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RoboCup 2026 - Meet the Committee!
by Emy Ganzeboom 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

Dear Small Size League community, As we look back on RoboCup 2025 in Salvador, Brazil, we do so with pride and perspective. It was a memorable edition, filled with innovation, collaboration, and the unmistakable spirit of our Small Size League community. The announcement that our league will conclude on the international stage after 2027 marks a defining point in our shared history. Even so, our immediate focus continues: preparing for RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea. While the long-term future rightfully draws attention, the work ahead for 2026 remains essential. A different email with an update to our general state of mind regarding the future and some of the questions raised in the survey (as well as its general results) will follow soon. We recognize that the coming years may bring uncertainty and hard choices for some teams. We respect each team’s path and thank everyone for their continued dedication. Our goal is to make all future editions of RoboCup SSL just as purposeful and inclusive. With that in mind, we are pleased to introduce the organizing, technical, and executive committees for RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea. This dedicated group is already hard at work to ensure another engaging and inspiring competition. You can learn more about them in the attached file. Kind regards, The Small Size League Committees

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SSL Community Meeting - Slides and Surveys
by Emy Ganzeboom 18 Aug '25

18 Aug '25

Dear SSL Community, Thank you for joining today’s SSL Community meeting. It was great to see so many teams represented and to have an open conversation about the upcoming changes to our league. Your engagement and input are essential for moving forward together. As promised, you can find the slide deck from the meeting via this link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18JJsEyRWgVhZHaZA-gD26b-0A-NQkX_atpr… A refined transcript from the Q&A of the meeting will be sent out soon. To better understand your perspectives, concerns, and experiences, we have prepared three surveys: - SSL Changes – Team Survey (please submit one per team): https://forms.gle/DrqSRpWbdttZgYKv5 - SSL Changes – Individual Survey (anyone can fill out): https://forms.gle/E7gRL1qgmj2n8P4E6 - Team Demographics: https://forms.gle/LcvLwY76n9oN8aLa9 We would greatly appreciate your input. It will help us gain a clearer picture of your team’s and the league’s needs and allows us to better understand how we can support our community moving forward. Feel free to include questions that you already asked during the meeting to allow us to get the full picture of all concerns and questions. Please complete the surveys by August 22nd AoE. We are here for you. If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions that you don’t see fit for the survey, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You can reach the OC, TC, and EC via email. If you are unsure which email to pick, just write to all three. - Organizing Committee: rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org - Technical Committee: rc-ssl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org - Executive Committee: rc-ssl-ec(a)lists.robocup.org <rc-ssl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org> If you want to discuss certain topics related to the SSL changes with the SSL community or other communities within RoboCup, join these discord servers: - RoboCup SSL: https://discord.gg/t724m8c - RoboCup Official: https://discord.gg/tde42GSBFE - RoboCup Junior: https://robocup-junior.github.io/soccer-rules/discord/ - RoboCup Humanoid: https://discord.gg/kzRYabzs Let’s keep working together to make the SSL the best it can be. Thank you once again for your time, ideas, and dedication. Kind regards, SSL OC/TC/EC

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Major Updates Regarding the Future of the Small Size League
by Nicolai Ommer 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

Dear SSL RoboCup Teams, There are major upcoming changes to RoboCup Soccer that affect the SSL and its members. What is Happening? To start, the trustees are taking substantial action to streamline RoboCup Soccer in pursuit of the 2050 goal of playing a match against the World Cup winner. The first and most substantial change is that all soccer leagues will be converging on humanoid (bipedal) robots by 2028. The new leagues will be related to humanoid robotics and simulation only. The Small Size League will no longer be a major category event after the 2027 RoboCup (the SSL will be at the 2027 event, and not at the 2028 event and after). This is true for many of the other leagues, and there will be substantial changes to the humanoid rules and non-soccer events as well. The official press release from the RoboCup federation can be found here: https://www.robocup.org/news/181 The SSL community has several transition paths forward. We understand each team is unique, and will have team specific concerns. We have two major paths forward right now: SSL regional events, possibly with Junior collaboration, and transition to humanoid league. We have explicitly been told by the trustees we are invited to continue our league under the RoboCup name at regional events after 2027. Our community already has several strong regional events including the German Open, RoboCup Brazil, and the Japan Open. The EC/TC/OC believes we have strong support from the organizers of these regionals, though work will need to be done to transition to and support these events if additional teams attend. The committee is evaluating ways to keep the international community together, like by selecting one regional per year, after 2027, as a “super regional” that would rotate among the current regional events similar to the international event. The trustees have also begun a transition plan for teams who would like to switch to one of the humanoid leagues and remain on the world event stage. For teams looking to transition quickly, the trustees are working to get discounts and collaborative use of commercial bipedal robot platforms. We will communicate additional details about the humanoid rules and transition assistance as it becomes available. Expect additional communication directly from the governing bodies of global RoboCup. We may also have an opportunity to convert the SSL to a simplified bridging league in Junior, with the intention of creating a pipeline of students from RoboCup Junior, through the SSL, into humanoid. If this succeeds, we will likely still hold regional events, but then will also have a presence on the world stage in some form, though not in the major event category. This is an evolution of the collaboration games we have been hosting with Junior for the past few years. The committees are working hard to quickly determine what this will look like. We understand these are big changes and they may come as a surprise to all of you. The committee members only just found out about the new direction during this year's RoboCup, as the overall desires of the RoboCup trustees became more clear. What to expect in the coming months. Obviously, things will be changing. The committees will be hosting a meeting for teams that could not attend the competition, and for teams that would like to meet with us again. This meeting will take place on August 9th. We will announce the time soon. It will cover the same content that was covered in the Open TC/OC meeting in Brazil. We will have time for questions at the end. After, expect a series of short surveys about transition paths and team concerns. This will help us support you, regardless of what path makes sense for your team. Second, expect technical challenges and other requests from the committee to look differently. The things we ask you to do may shift focus to better support strong regionals. The committees have always and will always support our community and teams. It has been amazing getting to know each and every one of you. You and your teams make our SSL community special. We have over two years to develop our plans and make sure teams are healthy. We are working hard for you. Feel free to email us directly with specific concerns or questions, even though we may not have answers right now. We are committed to clear and timely communication as new information becomes available. We look forward to seeing everyone in South Korea for next year’s major event! Best Regards, SSL EC/TC/OC Nicolai Ommer Tobias Heineken Leonardo da Silva Costa Emiel Steerneman Joao Guilherme Oliveira Carvalho de Melo William Stuckey David Brand Emy Ganzeboom Lucas Cavalcanti

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Presentation for Junior - Major Committee Meeting
by David Brand 17 Jul '25

17 Jul '25

Hi, I have started with a draft for the Presentation of the Cooperation between major and junior this evening and am currently still working on filling it. Nonethelesse, please have a look at it and add additional things, as well as correct things: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15T91coH-2V5sCZrwMavAp1KP6mBrJWqedEo… Bets regards, David.

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Open OC/TC Meeting Road Map and Slide Deck
by Will Stuckey 16 Jul '25

16 Jul '25

Hello Everyone, As part of the open OC/TC meeting, we usually discuss the future of the league. The OC and TC have prepared a draft of a 5 year roadmap and have also prepared a slide deck (which we may not be able to present) summarizing a plan we have to take the league forward. This is a guide for discussion, not a final document. We would like feedback at the OC/TC meeting. For any team who would like to give extended feedback, we also welcome replies to this email. As detailed in the documents, we have identified three possible major thrusts for improvement: 1. Improving the new and young team experience 2. Improving motion control through benchmarking 3. Exploring and integrating novel AI Links included Road Map Document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CkvQC72z7nOF-CXU_ZERyf2YjiO2FxNZG9BaXuB… Summary Slide Deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OiC37CqpEBelR_R5LyKga_e_RLm2oHcN/ed… We look forward to hearing your thoughts at the meeting and via email. Best, Will + OC/TC

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Technical Challenge : Obstacle Avoidance scenarios
by Emiel Steerneman 15 Jul '25

15 Jul '25

Dear teams, Apologies for the previous email. I pressed some secret *send-this-email-out-immediately *keybinding. Attached to this mail you will find the 9 scenarios for the obstacle avoidance technical challenge. Note that there are *no *virtual lines between any robots in these scenarios. If you have not signed up yet for either or both of the technical challenges <https://ssl.robocup.org/history-of-technical-challenges/>, you can do so via the link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WkwqbklRrxbV9sm3unPaqdBr0mw-JFMI-Lw_FB5UPm…> below. If your team will not attend any technical challenges, please also fill this out via the link below. The signup deadline is *today, July 15th, 20:00 o’clock BRT(Salvador local time).* Signup link https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WkwqbklRrxbV9sm3unPaqdBr0mw-JFMI-Lw_FB5UPm… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WkwqbklRrxbV9sm3unPaqdBr0mw-JFMI-Lw_FB5UPm…> Best regards, Emiel Steerneman - TC

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Technical Challenge : Obstacle Avoidance scenarios
by Emiel Steerneman 15 Jul '25

15 Jul '25

Dear teams, Attached to this mail you will find the 9 scenarios for the obstacle avoidance technical challenge. Note that there are *no *virtual lines between any robots in these scenarios. If you have not signed up yet either or both of the technical challenges, you can do so via the link below. Also, pl https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WkwqbklRrxbV9sm3unPaqdBr0mw-JFMI-Lw_FB5UPm…

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First day of set up!
by Carla Cosenza 15 Jul '25

15 Jul '25

Hello! Welcome everyone to the first day of set up at RoboCup Salvador! Here is the link to the welcome packet<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dM94b3HAYNjhw33NID7ebjI_1O5GGuKGgA-kuiV…> that is also found on your allocated work table. It has all the links necessary for the event. Please do take a look as the updated schedule is there! Please do not use the field until further notice! Happy to see all of you, Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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RC 2025 one week out
by David Brand 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

Hello, Since the competition is one week from now, we want to send you another update Radio Information Request Please fill out the radio information survey so we know what radio technologies your team is using. This will let us allocate you a frequency and deconflict teams and the venue. The link is: https://forms.gle/eyNMYQga9B4DdseU8 Technical Challenges This year we will be hosting two technical challenges. The [team vs. team passing challenge](https://robocup-ssl.github.io/technical-challenge-rules/2025-ssl-team-vs-team-passing-challenge.html) with an updated ranking system open for teams from both divisions. On top of that, we will have a new [obstacle avoidance challenge](https://robocup-ssl.github.io/technical-challenge-rules/2025-ssl-obstacle-avoidance-challenge.html), which is only open for Div B teams. If you want to participate in at least one challenge please submit your intent via the corresponding [form](https://forms.gle/sd6ADCTkkcYU6DuY6) until July 15th, 20:00 o’clock BRT(Salvador local time). Award Voting Like last year we will be doing the voting this year via online forms. As we especially wanted to give you more time to evaluate the Open Source Submissions as well as the (E)TDPs, we also already set up the voting forms for both of them: - [Open Source Ballots](https://forms.gle/ktxk2gXsWgGgEQfM8) - [Best (E)TDP](https://forms.gle/yZEzGtcZLzgySHQ57) But as in the previous years the voting will only be due during the RoboCup as the Open Source Presentation is an essential part of the award. Also as last year you will be getting a unique team code, so that malicious votes can be eliminated. In case you already want to look at the questions beforehand, feel free to use “test” as team name as well as the unique code, which allows us to easily delete these votes. Referee Quiz As a quick reminder from the last mail, every team participating in the RoboCup2025 needs to be able to fill out their assigned impartial roles for matches, when they do not play. These members have to take the [referee quiz](https://forms.gle/8frZcLYPx5o3KVF29) beforehand. In case you have any open questions or any trouble during your travel, please let the OC/TC know as soon as possible. This allows us to see whether we can help you in any way. See you in Salvador! David, on behalf of the SSL committee

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Call for Scientific Publication Updates in SSL (pls submit until July 11th 🥺)
by Masahide ITO 08 Jul '25

08 Jul '25

Hi everyone, We would like to know the latest updates of your scientific publications. This is very important not only to share scientific and engineering results with you all but also for the SSL to show the presence in the RoboCup community. If you published international conference papers and journal papers within one year, please submit the information at the following link: https://forms.gle/R3zSRzxecyPwtoPD6 It would be great to submit *until July 11th*. The collected information will be published at the scientific publications page of the SSL website, i.e., https://ssl.robocup.org/scientific-publications/ Thank you! Masa School of Information Science and Technology Aichi Prefectural University 1522-3 Ibaragabasama, Nagakute, Aichi 480-1198, JAPAN Phone: +81-561-76-8600 (direct) / Fax: +81-561-64-1108 (share) Email: masa-ito(a)ist.aichi-pu.ac.jp

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RoboCup 2025 – Open Source Award Submission The A-Team
by Matt 02 Jul '25

02 Jul '25

Hello league-mates, This year, The A-Team would like to submit ssl_ros_bridge for the Open Source Award. https://github.com/SSL-A-Team/ssl_ros_bridge ssl_ros_bridge is a small collection of ROS2 utilities to help teams using ROS connect to SSL league software interfaces. It provides bridge nodes which manage network connections to ssl-vision and ssl-game-controller, exposing ROS topics and services mirroring the protobuf packets used by the league software. We hope this open source software will especially help new teams get started with SSL software without having to learn our league's network protocols in detail. It is offered as its own repository to make including it in other team's software easier. Thank you for your consideration, ~Matthew Barulic The A-Team

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RC 2025 two weeks out
by David Brand 01 Jul '25

01 Jul '25

Hi, As every year during the weeks before the RoboCup the number of mails increases and we just have a new one with more info for you: Schedule Using the random numbers 8902 and 5478, as by https://www.random.org/integers/?num=2&min=1&max=10000&col=5&base=10&format…, we got the following groups for the Division B tournament: ==== Grouping ==== Group A: - The-A-Team (USA) - ITAndroids (Brazil) - RoboFEI (BrazilB) - The-Bots (Canada) Group B: - RoboJackets (USA) - DelftMercurians (Netherlands) - Sysmic (Chile) - WarthogRobotics (Brazil) Based on that seeding, we have already updated the [official schedule](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uNMfJM_ZOfLf-vYniD9r53NEZ… to represent the two groups and also added the Div A match groupings.. Referee Quiz To be allowed to fill in one of the impartial roles (assistant / main Referee, Game Controller Operator, Vision expert) during the official matches, you need to complete this year's referee quiz before the first competition day: https://forms.gle/J89PC24xrYohL8Xe9 Since all teams will need to take turns in filling in the impartial roles, if not at least two members of your team completed the quiz, your team can be excluded from the competition. Communication For the textbased communication during the RoboCup we will be using the [ssl mailing list](https://lists.robocup.org/mm/lists/robocup-small.lists.robocup.org/), as well as the [SSL discord](https://discord.gg/t724m8c) server. Especially for fast paced announcements from us, but also for communicating with the other teams the discord server is quite crucial. Therefore in case from your team not multiple, or ideally all, members joined both communication lines yet, please consider to do so. This helps us, as well as you, to be sure that you get critical information as soon as possible and in case that one team member might not read it, the others can forward the relevant information. In addition there is also an official Discord Server for the whole RoboCup, that is not just for this year's tournament, but also for other events, general exchanges during the year and more. In case you would like to join it, feel free to use this link: https://discord.gg/q4AfnY7fx6 Its goal is not to be a replacement of the SSL Discord Server but more an addition to communicate with members from other leagues and for RoboCup wide information. Colored robot hulls As you might have seen the Black and White Hulls rule got updated and is now called [Color of Robots](https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-rules/sslrules.html#_color_of_robots). With this update the requirements about the size of the area changing the color got updated to accommodate smaller robots and is also a bit more relaxed with the usage of colors for differentiation. If you already implemented the Black and White Hull rule you should be fine and also compliant with it after its update. This year we will be very lenient, when validating the robots for tournament suitability, but have a look at them nonetheless, as the compliance with the rule will be part of the robot approval process from the next year on. What to bring Network: This year you will be provided with ONE ethernet plug for your team at the field, as well as ONE at your team table. Since that won’t be enough connection points for your whole team, please bring your own routers/switches. This is especially important, as personal wifis should be banned at the venue and it is yet not known to us whether there will be a public wifi. Power: Brazil uses the type N and C power plugs and outlets. Although the usual voltage used in Salvador is 127V / 60Hz, the outlets in the venue will supply 220 V / 60 Hz. Please check if your equipment supports both standards, especially the later one. In case you need more info, the local organizers have compiled all needed info on their homepage under the section [power and sockets](https://2025.robocup.org/practical-information/). General information: As some of our teams and adjacent leagues use the 2.4 GHz frequency range to control the robots, please avoid using wireless peripherals, like bluetooth headphones, mice, etc. in the same frequency range and therefore prefer to bring wired solutions. In addition to your robots you also need a machine for your central software. Since you may need to move your equipment from the competition to the practice field, a powerful laptop instead of a full size TowerPC is usually more convenient. As we need all teams to use the same color paper on top of their robots for a good calibrated vision setup, you will need to change the color paper at the venue. While we will provide you with the color paper you should bring the equipment you need to fabricate the round blobs as well as to change them inside your hull. If you have any open questions, feel free to reach out to the OC/TC, See you in Salvador! David, on behalf of the SSL committee

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RoboCup 2025 - Open Source Award Submission ER-Force
by Christoph Schmidtmeier 30 Jun '25

30 Jun '25

Hello everyone, ER-Force's submission for this year's Open Source Award is our framework ( https://github.com/robotics-erlangen/framework). This is the primary software we use to develop and test our AI. It is able to - receive and process real life vision data - simulate SSL games in a full physics simulation - connect to radio transceivers and control robots - create game recordings and play them back - run strategies written in Lua and TypeScript - display visualizations to help debug strategy decisions - …and much more. We have submitted it to the Open Source Award before, but we continue to maintain it, fix bugs and implement new features. Best regards, Christoph Schmidtmeier ER-Force

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RC 2025: Awards and Open Source Reminder
by David Brand 25 Jun '25

25 Jun '25

Hello, After the info yesterday about the tournament style and schedule we now also have more info regarding the awards. Excellence Award After internal discussions we decided not to change the Excellence Award this year. Therefore, just like last year, you are able to gain additional points for participating in the Technical Challenges, the Open Source Award as well as for contributing to SSL shared projects. Together with the points for the success in the tournament, as well as for the (E)TDP Quality, the team with the most points will win the Excellence Award. If you want to see the exact point distribution, have a look at the [Awards](https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2025/robocup-2025-awards/) homepage. Open Source Award As you have probably previously already seen, the deadline to submit your entrance to the Open Source Award has been moved to July 01st AoE (now only one week away!). This is to give the other teams more time to have a look into the submission and also try it for themself. In case you have missed the announcement of the Open Source Award, you can also find all needed info here: [Awards](https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2025/robocup-2025-awards/) All of the already made submission can be found [here](https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2025/robocup-2025-open-sourc… and the list will be continuously updated, so that you have a complete list for reference during the voting process Best (E)TDP Award As you might recall, we included a “Nomination for best (E)TDP award” question in the (E)TDP review process this year. This is intended to use the reviewers who had to read the (E)TDP already as a first screening, so that teams have to read fewer (E)TDPs for an informed decision about the best one. We have decided to nominate any (E)TDP for the award that got at least one nomination by their reviewers. This list is this year (in a random order): - The A-Team - ITAndroids - RobôCIn - ZJUNlict - Warthog Robotics - ER-Force - TIGERs Mannheim - RoboDragons We would ask all teams to have a look at these 8 (E)TDPs in preparation for the eventual vote in Salvador. If you have any open questions, feel free to reach out to the OC/TC, See you in Salvador! David and Tobi, on behalf of the SSL committee

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RC 2025: Tournament Style and Schedule
by David Brand 23 Jun '25

