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RoboCup 2023 Small Size League Call for Participation
by Carla Cosenza 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

Hello! The Small Size League committee is glad to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2023! Below you can find important information about the competition and qualification. Location and dates RoboCup Bordeaux 2023 Parc des Expositions Small Size League July 4 - 9, 2023 https://2023.robocup.org/en/home/ About RoboCup RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. When established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable of winning against the human soccer World Cup champions by 2050. About the Small Size League The RoboCup Small Size League is a part of the RoboCup Research Federation focused on multi-agent coordination and control. Teams currently compete in 11 vs. 11 soccer matches (6 vs. 6 in Div. B). The robots must fit within an 18 cm diameter circle and must be no higher than 15 cm. The robots play soccer with an orange golf ball on a green carpeted field that is about 12 m long by 9 m wide. About the qualification To qualify for the competition, each team must submit a Team Description Paper and a video by January 31, 2023. More information on the qualification requirements and processes are located on the website<https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2023-qualification/>. Please direct all inquiries to the Small Size League Organizing Committee: rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org<mailto:rc-ssl-oc@lists.robocup.org> Thank you! Carla Cosenza

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Information regarding RoboCup 2023, league photo and more
by Tobias Heineken 01 Oct '22

01 Oct '22

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Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open The event will be held in São Bernardo do Campo - São Paulo, Brazil, from october 17 to 22. Remote Participation is available in Simulation Leagues. Registrations are now open for teams all over the world.To participate, the teams must register until july 31, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 170 per team or US$100 in simulation leagues. ============== Important Dates: ============== Pre-Registration Deadline: *July 31* TDP Submission: Check each league's schedule on the website or contact the league's chair by e-mail Early Registration:* September 1 to 23* Registration: *September 24 to October 9* If you have any doubt about the pre-registration or registration process, please contact organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org ======= Leagues ======= RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D RoboCup Small Size Soccer (SSL) RoboCup Humanoid League RoboCup Standard Platform League RoboCup @Home RoboCupJunior RoboCup Brazil Flying Robots Trial League IEEE Humanoid Racing IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit IEEE Very Small Size Soccer 3x3 and 5x5 -- Patrícia Vergara Comunicação RoboCup Brasil (11) 9.8686-4993 www.robocup.org.br

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RoboCup 2022 Results
by Selina Zwerver 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Hi everyone, We want to thank you all for participating in this year’s in-person RoboCup! It was amazing to see you all again, and I hope you enjoyed the event as much as we did. With this email we would like to congratulate you all with your results. We know that it hasn’t been easy to work on your robots in the past 2-3 years, but all of you made it to Bangkok and were able to play some matches! Here are the results: Division A - Tournament Rank Team 1 TIGERs Mannheim 2 ER-Force 3 RoboTeam Twente 3 RoboDragons 5 KIKS Division B - Tournament Rank Team 1 RobôCIn 2 RoboIME 3 Luhbots Soccer 4 RoboFEI 5 UBC Thunderbots 5 Ri-One 7 ITAndroids Awards Excellence award TIGERs Mannheim Best (E)TDP TIGERs Mannheim Open source award TIGERs Mannheim Black out technical challenge first pace TIGERs Mannheim Ball placement technical challenge first place RobôCIn Dribbling technical challenge first place TIGERs Mannheim Kind regards, Selina Zwerver RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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TC / OC Nominations
by Carla Cosenza 13 Jul '22

13 Jul '22

Hello! As said in the Open Meeting today, we will be accepting nominations for new TC / OC members for the 2023 RoboCup. Please send us your nominations by email until the end of the day today, July 13th, 2022 (Wednesday) with your name, your team/university and a brief paragraph saying why you want to be TC / OC. Thank you very much! Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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Fwd: RoboCup 2022 - Open Source Award Submission ER-Force
by Lukas Wegmann 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Dear SSL community, as in past years, we are happy to submit our entry for the Open Source Award. You will find a list of our publications below. Framework + Simulator: This is the main software we use to develop and test our AI. It is able to - receive and process real life vision data - simulate SSL games - control robots - create game recordings and play them back ...and much more. New features since last years RoboCup include: - A new dribbling filter - Basic Git integration (i.e. show the Commit the binary is built from) Git integration into our log format will be released soon after RoboCup - Various bug fixes and small features The repository also contains our simulator, bundled as a standalone executable for usage in this years RoboCup. https://github.com/robotics-erlangen/framework Autoref This is our automatic referee, that detects the various rule infringements teams can commit during a SSL game. https://github.com/robotics-erlangen/autoref In case you have questions about our software or are just curious, feel welcome to write an email to info(a)robotics-erlangen.de Best regards Paul Bergmann ER-Force -- Robotics Erlangen e.V.

