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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 07 Feb '22

07 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 01 Feb '22

01 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 30 Jan '22

30 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 30 Jan '22

30 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 28 Jan '22

28 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 12 Jan '22

12 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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Candidate recommendation for 2021-2022 TC/OC members
by Masahide ITO 26 Jun '21

26 Jun '21

Dear SSL RoboCuppers, The current EC members (Joydeep, Ersin, and Masa) are looking for a nice person as a TC/OC/EC member to RoboCup 2022. Could you please (self-)recommend candidates of TC/OC members to RoboCup 2022 at the following link?: https://forms.gle/5EEeSsFRuM3dwt8e6 Note that - *one* answer from one team can be accepted; - the deadline is 12:00 UTC on Friday 25 June. Let’s enjoy RoboCup 2021!! Thanks! Best regards, Joydeep, Ersin, and Masa

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RoboCup 2021 – Open Source Award Submission RoboFEI
by Bruno Bollos 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Dear SSL community, Since the end of 2020, we have been releasing a good number of repositories as open source software. We are doing it for two main reasons. Firstly, we believe on the give-a-penny-take-a-pennyconcept. Based on this principle, since we are daily using lots of open source software developed by the Small Size League Community, we should also share our software in a sign of gratitude, in a way of contributing to the community have always supported us. Secondly, we believe that sharing software is important for educational purposes, we have learned a lot from open source software (like how to rewrite and reuse a piece of software) and we hope that, releasing our software to the public, we can help others in that way too. Sharing software is equivalent to sharing knowledge, which is beneficial for everyone. Below you will find our publications on the last year: Software (SSL-Strategy) Link: <https://gitlab.com/robofei/ssl/SSL-Strategy> Languages:C++ (almost 99% of the source code); Python; QMake This is the software that we use during RoboCup matches. Its main purpose is to control one team during a Small Size League game. The GUI is highly customizable (with options like selecting number of defenders and offenders, the maximum speed of the robots, the maximum strength of a kick and so on). It has a nice graphical client for visualizing the field and some options, like the interaction with the simulator. The source code and the interface are all in Brazilian Portuguese idiom, so it might be difficult to use it for non-Portuguese speakers. Nevertheless, we are planning to add an English translation to the software; that way, the GUI could be used in both, English and Portuguese languages. Software (LogAnalyserRoboFEI-SSL) Link: <https://gitlab.com/robofei/ssl/LogAnalyserRoboFei-SSL> Languages:C++; QMake This software is based on the Robocup Small Size League C++ Log Tools (https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-logtools) and on the RoboFEI Small Size League Main Software (https://gitlab.com/robofei/ssl/SSL-Strategy). It provides a simple log player combined with a graphical client can that read vision and referee messages (from the network or directly from the log player). Furthermore it provides more options for loading and playing a match log file; for example, it is possible to ignore the match states when the game is stopped or halted and consider the other states. The Kalman filter from our main software is also embedded with the application. Other additional functionalities like, download the Match League Log Files directly from the software and the use of predefined shortcuts provides an easy environment for the user watch Small Size League matches recorded or in real time. At last, the Enable Analysis option activates a feature that can check when a shoot move or pass move occurs and evaluates this move in a 0 to 250 scale. At the end, a file is generated with the results. We are working on an implementation that provides a game statistics viewer tool that shows statistics of the game (like the ball possession, the amount of passes and pass precision, shoots to goal and so on), but it is still in development. Software (JoystickRobotController): Link: <https://gitlab.com/robofei/ssl/joystickrobotcontroller> Languages:C++; QMake The objective of this software is to easily test the RoboFEI robots – verifying if the robots wheels, kick sensor, dribbler, and other components are working properly. It makes it possible to control the robot, either with a joystick controller or with a computer keyboard. Sincerely, The RoboFEI team.