23 Jun '25

Hello, Since this year’s tournament is now only a couple of weeks away, we want to give you some information regarding the tournament schedule. General Tournament Timeline The local organization has already published the general timeline for the competition on their [homepage](https://2025.robocup.org/schedule/). The main information here is: Team Setup Days: Tuesday 15. - Wednesday 16. July Competition: Thursday 17. - Sunday 20. July Symposium: Monday 21. July (The venue will open on the tournament days from 8:00 on and will close from Tuesday to Saturday at 22:00) Tournament Style As we have a reduced number of teams this year, the style used this year got slightly adapted. Due to having only 5 Div A teams this year, the group stage will consist of only one group, where every team is playing once against each of the other teams. The knockout stage will be played in a double elimination stage, with all 5 teams taking part. With currently 8 teams in the Div B, the qualification stage will consist of two groups with each four teams, where all four teams are playing once against each other. In the knockout stage we will also have a double elimination system but start with all 8 teams. The teams will be drawn into groups using the SSL grouping tool (https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-grouping). We have already updated the seeding pools for the Div B for this year's competition. The seeds are primarily determined by last year's results (https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2024/robocup-2024-results/), as well as the participation in previous RC tournaments. Since there are more than two Brazilian teams, but only two groups in Div B, we are unable to fully avoid teams from the same country competing against each other in the group stage. To solve this, we moved one of the Brazilian teams (RoboFEI) to their own nation (denoted as BrazilB in the seeding pool). While we understand this is slightly disappointing, we think this is a better compromise than ignoring the country of origin completely. Since in the Div A all teams will play against all others anyway, the correlation for T1 to T5 to teams is purely done by the ranking in last years competition and as following: T1: TIGERs Mannheim T2: ZJUNlict T3: ER-Force T4: RobôCIn T5: RoboDragons If you notice any issues with this seeding, please notify us before the 27th of June. This is important since we will draw groups on that day and we have a much harder time adjusting the seeding when the resulting groups are already available. As we always do, we will use random.org for the random seeds required for the tool. We will draw the groups using the pre-generated random numbers for the 27th of June (which will become available at https://www.random.org/integers/?num=2&min=1&max=10000&col=5&base=10&format… on that date) to seed our tool. (The numbers are used to seed Division B, as no numbers are required for Division A) Tournament Schedule The official SSL schedule for this years can be found here: [RoboCup 2025 Schedule - Official](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1uNMfJM_ZOfLf-vYniD9r5… As the tournament days are quite packed, the technical challenges are currently planned to be primarily in the morning of the 16th. Also the slots for the Demo matches against Junior have been picked. Both of them will happen after each other on Saturday between 17:00 - 18:00. If you have any open questions, feel free to reach out to the OC/TC, See you in Salvador! David and Tobi, on behalf of the SSL committee PS: The local organization is also sending regular newsletters with important and interesting notes about the tournament and everything around it. Therefore please have a look for them. In case you didn't receive them, here are the ones, which have already been sent: [Newsletter #1](https://drive.google.com/file/d/149odDpmagt9dIJpBhQ9mJ2No8ISgJJYf/view?usp=sharing) [Newsletter #2](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L1fcfvUgY-oj6_XfEETS3m0EzppYhP8-/view)

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RoboCup 2025 - Open Source Award Submission TIGERs Mannheim
by Felix Weinmann 20 Jun '25

20 Jun '25

Dear Small Size League, we are proud to present our 2025 open source award submission: The vision processor! https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim/vision-processor The vision processor aims to be a drop-in replacement for SSL-Vision. The shape based blob detector and decentralized software architecture is intended to minimize setup time and improve detection rates in uneven illumination conditions. Since the initial announcement on the SSL Discord 5 months ago, multiple tournaments have been completed using vision processor exclusively. Tigertastic greetings, TIGERs Mannheim

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RC2025: Junior Demo Matches
by David Brand 16 Jun '25

16 Jun '25

Hello! After the matches last year between TIGERs on behalf of the SSL and the Junior Soccer LightWeight and Open Leagues received positive attention and feedback, we want to host the matches this year again, deepening our cooperation to further increase knowledge transfer between both leagues. Since the junior teams will consist of robots from multiple teams again, we want to prove that the SSL can play with robots from multiple teams on a shared team as well. After a first test during the German Open ([Lifestream of the match](https://www.youtube.com/live/__ASDKObXNY?si=B_cGATAb3sl5xPfe&t=3087)), where TIGERs and ER-Force gave their best to split the responsibility on the field, we want to expand the circle of competing teams. Therefore we are currently looking for teams that are open to the challenge and would like to join the matches. As the junior bots are usually a bit more fragile than the SSL bots, all competing robots must be limited to the following values: - Max Robot speed: 2.0 - Max Robot acceleration: 2.0 - Max Ball speed: 2.5 In addition to that, the use of chip kicks is strictly forbidden.Disabling the chip kicks in hardware is strongly encouraged and preferred, but disabling it in software is also fine. To ensure that these limits are not violated, each SSL team will have to demonstrate compliance to these limits beforehand. The matches will take place on the main Div B field. Therefore, the ruleset used will be similar to the SSL Div B ruleset. As all junior bots will get equipped with vision patterns, and the GC will control the SSL bots and coordinate the matches. Expect some adaptations to improve the flow of the game by the refs or GCO, you should not need to adapt your AI or hardware beyond the safety limitations. Since the schedules of the involved leagues are still being finalized, we do not have a specific time for the demo yet. However, I expect it to take place on Friday or Saturday. Since we will need the main Div B field anyway, there is no need to worry about scheduling conflicts with other matches. However, since tournaments never run as expected, you can always withdraw from the challenge. If you have any questions regarding the matches or would like to join the matches feel free to reach out to the OC. Thanks, David. ------------ RoboCup Small Size League | OC Member

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Shared Radio Interest Form
by Will Stuckey 15 Jun '25

15 Jun '25

Hi Everyone, If your team is using 5GHz or 6GHz WiFi for robot control please fill out this survey. https://forms.gle/93JZhJzZCVa8ce1x6. The TC will be offering shared WiFi on the Division A and practice fields and would like to find teams interested in a shared WiFi scrimmage. Thanks, Will Stuckey

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RC2025 Cargo Shipment
by David Brand 12 Jun '25

12 Jun '25

Hi, We want to forward the request from the Local Organization: The company responsible for Cargo is talking with Brazilian customs to solve all the procedures to receive the team's payloads as quickly as possible. To accelerate this process, they are asking teams who contacted them to prove their registration to RoboCup 2025. In case you plan to ship your robots beforehand and already contacted the cargo company, please follow the request. In case you won't use the shipment option, but rather take the robots with you, you can ignore the request. Thanks, David. ------------ RoboCup Small Size League | OC Member

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Technical Challenge - Obstacle Avoidance
by Emiel Steerneman 08 Jun '25

08 Jun '25

Hello! The Technical Committee has finished working out the details for the Obstacle Avoidance challenge - DivB only. Please find the rules on our website <https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2025/robocup-2025-technical-challe…> . Thank you Emiel Steerneman RoboCup Small Size League | Technical Committee

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Awards and new Open Source Award deadline
by David Brand 14 May '25

14 May '25

Hello! As in the previous years, the awards for this year can be found on this years homepage: [RC 2025 - Awards](https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2025/robocup-2025-awards/) Like last year we will have the Excellence Award again, although the exact point system for this year is currently still in the works and going to be published in the next few weeks. New Open Source Award Submission Deadline: The submission deadline for this year's Open Source award is now 2 weeks before the start of the tournament and therefore July 01st(AoE). The submissions must still be sent to the [SSL Mailing List](robocup-small(a)lists.robocup.org), with the subject RoboCup 2025 - Open Source Award Submission <Your Team Name>. During the submission phase, we are going to collect all of them on the [Open Source Submission page](https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2025/robocup-2025-open-sourc…. After the submission deadline we are going to publish the voting ballots, so that each team can already start with the evaluation of the submissions. The presentation of the submissions as well as the voting deadline will still be during the RoboCup, so that everyone still has the possibility to discuss each submission and the submitting team is able to answer open questions in person. If you have any questions regarding the awards or this year's processes, please feel free to reach out to the SSL OC and TC. Thank you, David. ------------ RoboCup Small Size League | OC Member

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Registration Process RC2025
by David Brand 27 Apr '25

27 Apr '25

Hello, As many have perhaps already seen, the invitation mails for the registration have already been sent out. In case that your team has not received an email and has expected one, please reach out to the [SSL OC](rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org) and we will look into it and get back to you as soon as possible. If you need to withdraw from the competition, please decline the Invitation via the button in the email and send the OC an email as well, since we are not sure whether we will be notified of the declined invitations and need to adapt the tournament schedule. Regarding the registration schedule, the deadline for the early registration is May 16th and the regular registration ends on June 13. After that comes the Late registration until June 30, in which you cannot register teams any longer and only can add additional team members. The confirmation for the paid registration as announced in the preliminary qualification email, is not needed any longer, since we were able to offer each qualified team a slot at the tournament. Nonetheless, it would be great to get notices about withdrawals rather soon, since changes to team numbers could have a rather big impact on the tournament structure and schedule. If you need an invitation letter for your visa, these will only be sent out, after you registered your team. Therefore, especially for the teams needing a visa, please register as soon as possible, so that you have enough time to acquire the needed visa. In case you want to know, whether you need a visa or not, have a look at the following document written by our three LOCs this year: https://silly-snowman-187.notion.site/Tips-for-RoboCup-2025-1760464cbae080c… In there you can also find additional information to the [RoboCup 2025](https://2025.robocup.org/) homepage regarding import regulations, accommodations and much more. In case you have any additional questions, feel free to contact the OC or our three LOC members [Pedro Pizzaro](pedro.gpizarro(a)gmail.com), [Joao Victor Aguiar](jv628911(a)gmail.com), [Joao Guilherme Oliveira Carvalho de Melo](jgocm(a)cin.ufpe.br) directly. Thank you, David (on behalf of the SSL Committees)

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Technical challenges
by Carla Cosenza 13 Apr '25

13 Apr '25

Hello! We are sorry about the delayed announcement of the technical challenges. We were trying to finish our goals and long term roadmap in order to align them but did not manage to. Due to that, we have opted for continuing one of the challenges from last year and having a DivB only challenge. Passing challenge The passing challenge from last year will be repeated. This year's rules will be the same as last year and can be found at https://robocup-ssl.github.io/technical-challenge-rules/2024-ssl-teams-vs-t…. The only difference this year will be the ranking system. In short, a team's ranking will not be determined by the total amount of passes made over all matches. It will be determined by relative strength over the opposing teams. A more detailed motivation and explanation can be found here https://github.com/emielsteerneman/passing_challenge_scoring. For any questions regarding this technical challenge, please reach out to TC member Emiel Steerneman. Obstacle avoidance challenge - DivB only 2025 is going to feature a DivB only technical challenge focussed on avoiding obstacles. To make sure that teams with faster robots do not win by default, the speed of the robots is limited to stop speed. Detailed rules are to come, but the most important points are below. * A team will control one robot at stop speed (1.5 m/s), with the objective to quickly reach the destination without touching the obstacles. * Obstacles can either be static, or also slow moving obstacles (significantly slower than the 1.5 m/s stop speed). * Expect robot-shaped, line-shaped or triangle-shaped obstacles. * The challenge will take place on half a div-B field. * To avoid pre-calculating the shortest path, the exact scenarios will be kept secret until shortly before the challenge takes place. * There will be multiple trials per scenario, and touching an obstacle ends a trial [so touching an obstacle has to be avoided at all cost]. * A (not used) example scenario will be published in May. Thank you Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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Preliminary Results and Slot Allocation
by Carla Cosenza 18 Mar '25

18 Mar '25

Hello! We are happy to announce that we have finished going over peer reviews and have submitted the preliminary qualification results. Each team should have received an email from an OC member with their results and we will soon publish them on our website. We also are happy with the overall quality of the TDPs and ETDPs we have seen this year! Regarding which teams have been granted slots in this year's RoboCup, all teams should know their slot situation from their qualification email. Slots have been assigned regardless of qualification status, however teams that have been conditionally qualified and fail to resubmit improved materials will lose their slots on or before April 15th. As stated in previous emails, we have allocated 4 slots in Division B for random selection, in order to guarantee the participation of new teams. The four randomly selected teams were: Sysmic Robotics, TritonBots FC, TurtleRabbit and Project Neon. For teams that have qualified and have been given a slot, we will send out registration codes as soon as possible. Starting from that date, teams will have 4 weeks to send us confirmation of the team registration payment. Failure to do so will result in the team losing its slot and a team on the waitlist being called to fill that spot. If your team is aware that you will not be able to make it, please reach out to the Organizing Committee as soon as possible so that we can call another team. After that, every team that is contacted because a slot has been open will have 3 weeks to provide the confirmation of the team registration payment. We are aware that this will add complexity to the qualification process but we do have more teams wanting to join than are physically possible in the venue. We will do our best to communicate with everyone and expect your collaboration too. Thank you, Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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RoboCup 2025 Small Size League – Rule Updates
by Lucas Cavalcanti 23 Feb '25

23 Feb '25

Hello SSL! Based on feedback from RoboCup 2024, we update the Small Size League rules <https://ssl.robocup.org/rules/> the following rule changes take effect for RoboCup 2025: 🔹 Timeout Rule Update (Details <https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-rules/sslrules-diff.html#_timeouts>) - Robots touched during a timeout must exit the field and re-enter via the substitution area. 🔹 Robot Hull Color Requirement (Details <https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-rules/sslrules-diff.html#_hull_color_of_r…> ) - Teams must have interchangeable bright and dark robot hulls. - Hulls must cover at least 6 cm of the robot's height, be non-reflective, and not interfere with the colors of the vision system. 🔹 Robot Too Close to Opponent Defense Area (Details <https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-rules/sslrules-diff.html#_robot_too_close…> ) - If a team commits this foul twice while the game is stopped or during a Free Kick, the game is halted immediately. - Both fouls count toward the foul limit. — RoboCup Soccer Small Size League Committee

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Peer Reviews have been sent!
by Carla Cosenza 15 Feb '25

15 Feb '25

Hello! We have defined the peer reviews and sent out an email through the CMT tool to announce its opening! Please remember that you must submit the reviews through the tool and using the email that you received the review email from the tool. Please remember that peer reviews are due on March 4th, anywhere on Earth. Failing to submit your reviews on time will result in disqualification. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to the OCs. Best regards, Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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[RoboCup SSL] 2025 Qualification Video TritonBots FC
by Raymond Rada 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear all, Here is a link to our qualification video below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dX9MjNjK_A-GmBK_ELF-zYO38qwvRm0L/view?usp=… -TritonBots FC

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2025 Qualification Video The Bots
by The Bots SSL Robocup Team 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear all, Here is a link to our qualification video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGLN71XSoM Hope to see you all in Salvador this summer! - The Bots

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2025 Qualification Video TurtleRabbit
by Oliver Obst 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear all, You can find our 2025 Qualification video on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwcZnn1_Tug Cheers Oliver -- Oliver Obst, Associate Professor Director, Centre for Research in Mathematics and Data Science Western Sydney University http://oliver.obst.eu/

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2025 Qualification Video Sysmic Robotics
by Sysmic Robotics 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear SSL community, On behalf of Sysmic Robotics team, we would like to share our 2025 qualification video Sysmic Robotics Qualification Video for RoboCup 2025<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhjHTE2yhE4> [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dhjHTE2yhE4/maxresdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCIAKENAF8q…]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhjHTE2yhE4> Sysmic Robotics Qualification Video for RoboCup 2025<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhjHTE2yhE4> Qualification video for the upcoming 2025 RoboCop. www.youtube.com See all of you! Kind regards, Sysmic Robotics Iniciativa Estudiantil Casa Central Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María Valparaíso, Chile

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2025 Qualification Video Project Neon
by Marcus vinicius 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Video link: https://youtu.be/wK9Bb8D2YhA

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2025 Qualification Video RoboJackets
by Saihari Kota 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear all, We are pleased to share our 2025 qualification video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0OYyck_V8 Hope to see everyone in Salvador! Thank you, Saihari Kota RoboJackets

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[RoboCup - SSL] 2025 Qualification Video RobôCIn
by Elisson Rodrigo da Silva Araújo 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear Organizing Committee and SSL Community, We are happy to share with you our qualification video for RoboCup 2025. https://youtu.be/yzBRHz0PrJk Best regards, Elisson Rodrigo RobôCIn - CIn/UFPE

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2025 Qualification Video <ITAndroids>.
by Marcello Ryaj de Almeida Santos 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

📹 Video link:https://youtu.be/5kvZcztMM-8 YouTube<https://youtu.be/5kvZcztMM-8> Share your videos with friends, family, and the world youtu.be 🙏 Sorry for resending the video, but I need to make sure that everyone receives it. 👤 Marcello Ryaj – Leader of the ITAndroids SSL team

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2025 Qualification Video ITAndroids.
by Marcello Ryaj de Almeida Santos 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

https://youtu.be/5kvZcztMM-8

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2025 Qualification Video Warthog Robotics
by Rafael Guedes Lang 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear SSL community, On behalf of the Warthog Robotics team, I would like to share our 2025 Qualification Video with you: https://youtu.be/FiGBGeBGd14 We hope to see all of you in Salvador soon! Best regards, Rafael Lang On behalf of Warthog Robotics

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2025 Qualification Video <RoboTeam Twente>
by Deef van der Linde 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear SSL Community and Organizing Committee, We, RoboTeam Twente <https://roboteamtwente.nl/> from University Twente, Netherlands, would like to submit our 2025 qualification video for review. You can find the video at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/live/fy2twv9dJWs?feature=shared&t=13694 The relevant segment, from 3:48:14 to 3:50:05, showcases 1 minute of play, including passing, shooting, and ball placement. Our preference is to compete in the A Division. Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Deef van der Linde Team Manager | Electrical Engineer Phone: LinkedIn: Website: +31 (0)6 23 43 44 19 Deef van der Linde <https://www.linkedin.com/in/deef-van-der-linde-144886326/> www.roboteamtwente.nl

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2025 Qualification Video UBC Thunderbots
by UBC Thunderbots 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear RoboCup SSL Community and the Organising Committee, UBC Thunderbots is delighted to submit our qualification video for RoboCup 2025: https://youtu.be/dhpJPy4J4jo?si=1fEHsbKzI3GsnkMa. Best, *Raiaan Khan* (she/hers) *Captain* UBC Thunderbots Faculty of Applied Science The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus robocup(a)ece.ubc.ca | http://ubcthunderbots.ca/

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2025 Qualification Video RoboFEI
by Alexandre Amaral 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear SSL Community, RoboFEI is happy to share the qualification video for RoboCup 2025 with you. RoboFEI Qualification Video 2025 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Tnn4UssO0> Best Regards, RoboFEI team

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2025 Qualification Video <SRBL>
by Ali Shavakhi 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear SSL community and OC committee, On behalf of *SRBL*, I am pleased to submit our qualification video for the *RoboCup 2025* competition. We would like to participate in *Division B* this year. https://youtu.be/6IMbIh_vavw?si=IcXJwaAGQx9vh-6z Please reply if you have any problems. Sincerely, Ali Shavakhi

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2025 Qualification Video NAMeC
by NAMeC Team 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear SSL community and OC committee, Here is the qualification video for team NAMeC, wishing to participate in the next RoboCup. https://youtu.be/LDCbSbOrEdk Sincerely, Thomas Wanchai MENIER

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2025 Qualification Video SPbUnited
by SPbUnited 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Dear all, Happy to share our qualification video for RoboCup 2025: https://youtu.be/jhtpUiNdbOA Looking forward to meeting you all in Salvador! Best regards, Alexander Mescheryakov SPbUnited spbunited.robocup(a)gmail.com

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2025 Qualification Video Delft Mercurians
by Delft Mercurians 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Dear Organization Committee of RoboCup, Please find our 2025 Qualification video from the following link: Delft Mercurians 2025 Qualification video <https://youtu.be/cuN1gORuZEU>. -- Best regards, Zhengyang Lu Team manager Delft Mercurians +31618445246 zhengyang(a)delftmercurians.nl

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RoboCup 2025 Small Size League Call for Participation - Reminder
by David Brand 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Hello! The deadline for submitting your team materials to qualify for the RoboCup 2025 Small Size Competition will be in less than a day (End of the 11.02. [AoE](https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe)). To start the qualification process your team needs to submit all of the following three things: - Upload your (E)TDP to the central Conference Management Tool [here](https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RCSSL2025) - Send the reference to your qualification video as an mail to the [Small Size Mailing List](mailto:robocup-small@lists.robocup.org) and the [OC List](mailto:rc-ssl-oc@lists.robocup.org) in CC - Send an email stating your participation intent with the information about your teams as well as the preferred division and the rational behind it to the [OC List](mailto:rc-ssl-oc@lists.robocup.org) More information about these three things, as well as the whole qualification process can be found on the [SSL 2025 Qualification homepage](https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2025/robocup-2025-qualif…. If all of the needed materials have reached the correct point, you(/the contact email address of your team) should have received an email confirming it. In case you have not received such an email yet, please submit the missing pieces or reach out to either the [OC List](mailto:rc-ssl-oc@lists.robocup.org) or one of the OC members on discord to resolve any potential issue. In case that you are not yet shure, whether you can get the funding to go to the RC, please submit your qualification materials anyway. You can withdraw the intent at any step of the qualification process and until the 15th April you don’t need to have a bad feeling to “steal” the spot of anyone else. Please direct all inquiries to the Small Size League Organizing Committee: rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org Thank you!