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RoboCup 2022 – Open Source Award Submission RoboTeam Twente
by Anne van Harten 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Dear SSL-Community, For the first year since competing RoboTeam Twente is ready to enter for the Open Source Award. As all of our team members change (almost) in full every year we strive to have detailed and easy to understand documentation for everyone. This means that apart from all our designs we have collected all our recent how-to's, design decisions and detailed explanations into a wiki. This wiki we also use to introduce new people to our team, so we hope it can be especially helpful for newer teams and those who are looking into tips for building enough robots to transition to division A. Our wiki can be found here: https://wiki.roboteamtwente.nl/ Although the wiki also describes all previously made design in terms of hardware and software, some highlights of the changes we made this year include: - Transitioning to a modular design with hardware and electronics combined for faster repair and more extensive testing. (rationale <https://wiki.roboteamtwente.nl/technical/mechanics/design_rationale_21_22>) - A fully renewed Front Assembly, which contains our dribbler and a new dampening mechanism. (design <https://wiki.roboteamtwente.nl/technical/mechanics/robot_21_22/front_assemb…> | rationale <https://wiki.roboteamtwente.nl/technical/mechanics/design_rationale_21_22/f…> ) - Custom made space-saving solenoids for kicking and chipping which freed up quite some space in our robots. (design <https://wiki.roboteamtwente.nl/technical/mechanics/robot_21_22/solenoids> | rationale <https://wiki.roboteamtwente.nl/technical/mechanics/design_rationale_21_22/s…> ) - Newly designed path planning based on bang-bang trajectories. (rationale <https://wiki.roboteamtwente.nl/technical/ai/path>) We hope this can help other teams in their process of improving the SSL robots. If you have any questions we are more than happy to answer them, and if you find it useful we would love to hear that from you. We look forward to seeing you all at the RoboCup! Kind regards, Anne van Harten | RoboTeam Twente

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RoboCup 2022 – Open Source Award Submission TIGERs Mannheim
by Andre Ryll 07 Jul '22

07 Jul '22

Dear SSL-community, as in the past years we are very happy to announce our entry for the Open Source Award. By now there is a one-stop shop to get it all: https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim We are doing a complete and full release of everything we have, including electronics, mechanics, and our full AI. Here is a brief description of what has changed. Mechanics: The kicker and dribbler have been slightly updated to be more robust. The dribbler now allows prolonged periods of dribbling with higher torque. The release includes the full robot mechanics. Firmware: The build system has been changed to CMake and the folder structure has been reorganized. The dribbler control algorithm now allows better current and speed control. Test and model identification methods have been cleaned up and improved. The release also includes our wireless protocol and base station firmware. Software (AI): The heart and brain of our team, the central control software "Sumatra". Of course, compatible with the simulation protocol. So you can test your AI against ours locally. Watch out for some serious dribbling moves which will make you sweat ;) In case you are missing any information or if you are just curios, contact us on Discord or write us an email. Tigertastic Greetings, TIGERs Mannheim

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Competition information
by Carla Cosenza 04 Jul '22

04 Jul '22

Dear SSL-Community, Here are a few updates for the upcoming competition: Technical Challenges With the RoboCup approaching, we would like to give an update regarding the schedule of the Technical Challenges. These will be performed on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. The precise schedule will be disclosed during the set up phase. Participating teams: Vision Blackout: TIGERs Mannheim, RoboDragons, KIKS, RobôCIn Dribbling: TIGERs Mannheim, RoboDragons, KIKS, RobôCIn Ball placement: RobôCIn, UBC Thunderbots Radio frequencies We would like teams to inform us what radio frequencies they will be using during the competition so as to not have interference between teams. Please fill out this form<https://forms.gle/SDqfPph9Cs5CL7m69> by Saturday, July 9, 2022. See you guys in Bangkok! Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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Two weeks update
by Selina Zwerver 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Dear SSL-Community, With the RoboCup being less than two weeks away, we have some final updates for you. Rules quiz In our previous emails we have informed you about the referee quiz. This quiz is designed to improve the notoriously poor quality of many of our referees. Each team needs to be able to perform the impartial roles (referee, assistant, game controller operator and vision experts) for matches where they are not playing themselves. Finishing the rules quiz correctly will be necessary for that, and only people who finish the quiz are allowed to perform the impartial roles. Please fill in the quiz before the start of the competition. The quiz additionally contains some open questions. Please try to explain as best as possible how you would handle the described situation. It is to give us an indication of how teams would act. The OC will provide the preferred course of action on the first day of the competition. The quiz can be found here <https://forms.gle/2LFrJGyZNqPbBfsr8>. A useful help would be the rule book <https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-rules/sslrules.pdf>. Group drawings For Division B, we will be drawing all teams into two groups. The 7 teams that are qualified will be drawn into one group of size 4, and one group of size 3. We have assigned all teams into two sets: our four veteran teams (RoboCIN, RoboFEI, UBC Thunderbots and RoboIME) make up the upper set, and our three new teams (ITAndroids, Luhbots Soccer and Ri-one) make up the lower set. Considering there are 4 Brazilian teams, and one team from Canada, Germany and Japan each, we will not be using country-specific drawing rules. We’ve updated the ssl-grouping tool today to reflect these sets. We will be running the grouping tool with the two random seeds from https://www.random.org/integers/?mode=advanced, with the following settings: 2 Integers between 0 and 1000 with the pre-generated randomization for 1st of July. All of you can do so yourself, but we’ll publish the groups as soon as I have the seeds. Good luck with the final preparations, and see you in Bangkok! Kind regards, Selina Zwerver RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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