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Robot Specs
by Carla Cosenza 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Dear SSL Teams, There have been some complaints about the acceleration and max_speed in the simulation. While we intended to model the fact that we all have real robots and all robots are different, we noticed that the accelerations and speeds are not what we expected. Some teams that performed very well in terms of acceleration and speed during the last physical RoboCup in Sydney seem to be ending up at the slow side in this year's simulation. This could be due to improper specification regarding the kind of acceleration we meant (perfect conditions or something you can reach reliably), or teams could have copied others if they had no idea how to get these values or weren't able to go to their lab to determine them. Furthermore, we as the TC/OC might be to blame for not coming up with a good scalable way of checking the values you submitted, and teams preferring overestimating themselves over underestimating. Whatever it might be, the TC/OC decided that we will switch to a common acceleration profile, starting from the lucky losers and knockout matches. The common accelerations will be the average of all submitted specs, i.e: acc_speedup_absolute_max: 4.7, acc_speedup_angular_max: 50.8, acc_break_absolute_max: 5.9, acc_break_angular_max: 51.6, vel_absolute_max: 3.7, vel_angular_max: 26.2 We apologize for the inconvenience. Carla Cosenza RoboCup Small Size League | Organizing Committee

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RoboCup 2021 – Open Source Award Submission TIGERs Mannheim
by Andre R. 22 Jun '21

22 Jun '21

Dear SSL-community, as in the past years we are very happy to announce our entry for the Open Source Award. We are doing a complete and full release of everything we have, including electronics, mechanics, and our full AI. Below, you will find a list of our publications. The documentation or description is included within the individual packages. Mechanics: A completely redesigned robot (v2020), already online for over a year now as announced on Discord. https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim/mechanics Electronics: New electronics with a faster charging kicker, more robustness and our new pattern identification system (detects the pattern on the robots cover). https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim/electronics Firmware: New onboard control algorithm with friction modelling and compensation for our new wheel arrangement of v2020 robots. A lot of smaller bugfixes as well. Also includes our wireless protocol and base station firmware. https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim/Firmware Software (AI): The heart and brain of our team, the central control software Sumatra. Available as download: https://tigers-mannheim.de/download/release2021/Software-2021.tar.gz And on Github: https://github.com/TIGERs-Mannheim/Sumatra Of course, compatible with the simulation protocol. So you can test your AI against ours locally. 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 2021 - Open Source Award Submission ER-Force
by Paul Bergmann 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

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 - simulate this year's SSL games - control robots - create game recordings and play them back ...and much more. 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 ER-Force -- Robotics Erlangen e.V.

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Team TritonsRCSC Poster
by Hongtao Zhang 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Hi, RoboCup SSL OC/TC, The poster for our team is attached to this email. Thank you, Sincerely

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Schedule & Friendly Matches during Robocup 2021
by Tobias Heineken 20 Jun '21

20 Jun '21

Dear SSL Teams, I'm excited for this years competition, starting in a few hours from now. I wanted to write some lines regarding the schedule and friendly matches. Firstly, please keep a close eye on the tournament overview, found https://scheduling.virtual.ssl.robocup.org/tournament_overview, especially for your referee assignments (but also for your matches). The schedule has to be dynamic this year to allow everyone to play in daytime, so it updates automatically when results are entered. In this years complicated schedule it is very important to avoid unnecessary delays. Make sure your team is ready to play at the required time (and not half an hour late). Make also sure to wake up early to check if new matches for your team or new referee assignments were scheduled during your local night. If matches do run over, try to start the next match on time by switching to a different field. Please be prepared to switch fields on relatively short notice. Also, if you are the referee, please insert (and check to insert the result correctly (!)) the results into https://scheduling.virtual.ssl.robocup.org/results. As the schedule is highly dynamic, we need you to insert these results to continue planning and searching for a fair schedule for everyone. There will be issues if results are not inserted within a few hours, so please insert them directly after the game ended. Just like in a normal Robocup, we also provide you with time on the official fields for testing purposes. You can request friendly matches (or just time on the official fields) via https://scheduling.virtual.ssl.robocup.org/request_friendly. To log in, just use your teams login for the vnc. If you'd like to use an already taken slot, and there's just one team playing against themselves at that time, try to ask them if you can share the field. Most of the time teams don't actually need the full field :) Friendlies during the first half group stage are simple: if there are fields still open, the scheduler will give that field to you. If your request is denied and there are still open fields, it is most likely conflicting with an official event like the opening ceremony. As soon as one group finishes, there will be no friendly matches until all groups have finished. This may sound overly restrictive, but is necessary. If you schedule a friendly for after the group stage, but the group stage results aren't in yet, the decision is postponed until we know the results for each group. Please be patient in a case like this where your request might be pending for hours, it most likely is this very case where we just cannot guess the results of the group stage and multiply the already large search-tree by 4! ** 4. As soon as the group staged is completely over, the scheduler runs through all of the remaining ~2**26 possible schedules to verify your request. So if your request is denied, you can try a different time, or you can try again later - especially if there is still some time until your booked time slot - when more results are in and some of the schedules have become no longer relevant. See you, Tobias Heineken Organizing Committee