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RoboCup 2025 Small Size League Call for Participation - Reminder
by David Brand 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Hello! The deadline for submitting your team materials to qualify for the RoboCup 2025 Small Size Competition will be in less than a day (End of the 11.02. [AoE](https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe)). To start the qualification process your team needs to submit all of the following three things: Upload your (E)TDP to the central Conference Management Tool [here](https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/RCSSL2025) Send the reference to your qualification video as an mail to the [Small Size Mailing List](mailto:robocup-small@lists.robocup.org) and the [OC List](mailto:rc-ssl-oc@lists.robocup.org) in CC Send an email stating your participation intent with the information about your teams as well as the preferred division and the rational behind it to the [OC List](mailto:rc-ssl-oc@lists.robocup.org) More information about these three things, as well as the whole qualification process can be found on the [SSL 2025 Qualification homepage](https://ssl.robocup.org/robocups/robocup-2025/robocup-2025-qualif…. If all of the needed materials have reached the correct point, you(/the contact email address of your team) should have received an email confirming it. In case you have not received such an email yet, please submit the missing pieces or reach out to either the [OC List](mailto:rc-ssl-oc@lists.robocup.org) or one of the OC members on discord to resolve any potential issue. In case that you are not yet shure, whether you can get the funding to go to the RC, please submit your qualification materials anyway. You can withdraw the intent at any step of the qualification process and until the 15th April you don’t need to have a bad feeling to “steal” the spot of anyone else. Please direct all inquiries to the Small Size League Organizing Committee: rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org Thank you!

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2025 Qualification Video Ri-one
by SSL Rione 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Dear Robocup organizing committee, Our Team name is Ri-one. We want to participate in Robocup 2025 small size league division A. We attach the qualification video link below. https://youtu.be/8na6jsjBTbQ Please reply if you have any problems. Best regards, Daiki Tomioka

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2025 Qualification Video <RoboDragons>
by Robo Dragons 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Dear SSL Community and Organizing Committee, We RoboDragons would like to share our 2025 qualification video: https://youtu.be/-LQYT11yDnA Sorry for sending multiple times. I’ve noticed that there were typos in the cc and the subject, so please let me send again just to be sure. Best regards, Hikari Nomura---the leader of RoboDragons -- Best regards, RoboDragons

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2025 Qualification Video TRAPS
by TRAPS 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

I am submitting our 2025 Qualification Video for TRAPS as part of the qualification process. Please find the video at the following link: https://youtu.be/O00-vRy9rec The video includes: * 0:00 – Title * 0:11 – Match vs. RoboDragons * 4:39 – Path planning with A* and a sampling-based approach Please let me know if any further information is required. Best regards, Kai Inagaki TRAPS traps.robocup(a)gmail.com

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2025 Qualification Video "The A-Team"
by William Stuckey 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Hello SSL Community! We're excited to share our 2025 qualification video with you! https://youtu.be/WlvZdxX1DjE We hope to see you all again in Salvador this summer. - The A-Team <https://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/37200000/-THE-A-TEAM-the-a-team-372…>

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2025 Qualification Video ZJUNlict
by Sanshiki 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Video URL:ZJUNlict Qualification Video Robocup ssl 2025<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHl6No_r_PA> [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hHl6No_r_PA/maxresdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCIAKENAF8q…]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHl6No_r_PA> ZJUNlict Qualification Video Robocup ssl 2025 - YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHl6No_r_PA> ZJUNlict qualification video for RoboCup World Championship 2025 in Salvador, Brazil. www.youtube.com

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2025 Qualification Video by First Order Robotics Team
by First Order Robotics 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Dear SSL Community and Organizing Committee, We are pleased to share our qualification video for RoboCup SSL 2025: https://youtu.be/RwXMowvYbks The original video file has also been shared with rc-ssl-oc(a)lists-robocup.org at the following link: https://imperiallondon-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/ml3722_ic_ac_uk/Eem… Best wishes, Martin Liang Team Lead First Order Robotics Team Imperial College London, UK

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2025 Qualification Video <KIKS>.
by sugi 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Dear all, Here is our qualification video for RoboCup 2025. https://youtu.be/hDCq9az2oSs Kind regards, KIKS, Toko

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by Robo Dragons 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Dear SSL Community and Organizing Committee, We RoboDragons would like to share our 2025 qualification video: https://youtu.be/-LQYT11yDnA Sorry, I sent it again because I made a mistake with the cc email address. Best regards, Hikari Nomura---the leader of RoboDragons -- Best regards, RoboDragons

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2025 Qualification Video <RoboDragons>
by Robo Dragons 10 Feb '25

10 Feb '25

Dear SSL Community and Organizing Committee, We RoboDragons would like to share our 2025 qualification video: https://youtu.be/-LQYT11yDnA Best regards, Hikari Nomura---the leader of RoboDragons -- Best regards, RoboDragons

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[RocoCup-small] 2025 Qualification Video ER-Force
by Marko Griesser-Aleksic 07 Feb '25

07 Feb '25

Dear all, I am happy to share our qualification video for RoboCup 2025 with you: https://youtu.be/x4DogsaLUbwsi=GbxLNoJP7k9ceYEV Best, Marko Griesser-Aleksic Robotics Erlangen e.V

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2025 Qualification Video TIGERs Mannheim
by Andre Ryll 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

Dear all, I am happy to share our qualification video for RoboCup 2025 with you: https://youtu.be/zqq9gaDuzc4 Best, Andre Ryll Project Leader & Founder of TIGERs Mannheim

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RoboCup 2025 Small Size League Call for Participation
by Carla Cosenza 17 Dec '24

17 Dec '24

Hello! The Small Size League committee is glad to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2025! Below you can find important information about the competition and qualification. Location and dates RoboCup Brazil 2025 Small Size League July 15-21, 2025 https://2025.robocup.org/ About RoboCup RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of autonomous 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 February 11, 2025. More information on the qualification requirements and processes are located on the website<https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2025-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 RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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Small Size League: Meet the Commitee!
by Emy Ganzeboom 12 Dec '24

12 Dec '24

Dear Small Size League teams, Reflecting on the success of RoboCup 2024 in Eindhoven, we are thrilled with how last season unfolded and are grateful for the dedication and ingenuity of all participating teams. As we prepare for RoboCup 2025 in Salvador, Brazil, we are excited to introduce the organizing, technical, and executive committee for the RoboCup Small Size League. The committee is composed of a dedicated team of individuals committed to making the next edition of RoboCup engaging and inspiring for all participants. --- Organizing Committee (OC) *Name:* David Brand *Team:* TIGERs Mannheim *Committee member since:* 2022 *About:* I joined TIGERs Mannheim in 2019 as a computer science student and have been competing in the SSL since 2021. After my first in person RoboCup, I joined the OC, and my goal since then is to help organize each tournament in such a way that every competing team is able to reach their best result while still having a great time. When I'm not helping to prepare / host the next tournament, I'm a full-time IT systems expert in the area of aerodrome surveillance based in Frankfurt(DEU). If I have time on the side, I like to go climbing or transceive more knowledge primarily in the IT/ET domain. *Name:* Carla Cosenza *Team:* RoboIME *Committee member since:* 2019 *About:* I joined RoboIME in 2016, during my first year of my undergraduate study in computer engineering. I enjoyed it so much that I worked on it during all my time at university and decided to join the OC in 2019. Since I finished my studies in 2020, I have been working for the league in my free time while I work as a full time software engineer in London. As hobbies, I would say I have too many to list here but the main ones right now are cooking, climbing, running, and photography. *Name:* Emy Ganzeboom *Team:* RoboTeam Twente *Committee member since:* 2024 *About:* In 2022 I joined the SSL as full-time Team Manager of RoboTeam Twente and even though it was hectic at times, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I still try to be active in the team as an Advisory Board member and by dropping by unexpectedly. I played an important part in the local organisation of the RoboCup 2023 in Eindhoven and loved to continue my contribution to the league by joining the OC. I am a Biomedical Engineering student focusing on BioRobotics. In my free time I enjoy playing (bass)guitar, backpacking, visiting the zoo, scuba diving, and gaining more technical skills by doing Arduino projects and home renovations. *Name:* Tobias Heineken *Team:* ER-force *Committee member since:* 2020 *About:* After joining ER-Force in late 2014 and participating with a 4 person team in a regional RoboCup in April 2015, I was fully on board to spend way too many hours on improving the tactics for the small robots we all love. In addition to the regular tasks and my computer science classes, I have always had a special interest in the other aspects in our league: How the qualification is set up, how to design a fair competition schedule that allows for, and values, on-venue improvements, and how to design the rules we play by. Since I often prefer to provide a stable environment and rely on the teams to refute a specific tactic, I had voiced comments about proposed changes even before joining the OC in 2020. Since joining the OC, I have finished my masters in 2022, and I am pursuing a PhD in software engineering right now. I’ve stopped working on our robots and spend that piece of time on preparing, organizing and running the yearly competitions - so do reach out, especially if you have questions for the qualification and review process! If I’m not busy working on my PhD or preparing the next RoboCup, I am probably exploring somewhere off the beaten path, or visiting friends - many of whom I met at the RoboCup! Technical Committee (TC) *Name:* Lucas Cavalcanti *Team:* RobôCIn *Committee member since:* 2022 *About:* I have been participating in RoboCup competitions since 2011. In 2015, while competing in the @Home league, I discovered the Small Size League (SSL). Inspired by its challenges, I co-founded RobôCIn that same year with a friend to build autonomous soccer-playing robots. In 2019, we made our SSL debut at RoboCup Australia. My passion for the league grew, and in 2022, I joined its organizing team as a Technical Committee (TC) member. After earning a BSc in Computer Engineering and an MSc in Computer Science, I began working at Microsoft while keeping RoboCup as a hobby. Outside of robotics, I enjoy running in my free time. *Name:* Emiel Steerneman *Team:* RoboTeam Twente *Committee member since:* 2024 *About:* I’m Emiel Steerneman, 31 years old, and I’ve been participating in the Small Size League since 2017. In that year, after finishing my BSc Computer Science, I joined RoboTeam Twente as a software developer and member of the board. After my RoboTeam Twente year I started my MSc Data Science. Even though I finished my masters and am now a “Burger”, I’m still active as a member of RoboTeam Twente. Last year, I was also LOC at the RoboCup Eindhoven. In my free time, I like flying FPV drones, playing the drums, programming, and lifting heavy stuff. I’m pretty proud of my contribution to the SSL, https://tdpsearch.com/, and I hope that as a TC member, I can keep on contributing even more. *Name:* Will Stuckley *Team: *A-Team *Committee member since:* July 2024 *About:* I’ve been participating in the SSL since August of 2014. I am a founding and current member of The A-Team, a community team based in the United States. Before that, I was a member of RoboJackets during my undergraduate and master studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology until 2020. I currently still work for Georgia Tech in the area of high-assurance microelectronics and EDA tooling with an emphasis on their role in the formal assessment and formal behavioral proofs of cyber-physical systems. I have taught courses on embedded systems, utility grid security, microelectronics EDA tools, and microelectronics security. In my spare time, I enjoy outdoor activities such as backpacking, rock climbing, technical diving, and skiing. Executive Committee (EC) *Name:* Masahide ItoTeam: RoboDragons *Team: *RoboDragons *Committee member since:* July 2016 About: As a member of RoboDragons, I have been participating in RoboCup since 2014. When I was a bachelor student of Aichi Prefectural University (in Aichi, Japan), RoboDragons have been already built up but there was no chance to join because I was interested in the other things. As diving into academia, I first have worked as a research assistant and then an assistant professor at Seikei University (in Tokyo, Japan) for six years. After that, I obtained an opportunity to get back to Aichi Prefectural University as an assistant professor. At the moment, Prof. Tadashi Naruse asked me join RoboDragons. That was a trap to connect into the Small Size League (SSL) of RoboCup;) Currently, I am an associate professor and manage my own laboratory with respect to controlling/estimating dynamical systems such as nonholonomic/underactuated robots, SSL (omnidirectional/holonomic) robots, and a sunlight-type plant factory. From 2016 to 2018, I have improved the description of the rules as a TC member; from 2018 to current, I have been an EC member to bridge between the league and Trustees. My recent hobby is to play volleyball---restarted for the first time in 24 years💪 *Name:* Nicolai Ommer *Team: *TIGERs Mannheim *Committee member since:* 2017 *About: *I joined the TIGERs Mannheim in 2011 as a computer science student and worked on the team's main AI software. My first RoboCup was in 2012 in Mexico City. I have been to every RoboCup since then. In 2018 I joined the technical committee and contributed several of the league's official tools in the following years, like the ssl-game-controller, ssl-status-board and ssl-remote-control. Since 2024, I’m member of the executive committee. After I finished my Master's in 2016, RoboCup has become a hobby for me, next to a full time job as a software engineer in Munich. I also like mountain-based sports like biking, snowboarding and climbing. *Name:* Leonardo da Silva Costa *Team:* RoboFEI *Committee member since:* 2020 *About:* At the very beginning of my graduation in Control and Automation Engineering at FEI I joined the RoboFEI team (2017) and fell in love with the Small Size League. Since then I have mostly worked on the team’s strategy software, although as time went by I ended up playing a major role in the electronics team by helping in the development of the new main board for our robots. In 2019 I was elected as a member of the Technical Committee and have been helping the league since then. I have a MSc on Artificial Intelligence applied to robotics and I’m currently doing a PhD in Socially Aware Robotics Navigation and working as a Robotics Engineer. --- Our mission as part of the committee is to support teams, facilitate innovation, and ensure that the Small Size League remains fair, challenging, and enjoyable for everyone involved. Throughout the year, we will be sharing updates on competition formats, rule adjustments, important deadlines, and other essential details to help you and your team prepare for RoboCup 2025. Our main means of communication is the Small Size League mailing list. The mailing list is the place to be for SSL-related announcements. We require that at least one person from every team is subscribed to this mailing list in order to receive important announcements. You can subscribe to the mailing list HERE <https://lists.robocup.org/mm/lists/robocup-small.lists.robocup.org/>. Next to the mailing list, we have a Discord Server. Most team members are part of this server. This is where you can easily ask other teams for advice or help. Additionally, important league announcements are also posted on this server. You can join the server HERE <https://discord.com/invite/t724m8c>. Please feel free to reach out to us via email or Discord if you have any questions, suggestions, or concerns regarding the Small Size League or its organization. We look forward to collaborating with each of you and seeing the creativity and teamwork that makes RoboCup such a remarkable event! Thank you for being a part of the RoboCup Small Size League, and here’s to an exciting journey to Salvador and a fantastic season ahead! Kind regards, The RoboCup Small Size League

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RoboCup German Open 2025 - Call for participation - Major Leagues
by Nicolai Ommer 04 Dec '24

04 Dec '24

RoboCup German Open 2025 Call for Participation - Major Leagues https://robocup.de/german-open NürnbergMesse, Frankenhalle, Germany The 22nd RoboCup German Open 2025 will take place from March 12-16 in Nuremberg. Nuremberg, the second largest city in Bavaria, combines medieval charm with modern vitality. The city is known for its iconic castle, half-timbered houses and old city walls and has great historical significance. The city flourishes as a cultural and innovative centre where history and modern life coexist in a wonderful way. Every regional and international Major team is cordially invited to take part in the event. ---------------------------- RoboCup Major Leagues (international teams) ———————————-------------- After the team setup on March 12th, the competitions will take place from 13 to 16 March 2025 in the following main leagues: • RoboCupSoccer Standard Platform League • RoboCupSoccer Humanoid League (KidSize and AdultSize) • RoboCupSoccer Small Size League • RoboCupRescue Robot League • RoboCupIndustrial Logistics League • RoboCupIndustrial @Work League • RoboCup@Home Open Platform League Registration opens *** December 15, 2024 *** Registration deadline *** January 31st, 2025 *** Late registration deadline (team members only) *** February 28th, 2025 *** When registration opens, visit https://register.robocup.de to register your RoboCup Major League team. Details on the registration (fee, rules, travel) are available on the website. Teams are advised to make their own accommodation arrangements as early as possible, as places are limited before March 13. ---------------------------- RoboCup Junior (German teams) —————————————————----------------------- From March 13-16, 2025 the final event of the German RoboCupJunior Championship will be held at RoboCup German Open 2025 in Nuremberg. The best teams that have qualified in the eight previous German qualifying tournaments will take part. The best German Junior teams in the 2025 German Junior Final will qualify for RoboCup 2025 in Brazil and for the European RoboCupJunior Competition 2025 in Italy. ----------------------------- Organization Committee ———————————————————————------------------------ • Oskar von Stryk (General Chair) • Stefan May (Local Chair) • Alexander Ferrein (German RoboCup Committee, Spokesperson Major) The Major Leagues Organizing Committee: • Heinrich Mellmann (Standard Platform League) • Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann (Humanoid League) • Nicolai Ommer (Small Size League) • Johannes Pellenz, Stefan May, Thomas Sander (Rescue Robot League & RMRC) • Sven Wachsmuth (@Home League) • Alexander Ferrein (Logistics League) • Christoph Steup (@Work League) ---------------------------- Co-located Events ———————————————————————————--------------------------- Parallel to the RoboCup German Open 2025 the first German Robotics Conference organized by the newly established Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) will take place. The conference will bring together the leading German researchers in AI-based robotics. Also in parallel, the Freizeit Messe will take place, which is one of Germany's largest leisure and lifestyle fairs. It attracts about 70.000 visitors each year. Many participants from both events are expected to visit RoboCup German Open 2025. ---------------------------- Important dates -------------------------------------------------------- • 2024-12-15 Major teams early registration starts • 2025-01-31 Major teams registration deadline, team member registration deadline • 2025-02-28 Late registration deadline (team members only) • 2025-03-12 Set-up day Major League teams • 2025-03-13 to 16 Competition days • 2025-03-16 Major and Junior finals The event is open to the public during all days from 9 am to 5 pm ----------------------------- Contact --------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact germanopen(a)robocup.de for any questions. See you all at the 22nd RoboCup German Open 2025! Best regards, German RoboCup Committee ---------------------------------- Acknowledgment -------------------------------------------------- The RoboCup German Open 2025 are supported by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) within the Robotics Institute Germany under grant number 16ME1001.

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RoboCup 2024 – Open Source Award Submission RobôCIn
by Matheus Vinicius Teotonio do Nascimento Andrade 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Hi, everyone! We are proud to announce ssl-core as our project submission for this year's open-source competition. We hope it will contribute to the growth of our category at RoboCup. ssl-core provides a framework for building distributed applications applied in the SSL environment that addresses the limitations of traditional monolithic software systems used in the category. The proposed approach is a microservice architecture that allows independent development and deployment in any technology, enhancing agility and reducing the risk of system-wide failures. To validate the system’s technologies, scope, and robustness, we developed the SSL VAR as an MVP of this repository aiming to use it in official competitions in the near future. SSL VAR provides real-time 3D visualization of the match (see figure below), as well as an analysis of past plays through replay at specific timestamps or events, such as fouls, penalties, or goals. To improve the separation of concerns within the system, the application's GUI was detached from the core business logic handled by adopting a microfrontend architecture as a modern approach to building user interfaces. Thus, the microfrontend services can be separately deployed and accessed as a vision client, similar to the ssl-vision-client <https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-vision-client>, but providing 3D visualization with the same functionalities as the complete proposed SSL VAR system. Docker is the only dependency to run the SSL VAR. To test in RoboCup, simply clone the repository and run: $ docker compose -f docker-compose.robocup-2024-var.yaml up –build For more information, visit our repository <https://github.com/robocin/ssl-core>, we are always looking for enthusiastic contributors! Your contribution can make a big difference. Join our team and help us make the project even better! Best regards, José Cruz, Matheus Teotonio, Uanderson Ricardo and Andresa Silva, Software Infra Team, RobôCIn-INES.

