularly at the European level in the past few years. The 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE provides a great opportunity to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot hardware. It facilitates experimenting using different learning and optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. Since the games are played with teams of 11 players, the league is also a very good environment for experimenting on multi-robot coordination methodologies. --------- The official rules of this League for the 2023 edition, can be found at: https://ssim.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/3D-Rulebook2022.pdf --------- --------- Important resources for the 3D Simulation League, including mailing lists, an installation guide for the server and 3D viewer, team binaries, source-code releases, game replays and other documents can be found at: https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/ --------- == Schedule == Early Registration deadline (250 euros): April 2, 2023 Late Registration deadline (300 euros): April 16, 2023 Remote Team Late Registration deadline (100 euros): April 16, 2023 Portuguese Robotics Open: April 28-30, 2023 All deadlines are 23:59 GMT. == Registration == Registration is performed through the on-line form at: https://forms.gle/7WnmRiTnLAmHLTxj8 == Description and History == The Portuguese Robotics Open (also known as Festival Nacional de Robótica) had its 1st edition in 2001. The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors and also includes an international IEEE conference where national and international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics (https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/). The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of the Portuguese Robotics Society. Hoping to see you at the Portuguese Robotics Open! Kind Regards, The Portuguese Robotics Open Organizing Committee

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[3D] [Qualification Results] RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 3D qualification results is announced
by Marco Simões 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Hi all, The RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 3D has just announced the list of qualified teams for RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux. See the list here: https://ssim.robocup.org/2023/03/14/robocup-2023-soccer-simulation-3d-quali… Congratulations to all teams. The team leaders will receive a registration code in their e-mails to proceed with the registration. All further communication about the competition will use the Discord server: https://discord.gg/8BF4c7Pu. I highly recommend that all team members join the server using the link above. In the following days, the OC will also release updated rules and server versions to be used in Bordeaux. Teams should manage to prepare their binaries to run on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04. If you have any questions, please ask *@Organizing Committee* in Discord. Best Regards, Klaus Dorer, Marco Simões and Hannes Braun RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 3D Organizing Committee -- Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

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[meetings][CFP] Second call for papers at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium
by Alessandra Rossi 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for any cross-posting* We are very pleased to invite you to the *26th RoboCup International * *Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. *Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/ *Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023 *Submission deadline* *April 16, 2023* Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the International **Symposium 2023*. Kindest regards, Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser [image: image.png] The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France. We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However, a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it. In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the *development track* encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup. *Submission deadline:* April 16, 2023 List of Topics - Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning - Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control - Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning - Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour - Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy - Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment - Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction Submission Guidelines All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines ( *https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines* <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system ( *https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023* <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: *https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj* <https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-…> Invited Speakers - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)* - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *(confirmed)* Committees Organizing committee - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - cedric.buche(a)enib.fr - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - msimoes(a)uneb.br - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - visser(a)cs.miami.edu Venue The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France. Contact Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra Rossi - a.rossi(a)herts.ac.uk