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Demo Match!
by Carla Cosenza 19 Jun '21

19 Jun '21

Hello Small Size League! As stated in a previous email, we will be hosting a demonstration match this weekend so teams can see how the virtual tournament will be. This match will happen tomorrow, Sunday 20th, 2021, at 10:00 GMT. The match will be held on Field A; you can find the links to the zoom sessions of each field/challenge in the SSL gather.town that you should have been invited to by Underline, so please don’t forget to join! We would like to thank TIGERs and ER-Force for agreeing to participate in this demo match and we hope to see you all there! For those teams that cannot be present at that time, we will record it and have it posted for everyone. Thank you! Carla Cosenza

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RoboCup 2021 Small Size League 1 week update
by Carla Cosenza 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Hello! As RoboCup is getting closer and closer, we would like to give a few updates regarding the competition! Ball Placement Technical Challenge In an email a long time ago, we stated that the Ball Placement Technical Challenge would be mandatory for all teams in division B. Given that we are not using division this year and we only mentioned this in the TC rules, not in any email, we have decided to not make it mandatory for this year. So far, we have interpreted the type of the technical challenge based on past division participation. If you wanted to participate in the blackout challenge, but never participated in division A, please let us know. Providing Referees As usual, teams are expected to provide referees for matches. The rules specify four roles: Primary referee, assistant referee, game-controller operator and vision expert. We do not need the vision-expert this year. Each match will have a primary and a secondary team assigned for being referee. The primary team will provide the primary referee and the GC operator, the other will provide the assistant referee. However, both teams should be prepared to provide two people, because in case the primary refereeing team does not show up in time, the secondary team will take over and thus needs two persons. Updated Schedule We updated the schedule to make the group stage a bit less dense. By increasing the time between the matches, we had to redo all referee assignments. Take a look at the new schedule: [https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/05rIIMWIsSj-KqlkAfIwo-w8ULEiOmfYrFeR1B6A2…] When TC / OC are scheduled as referees, these are placeholders for the automated referee assignment. This happens when every team is either playing a match, having their rest, or is already refereeing at that time slot. We will need additional volunteering teams to cover these. This is especially relevant at 21-06-21 13:00, where we have scheduled 3 placeholders. Please let us know if you can help us cover those :) Hopefully, the schedule shouldn’t change anymore for the group stage. Procedure documentation We have added the detailed procedure and requirements for the hardware challenge in the rules, see https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-hardware-challenge-rules/rules.html#_requ… and https://robocup-ssl.github.io/ssl-hardware-challenge-rules/rules.html#_gene… Scenario JSON-files for all challenges are also included in the repository: https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-hardware-challenge-rules You are allowed to touch your software between each trial to initialize the scenarios, but you are not allowed to change anything for the scenario execution itself in between a challenge. We found this to be the most practical procedure. Please be fair and respect these rules. We also added the procedure for the referee of the virtual tournament matches to the website: https://ssl.robocup.org/robocup-2021-virtual-tournament/ Demonstration match We plan to do a demonstration match on the weekend to show how everything works with the virtual infrastructure. We will also record it so that everyone can watch it again. Stay tuned for more detailed information. Reminder: Access to the virtual environment We’d like to remind you that you can test the virtual tournament setup already. The servers are reachable here: https://virtual.ssl.robocup.org/ You need to provide your customized container and your robot specs via pull-request as mentioned in previous mails. You can have a look at PRs from other teams to get a better idea of what you are supposed to submit: https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-simulation-setup/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Acl… As soon as you have submitted both, ask for the credentials for your team, either via Discord per private message to Nicolai, or by email to the TC and OC mailing list. RoboCup Events The general organisation of the RoboCup organises several events during the week. The events and the times they take place in UTC are: * Opening Ceremony: 23th of June, 13:00-14:00 * Symposium Keynote Speaker 1: 23th of June 14:00-15:00 * Symposium Keynote Speaker 2: 25th of June, 13:30 - 14:30 * Symposium: 28th of June, 7:00-21:00 * Major/Junior Award Ceremony: 28th of June, 12:00-13:00 The schedule can also be seen here<https://2021.robocup.org/participants/schedule>. The schedule for the symposium can be seen here<https://2021.robocup.org/symposium>. These events will be hosted on underline.io. A link will be sent later. Attendance at these events is not mandatory, but is expected. 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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RoboCup 2021 Small Size League 2 week update
by Carla Cosenza 13 Jun '21