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Immortals Submission for Open Source Award
by Ali Salehi (LordHippo) 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

We are excited to submit our AI software, Tyr, for consideration in the open-source award category. Tyr has been written from scratch for this year's RoboCup, using parts of our old code with main focus on improving debug-ability and ease of development. You can access the source code and documentation on our GitHub repository: https://github.com/Immortals-Robotics/Tyr <https://github.com/Immortals-Robotics/Tyr> Best regards, Ali Salehi, On behalf of Immortals Sent with Shortwave <https://www.shortwave.com?utm_medium=email&utm_content=signature&utm_source…>

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luhbots soccer Open Source Submission: Single Coil Chipper / Kicker
by Sebastian Knackstedt 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Dear SSL Teams, The luhbots soccer team is excited to submit our entry for the Open Source Award. We present our innovative chipper, which utilizes a single coil for both chipping and kicking operations. This design offers several significant benefits: * Only one charge control circuit is required. * The simple design makes it easy for other teams to adopt. * It is an add-on to the original kicker, so no new design is needed. It can be adopted by teams currently limited to kicking. * Using a single, larger coil provides greater potential for design optimization. * Can be made entirely from 3D-printed parts. You can find the repository with all design files here: https://github.com/luhsoccer/luhsoccer_chipper_2024 Please feel free to reach out with any questions. Best regards, Sebastian Knackstedt luhbots soccer -- Sebastian Knackstedt Teamleitung luhbots soccer Mail:sebastian.knackstedt@luhbots.de Website:https://luhbots-hannover.de/

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RoboTeam Twente Open Source Submission : Search Engine V2 (ChatRTTETDP at last)
by Emiel Steerneman 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Dear RoboCuppers, Once again, innovation and inspiration flows through the RoboCup. After last year's successful Open Source competition with the Search Engine V1 <https://tdp.roboteamtwente.nl/> , we're ready to innovate once again! We would like to present the Search Engine V2 <https://tdpsearch.com/>! The project has received a complete overhaul. You can find it here https://tdpsearch.com/ . The new version supports the following additional features: - Ask ChatGPT directly through the Search Engine! - Papers from all leagues (over 600 and going up) - Improved search results with the help of *AI *(it's magic) - Filter and search TDPs on leagues - Filter and search TDPs on year - It should not randomly break down anymore! (Thanks Azure) Want to know how to *onboard computer vision*? BehRobot from the Humanoid Teen League <https://tdpsearch.com/#/tdp/soccer_humanoid_teen__2019__BehRobot__0?ref=list> already has figured this out. Is *reinforcement learning* useful? BadgerBots from the Soccer Standard Platform League <https://tdpsearch.com/#/tdp/soccer_standardplatform__2023__BadgerBots__0?re…> can tell you. For *robot-to-robot communication*, ask Dagozilla from the Midsize League <https://tdpsearch.com/#/tdp/soccer_midsize__2022__Dagozilla__0?ref=list>. And of course you can search through the latest papers from the SSL! As a fun little extra, there is an image at the end of this mail containing a word cloud of the most used search terms up to now. If you want to know why Tigers is very much in there, here is a hint: *"When in doubt, git clone Tigers" ~ Jorn, RoboTeam Twente* Best regards, Emiel Steerneman - RoboTeam Twente [image: wordcloud.jpg]

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(Ri-one) Open Source Award Submission
by NAITO Yuzuru 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Dear RoboCup SSL Teams, Hello, We are excited to submit our project "RACOON-MW" for this year's Open Source Award. Project Overview: SSL-RACOON-MW aggregates information from the Vision server and GameController and provides various useful information such as ball speed and robot speed together. For more details, please check out our GitHub repository: GitHub link: https://github.com/Rione/ssl-RACOON-MW This software will be a perfect fit for new team: not only will it calculate your robot's speed, slope, and intercept from Vision packets, but it will also identify your team and the opposing team using a game controller and a mode for simulators. These are then compiled and sent together in a single packet for your custom-made AI. This allows the team to focus on developing strategies! We have included detailed usage instructions within the repository for your review. We hope this project will be beneficial to other teams as well. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. Best regards, Team Name: Ri-one Contact: is0625hp(a)ed.ritsumei.ac.jp Contact Name: Yuzuru NAITO -------------------------------------------------- 内藤唯弦 (Yuzuru NAITO) Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus CISE Project Organization Ri-one SSL --------------------------------------------------

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Open Source Award Submission for ER-Force
by Christoph Schmidtmeier 15 Jul '24

15 Jul '24

Hello everyone, ER-Force's submission for this year's Open Source Award is our framework ( https://github.com/robotics-erlangen/framework). 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 in a full physics simulation - control robots - create game recordings and play them back - run strategies written in Lua and TypeScript - …and much more. Best regards, Christoph Schmidtmeier, ER-Force

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RoboCup 2024 - Open Source Award Submission TIGERs Mannheim
by Felix Weinmann 09 Jul '24

09 Jul '24

Dear SSL-Community, As in the past years we are very happy to announce our entry for the Open Source Award: The AudioRef! https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim/AudioRef The AudioRef aims to improve the understanding of the current game state for referees, participants and spectators in an intuitive and immediate way. To achieve this the AudioRef awaits state changes, card changes, command changes and new game events in game controller packets and uses configurable sound packs to trigger appropriate acoustic signals like whistle sounds or voice shouts. The currently available English and German sound packs have been designed with a specific focus on conciseness, using an intuitive whistle pattern and trying not to describe the obvious. You're welcome to contribute your own sound packs! The AudioRef has already been used at two local competitions and German Open 2024. You can hear it in action in this video from the German Open tournament (with the German sound pack): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgTJf4Soo_w and very likely at the upcoming RoboCup! In case you are missing any information or if you are just curious, contact us on Discord or write us an email. Tigertastic Greetings, TIGERs Mannheim

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RoboCup 2024 one week out
by Tobias Heineken 08 Jul '24

08 Jul '24

Dear Teams, Since the competition is one week from now, I want to send you another update Technical Challenges The deadline to sign up for the Technical Challenges this year is 15th of July, 20:00 o’clock CEST (Eindhoven local time). Starting now, you can sign up for these challenges under the following form: https://forms.gle/3Nb84m2BPPgqQVie8 Schedule You can find a preliminary schedule for the matches under https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wFbCYw-gfPdE7WykX31WSTPAvU3SWHysxap…. Please note that while we intend to use this schedule, we might have to do some minor adjustments. Keep an eye on the schedule! Also note that we currently plan on using Wednesday for the B/W hull challenge presentation, as well as the Open source presentations. Please plan accordingly. Open Source Award Like every year, we invite teams to participate for the open source award, to show off your open source solutions to other teams and compete for the award. As mentioned in the last email, we changed the format a bit for this year. Teams are now asked to dedicate one “project” for submission. This project will then be evaluated by your peers using the following ballot: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11tH50He8FeAoGhy67LO89EXOcwJgudwKBHUX9lE4wI…. Do take a look at the ballot so you know in advance how to best prepare your project for final evaluation. To submit your project as a candidate for the open source award, send an email to the small size mailing list (robocup-small(a)lists.robocup.org). The deadline for this is also 15th of July, 20:00 o’clock CEST (Eindhoven local time), but we kindly request teams to submit early so that your fellow reviewing teams have more time to try out your submission and see if they can use it. Referee & Impartial roles Just a quick reminder that every team participating in the RoboCup 2024 needs to designate participants who will be referees / assistants / game controller operator / vision experts for games where they do not play. These members have to take the referee quiz (https://forms.gle/8VyNqHXWBQkdF2QL8). That’s all for today, see you in Eindhoven, Tobias

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RoboCup: We need your input!
by Nicolai Ommer 05 Jul '24

05 Jul '24

Dear teams, We need your input on some important topics. Please take the time to submit the forms by July 12th, 2024. Radio Frequencies Please tell us about the radio frequencies you intend to use at the competition: https://forms.gle/6kxqfT57GC5LymiR8 Based on your responses, we will create a radio frequency assignment, as in previous years. At this point, we’d also like to remind everyone to take part in the poll from Will from the A-Team, who is working on a SSL 5 GHz Wi-Fi Specification <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZWLjyoNuG8dFr9B2DSkJpK30gnuZRwcICuXRqCo…>: https://forms.gle/cHnQdZwhnsPer4DeA Inventorisation for Education Purposes in SSL The SSL committee is interested in knowing what the main purpose of the existence of the teams are. We would like to know whether teams use their team to educate people on the field of robotics and artificial intelligence, to specify themselves within these fields or use it as a hobby project. We therefore ask each team leader to fill in this form: https://forms.gle/wPt738yFEBjwyoJ67 Scientific Publications We like to collect all scientific publications of the SSL on the website <https://ssl.robocup.org/scientific-publications/>. This is important to share knowledge within the league. Please submit your publications with this form: https://forms.gle/R3zSRzxecyPwtoPD6 Looking forward to seeing you all in Eindhoven soon! Nicolai

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RoboCup 2024: What to bring and what not to bring
by Tobias Heineken 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

Dear Teams, Since there are less than two weeks until the RoboCup, we wanted to share our list of what to bring (and what to avoid) for the RoboCup with you. This list is most useful for newer teams, but I'll start with a few important items that are relevant to all. RoboCup 2024 Special Items First, you need to bring your own networking equipment. This year, this includes a very long (and reliable) Ethernet cable (RJ45) to connect your central machine to the vision network next to the fields (>15m divA, >10m divB). While this is usually provided by the venue, it looks like we need to bring it ourselves this year. Since we want to avoid an endless switching loop, a long cable is preferable to bringing shorter cables and a switch. Also, bringing a 2nd, backup cable is probably useful, either for yourself or to help a team in need :) As usual, the venue will include ONE RJ45 Ethernet cable at your team's table. Since you probably need more than one person connected to the internet while working on your robots, we strongly suggest bringing switches / routers with enough ports for all members in your team. It is unclear if there will be Wi-Fi with internet at the venue (see also below). Second, since some of our teams and adjacent leagues use the 2.4 GHz frequency range to control the robots, please avoid using wireless (bluetooth) keyboards, mice, or headphones, as they share the same frequency. Additionally, do not set up a "wild" Wi-Fi yourself. For RoboCup, wired solutions are superior, since they do not congest the already crowded frequency spectrum. If you choose to bring a Wi-Fi capable router as part of your networking equipment, please make sure you know how to disable Wi-Fi. General Items Third, you will need some equipment to adjust the color paper on top of the robots. To establish a well-calibrated ssl-vision setup, we will require all teams to use the same color paper on top of their robots. The paper is provided to you at the venue, but only you know how much equipment (if any) you need to change your color paper to the official one. Fourth, you will need a machine for your central team software. A powerful laptop is preferable here, since you sometimes have to move your setup from one field to another (either in Division B because your next match is going to be at the other field, or to move between the practice field and your match setup). Fifth, do not forget to bring power adapters / transformers and power strips. The Netherlands uses Type F, two pin grounded socket, with 230V 50Hz electricity; please plan accordingly. That's all for now, see you in Eindhoven, Tobias Heineken P.S: In accordance with the procedure outlined in our previous email, we have now concluded which teams play in which group. However, we have renamed the groups so that the larger group of 5 (without the Dummy team) is called Group A, and the smaller group is called Group B. This simplifies writing the schedule, and has no impact on the matches your team is expected to play. We will announce a schedule for the competition shortly.

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RC 2024 one month out
by David Brand 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

Hello, Since this year’s RoboCup is now about a month away, we want to give you some information regarding the SSL competition: General Information The time frame for the competition will be as follows: Team Setup Days: Monday 15. - Wednesday 17. July Competition: Thursday 18. - Sunday 21. July Symposium: Monday 22. July (From Monday to Saturday the venue will be open from 08:00 - 22:00 and on the last competition day it will be open from 08:00 - 19:00.) We currently don’t have a timeframe yet, from when the various fields will be finished, but we would expect that you should be able to get your first time on the field on the second setup day. The technical challenges will probably take place during the first two official competition days (18 & 19.). In addition to that, we want to give you a quick heads up. The organizers of this year's tournament are currently planning to run it as paperless as possible. The result sheets for each game will continue to be in paper, but probably everything else will be digitized and sent out via E-Mail and Discord. Therefore we highly encourage you to monitor either of the information sources during the competition. We will announce all important information at the competition area as well, but due to people being out to eat, etc. we cannot ensure that everybody will hear that announcement. Therefore, if you are not yet on the SSL mailing list, it would make sense to have at least one of the team members that are in Eindhoven on the small size mailing list: https://lists.robocup.org/mm/lists/robocup-small.lists.robocup.org/ Tournament Style Since we have 9 teams in each division we will run the group stage in both divisions with two groups each. That means that we will have one group of 4 teams and the other one will have 5. The knockout stage will be played in a double elimination stage. Due to the fact that we are going to have three Div B fields this year, the Division B will start the knock-out stage with 8 teams, whereas the Div A can only start with 6 teams. The teams will be drawn into groups using the SSL grouping tool (https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-grouping). We already updated the seeding pools for this competition. Seeds are determined primarily by the results in last year’s competition (https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2023-results). If you notice any issues with this seeding, please notify us before the 24th of June. This is important since we will draw groups on that day and we have a much harder time adjusting the seeding when the resulting groups are already available. As we always do, we will use random.org for the random seeds required for the tool. We will draw the groups using the pre-generated random numbers for the 24th of June (which will become available at https://www.random.org/integers/?num=4&min=1&max=10000&col=5&base=10&format… on that date) to seed our tool: The first two numbers are for division A, the second two numbers for division B. Technical Challenges To help us plan this years technical challenge and have a first insight on how many team want to participate in each challenge, we prepared the following questionnaire: https://forms.gle/BCpdJbmHKra2A8q96 It takes less than 5 minutes of time and we would be happy if you could take the time and fill it out. The survey is not mandatory or obligatory, it is just used to get a first idea of the required timeframe. The official deadline to register for this year's technical challenges will be the 15. July at 20:00 o’clock CEST (Eindhoven local time). Referee Quiz To be allowed to fill in one of the impartial roles (assistant / main Referee, Game Controller Operator, Vision expert) during the official matches, you need to complete this year's referee quiz before the first competition day: https://forms.gle/8VyNqHXWBQkdF2QL8 Since all teams will need to take turns in filling in the impartial roles, if not at least two members of your team completed the quiz, your team could be excluded from the competition. Open Source Award Since every year most teams use a considerate amount of time to evaluate the submissions of the other teams, we decided to change the voting process this year. Since it was quite difficult in the recent years to come up with one numerical score for each category for each team, especially if the team had multiple projects, each team participating in the Open Source Award will need to pick one project for their submission. As a guidance for the rating, from this year on you can choose from different prepared sentences per category and pick the one that most closely represents the submission in that category. For example in the category Quality of Submission the options you can pick from, would be as follows: - We want to use the submission as an important part in our regular gameplay (3 Pts) - We want to use the submission as part of our testing routine or other regular SSL activity (2 Pts) - We want to use parts of the submission in our gameplay (2 Pts) - We want to study the submission or parts of it to learn about the solution and to improve our solution / approach (1 Pts) - We see no use of the submission (0 Pts) These statements are meant as guidance, i.e., you will be able to add or subtract points if you explain why you did so. For example, if we think of Documentation, you could add for RoboTeam Twente’s TDP Search Engine the following additional statement: “Documentation is less important if the team offers the service in an easy-to-use form on their website (+1Pts)”. Since we also want to help each team participating in the Open Source Award to improve their submission in the future, from this year on we will send out an anonymous summary for each team after the competition, that shows how your submission got rated in comparison to the other teams. In addition to the rating the section for each team's submission will also include a small text field, so that you can highlight the most important feature from the submission or give feedback on what the team could best improve. The feedback from this field will also be anonymized by the committee and then passed on to the team, so that they can use the feedback to improve their future Open Source contributions. The official submission deadline for this year's Open Source Award will be the 15. July at 20:00 o’clock CEST (Eindhoven local time). If you have any open questions, feel free to reach out to the OC/TC, See you in Eindhoven! David, in behalf of the SSL committee

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RC 2024 one month out
by David Brand 20 Jun '24

20 Jun '24

Hello, Since this year’s RoboCup is now about a month away, we want to give you some information regarding the SSL competition: General Information The time frame for the competition will be as follows: Team Setup Days: Monday 15. - Wednesday 17. July Competition: Thursday 18. - Sunday 21. July Symposium: Monday 22. July (From Monday to Saturday the venue will be open from 08:00 - 22:00 and on the last competition day it will be open from 08:00 - 19:00.) We currently don’t have a timeframe yet, from when the various fields will be finished, but we would expect that you should be able to get your first time on the field on the second setup day. The technical challenges will probably take place during the first two official competition days (18 & 19.). In addition to that, we want to give you a quick heads up. The organizers of this year's tournament are currently planning to run it as paperless as possible. The result sheets for each game will continue to be in paper, but probably everything else will be digitized and sent out via E-Mail and Discord. Therefore we highly encourage you to monitor either of the information sources during the competition. We will announce all important information at the competition area as well, but due to people being out to eat, etc. we cannot ensure that everybody will hear that announcement. Therefore, if you are not yet on the SSL mailing list, it would make sense to have at least one of the team members that are in Eindhoven on the small size mailing list: https://lists.robocup.org/mm/lists/robocup-small.lists.robocup.org/ Tournament Style Since we have 9 teams in each division we will run the group stage in both divisions with two groups each. That means that we will have one group of 4 teams and the other one will have 5. The knockout stage will be played in a double elimination stage. Due to the fact that we are going to have three Div B fields this year, the Division B will start the knock-out stage with 8 teams, whereas the Div A can only start with 6 teams. The teams will be drawn into groups using the SSL grouping tool (https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-grouping). We already updated the seeding pools for this competition. Seeds are determined primarily by the results in last year’s competition (https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2023-results). If you notice any issues with this seeding, please notify us before the 24th of June. This is important since we will draw groups on that day and we have a much harder time adjusting the seeding when the resulting groups are already available. As we always do, we will use random.org for the random seeds required for the tool. We will draw the groups using the pre-generated random numbers for the 24th of June (which will become available at https://www.random.org/integers/?num=4&min=1&max=10000&col=5&base=10&format… on that date) to seed our tool: The first two numbers are for division A, the second two numbers for division B. Technical Challenges To help us plan this years technical challenge and have a first insight on how many team want to participate in each challenge, we prepared the following questionnaire: https://forms.gle/BCpdJbmHKra2A8q96 It takes less than 5 minutes of time and we would be happy if you could take the time and fill it out. The survey is not mandatory or obligatory, it is just used to get a first idea of the required timeframe. The official deadline to register for this year's technical challenges will be the 15. July at 20:00 o’clock CEST (Eindhoven local time). Referee Quiz To be allowed to fill in one of the impartial roles (assistant / main Referee, Game Controller Operator, Vision expert) during the official matches, you need to complete this year's referee quiz before the first competition day: https://forms.gle/8VyNqHXWBQkdF2QL8 Since all teams will need to take turns in filling in the impartial roles, if not at least two members of your team completed the quiz, your team could be excluded from the competition. Open Source Award Since every year most teams use a considerate amount of time to evaluate the submissions of the other teams, we decided to change the voting process this year. Since it was quite difficult in the recent years to come up with one numerical score for each category for each team, especially if the team had multiple projects, each team participating in the Open Source Award will need to pick one project for their submission. As a guidance for the rating, from this year on you can choose from different prepared sentences per category and pick the one that most closely represents the submission in that category. For example in the category Quality of Submission the options you can pick from, would be as follows: - We want to use the submission as an important part in our regular gameplay (3 Pts) - We want to use the submission as part of our testing routine or other regular SSL activity (2 Pts) - We want to use parts of the submission in our gameplay (2 Pts) - We want to study the submission or parts of it to learn about the solution and to improve our solution / approach (1 Pts) - We see no use of the submission (0 Pts) These statements are meant as guidance, i.e., you will be able to add or subtract points if you explain why you did so. For example, if we think of Documentation, you could add for RoboTeam Twente’s TDP Search Engine the following additional statement: “Documentation is less important if the team offers the service in an easy-to-use form on their website (+1Pts)”. Since we also want to help each team participating in the Open Source Award to improve their submission in the future, from this year on we will send out an anonymous summary for each team after the competition, that shows how your submission got rated in comparison to the other teams. In addition to the rating the section for each team's submission will also include a small text field, so that you can highlight the most important feature from the submission or give feedback on what the team could best improve. The feedback from this field will also be anonymized by the committee and then passed on to the team, so that they can use the feedback to improve their future Open Source contributions. The official submission deadline for this year's Open Source Award will be the 15. July at 20:00 o’clock CEST (Eindhoven local time). If you have any open questions, feel free to reach out to the OC/TC, See you in Eindhoven! David, in behalf of the SSL committee

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Qualification results are out!
by Carla Cosenza 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Hello SSL! We are happy to announce that we have finished going over peer reviews and have submitted the qualification results. Each team should have received an email from an OC member with their results and we will soon publish them on our website. We also are very happy with the overall quality of the TDPs and ETDPs we have seen this year! Regarding which teams have been granted slots in this year's RoboCup, we are very happy to say that all qualified teams have been granted slots to the division they have requested. However this was only possible with the addition of an extra Div B field and altering the Division A tournament style. This is the first year that we have managed to get an extra field so please do be aware that we do expect to be going back to 2 Div B fields instead of 3 next year, and therefore we expect the number of teams at the competition to go back down to 20 in 2025. We also ask teams to email the OCs with an estimate of the team size that will be going to RoboCup 2024. We need an estimate to understand how to organize the space we will be occupying. Thank you! Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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Rules for the RC 2024 Technical Challenges published
by David Brand 10 Mar '24

10 Mar '24

Dear League,After teasing this year's technical challenges in the last email, I wanted to let you all know that we've finally gotten around to finalizing and publishing the rules:https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2024-technical-challenges/We would like to encourage you all to participate in this year's challenges, as the 'Black and White Hulls Challenge' in particular may lead to changes in the coming years. In contrast, the 'Team vs. Team Passing Challenge' exists to incentivize teams to work on their ball conquering and pass interception skills in a more isolated environment. As these tasks are also common in regular SSL-matches, we assume investing time in this to be worthwhile.In addition, we would like to thank you all for your peer reviews. We are already in the process of reviewing all (E)TDPs, reviews and videos and will send out the preliminary qualification results before March 19.Please direct all inquiries about the qualification process to the Small Size Organizing Committee (rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org) and all inquiries about the technical challenges to the Small Size Technical Committee (rc-ssl-tc(a)lists.robocup.org).Thank you!David Brand.RoboCup Small Size League | Technical Committee