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Fwd: [Robotica-l] Call for Participation - RoboCup 2023 Humanoid Research Demonstration
by Marco Simões 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Sorry for any duplicates. ---------- Forwarded message --------- De: Reinaldo A. C. Bianchi via Robotica-l <robotica-l(a)grupos.ufrgs.br> Date: seg., 16 de jan. de 2023 às 18:10 Subject: [Robotica-l] Call for Participation - RoboCup 2023 Humanoid Research Demonstration To: robocup-worldwide(a)lists.robocup.org <robocup-worldwide(a)lists.robocup.org>, robocup-humanoid(a)lists.robocup.org <robocup-humanoid(a)lists.robocup.org> Cc: robotics-worldwide(a)lists.kit.edu <robotics-worldwide(a)lists.kit.edu>, community(a)mailing.eu-robotics.net <community(a)mailing.eu-robotics.net>, connectionists(a)mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu <connectionists(a)mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, cvml(a)lists.auth.gr <cvml(a)lists.auth.gr>, rl-list(a)googlegroups.com < rl-list(a)googlegroups.com>, robotica-l(a)sbc.org.br <robotica-l(a)sbc.org.br> * Call for Participation * RoboCup 2023 Humanoid Research Demonstration https://humanoid.robocup.org/ July 06 - 09, 2023, Bordeaux, France =========================================================== The RoboCup Humanoid League invites the research community to apply for showcasing the latest research and development results that are relevant for humanoid robots. Researchers are invited to submit their demonstrations independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions, symposium or have a RoboCup team. Contributions will be evaluated for scientific and technical excellence. Topics of Interest --------------------------------------- We welcome demonstrations containing new ideas, concepts, practical studies, and experiment demonstrations relevant to the field of Humanoid Robotics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Components, joints and mechanics; * Soft robotics; * Anthropomorphic vs. non-anthropomorphic; * Walking, running, jumping and other humanoid locomotion; * Adaptability and scalability; * Sensors and perception; * Control and stability; * Dealing with falling; * Reflexes and learning; * Energy supply and efficiency; * Robot design and robotic kits; * Virtual robots and simulation; * Benchmarking; * Bipedal robots applied to real problems; * Education with and for humanoid robots. Procedure --------------------------------------- The Humanoid Research Demonstration will take place in one or several sessions and participating teams are asked to show a demonstration of the system live in Bordeaux or stream their demonstration from their lab during the session. As a back-up solution, each team needs to provide a video demonstration prior to the beginning of the tournament. If the demonstration is performed in Bordeaux, the Humanoid League will provide a humanoid league soccer playing field for the demonstration. However, the members of the Technical Committee of the Humanoid League understand that for some demonstrations this setup may not be ideal and will try to accommodate all teams. If a team requires other arrangements for the demonstration, it must submit a request to the Technical Committee at least 3 months before the competition to allow sufficient time for alternative arrangements. Application --------------------------------------- We invite teams to apply to participate in the Humanoid Research Demonstration by submitting the following material: Demonstration Data * Demonstration title; * URL of the group’s home page; * Name of the contact person; * E-mail address of the contact person; * Postal address of the contact person. Demonstration Video The first part of the material is a video of your robot or robotic part demonstrating its skills or a brief overview of the software demonstration if your demonstration does not involve a physical embodiment. The video must be supplied as a link to it via YouTube. The maximum duration of the video is 3 minutes. The proponent is responsible to ensure that the video adheres to YouTube’s TOS (especially in regard to music copyright) to prevent the video from being blocked for the reviewers. Hardware Specification If the demonstration includes any type of hardware to be showcased, a one-page specification (PDF) for each different type of humanoid type robot/mechanism used that includes the following: * Robot/mechanism picture; * Robot/mechanism name; * Size of the humanoid type robot/mechanism; * Weight of the robot/mechanism; * Robots/mechanisms joint specification; * Type of sensors used (incl. type of camera(s)); * Computing unit(s); * Other specifications Short paper A short paper describing the robot, robot part of software and its task and required environment, limited to four (4) pages including text, references, tables, and figures. The short paper must follow the LNCS format which can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Please pay special attention to the “Author guidelines” that you’ll be able to find there. Plagiarism ======================================= Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code, and ideas is not tolerated in the RoboCup community. See the point “Publishing Ethics” at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… for a more detailed description. The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification. Online Submission ======================================= All qualification material must be submitted online at https://submission.robocuphumanoid.com <https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%…> Important Dates ======================================= Humanoid Research Demonstration * Submission system open: November 20th, 2022 * Submission deadline: April 2nd, 2023 Publication ======================================= Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualified teams submitted material will be made publicly available on the Humanoid League website. Teams applying for participation, therefore, implicitly grant the right of publication of their qualification material to the Humanoid League. Visa Process ======================================= If you are a citizen of a country that needs a Visa for traveling to France, please start the VISA process as soon as you receive your notification of qualification. If you are not sure if you're eligible for a VISA-exempt, please consult the official website of the France government for information, at https://france-visas.gouv.fr/en/web/france-visas/welcome-page. With best regards, Technical Committee of RoboCup Humanoid League 2022 Esta mensagem, juntamente com qualquer outra informação anexada, é confidencial e protegida por lei. Somente os seus destinatários estão autorizados a usá-la. Se você não for o destinatário, por favor, informe o remetente e, em seguida, apague a mensagem, observando que não há autorização para usar, copiar, armazenar, encaminhar, imprimir ou tomar qualquer ação baseada no seu conteúdo. _______________________________________________ Robotica-l mailing list Robotica-l(a)grupos.ufrgs.br https://grupos.ufrgs.br/mailman/listinfo/robotica-l -- Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

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