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Peer review is now available!
by Carla Cosenza 18 Feb '24

18 Feb '24

Hello! Peer reviews are now open for submission in the conference tool! One member from each team should have received an email entitled "Peer review is now open". The submission of the reviews must be done through that account in the conference tool. Each team has been assigned 3 papers to review. We would like to remind everyone that the deadline for peer reviews is March 5th, 2023, anywhere on Earth and that the failure to submit this will result in disqualification from the competition. We would also like to point out that peer review is a very important part of the qualification process, so please do invest time on it and write thorough assessment. The review has one question that only the OCs / TCs will have access to, so please feel free to use that field to voice any concerns you do not want to share with teams. For any questions, please email the OCs. Best regards, Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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2024 Qualification Video GreenTea
by 伊藤亮人 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear RoboCup SSL community You can find our 2024 qualification video here: https://youtu.be/myittxXdK0s?t=16517 (from 4:35:17 to 4:40:17) Best regards, Akito Ito GreenTea

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Qualification video Delft Mercurians
by Delft Mercurians 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear RoboCup SSL committee, Please find the link to our qualification video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhXd-Dm8wCw. Best regards, Zhengyang Lu Delft Mercurians

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2024 Qualification Video The Bots
by The Bots SSL Robocup Team 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear all, Here is a link to our qualification video showing our progress so far, https://youtu.be/lDGtu6x-jWE Hope to see you all at RoboCup Thank you, Akhil Veeraghanta The Bots

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2024 Qualification Video TurtleRabbit
by Oliver Obst 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear all TurtleRabbit is a new RoboCup SSL team from Western Sydney University, Australia. Here’s the link to our qualification video: https://youtu.be/Tbd5xCntCkw Cheers Oliver PS a link to a preprint of our TDP is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08205 -- Oliver Obst, Associate Professor Centre for Research in Mathematics and Data Science Western Sydney University http://oliver.obst.eu/

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Subject: 2024 Qualification Video NAMeC - SSL
by Etienne Schmitz 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear all, Here is the link for the qualification video of NAMeC - SSL : https://youtu.be/XkwMPvlPEyE Best regards, Etienne SCHMITZ NAMeC - SSL

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2024 Qualification Video Thunderbots
by UBC Thunderbots 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear SSL community, Thunderbots is happy to share our qualification video for 2024: https://youtu.be/LrrbH80SuGM Best, Yichen --- *UBC Thunderbots* Faculty of Applied Science The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus robocup(a)ece.ubc.ca | http://ubcthunderbots.ca/

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2024 Qualification Video ICRS FC
by ben.smith21＠imperial.ac.uk 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

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2024 Qualification Video RoboFEI
by Leonardo da Silva Costa 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear all, I am happy to share our qualification video for RoboCup 2024 with you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PymRKdfjjZg -- Best Regards, Leonardo da Silva Costa Dpto. Software | RoboFEI - Centro Universitário FEI Email: leosilvacosta6(a)gmail.com | unieleocosta(a)fei.edu.br <https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardosilvacosta1/> <https://gitlab.com/leo_costa> <https://www.facebook.com/RoboFEI/> <http://fei.edu.br/robofei>

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2024 Qualification Video RobôCIn
by Riei Joaquim Matos Rodrigues 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

Dear RoboCup SSL community and Organizing Committee: The RobôCIn uploaded our RoboCup SSL 2024 qualification video on our YouTube channel, available on the link below: https://youtu.be/K2E3eDfJVfA?si=xb-kcSt9UuIn5Ejm -- Best Regards. RobôCIn, Riei Rodrigues

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2024 Qualification Video ITAndroids
by yves.sousa.8821＠ga.ita.br 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

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2024 Qualification Video Immortals
by Ali Salehi 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Hello everyone, Here is our qualification video for RoboCup 2024: Immortals Robotics Qualification Video for RoboCup2024 - Small Size League (youtube.com) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CuCuZjUBU> Kind regards, Ali -- Ali Salehi www.lordhippo.com

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Registration Open: Call for Participation RoboCup German Open 2024
by Nicolai Ommer 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Dear SSL community, This is a reminder that the registration for the German Open is now open. You can find detailed information here: https://major.robocup.de/infos/?lang=en Find attached the CfP from the robocup-worldwide mailing list. RoboCup German Open 2024 - Major Leagues Call for Participation https://robocup.de/german-open April 17th – 20th, 2024 Messe Kassel, Germany The RoboCup German Open 2024 will be the 21st open RoboCup competition held in Germany. The event will take place in Kassel at Messe Kassel. Every regional and international Major team is cordially invited to take part in the event. --------------------- RoboCup Major Leagues (international teams) ------------------------- Competitions are from April 17 - 20 in the following Major leagues: RoboCup Soccer Standard Platform League RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League RoboCup Soccer Small Size League RoboCup Rescue Robot League RoboCup Logistics League RoboCup @Home League RoboCup @Work League The registration opens *** February 12th, 2024 ***. The registration deadline is *** February 29th, 2024 ***. Visit https://register.robocup.de to register your RoboCup Major League team. Details on the registration (fee, accommodation, rules) are available on the website. Booking of blocked accommodation with special rates is possible after your registration. The Major Leagues Organizing Committee: Patrick Göttsch (Standard Platform League) Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann (Humanoid League) Nicolai Ommer (Small Size League) Johannes Pellenz, Stefan May (Rescue Robot League) Sven Wachsmuth (@Home League) Alexander Ferrein (Logistics League) Christoph Steup (RoboCup @Work League) -------------------------- RoboCup Junior (regional teams) ------------------------------- From April 18-21 the final event of the German RoboCupJunior Championship will be held at RoboCup German Open 2024 in Kassel. The best teams that have qualified in the eight previous local tournaments will take part. The best German Junior teams will qualify for RoboCup 2024 in Eindhoven and for the European RoboCupJunior Competition 2024 in Hannover. -------------------------------- Important dates —————------------------------------------ 2024-02-12 Major teams registration starts 2024-02-29 Major teams registration deadline 2024-03-11 Invoices are sent to team leaders 2024-03-17 Registration deadline for team member updates 2024-03-31 Registration fee due 2024-04-17 Set-up day Major League teams (venue opens 9:00) 2024-04-18 Competition day (open to the public) 2024-04-19 Competition day (open to the public) 2024-04-20 Competition day, Major finals (open to the public) 2024-04-21 Competition day, Junior finals (open to the public) ----------------------------------- Contact --------------------------------------------- Please contact germanopen(a)robocup.de for any questions. See you all at the 21st RoboCup German Open 2024! Best regards, German RoboCup Committee ---------------------------------- Acknowledgement ———————————————————— The RoboCup German Open 2024 is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) under grant number 16ME0933.

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2024 Qualification Video Warthog Robotics
by eduarda.neumann＠wr.sc.usp.br 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

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2024 Qualification Video RoboTeam Twente
by j.dejong＠roboteamtwente.nl 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

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2024 Qualification Video <Compilation Error >
by 1412 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Dear all, The Compilation Error Team would like to share our 2024 qualification video: https://youtu.be/K9FxQvDg-1I sincere regards, Yuxuan Wu

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2024 Qualification Video RoboDragons
by is211002＠cis.aichi-pu.ac.jp 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Dear SSL Community and Organizing Committee, We would like to share our 2024 qualification video: https://youtu.be/lYg6IB51E_U?si=4BBsgcVFB-QueWiS Best regards, Shinjitsu Agatsuma Robodragons

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2024 Participation Intent SRC
by tyheeeer＠gmail.com 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

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2024 Qualification Video SRC
by tyheeeer＠gmail.com 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

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RoboJackets Qualification Video 2024
by Das, Mili 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Greetings All, I'm excited to share our qualification video for this year! Please access it at the following link: https://youtu.be/befqs1X2Gz4. Hope to see you all there, Mili Das RoboJackets

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2024 Qualification Video "The A-Team"
by William Stuckey 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Hello SSL Community! We're excited to share our 2024 qualification video with everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Yla9chS2w We hope to see you all in Eindhoven. - The A-Team <https://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/37200000/-THE-A-TEAM-the-a-team-372…>

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2024 Qualification Video Sysmic Robotics
by Sysmic Robotics 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

Dear SSL league members and Organizing Committee, Our qualification video for RoboCup 2024 is here: https://youtu.be/fNkAdLXV3LM Best regards, Nelson Cortes Sysmic Robotics

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2024 Qualification Video KIKS
by sugi 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

Hi All, Here is our qualification video for RoboCup 2024. Please find it. https://youtu.be/NVK32UGUnVA Best regards, KIKS Toko

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2024 Participation intent <ZJUNlict>
by PF Y 10 Feb '24

10 Feb '24

Dear Robocup Organizing Committee: We hope this email finds you well. On behalf of ZJUNlict, the robotics team from Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, we would like to express our strong intention to participate in Robocup 2024. This year we choose Division A as our preferred division. ZJUNlict has a longstanding history of competing in the Robocup Small Size League since 2004. After years of continuous dedication and the collective efforts of multiple team generations, we have proudly achieved the second-best result in the Small Size League Hall of Fame. But we don’t want to stop there. After the epidemic, we returned to the Robocup offline competition in 2023, with a new hardware system and significant advancements in software algorithms. Our relentless dedication to innovative research and development for the Robocup competition has been unwavering. We are eagerly looking forward to entering Division A and engaging in spirited competition and collaboration with higher-level robot teams. Participating in this division will provide us with a unique opportunity to exchange knowledge, learn from the best in the field, and contribute to the popularization and development of robot research. I am Pengfei Yu, and I’m the main point of contact for the team. If you have any questions about qualifying for our team, please don’t hesitate to contact me through ggahhhhyu(a)gmail.com. Below is a list of important information for our team qualification for the committee’s reference. Team Name: ZJUNlict. Country : China. University : Zhejiang University. Main contact name and email : Pengfei Yu, ggahhhhyu(a)gmail.com. Preferred Division : A. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Regards, Pengfei Yu

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2024 Qualification Video <ZJUNlict>
by PF Y 10 Feb '24

10 Feb '24

Dear Robocup Organizing Committee: ZJUNlict’s 2024 qualification video : https://youtu.be/qERdbMljkwQ This Youtube link leads to ZJUNlict’s 2024 qualification video, If you have any question about it, please don’t hesitate to contact us through ggahhhhyu(a)gmail.com. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Regards, Pengfei Yu

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2024 Qualification Video luhbots soccer
by Sebastian Knackstedt 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Dear all, the luhbots soccer Team would like to share their 2024 qualification video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDPu4hBAkyk Best regards Sebastian Knackstedt luhbots soccer

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2024 Qualification Video ER-Force
by Christoph Schmidtmeier 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Dear SSL league members, you can find our qualification video for RoboCup 2024 here: https://youtu.be/nBh2ecVEYWQ Best regards Christoph Schmidtmeier ER-Force

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2024 Qualification Video TIGERs Mannheim
by Andre Ryll 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Dear all, I am happy to share our qualification video for RoboCup 2024 with you: https://youtu.be/EfBPhTkcia8 Best, Andre Ryll Project Leader & Founder of TIGERs Mannheim

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RoboCup Early Visa Invitation Letters
by 2024＠robocup.org 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Dear RoboCuppers, We are very much looking forward to inviting all of you to Eindhoven, The Netherlands for RoboCup 2024! To allow more teams to join RoboCup 2024, we offer early visa invitation letters. Participants that require a visa to join RoboCup in The Netherlands may apply for an early visa invitation letter. This letter allows for making an earlier appointment at an embassy to request a visa, rather than only after completing registration. There are some constraints on who can receive a visa invitation letter. You can find the details, as well as the request form, on the RoboCup 2024 website: https://2024.robocup.org/?page_id=2998 We hope to see you at RoboCup 2024! Best regards, RoboCup 2024 Organisation 2024(a)robocup.org <mailto:2024@robocup.org>

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Changes for the Small Size League in 2024
by Tobias Heineken 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Happy New Year! As we start the preparations for RoboCup 2024, we would like to inform the league of the main upcoming changes for this year's competition, based on the discussions from the last Open OC/TC meeting at the end of RoboCup Bordeaux. We also want to give the league a quick heads-up that the Team Qualification Material Submission deadline for this year's RoboCup is February 13th. The CMT for submitting the (E)TDPs is now open and more information can be found at the qualification website <https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2024-qualification/>. The (Updated) Qualification process Starting with RoboCup 2024, the SSL will limit the number of teams participating in the competition. With the expected field setup, this limit is 12 teams in Division B and 8 in Division A. If more space becomes available, more slots in Division B will open up. To determine the selected teams, the TC/OC will rank all based on their qualification video, initial TDP submissionand feedback given during the review process. The TDP will generally be given preference over the qualification video & review feedback. For Division A, the 8 slots available will be decided using the ranking system cited above. If not all slots of Div A are filled, the TC/OC will invite teams from Division B until all slots are used. For Division B, there will be 8 slots that will be filled using the ranking system and 4 slots that will be filled randomly. This will ensure that new teams will have a chance of participating in the competition. All teams that did not get a slot in Division A are considered for Division B. Qualified teams that are not invited according to this method end up on the waiting list, which again is sorted based on the ranking described above. The TC/OC will inform a team “You’re on the waiting list, your position is #2”. If a slot opens up, we will contact the teams in that order to find a team that is still interested in coming to the RoboCup. This is additional to the “qualified / conditionally qualified” system we are currently using. The requirements for (E)TDPs and Qualification Video will also not change. Remember that teams regularly drop out (“withdrawn”) or don’t get qualified (“not qualified”), so there is a realistic chance a team on the waiting list can get invited. If you are directly qualified and not on the waiting list, please notify TC/OC immediatelyif you wish to withdraw so we can start communicating with teams on the waiting list. Number of robots for Division A In Bordeaux, the number of robots for division A was 11 and only two teams managed to actually play with 11 robots. With that in mind, and also wanting to provide more opportunities for teams in Division B to join Division A, we are making modifications to the allowed number of robots in Div A. During thegroup phase, games will be played with 8 robots on each side unless both teams agree to play with 11. And during the knockout phase, all games will be played with 11 robots per team.We still want to incentivize teams to play with 11 robots, but we do understand that this can be hard, especially for teams coming from Division B. Rule changes One major upcoming rule change is regarding the robot substitution process. Currently, a robot substitution is almost free, and a team can use almost unlimited time to do such a substitution. In RoboCup Japan (2017) we started the automatic robot substitutions <https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-rules/sslrules.html#_robot_substitution>, but in its current implementation, flagging a robot substitution has no consequences.This can lead to diverting the focus of the development from obtaining stable hardware, and can cause excessive downtime during gameplay. The rule change imposes some consequence to performing a robot substitution. We have not concluded our discussions, but are considering the following options (or a combination of these): * A time limit on the robot substitution (either similar to the timeouts, or individually for each substitution event) * Limiting the number of substitutions * Consequences after a certain amount of substitutions o Examples include losing a timeout, getting a yellow card, a free kick, etc. Please stay attentive to our emails for any more announcements of rule changes. Technical challenges We have planned some exciting technical challenges for this year! The details are not ready yet, but we would like to give an overview so teams can start preparing for them. Black & White Hulls We have received a lot of feedback that for the audience, it is hard to distinguish between teams since most teams use black hulls. Therefore, we are proposing a challenge in which teams will have to show how they will quickly change their hulls’ colors between black and white. Team vs. Team Passing Challenge We want to extend last year’s passing challenge to involve other teams! This year, the passing challenge will involve two teams, each one trying to pass the ball to themselves. We are excited to see some ball stealing action and what strategies teams come up for this! 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!

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RoboCup 2024 Small Size League Call for Participation
by Carla Cosenza 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Hello! The Small Size League committee is glad to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2024! Below you can find important information about the competition and qualification. Location and dates RoboCup Eindhoven 2024 Small Size League July 17-21, 2024 https://2024.robocup.org/ 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 February 13, 2024. More information on the qualification requirements and processes are located on the website. Please direct all inquiries to the Small Size League Organizing Committee: rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org Thank you! Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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Call for Interest: RoboCup German Open 2024 - Small Size League
by Nicolai Ommer 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Call for Interest: RoboCup German Open 2024 - Small Size League Location: Kassel, Germany Date: April 17 - 21, 2024 Website: https://robocup.de/german-open/ The German Open of the RoboCup - open to national and international teams - is scheduled to take place again in 2024. The event takes place from the 17th to the 21st of April 2024 at the Kassel trade fair. We want to attract national attention with strong media performance. 700-800 participants are expected. The event attracts many visitors every year, including students interested in technology, robotics and AI. If you are interested in participating in the Small Size League, you will greatly help us planning this event by submitting the following poll or by sending me a short message as soon as possible. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdG9kF5-ETsCbZ0hHP1LksOaf72MvGAXB6… Submission-Deadline: November 24th 2023 Best, Nicolai Ommer Regional Committee Chair of the Small Size League

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PhD scholarships @ Western Sydney Uni, Australia
by Oliver Obst 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Dear all, We have a new round of PhD scholarships at Western Sydney, open for domestic and international candidates who can start next January. If you are interested to work with me in robotics, in particular around one of these areas: - robotic teams and learning of strategies, reinforcement learning, or real-time decision making - learning-based locomotion and whole body control for walking (biped or quadruped) robots - assistive robotics or have prior RoboCup experience please consider applying. Please check the criteria and apply on this page here: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/scholarships/main_round_schola… If you do apply, make sure to contact me in advance. Cheers Oliver -- Oliver Obst, Associate Professor Centre for Research in Mathematics and Data Science Western Sydney University http://oliver.obst.eu/

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RoboCup Brazil Open 2023
by Patricia Vergara 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Good morning! Registrations are now open for RoboCup Brazil Open 2023! The event will occur from October 7th to 12th at the* Salvador Convention Center in Salvador, Bahia*. Registrations can be made through the website: http://olimpo.robocup.org.br/. RoboCup Brazil Open is a large event that also includes the Brazilian Robotics Competition, the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, and the Brazilian Robotics Exhibition. In addition, the following meetings will be held during the event: XV Brazilian Robotics Symposium XIV Workshop on Educational Robotics Thesis and Dissertation Workshop in Robotics Thesis and Dissertation Contest in Robotics IEEE Latin American Robotics Symposium All rules and challenges for each category are available on our website, as well as the updated registration fees and deadlines for TDP submission. >> Some categories will be in a hybrid format, allowing teams to participate remotely when necessary. >> All information is available on our website: www.cbrobotica.org and www.robotica.org.br ________________________________ Best regards, Robocup Brazil Team -- Patrícia Vergara Comunicação RoboCup Brasil (11) 9.8686-4993 (apenas whatsapp) www.robocup.org.br

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RoboCup 2023 Results
by Selina Zwerver 19 Jul '23

19 Jul '23

Hi everyone, We want to thank you all for participating in this year’s 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 years, but all of you made it to Bordeaux and were able to play some matches! Below are the results. Please let us know if we have made a mistake somewhere! Division A - Tournament Rank Team 1 TIGERs Mannheim 2 ZJUNlict 3 Immortals 4 KIKS 5 ER-Force 5 RoboDragons 7 RoboTeam Twente Division B - Tournament Rank Team 1 RobôCIn 2 luhbots Soccer 3 Ri-one 4 UBC Thunderbots 5 ITAndroids 5 RoboJackets 5 RoboFEI 5 RoboIME 9 The-A-Team 9 NAMeC 9 OrcaBOT 9 Sysmic Robotics Awards Excellence award TIGERs Mannheim Best (E)TDP TIGERs Mannheim Open source award RoboTeam Twente Chip Pass Technical Challenge First Place TIGERs Mannheim Ball Placement Technical Challenge First Place RobôCIn League photo We would like to remind everyone that the league photo can be found here <https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1-VW7KR5tBn-sR5t2CdVwUTIj3VUmU4rw> ! RoboCup 2024 For those of you who did not receive the news during the RoboCup, RoboCup 2024 will take place from July 17-21 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. We will update you as soon as we have more information about, for example, the set-up dates. We hope to see you all there! Kind regards, Selina Zwerver RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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RoboCup 2023 – Open Source Award Submission RobôCIn
by José Victor Silva Cruz 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

Hi, everyone! We are proud to announce a series of repositories that we plan to submit at this year's open-source. Hopefully they will help grow our category here at RoboCup. RobôCIn's Plans for Future Software Development *rSoccer*: https://github.com/robocin/rSoccer - Is an open-source framework to study Reinforcement Learning for SSL; - Related Documents: - Exploring Reinforcement Learning in Path Planning for Omnidirectional Robot Soccer - https://www.cin.ufpe.br/~tg/2022-2/tg_EC/TG_jvsc.pdf - DyLam: A dynamic reward weighting method for reinforcement learning policy gradient algorithms: - https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/46630 - Evaluation of time limits in reinforcement learning applied to robot soccer simulation - https://www.cin.ufpe.br/~tg/2020-2/TG_EC/tg_jnds.pdf *project-unification*: https://github.com/robocin/project-unification This project aims to demonstrate the use of the soccer-common framework ( https://github.com/robocin/soccer-common), developed by RobôCIn and used in the RoboCup SSL and IEEE VSS categories. Also, the repository serves as a starting point to the team’s new developers and teams that want to start strategies on SSL. Usage examples: - MatheusPaixaoG: https://github.com/MatheusPaixaoG/project-unification - matheuslafayette: https://github.com/matheuslafayette/projeto-seletivo-robocin - agaf2: https://github.com/agaf2/project-unification - acrucha: https://github.com/acrucha/project-unification - caiomvfc: https://github.com/caiovmfc/Seletiva-RoboCin-VSS-cvmfc *robocin-cpp:* https://github.com/robocin/robocin-cpp - It is a library heavily inspired by abseil owned by Google, and seeks to extract what worked well from soccer-common, implementing software engineering best practices and modern C++ with a README-by-folder based documentation. It provides the core library for our next team's robotics applications. - Floating-point comparison; - Angular/geometric operations; - In the long term it will be like libsrc in 2D for our team. *protocols:* https://github.com/robocin/protocols The protobufs used by the competition are widely dispersed in the repositories that require them, making it necessary to copy and paste the files that are currently being used in the category. Thus, the protocols used are highly duplicated in the RoboCup SSL softwares, but also in the team’s strategy softwares. In this context, we propose a single repository containing the protocols used by as well as installation guidelines for various programming languages, such as Java, C++, Python, etc. *robocin-ines:* https://github.com/joseviccruz/robocin-ines, https://github.com/uandersonricardo/robocin-ines-server, https://github.com/uandersonricardo/robocin-ines-webui robocin-ines provides a base framework for architecting robotic applications. This set of repositories comes as an optimization of our current software (ssl-unification), providing a microservices-based framework which: 1. Enables the use of different programming languages; 2. Uses the ZeroMQ framework to communicate services with latency below 1ms; 3. Defines a visualization on the Web, providing better development simplicity; However, this final structure is not yet finalized and, as a way to validate the technologies, scope, and robustness of the system, the SSL VAR was developed as an MVP of this repository. SSL VAR is a match recording system, which allows the viewing of the match in real time, as well as the analysis of past plays through replay at a given timestamp or according to a given event in the match, such as a foul, penalty, or goal. In this way, it allows the human referee to analyze a past play and check whether his decision and also the decisions of the automatic referees were correct or not. The ultimate goal of this repository is to provide a base structure for organizing new SSL teams using microservices, and to extend the life and maintenance of our current software. Best regards, RobôCIn.

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RoboCup 2023 - Open Source Award Submission RoboFEI
by João Victor Aguiar 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

Dear SSL community, RoboFEI would like to submit our hardware and software works for the open-source award. We are happy to say that we have released all the mechanics, electronics, AI, and firmware for this year. Regarding mechanics, the new robot's generation is fully released on our GitLab (https://gitlab.com/robofei/ssl/ssl-mechanics). The project aims for modularization that will help robot maintenance and assembly. In electronics, both the main and kick boards have been changed aiming for modularization, besides the fact that the team replaced the FPGA with an STM microcontroller to modernize our robot, and you can see everything here in the link (https://gitlab.com/robofei/ssl/Electronics_v2). Besides that, our new firmware is released on our GitLab too ( https://gitlab.com/robofei/ssl/Electronics_v2). About the software, our ongoing research of multi-robot path-planning is fully released on our GitLab (https://gitlab.com/leo_costa/RobotNavigation). Best regards, João Victor RoboFEI

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RoboCup 2023 - Open Source Award Submission ER-Force
by Mike Schmidt 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Dear Small Size League. ER-Force would like to submit their current hardware and software framework as well as its autoref for the open source award. [1, 2, 3] A short summary: The hardware project reflects the current state of the ER-Force robots, i.e. the new robot generation used by our team during this RoboCup. The hardware is designed in EAGLE (electronics) and Inventor (mechanics). The electronics section contains prebuilt manufacturer files (Gerber) as well as schematics as PDF, the mechanics part is depicted in assembly drawings. The software framework reflects the open-source simulator as well as some low level algorithms such as our path planning. The software framework is written in C++ and Qt. Finally, our open-source projects include our well-known autoref, which is used by the league for many years. Best regards, Mike ER-Force [1] https://github.com/robotics-erlangen/hardware [2] https://github.com/robotics-erlangen/framework [3] https://github.com/robotics-erlangen/autoref

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RoboCup 2023 – Open Source Award Submission TIGERs Mannheim
by Andre R. 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Dear SSL-Community, as in the past years we are very happy to announce our entry for the Open Source Award. The usual one-stop shop to get it all was updated: https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim We are doing a complete and full release of everything we have, including electronics, mechanics, firmware, our full AI, and some awesome new tools. Here is a brief description of what has changed. Mechanics: The dribbler dampening and dribbling bar have changed again to improve traction on the ball. These are mostly material changes. The axes of the sub-wheels changed to be more robust. The release includes the full robot mechanics. Inventor CAD files, but also a STEP file of the full robot. Firmware: Dribbler current control has been improved near zero velocity. Interface to the robot's raspberry pi has been improved with new messages and feedback of detected balls. 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. Pass finding has been largely improved and now contains a dynamic learning component. Also watch out for some more serious dribbling moves which will make you sweat 😉 RobotPi: The software for ball detection running on a Raspberry Pi 3A+ on each of our robots. Most of the color blob detection and thresholding has been rewritten and is parallelized via multi-threading. The RPi uses only around 50% of its CPU now. TIGERs CLAV (Cut Lengthy Audio/Video): This is an C++ ImGui based application able to cut video files based on an SSL gamelog. You can synchronize multiple videos and gamelogs with individual markers and the tool can then cut out non-running stages. This tool is still quite new and may not support every video format, but nonetheless it is already a great help to preprocess videos from matches. Oh and it can create a status overlay video for your videos, too (similar to the status board). 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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RoboCup 2023 - Open Source Award Submission RoboTeam Twente
by Emy Ganzeboom | RoboTeam Twente 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Dear SSL community, Hereby, RoboTeam Twente would like to submit our projects for the Open Source Award. RoboTeam Twente Wiki <https://wiki.roboteamtwente.nl/> RoboTeam Twente AI Software <https://github.com/RoboTeamTwente/roboteam> RoboTeam Twente Embedded <https://github.com/RoboTeamTwente/roboteam_microcontroller5.0> RoboTeam Twente AutoRef <https://github.com/RoboTeamTwente/roboteam_autoref> High Speed USB Library for STM32 <https://github.com/RoboTeamTwente/Basestation/tree/feature/custom_usb_class> Chat-TDP <https://github.com/emielsteerneman/TDP> Our Wiki provides all the mechanical and electrical designs of our robots. Furthermore, it contains the theoretical background and additional explanations about our AI and control software. On our Github you can find our new path planning within our AI code, as well as our innovative dribbler ball-sensor code (see this year's ETDP <https://ssl.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023_ETDP_RoboTeam_Twent…> ). This year we created an AutoRef, allowing for a majority vote between all AutoRefs. This software is under active development, but our AutoRef will most likely be used during RoboCup 2023. Next to that, we developed a high speed USB library compatible with our STM32 chip. This results in an enhanced stability when connecting USB devices to the STM32F676ZI. With minor modifications, this is also suitable for other STM chips. Lastly, our latest innovation is our very own Chat-GPT, containing all information on all the (E)TDPs within the SSL. Just ask your question, and the answer will be provided. This Chat-TDP is currently still under construction, but great progress has already been made and we feel like this could be beneficial for all teams within SSL. Thank you! -- Met vriendelijke groeten / Kind regards, *Emy Ganzeboom* Team Manager | Control Engineer Phone: LinkedIn: Website: +31 (0)6 21 37 45 87 Emy Ganzeboom <https://nl.linkedin.com/in/emy-ganzeboom-8a9b47193> www.roboteamtwente.nl Do you want to support our team? Please take a look at our crowdfunding page <https://www.steunutwente.nl/project/roboteam-twente-2023>!

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RoboCup 2023 - Open Source Award Submission luhbots Soccer
by Sebastian Knackstedt 03 Jul '23

03 Jul '23

Hello SmallSizeLeague, luhbots Soccer would like to submit our current hardware and software work for the Open Source Award. Links: Hardware: CAD Files for our Robot <https://github.com/luhsoccer/luhsoccer_hardware> Electronics: Schematics for all our PCBs from the robot and our basestation. <https://github.com/luhsoccer/luhsoccer_electronics> Firmware: The code for the eletronics. Include the fireware for the mulitple MCUs on the robots and the basestation. <https://github.com/luhsoccer/luhsoccer_firmware> Software: The framework to control the robots. <https://github.com/luhsoccer/luhsoccer_baguette> A short summary of the projects: The CAD files are designed via Autodesk Inventor and can be opened accordingly. The Schematics and PCB Files are designed via KiCAD 7.0. The Firmware is completely written in Rust and designed for the RP2040 (the robots) and the ATSAM4E (the basestation). The software is written in C++ and contains various python bindings which can be used to develop a high level strategy around the software. Documentation is contained via Doxygen and can be built seperatly. Greetings, Sebastian Knackstedt, luhbots Soccer -- SebastianKnackstedt Leitung Software Soccer | luhbots sebastian.knackstedt(a)luhbots.de <mailto:sebastian.knackstedt@luhbots.de> luhbots-hannover.de <//luhbots-hannover.de> Appelstrasse 11, 30167 Hannover

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Final preparations for RoboCup
by Carla Cosenza 03 Jul '23

03 Jul '23

Hello! As RoboCup approaches, we need some more information from all teams to prepare the venue. As some are aware, some parts of Bordeaux are having a curfew enforced due to the protests that are happening. We would like for teams to inform us where they are staying so that we can modify the schedule if the curfew persists during the competition. So please have one member of your team send your hotel location to Selina (selinazwerver(a)gmail.com), through discord or email. We would like to also inform everyone that if the curfew persists, we will have modifications in the schedule so please check it regularly. We also need to know how many people are coming per team, in order to organize the tables. So please send the amount of people coming to the competition from your team to Selina TODAY (selinazwerver(a)gmail.com), through discord or email. Finally, we would like to remind everyone that tomorrow is the first set up day. We cannot guarantee that the cameras will be working first thing tomorrow, but we are working on getting them up and running as soon as possible. The venue should be open at 8am and it would be ideal to have teams here for easier communication. Thank you very much and we will see you all soon! Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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RoboCup 2023 – Open Source Award Submission RoboJackets
by Alex Sohrab 03 Jul '23

03 Jul '23

Hello SSL community, RoboJackets would like to submit our open source work for this SSL award. Printed Circuit Boards <https://github.com/RoboJackets/robocup-pcb> RRT Path Planning <https://github.com/RoboJackets/rrt> GUI, High Level Planning, and Strategy Software <https://github.com/RoboJackets/robocup-software> FreeRTOS firmware <https://github.com/RoboJackets/robocup-firmware> All information regarding documentation can be found within the repositories. RoboJackets has made all parts of our development open source (RobotCAD is currently unavailable due to GrabCAD being down, and we are searching for alternatives). Some of the main innovations involve practical applications of ROS2 for software and FreeRTOS for on-board robot control. Another goal of ours this year was increased documentation: for example software documentation can be found at this website <https://rj-rc-software.readthedocs.io/en/latest/>. Thank you, RoboJackets, Georgia Tech Kasra Alexander Sohrab

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RoboCup 2023: One Week Update
by Nicolai Ommer 24 Jun '23

24 Jun '23

Dear all, As RoboCup is starting in approximately one week (!) we would like to update you on the final topics. Radio Frequency Requirements Please submit your radio frequency requirements <https://forms.gle/SJudXbUZ2wQBA9ND9> by June 28th so that we can assign frequencies to teams and clarify any issues with the LOC. You can have a look at the previous year's assignment <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hRFL8HIk0Z2CVAxTixg-ktKgxDcJ24r7Orh…> to get an idea of what other teams used, but note that there are more teams this year. We’ll do our best to assign frequencies in a fair manner. Tasks for new teams We would like to remind new teams that there are some things you have to do in order to play matches. An overview is given here <https://ssl.robocup.org/joining-the-small-size-league/>. Please make sure you have performed all actions as soon as possible, but at the latest before the competition starts. TC signup The RoboCup Small Size League 2023 Technical Challenges are the Chip Pass Challenge and the Ball Placement Challenge. Please sign up your team to participate in this form <https://forms.gle/dGcoXAeZgxp9XFLA8>. More information about the TC and their rules here <https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2023-technical-challenges/>. Deadline is June 28th. Open source submissions The RoboCup Small Size League Open Source Award goes to a team that has demonstrated a commitment to sharing and supporting their software and hardware designs for the benefit and advancement of the RoboCup community. If you would like to take a shot at the award, you have to send an email to the Small Size League Mailing list with the following information: - Link(s) to the open source project - Link(s) to any related documentation for using the open source project - A short description of the project and documentation submitted and their innovation and relevance to the RoboCup Small Size League. The subject of the email should be “RoboCup 2023 - Open Source Award Submission <Your Team Name>”. Late submissions will not be considered. More information about the open source award can be found here <https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2023-awards/>. Referee quiz Similar to last year, we have created a 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 expert) 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 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/35fJVy49j6QkefEG8>. A useful reference would be the rule book <https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-rules/sslrules.pdf>. ETDP posters All division A teams are required to bring along a poster that illustrates the content of the paper. The poster must be of A0 size and will be hung at the RoboCup venue. Please remember to design and print this poster. Groups We’ve drawn the groups as outlined in our previous email. The results for Division A are: Group A: TIGERs (GermanyA) Robodragons (JapanA) Roboteam-Twente (Netherlands) KIKS (JapanB) Group B: ZJUNlict (ChinaA) SRC (ChinaB) ER-Force (GermanyB) Immortals (Iran) The results for Division B are: Group A: RoboCIn (BrazilA) Ri-one (Japan) The-A-Team (USA) Group B: luhbots-Soccer (Germany) UBC-Thunderbots (Canada) OrcaBOT (Thailand) Group C: RoboIME (BrazilB) RoboJackets (USA) Sysmic-Robotics (Chile) Group D: RoboFEI (BrazilC) NAMEc (France) ITAndroids (BrazilD) And in case ZJUNlict cannot make it to France, the alternative group in Divisions A are: Group A: TIGERs (GermanyA) Roboteam-Twente (Netherlands) Robodragons (JapanA) Dummy2 (Dummy) Group B: ER-Force (GermanyB) SRC (China) KIKS (JapanB) Immortals (Iran) We will decide on which of the Division A groups are used on the 5th, right after the open source presentations, with the information available to TC/OC at that time. Also note that SRC has withdrawn their participation, so the matches against them will be skipped. Reminder: Preference to play with walls Please remember to choose your preference towards playing with walls in this form <https://forms.gle/eeWT9Z8FQBJVaTmH6> (regardless of your preference). So far, 13 teams have voted. We have extended the deadline to June 28th to give the other teams a bit more time. Heads Up: Redesigned Game Controller UI If you have not noticed yet: The UI of the SSL Game Controller has been completely redesigned. We strongly encourage you to have a look and get familiar with it, so that you are not surprised in the first match. https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-game-controller See you all in Bordeaux soon! Nicolai In behalf of the SSL committee

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Wifi spectrum enforcement at RoboCup 2023
by UBC Thunderbots 17 Jun '23

17 Jun '23

Dear OC and TC’s, We hope this email finds you all in good health. We are concerned about the enforcement of 3.2.5 Radio Communication for the Small Size League at Bordeaux this year. Thunderbots communicate with their robots using WiFi and last year, due to the uncontrolled WiFi spectrum at the venue, we encountered significant network congestion and latencies. Despite being assigned a specific WiFi channel we could use at competition, we found that many participants in the competition started WiFi hotspots that occupied our channel. We are wondering and hoping the organizers can implement stricter enforcement of assigned WiFi channels in Bordeaux this year, as it was done in Sydney 2019. This would greatly help our gameplay and naturally be greatly appreciated. Let us know if this is possible and whether there are any planned strategies for the enforcement of WiFi channel assignments this year. Cheers, Yichen Zhou, Team Captain Arun Balumunari, Software Lead --- *UBC Thunderbots* Faculty of Applied Science The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus robocup(a)ece.ubc.ca | http://ubcthunderbots.ca/

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Tournament structure, group seeding and preference to play with walls
by Tobias Heineken 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Dear SSL-Community, RoboCup 2023 will start in 3 weeks, so we wanted to give you some updates regarding playing with walls and the grouping. Playing with walls This year, we will offer all teams to play their matches with walls. To allow for some preparation, the preference to play with walls can not be changed arbitrarily: We ask all teams to announce their preference till June 23rd (anywhere on earth)through this form <https://forms.gle/eeWT9Z8FQBJVaTmH6>. The responses are published <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Kb2voTSFtIJvoxmoRSsCpZO-80mZgIoPBiBJQQCohj…>immediately. The preference is binding for all matches in the group phase. It can be changed once between the group and the elimination phase through this form <https://forms.gle/oNAEMGAjE77TcSCH8>and is then binding for the remaining games. A match is played with walls, if both teams have announced their preference for wall games. Playing with walls underlies the following rule changes: * Rule 6 - Ball Leaves The Field <https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-rules/sslrules.html#_ball_leaves_the_field>does not apply * The field size is increase by the field boundary - ssl-vision will send a Geometry with adjusted field sizes and a boundary width of zero Tournament Structure & Group seeding We have finished the schedule and the seeding for the upcoming Robocup. You can find the schedule at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EUjOuGdRLxptcESywCAKdruRATmy2j6ezu6… <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EUjOuGdRLxptcESywCAKdruRATmy2j6ezu6…>. Division A will play a 8 player competition, with 2 groups of 4 teams each, followed by a double-elimination knockout tournament, similar to the competition in 2019. Compared to 2019, the matches of 'winner of each group against 4th of the other group' are canceled, and the winner of the group is assumed to win this, and the last place of the group is assumed to lose that match. As a result, 1st of each group skips Upper Round 1 / 2 (which now only 2nd vs 3rd each) and starts in the upper semifinals. The 4th of each group starts in the Lower Tournament. Division B will play a 12 player competition, with 4 groups of 3 teams each, followed by a single-elimination knockout tournament. Similar to 2019 and LARC 2022, but different to Robocup 2022 in Bangkok. This also means 90 mins per match in Division B (was 120 mins). This is necessary to accommodate the increased number of participants. Please be prepared that the schedule is going to be tight. As in Division A, the winners of each group get to skip the first round of the knockout stage as a reward for winning their groups. The Repositoryhttps://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-grouping <https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-grouping>is already updated to include the newly seeded teams. As we are going to draw both a two group and a four group competition, I modified the software to first take the number of groups as a first parameter, followed by the two random seeds. We also disabled country locking in Division A (too few distinct countries participating), but enabled it in Division B except for Brazil. So if you're competing in Division B and are from a different country than Brazil, you are promised not to play another team from your country in the group stage. We are going to use the random numbers given by the following link: https://www.random.org/integers/?num=6&min=1&max=123456&col=5&base=10&forma… <https://www.random.org/integers/?num=6&min=1&max=123456&col=5&base=10&forma…> Please note that this link does not work yet (to make sure I didn't pick some random numbers I liked best), because it will use the pre-generated random numbers from 24th of June and will only work on and after 24th of June. As soon as the numbers are available, the link will create 6 numbers. The two most left numbers are going to be used to draw the division A groups (with `ln -f teamsA.txt teams.txt; ./grouping 2 <firstSeed> <secondSeed>`) and the second pair to draw the division B groups (with `ln -f teamsA.txt teams.txt; ./grouping 4 <thirdSeed> <fourthSeed>`). TC/OC has been made aware that both teams from China are currently experiencing visa issues for France. To avoid the issue where the top seed from one of the two divA groups is missing (and the group is as a result much weaker) the third pair will be used to draw groups where ZJU is replaced by a dummy team (in seed 3), ER-Force is moving up to pool 1, and KIKs is moving up to pool 2. If you want to challenge the seeding for the competition, you have to do this before the groups are drawn, i.e. before random.org published the random numbers for the 24th. As the earth is round and time zones are unpredictable, send your complaints on or before 22nd AoE. See you in France!

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New auto-referee from RoboTeam Twente
by Nicolai Ommer 03 May '23

03 May '23

Dear SSL community, RoboTeam Twente announced a new auto-referee implementation that they are currently working on: https://github.com/RoboTeamTwente/roboteam_autoref They plan to support at least a subset of the rule detections that the other two auto-referees from ER-Force and TIGERs support. The ssl-game-controller is already using a majority vote on most rule infringements reported by the auto-referees, so a third implementation will improve the robustness further. The new implementation will support the existing two auto-referees during RoboCup 2023 under close supervision by the technical committee. Best, Nicolai In behalf of the SSL TC committee

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SSL 2023 Technical Challenges
by Lucas Cavalcanti 18 Apr '23

18 Apr '23

Dear SSL-Community, This year we will have two technical challenges, the chip pass challenge and the ball placement. Chip Pass Similar to the pass endurance Hardware Challenge from 2021, the goal is to perform as many passes as possible within a certain time. And there will be more points if the ball is chipped. Ball Placement Similar to previous years, only teams that never participated in Division A before may attend it. We will not require attendance, though we strongly encourage teams from Division B to do so. Both challenge rules are available on the SSL website: https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2023-technical-challenges/ See you all in Bordeaux!

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RoboCup 2023 Preliminary Results
by Carla Cosenza 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

Dear Small Size League, All teams should have their preliminary qualification results by now, so please check your contact email address. If you are conditionally qualified do not hesitate to contact the OC for more clarification, if necessary. But please do not wait until close to the deadline! Best regards, Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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Peer reviews available
by Selina Zwerver 24 Feb '23

24 Feb '23

Dear all, Thank you all for submitting your peer reviews! The reviews are now available for the authors to see in the conference manager. We will discuss everyone’s qualification soon, and send personal emails regarding qualification status *before the 7th of March*. Kind regards, Selina Zwerver RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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RoboCup 2023 Small Size League Peer Review Reminder
by Selina Zwerver 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Hello everyone! We would like to remind everyone that the deadline for submitting your peer reviews is next week Tuesday, February 21st, anywhere on earth. More information on the process, including examples of excellent papers, is located on the website <https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2023-qualification/>. If you have any questions about the reviews, please don’t hesitate to contact us, either by emailing rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org or sending a message in our Discord. Kind regards, Selina Zwerver RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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National Robotics Festival - Portugal
by Patricia Vergara 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '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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Peer review is now available!
by Carla Cosenza 04 Feb '23

04 Feb '23

Hello! Peer reviews are now open for submission in the conference tool! One member from each team should have received an email entitled "Peer review". The submission of the reviews must be done through that account in the conference tool. Each team has been assigned 3 papers to review. We would like to remind everyone that the deadline for peer reviews is February 21st, 2023, anywhere on Earth and that the failure to submit this will result in disqualification from the competition. We would also like to point out that peer review is a very important part of the qualification process, so please do invest time on it and write thorough assessment. The review has one question that only the OCs / TCs will have access to, so please feel free to use that field to voice any concerns you do not want to share with teams. For any questions, please email the OCs. Best regards, Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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2023 Qualification Video The A-Team
by William Stuckey 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Hello SSL Community! We're very excited to share our first qualification video with you all. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_13dk0MUIw Hope to see you all in Bordeaux! - The A-Team <https://media1.giphy.com/media/l3vR6aasfs0Ae3qdG/giphy.gif>

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2023 Qualification Video UBC Thunderbots
by UBC Thunderbots 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Dear RoboCup SSL Community, You can find our RoboCup 2023 Qualification Video here: https://youtu.be/o97ajDxbRqU Best, UBC Thunderbots --- *UBC Thunderbots* Faculty of Applied Science The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus robocup(a)ece.ubc.ca | http://ubcthunderbots.ca/

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2023 Qualification Video ZJUNlict
by zjunlict zju 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Dear all, you can find our qualification video for RoboCup 2023 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4Pawwd20nI Best regards Team Name : ZJUNlict Country : China University : Zhejiang University Preferred Division (A or B) (More Information) : A

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2023 Qualification Video RoboDragons
by kouta sugiura 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Dear RoboCup SSL community, Subject: 2023 Qualification Video <RoboDragons>. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxLNI2lK10

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2023 Qualification Video RobôCIn
by Riei Joaquim Matos Rodrigues 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Dear RoboCup SSL community, we uploaded our RoboCup SSL 2023 qualification video on our YouTube channel, available on the link below: https://youtu.be/hOj4tNIE2q4 -- Best regards, Riei Rodrigues

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2023 Qualification Video Sysmic Robotics
by Daniel Torres 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

https://youtu.be/YjV_qDFNU9w -- Daniel Torres Guzmán Ing. Civíl en Informatica UTFSM

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2023 Qualification video Warthog Robotics
by Pedro Arthur Galvão Pizarro 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

To all SSL participants: The following link has the Warthog Robotics qualification video, hosted in "RobôCin - Equipe de Robótica" YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EOWuBZ_lPw This is was recorded during last year RoboCup Brasil competion. The bullet point requirements are listed bellow with their respectvely timestamps * One or more robots competing against an active robot goalkeeper. * 17:00 * Two or more robot field players actively going to the ball and playing against one another. * 0:40 * At least two robots playing cooperatively against 5 static or moving obstacles * 21:30 Best regards, [http://i.imgur.com/CyJu91g.png] Pedro Arthur Galvão Pizarro Gerente do Programa Hercules (12) 98101-5542 Warthog Robotics - Universidade de São Paulo www.wr.sc.usp.br<http://www.wr.sc.usp.br/> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/WarthogRobotics/>

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2023 Qualification Video ITAndroids
by Valério Augusto Barros 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkbDwg0-3bI

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2023 Qualification Video NAMeC
by Etienne Schmitz 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Hi, Here is our qualification video for RoboCup 2023. Please find it on this URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCAnwq2OuUg Best regards, Etienne Schmitz Team Leader of NAMeC Robotics engineer

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2023 Qualification Video RoboTeam Twente
by Tom Meulenkamp 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear SSL Community, Hereby RoboTeam Twente delivers their qualification video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_RImxUssU -- Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Tom Meulenkamp Financial Manager | Control Engineer Phone: LinkedIn: Website: +31 (0)6 39 66 24 97 Tom Meulenkamp <https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-meulenkamp-b931201b8/> www.roboteamtwente.nl

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2023 Qualification Video RoboTeam Twente
by Tom Meulenkamp 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear RoboCup SSL community, You can find our 2023 qualification video on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_RImxUssU -- Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, Tom Meulenkamp Financial Manager | Control Engineer Phone: LinkedIn: Website: +31 (0)6 39 66 24 97 Tom Meulenkamp <https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-meulenkamp-b931201b8/> www.roboteamtwente.nl

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2023 Qualification Video GreenTea
by 非常口 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear RoboCup SSL community You can find our 2023 qualification video here: https://youtu.be/SEkD_eSDNoA Best regards, Akito Ito GreenTea

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2023 Qualification Video
by kouta sugiura 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Subject: 2023 Qualification Video <RoboDragons>. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GxLNI2lK10

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Qualification Video OrcaBOT.
by Chayud Srisumarnk 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear SSL RoboCup Committees, We are a new team named OrcaBOT from Thailand, participating in SSL division B. This is our qualification video that has been uploaded on our YouTube channel. URL: https://youtu.be/1o4_ONyKgdg Best Regards, OrcaBOT team

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2023 Qualification Video Ri-one
by SSL Rione 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear Robocup organizing committee, Our Team name is Ri-one. We want to participate in Robocup 2023 small size league division b. We attach the qualification video link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-XyUHr2LYY Please reply if you have any problems. Best regards, Takumu Hirohashi

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2023 Qualification Video Tritons RCSC
by Rafaella Gomes 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear RoboCup SSL community, Please find our 2023 qualification video here: https://youtu.be/l7rk7JwB5IQ Best regards, Tritons RCSC

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RoboJackets 2023 Qualification Video
by Fu, Kevin 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear RoboCup SSL members, Our qualification video can be found here: https://youtu.be/lDKo3HCeSK4 Best, Kevin Fu RoboJackets | Georgia Tech

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2023 Qualification Video RoboIME
by RoboIME 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

The qualification video is available on the link below: https://youtu.be/fb2sNh8gB-c Best regards, -- Isabel Chaves de Freitas 4th Year - Electrical Engineering IME - Military Engineering Institute

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2023 Qualification Video RoboFEI
by Leonardo da Silva Costa 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Dear league members, Our qualification video for this year can be seen in the link below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejHqbPYGOfc -- Best Regards, Leonardo da Silva Costa Dpto. Software | RoboFEI - University Center of FEI Email: leosilvacosta6(a)gmail.com | unieleocosta(a)fei.edu.br <https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardosilvacosta1/> <https://gitlab.com/leo_costa> <https://www.facebook.com/RoboFEI/> <http://fei.edu.br/robofei>

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2023 Qualification Video ER-Force
by Paul Bergmann 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Dear SSL league members, you can find our qualification video for RoboCup 2023 here: https://youtu.be/8GGh4JrrYD8 Best regards Paul Bergmann ER-Force -- Robotics Erlangen e.V.

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2023 Qualification Video luhbots Soccer
by fabrice.zeug＠luhbots.de 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Dear all, you can find our qualification video for the RoboCup 2023 here: https://youtu.be/1RTqdyasoTo Best regards, Fabrice Zeug Teamleader Soccer | luhbots <https://luhbots-hannover.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/envelope.png> <mailto:fabrice.zeug@luhbots.de> fabrice.zeug(a)luhbots.de <https://luhbots-hannover.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/globe.png> <file://luhbots-hannover.de> luhbots-hannover.de <https://luhbots-hannover.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/location.png> Appelstr. 11, 30167 Hanover, Germany <https://luhbots-hannover.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/standard-auf-hell.png>

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2023 Qualification Video Immortals
by Ali Salehi 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Hi everyone, Below you can find our qualification video for RoboCup 2023. https://youtu.be/Ok2ttRKLdvo?t=6046 (from 1:40:46 to 1:46:16) Kind regards, Ali Salehi

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2023 Qualification Video TIGERs Mannheim
by Andre Ryll 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Dear all, you can find our qualification video for RoboCup 2023 here: https://youtu.be/nS1MSPNv3Lo Best, Andre Ryll Project Leader & Founder of TIGERs Mannheim

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RoboCup 2023 Call for Participation Reminder & Rules Update
by Selina Zwerver 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Hello all! We would like to remind everyone that the deadline for submitting the qualification material is next week Tuesday, January 31st 2023, anywhere on earth. More information on the qualification requirements and processes are located on the website <https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2023-qualification/>. If you have any questions about the qualification please don’t hesitate to contact us, either by emailing rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org or sending a message in our Discord. Rules The rule book for RoboCup 2023 has been finalized. The latest version and the list of changes is documented on the website <https://ssl.robocup.org/rules/>. Kind regards, Selina Zwerver RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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2023 Qualification Video <SRC>
by sjtu_src2020 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

We uploaded our qualification video on our YouTube channel. URL: https://youtu.be/E3nhWvx1wIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3nhWvx1wIU The home page of our YouTube channel: URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkK1ylVBomLV7efSgqm4Tg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALQIji2GZnReGNQDH4BhxA Team name: SRC Preferred division: A Country: China University: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China

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RoboCup 2023 Small Size League Call for Participation
by Carla Cosenza 24 Dec '22

24 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 11 Jul '22

11 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 05 Jul '22

05 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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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Final Call for Research Showcases
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 15 Jun '22

15 Jun '22

* Final Call for Research Showcases* The 25th RoboCup International Symposium https://2022.robocup.org/ Submission of abstracts: 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. This year, we are inviting the submission of poster proposals to facilitate scientific discussions about ongoing projects and late-breaking results during the RoboCup 2022 Symposium. This call is specifically for poster presentations to showcase teams’ ongoing work and/or the latest results relevant to the RoboCup community. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to promote exciting conversations during the coffee break over posters, discussing scientific results, finding other research groups with similar interests, and strengthening connections between different teams as well as RoboCup leagues. Any team, research group, or individual is welcome to propose a poster presentation with the content relevant to the RoboCup community. To ensure this and to group posters into the poster sessions, we ask everyone interested in such poster presentations to submit a proposal with the title and short abstract of max 250 words by June 20th (using the Research Showcase Track). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of poster abstracts (Research Showcase Track): 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 Upload of poster pdfs for website (optionally): 8 July RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Abstracts will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium. Poster abstracts will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be 250 words in plain text and must be submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 POSTER FORMAT ============== Posters presented at the Symposium should be in A0 portrait format. Presenters will receive a poster board as well as material for attaching the posters from the organizers. Please note that the Symposium Co-Chairs will not be able to assist with printing posters in Bangkok, so please bring your printed poster with you to the 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

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June 2022 Update
by Tobias Heineken 10 Jun '22

10 Jun '22

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Research Showcases
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 03 Jun '22

03 Jun '22

* Call for Research Showcases* The 25th RoboCup International Symposium https://2022.robocup.org/ Submission of abstracts: 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. This year, we are inviting the submission of poster proposals to facilitate scientific discussions about ongoing projects and late-breaking results during the RoboCup 2022 Symposium. This call is specifically for poster presentations to showcase teams’ ongoing work and/or the latest results relevant to the RoboCup community. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to promote exciting conversations during the coffee break over posters, discussing scientific results, finding other research groups with similar interests, and strengthening connections between different teams as well as RoboCup leagues. Any team, research group, or individual is welcome to propose a poster presentation with the content relevant to the RoboCup community. To ensure this and to group posters into the poster sessions, we ask everyone interested in such poster presentations to submit a proposal with the title and short abstract of max 250 words by June 20th (using the Research Showcase Track). IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of poster abstracts (Research Showcase Track): 20 June 2022 Notification to authors: 24 June 2022 Upload of poster pdfs for website (optionally): 8 July RoboCup Symposium: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Abstracts will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium. Poster abstracts will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be 250 words in plain text and must be submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 POSTER FORMAT ============== Posters presented at the Symposium should be in A0 portrait format. Presenters will receive a poster board as well as material for attaching the posters from the organizers. Please note that the Symposium Co-Chairs will not be able to assist with printing posters in Bangkok, so please bring your printed poster with you to the 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

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Final Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

* Final 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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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - 2nd Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 21 Mar '22

21 Mar '22

* 2nd 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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March 2022 Update
by Tobias Heineken 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Dear SSL-CommunityAs it’s approximately 4 months until the competition starts, we wanted to share some information on this year's competition and qualification process. Short summary: Preliminary Team Qualification is public, (self-)plagiarism is not allowed in TDPs, and failing to review properly can result in disqualification starting with next year.There’s still no definitive reply by the LOC regarding venue and or additional requirements. I will share any information with you as soon as I get it.All teams that submitted qualification material should have a result for the Preliminary Team Qualification by now. If not, please check your submitted contact email or get in touch with the OC via our mailing list. There are fewer division A teams competing than we hoped. While we do not have a final solution for this yet, division A teams should prepare their AI to be able to play against division B teams. While we will look for ways to use both physical fields and to facilitate as many division A matches as possible, playing a tournament with just 5 teams seems not very appealing to us. There were two major issues regarding the TDPs I wanted to address: 1. Plagiarism We decided to take a hard stance on plagiarism this year. Plagiarism is not accepted in scientific publications, and should not be accepted for our TDPs. This is also true for your own TDP from previous years. Except for a narrow exception regarding introducing the SSL, your team and your previous results, there should not be any sentence or figure just copied from your previous TDPs. You can cite your TDP for a very important sentence or figure, or you can use your previous TDP as a reference to build on and write a very short summary. But there should not be sections or figures just copied from your last paper. Remember that TDPs are supposed to be useful to other teams. Repeating yourself by copying your old work wastes your readers time if they already read your previous TDP. It is not the OCs job to cut out the copied parts and judge if the remaining parts are still more than the mandated minimum of pages. It is the team's job to avoid any plagiarism. Also remember that you are supposed to talk about newthings. You should not even be tempted to copy your previous years content because by definition that content cannot be new. If you cannot say anything new regarding a specific part of your system, do not mention it at all. There is only one exception: If your already published work is important for one of the issues you did change, cite it if you want to share your change. 2. Bamberger Hörnchen To assess the quality of our review-process, I invented my new team, called ‘Bamberger Hörnchen’ and created a TDP for them. They participated in the normal review process (so three teams had to review their TDP, and I got their reviews for my TDP, and I wrote the reviews they had to do). However, the team does not exist (and one reviewer correctly identified the missing qualification video, which made me very happy :) ), so it was not put on the official list. We’ll share the TDP on our qualification webpage soon, accompanied by a short explanation of its major issues that should have been raised during review. While two reviewers correctly identified at least parts of the problem with the paper, the third did not. There will be no further action this year, but it is plausible that we might do something like this again to make sure teams take reviewing seriously. Remember that the OC has the power to disqualify teams in the future for not properly reviewing your peers. If you are scared to criticize the team in the public questions, you can always use the comment to TC/OC to mention critical defects with the TDP in private. And remember reviews are anonymous, so the team you are criticizing is not going to know who said it. (And yes, I did implement the software I talked about in the Bamberger Hörnchen TDP. At least the software, the rest would have been too expensive for my taste.) That’s all for now,Tobias HeinekenOC for Robocup 2022 Thailand

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Papers
by Nuno Lau 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Dear RoboCuppers, Please consider submitting your paper to this year's symposium! Call for papers RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-papers/ 17 July 2022 Bangkok, Thailand (hybrid setting) The 25th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed 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 Bangkok, Thailand, with remote participation options for both presenters and attendees. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging 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 working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 17 April 2022 Notification to authors: 5 June 2022 Submission of camera-ready copies: 26 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium 2022: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup on 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS 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-gu…) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022). 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-… TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * 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 DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2021, we expand the scope of this track to include datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community and the research topics listed above. 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 CONTACT robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org<mailto:robocupsymposium2022@easychair.org>

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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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Peer Review
by Carla Cosenza 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

Hello Small Size League! We would like to inform you that peer reviews are now available in the conference tool. A message has been sent to the email declared in the participation intent or the email used to upload the (E)TPD in the conference tool (please also check your spam for this message). The review should be sent in the conference tool using that email. We would like to remind you that this year, our requirements for the papers have changed and so have the review questions, so please do pay close attention. The deadline for submitting these reviews is February 22, 2022. Please reach out to the committee for any questions. Best regards, Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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Omid
by Omid Robotics 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Hi, The qualification video is available on the link below: https://youtu.be/jM3-xt21Ies Best Regards, [image: image.png] *Mohammad Hossein Zolfaghari Abir* Omid Robotics Team | Shahed University, Tehran, Iran Mobile: +98 921 240 64 80 omidrobotics.ir <http://omidrobotics.ir>

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2022 Qualification Video <ITAndroids>
by Arthur Rodrigues 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

Hi, We uploaded our RoboCup SSL 2022 qualification video on our YouTube channel, available on the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmfY504GEac Team name: ITAndroids Preferred division: B Country: Brazil University: Aeronautics Institute of Technology Regards, ITAndroids - SSL team

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2022 Qualification Video <RoboDragons>
by im213002＠cis.aichi-pu.ac.jp 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

Dear SSL members, CC: OC members The link below is the RoboCup SSL 2022 qualification video https://youtu.be/8uPPiWFi-CY Team Name RoboDragons Country Japan University Aichi Prefectural University Main contact name and email Yuta Ando ssl.robodragons(a)gmail.com, robodragons_rc-soccer-ssl(a)googlegroups.com Best regards, Yuta Ando

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Fw: 2022 Participation Intent <RoboDragons>
by im213002＠cis.aichi-pu.ac.jp 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

________________________________________ 差出人: 安藤　祐太 <im213002(a)cis.aichi-pu.ac.jp> 送信日時: 2022年1月31日 14:50 宛先: rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org CC: robodragons_rc-soccer-ssl(a)googlegroups.com; ssl.robodragons(a)gmail.com 件名: 2022 Participation Intent <RoboDragons> Dear OC members, RoboDragons Participation Intent for RocoCup 2022 Soccer SSL is as follows: Team Name RoboDragons Country Japan University Aichi Prefectural University Main contact name and email Yuta Ando ssl.robodragons(a)gmail.com, robodragons_rc-soccer-ssl(a)googlegroups.com Website https://robodragons.github.io/ Preferred Division (A or B) (More Information) Division A Short rationale for the preferred division The reason is that we want to evaluate our AI and controllers in the more advanced division. Best regards, Yuta Ando (Team Leader, RoboDragons)

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2022 Qualification Video Tritons RCSC
by Hector Montenegro 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

https://youtu.be/EmnlAbZ6JDM ------------------------- *Hector Montenegro* Electrical Engineering University of California, San Diego

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2022 Qualification Video UBC Thunderbots
by UBC Thunderbots 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

Hello all! We have uploaded our RoboCup SSL 2022 qualification video on our YouTube channel, available at the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGVXKz3490w Team name: UBC Thunderbots Preferred division: B Country: Canada University: University of British Columbia Warm Regards, UBC Thunderbots --- *UBC Thunderbots* Faculty of Applied Science The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus robocup(a)ece.ubc.ca | http://ubcthunderbots.ca/

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2022 Qualification Video <RoboDragons>
by 631 Kanchan 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

https://youtu.be/8uPPiWFi-CY

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by Пётр Алексеевич 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Hello, We uploaded our RoboCup SSL 2022 qualification video on our YouTube channel. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDOjJqPe6Fg Team name: URoboRus Preferred division: B Country: Russia University: Saint Petersburg State University Best regards URoboRus Team

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2022 Qualification Video RobôCIn
by Riei Joaquim Matos Rodrigues 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Greetings, We uploaded our RoboCup SSL 2022 qualification video on our YouTube channel, available on the link below: https://youtu.be/Mixj3Vgoifo Team name: RobôCIn Preferred division: B Country: Brazil University: University Federal of Pernambuco Best regards RobôCIn Team

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2022 Qualification Video <KIKS>
by Toko SUGIURA 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Hi all, Here is our qualification video. Please find it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFpCfGp1WhY http://www.ee.toyota-ct.ac.jp/~sugi/KIKS-RoboCup2022forQualification.mp4 Kind Regards, KIKS, Toko

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2022 Qualification Video Ri-one
by SSL Rione 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Dear RoboCup organizing committee Hi, We are Ritsumeikan University Project Group Ri-one. This email is about the application for participation in Robocup2022 Small Size League. Our Team name is Ri-one. Here are the details of our qualification video link. https://youtu.be/jJXMX0Qo6Ho Best regards, Takumu Hirohashi 添付ファイルエリア <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1?ui=2&ik=e4dd388a82&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg…>

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2022 Qualification Video NEUIslanders
by Görkem Say 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Hi ssl Community, Here is our video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HHwZvooWdU&t=2s Best regards -- Gorkem SAY Electrical&Electronic Engineer Robotics Lab. NEU-IBM Advanced Research Center Near East Avenue, Nicosia - TRNC Innovation and Information Technologies Center Mobile: +90 542 888 74 96

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2022 Qualification Video INPUT
by INPUT 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Dear SSL league members, Hello, we're INPUT a SSL team from Japan. you can find our qualification video for RoboCup 2022 here: https://youtu.be/q5I6zCBnA6k Best regards, Masaki Yasuhara RoboCup SSL team INPUT -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RoboCup SSL team INPUT E-mail: rcjinput(a)gmail.com Website: https://input-ssl.dev/ Twitter: @inputssl Facebook: inputssl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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2022 Qualification Video RoboIME
by RoboIME 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

The qualification video is available on the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K8LO5FHoSo Best regards, -- Mayara Ribeiro Mendonça 4rd Year - Computer Engineering IME - Military Engineering Institute

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2022 Qualification Video RoboTeam Twente
by Lotte Steenmeijer 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

To whom it may concern, Hereby our video for the qualification in the Robocup Small Size League: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb4riSRW1rA Hope to see all of you in Bangkok! -- Met vriendelijke groet / Kind regards, *Lotte Steenmeijer* Technical manager Phone: LinkedIn: Website: +31 (0)6 81705155 Lotte Steenmeijer <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lotte-steenmeijer/> www.roboteamtwente.nl

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2022 Qualification Video luhbots Soccer
by soccer＠luhbots.de 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Hello, we are a new team and intend to compete in the Small Size League this year for the first time. You can find your qualification Video on YouTube with the following link: https://youtu.be/wa5O3bEBbiU Best regards Fabrice Zeug luhbots Soccer

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2022 Qualification Video RoboJackets
by Bernardo Perez 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

To whom it may concern, The following is RoboJacket's video submission for RoboCup SSL's 2022 competition. Video link: https://youtu.be/l4AjWFtRhe4 Sincerely, Bernardo Perez

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2022 Qualification Video <SRC>
by sjtu_src2020 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

We uploaded our qualification video on our YouTube channel. URL: https://youtu.be/rDuE_9wS8kY The home page of our YouTube channel: URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChkK1ylVBomLV7efSgqm4Tg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALQIji2GZnReGNQDH4BhxA Team name: SRC Preferred division: B Country: China University: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R. China

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2022 Qualification Video RoboFEI
by Leonardo da Silva Costa 27 Jan '22

27 Jan '22

Greetings, Here is our qualification video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2YnEGDAvvI -- Best Regards, Leonardo da Silva Costa Dpto. Software | RoboFEI - Centro Universitário FEI Email: leosilvacosta6(a)gmail.com | unieleocosta(a)fei.edu.br <https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonardosilvacosta1/> <https://gitlab.com/leo_costa> <https://www.facebook.com/RoboFEI/> <http://fei.edu.br/robofei>

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2022 Qualification Video ER-Force
by Paul Bergmann 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Dear SSL league members, you can find our qualification video for RoboCup 2022 here: https://youtu.be/XmQdChq4Hms Best regards Paul Bergmann ER-Force -- Robotics Erlangen e.V.

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2022 Qualification Video TIGERs Mannheim
by Andre Ryll 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Dear all, you can find our qualification video for RoboCup 2022 here: https://youtu.be/ADED9VAs6s4 Best, Andre Ryll Project Leader & Founder of TIGERs Mannheim

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January 2022 Update
by Selina Zwerver 10 Jan '22

10 Jan '22

Dear SSL-Community, As the RoboCup 2022 planning is underway, the OCs and the TCs would like to share information on what will be happening. RoboCup Participation Survey The RoboCup local organizers asks all teams to fill out the following participation survey: https://forms.gle/FKJMMRaqWK6rSPLq9 Deadline for submission is *January 30th*, anywhere on earth. Rule changes There are only minor improvements in the rules for RoboCup 2022. The changes are currently formulated in pull requests <https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-rules/pulls> in the ssl-rules repository, most notably: 1. Revival of the advantage rule that allows teams to keep a game running when the opponent does not remove a robot within the 10 seconds: https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-rules/pull/43/files 2. Improve tie breaking during penalty shootouts: https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-rules/pull/42/files Please have a look at them and voice your concerns as soon as possible. They will be merged soon. Radio We are in contact with the LOC regarding the radio communication during the competition, especially if they will allow us to use 5GHz Wifi for the robot communication. So far, we only know that it might be possible, but we can not give you a guaranteed answer yet. We are already in contact with some teams regarding the use of 5GHz. If you are not using a frequency near 2.4GHz and have not yet contacted us, please tell us your desired solution. Technical challenges For RoboCup 2022, we will have three technical challenges. These challenges will be based on previous (technical) challenges with some small advancements: Blackout Challenge We will have the blackout challenge again to continue improving onboard sensing. There will be multiple phases with increasing difficulty again. This time, the focus will be on robot interaction: Two robots will need to collaborate with each other to score a goal. Dribbling challenge We will take the dribbling challenge from the hardware challenges from this year as a new technical challenge to keep improving the dribbling ability of our robots. There will be a new, more challenging scenario. Ball placement challenge The ball placement challenge will be the same as this year. Only teams from division B may attend it. We will not require attendance, though we strongly encourage teams to do so. The rules of the technical challenges will be updated in the upcoming months. Thank you! Kind regards, Selina Zwerver RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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RoboCup 2022 Small Size League Call for Participation
by Carla Cosenza 13 Dec '21

13 Dec '21

Hello! The Small Size League committee is glad to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2022! Below you can find important information about the competition and qualification. Location and dates RoboCup Bangkok 2022 Small Size League July 11 - 17, 2022 https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2022/ 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 February 1, 2022. More information on the qualification requirements and processes are located on the website<https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2022-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 RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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November 2021 Update
by Carla Cosenza 13 Nov '21

13 Nov '21

Dear SSL-Community, As the RoboCup 2022 planning is underway, the OCs and the TCs would like to share information on what will be happening. Qualification We have announced the qualification deadlines on our website<https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2022-qualification/>. Please do take some time to read the requirements for the (E)TDP and the video, as these have been altered in order to provide a better and easier review process. We have also added an example section on what a good paper would look like. Referees Every year during competition we have the issue that some referees do not know the rules of the game. In order to improve this situation, this year we will require all participants to complete a quiz regarding the rules. This quiz will be sent a few weeks before the competition and will contain questions regarding tricky rule situations. We welcome suggestions as to what should be asked in this quiz, especially common difficult situations. Questions from Discord We have had a few questions in Discord regarding the competition and we would like to answer them officially. Can there be clarifications in the rules around WiFi to give more certainty to teams that are already or are considering using WiFi? We cannot use 2.4GHz WiFi due to the fact that other leagues are already using it, and therefore we would cause interference. Regarding the 5GHz, we have no reliable information yet, but we expect that the situation is similar to that of 2.4GHz: The network will be shared with many others and we can not give any guarantees regarding reliability, stability and availability. If you still think it is worth trying 5GHz WiFi, please get in contact with us. I was wondering if the OC/TC know if there have been any more updates on the status of Robocup 2022 in Thailand? Also is there a contingency plan? We have shared all the information about the RoboCup 2022 in Thailand that we can. We have a confirmed LOC so things are being planned. Regarding the contingency plan, the Small Size League is tied to the RoboCup Federation and therefore it is not our position to work on that. We will follow all recommendations that come, but due to our link with the Federation, we cannot stray from their plans. As our own league, we do not have the money or the manpower to plan anything separate. We will be sending more emails soon with more information regarding RoboCup 2022. Thank you very much and stay safe! Carla Cosenza Small Size League - Organizing Committee

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Fwd: [rc-ssl-oc] Robotcup Soccer in spanish TV show El Hormiguero
by Tobias Heineken 14 Oct '21

14 Oct '21

Hello!We’ve received the following email from a Spanish TV station and we were asked to share this offer with you.The Spanish TV show ‘El Hormiguero’ wants to show robots playing soccer as part of their science section. They like the speed of games in the SSL. While they originally linked videos that are not identical to robots participating in the SSL, they were also interested in our robots when we showed some footage from Sydney.Their show is filmed in Madrid and performed live with participants and guests. Their set is about 3 meter in length, so teams might have to adapt to smaller fields and other adaptations to make the game look more interesting on a small field. They are looking for one team to participate in their show, and trip & shipping would be covered by them. After the demo they are planning on a short interview.Teams who are interested should contact sara(a)7yaccion.com <mailto:sara@7yaccion.com>, with a video of your robots in action, so they can know exactly what they could expect on their show. The show will adapt the date of recording / airing based on your availability, so you will be able to select a time that’s working for you.Greetings,Tobias -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [rc-ssl-oc] Robotcup Soccer in spanish TV show El Hormiguero Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 13:11:00 +0200 From: Sara <sara(a)7yaccion.com> To: rc-ssl-oc(a)lists.robocup.org CC: acerrudos(a)7yaccion.com Hi! My name is Sara Cordero, I'm contacting you from the Science Department of 'El Hormiguero' TV show (nominated for Emmys Awards). First of all I hope that you and your whole environment are fine despite the covid19. El Hormiguero is a prime time show on National Spanish TV and it’s broadcasted in the whole South America and parts of Asia. It’s a talk show with guests such as Will Smith, Hugh Jackman, Jessica Chastain, Tom Cruise, Ben Stiller, Lenny Kravitz, Jennifer Aniston, etc... We would love to invite you to be a part of our science section and do in the program a robot soccer game they do in the Robocup. We particularly like the category of small robots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_A8hrs6CT8). This video is from 2016, but I’ve seen a video from 2020 in which they seem to be participating. Could you put me in touch with any of the teams that compete in this video? You can see the science section here: https://www.antena3.com/programas/el-hormiguero/secciones/ciencia-marron/ Our science team have scientists of different fields which will contact you in case you need technical assistance. The show has a strong commitment to science and innovation, that’s why we perform scientific experiments every week and try to bring the latest scientific discoveries and technologies and the people behind it. We are pioneers in this type of show in Spain (we are now in our 14th season) and we have exported the format to many different countries. Here you can see some of the projects that we have brought the program: WORM ROBOT (Ken Nakagaki MIT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCNQV8S1hg http://www.antena3.com/programas/el-hormiguero/secciones/ciencia-marron/des… DRONE NAVIGATOR (Prof. Diez Rutgers University) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFfeWvXS5Uw http://www.antena3.com/programas/el-hormiguero/secciones/ciencia-marron/asi… SOUND LEVITATION (Yoichi Ochiai y Takayuki de la (University of Tsukuba) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3lalPg202Q http://www.antena3.com/programas/el-hormiguero/secciones/ciencia-marron/lev… MOOD METER (Javier Hernández Del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts) https://youtu.be/h5eU8cU_SDA?t=22 http://www.antena3.com/programas/el-hormiguero/secciones/ciencia-marron/esp… The show is filmed in Madrid and we perform every section live with the participation of the guest/s so we would need you to show your art live in our studios. The expenses of your whole trip and shipping will be covered by us. There will be a brief interview about how it's work. If you have any questions or concerns do not hesitate to let me know. Thank you very much for your attention. Best regards, Sara Cordero

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LAST CALL - RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi teams, Last days to sign up for RoboCup Brazil Open! Do not leave to the last minute! The event will be online, streamed live on our youtube channels. Already registered? Did you check if everyone on the team is registered correctly? If you have any questions, please send it to us by email at organizacao(a)cbrobotica.org ! *Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open* *The event will be virtual, with the same categories of RoboCup Federation* RoboCup Brazil launches the RoboCup Brazil Open, a virtual event with the same categories of the Robocup WorldWide. Registrations are now open for teams from all over the world. All the categories have been adapted and will happen in a fully remote format, using simulators, challenges and submission of articles written by the teams. Our goal is to disseminate the studies and technologies developed by universities in the field of robotics and IA. The event will happen in October 11th-15th, and will be broadcast through lives on the RoboCup Brazil Youtube channel. *Categories:* RoboCup Open Flying Robot Trial League Small Size Soccer Humanoid League Standard Plataform League (SPL) Simulation 2D Simulation 3D RoboCup at@Home IEEE Humanoid Robot Racing (HRR) IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit (SEK) IEEE Very Small Size Soccer RoboCup Junior Soccer Open RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Open * Registration* To participate, you and your team must register by september 15th, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 50 per team. *RoboCup Brasil is a non-profit civil association, organized by volunteer professors and researchers. The association holds the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, the Brazilian Robotics Competition and the National Robotics Show.-- Patrícia VergaraComunicação RoboCup Brasil(11) 9.8686-4993www.robocup.org.br <http://www.robocup.org.br>*

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CFP: RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)
by Asad Norouzi 03 Sep '21

03 Sep '21

*Apologies for duplicate messages* ============== Call for Participation =============== *RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021)* 25-29 November 2021 https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/participation.html RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 Aichi Japan (RCAP 2021) will be held at Aichi Sky Expo (Aichi International Convention & Exhibition Center), November 25-29, 2021. RCAP 2021 will be held in a hybrid ON-SITE and VIRTUAL format. Due to the current uncertainties of Covid-19, ON-SITE competitions will only open to participants from Japan. - ON-SITE Competitions: Participants from Japan. - VIRTUAL Competitions: Participants from all over the world. *LEAGUES:* Virtual Competitions are open to participants from all over the world, with most of the leagues of RoboCup 2021 Worldwide. For details of leagues, please refer to: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/leagues.html *REGISTRATION:* All teams are required to pre-register through the online form: https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/registration.html *IMPORTANT DATES:* - Deadline for pre-registration (both online and virtual competitions): 30 September 2021 - Announcement of qualified teams: 14 October 2021 - Deadline for registration: 4 November 2021 *REGISTRATION FEES:* The registration fee is waived for all Japanese teams/members. The registration fee for teams to participate in virtual competitions (except teams from Japan): - Major Team Registration Fee: Waived - Major Staff/Students: USD60/person - Junior Team Registration Fee: Waived - Junior Students/Mentors: USD40/person *SYMPOSIUM:* https://2021.robocupap.org/eng/symposium.html *CONTACT:* For inquiries please contact us via the hereunder email addresses: - Aichi Local Organizing Committee (General Enquiries, On-site competitions): - rcap2021(a)intergroup.co.jp - RCAP Office (Registration fees and payments, Virtual competitions): - office(a)robocupap.org For more information please visit our official website at https://2021 .robocupap.org/eng/index.html We look forward to welcoming you to RCAP 2021 Aichi Japan! Best Regards, RoboCup Asia-Pacific (RCAP) Office, RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021 (RCAP 2021) Organizing Committee ____________________________________

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RoboCup Brazil Open
by Comunicação RoboCup 23 Jul '21

23 Jul '21

Hi teams, *Registrations are open for RoboCup Brazil Open* *The event will be virtual, with the same categories of RoboCup Federation* RoboCup Brazil launches the RoboCup Brazil Open, a virtual event with the same categories of the Robocup WorldWide. Registrations are now open for teams from all over the world. All the categories have been adapted and will happen in a fully remote format, using simulators, challenges and submission of articles written by the teams. Our goal is to disseminate the studies and technologies developed by universities in the field of robotics and IA. The event will happen in October 11th-15th, and will be broadcast through lives on the RoboCup Brazil Youtube channel. In 2020, more than 700 students from Latin American attended the event. *Categories:* RoboCup Open Flying Robot Trial League Small Size Soccer Humanoid League Standard Plataform League (SPL) Simulation 2D Simulation 3D RoboCup at@Home IEEE Humanoid Robot Racing (HRR) IEEE Open IEEE Standard Educational Kit (SEK) IEEE Very Small Size Soccer RoboCup Junior Soccer Open RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Maze RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Primary RoboCup Junior Rescue Simulation Open * Registration* To participate, you and your team must register by August 30th, on the website: www.cbrobotica.org . The registration fee is US$ 50 per team. *RoboCup Brasil is a non-profit civil association, organized by volunteer professors and researchers. The association holds the Brazilian Robotics Olympiad, the Brazilian Robotics Competition and the National Robotics Show.* -- Patrícia Vergara Comunicação RoboCup Brasil +55 (11) 9.8686-4993 www.robocup.org.br

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Correction results and open OC/TC meeting
by Selina Zwerver 11 Jul '21

11 Jul '21

Hi everyone, It has come to our attention that we made a mistake in the calculation of the final ranking in the hardware challenges. A corrected version has now been published on the website <https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2021-results/>. We are very sorry for this. Open OC/TC Meeting We will host our annual Open OC/TC meeting on Sunday July 11th, at 15.00 GMT to discuss anything related to SSL and this year’s competition. Please remember to jot down your discussion topics on this document <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MMUPNaxnxabsZ1xzSWxMVwDUt4Kznjy9qhzeQUW…>, which we will use as a base to create the agenda for the meeting. Reminder: Feedback Please remember to fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcb_-6CX0CfHhPhiJKtQyqBDSK4vXjf94…> regarding feedback of the competition this year. It was a different style and we would like to know what went well and what did not. Some points of interest might later become topics in the Open OC/TC Meeting. If you have any questions about the new results or the meeting, please contact us. Kind regards, Selina Zwerver RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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End of RoboCup 2021
by Carla Cosenza 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Hello! As RoboCup 2021 comes to an end, we would like to thank everyone for participating! We know that circumstances were not ideal for us, but all the hard work and effort each and every one of you put in made this competition possible and amazing! We do have a few announcements for you about the competition and we hope to see everyone of you, in person, in Thailand next year! Awards and certificates In case you missed the awards ceremony, the list of the recipients of our awards and certificates can be found on the website<https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2021-awards/>, along with the final rankings<https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2021-results/> for all competitions. Group photo Given that it was not possible to have everyone together because of all the conflicting time zones, Selina made a compiled photo of everyone! You can also download the photo here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpvgCNZnBku5B07GmpZGE5Z2eomGaGCV/view?usp=…>. [https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/5aDSlZ9xj-tuxZ4NVxUiewyx22Y20qT4rfqbRuC_s…] Open OC/TC Meeting We will host our traditional OC/TC meeting to discuss anything related to SSL and this year’s competition. We know that everyone is tired and wants to rest after this intense week, so we will schedule it in the coming weeks. As to not forget what you want to discuss, please jot down your discussion topics on this document<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MMUPNaxnxabsZ1xzSWxMVwDUt4Kznjy9qhzeQUW…>, which we will use as a base to create the agenda for the meeting. Feedback We would also like teams to fill out this form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcb_-6CX0CfHhPhiJKtQyqBDSK4vXjf94…> regarding feedback of the competition this year. It was a different style and we would like to know what went well and what did not. Some points of interest might later become topics in the Open OC/TC Meeting. OC/TC/EC members for 2022 We are very happy to announce the committee members that will help organize SSL RoboCup 2022! Organizing committee: Carla Cosenza (Chair), Selina Zwerver, Tobias Heineken, and Shosei Fujita Technical committee: Nicolai Ommer (Chair), Mohammad Mahdi Shirazi, and Lucas Cavalcanti Executive committee: Toko Sugiura, Ersin Aytac, and Masahide Ito We would like to welcome the new members and ask them to email us in private to give us their contact information. Thank you and see you all next year! Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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