13 Jun '21

Sorry for sending this again, I sent the email to the old email league address. Hello! As RoboCup is getting closer and closer, we would like to give a few updates regarding the competition! Virtual competition schedule The OCs and TCs have put together a draft schedule for the virtual competition. This schedule only englobes the Round Robin, as the schedule for the next part of the competition will depend on what position the teams are in. We would like to remind everyone that this is a draft, and may be subject to changes. With all the different time zones, we cannot guarantee that the matches will happen at the time they are planned. The stated times are in the UTC time zone. [https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tGIIUvi1w2ON1DOYCNCwyfDj3x2Dx2mTEflFVcSN_…] The overall structure of the virtual tournament is as follows: The winner of each group proceeds to the upper tournament, while the last placed team proceeds to the lower tournament. 2nd and 3rd place play Lucky Loser matches, A vs D and C vs B (four games, LL1: A3/D2, LL2: A2/D3, LL3: B2/C3 and LL4: B3/C2). The winner of these matches proceeds to the upper tournament, the losers to the lower tournament. Both, the upper and the lower tournament, follow a normal double elimination structure<https://www.printyourbrackets.com/pdfbrackets/8teamDoubleSeeded.pdf>, using the following seeds (please note that these seeds do not contain any advantage / disadvantage apart from being 1-4 compared to 5-8, but are listed here so everyone can reconstruct the identical schedule): Upper Tournament seeds: 1: 1st place in group A 2: 1st place in group D 3: 1st place in group B 4: 1st place in group C 5: Winner LL1 6: Winner LL2 7: Winner LL4 8: Winner LL3 Lower Tournament seeds: 1: Loser LL1 2: Loser LL3 3: Loser LL4 4: Loser LL2 5: 4th place in group C 6: 4th place in group D 7: 4th place in group A 8: 4th place in group B Poster session As stated before, we will host a poster session during the competition week. Teams should have a visual presentation about their robots and software to share with the rest of the league. This presentation should be in PDF and sent to the OCs by email until June 20th, 2021. The PDF file can have up to 4 pages with any size. We will soon open up three poster sessions, teams will sign up for whichever time slot is best for them. 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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Welcome to new SSL mailing list
by Flavio Tonidandel 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Dear robocup-small subscribers, RoboCup IT Team has been migrating the mailing lists which are still hosted at Georgia Tech, to a server at robocup.org, because the old mailing list is being blocked by an increasing number of servers. The new address of the list (to be used to send messages to all the subscribers) is robocup-small(a)lists.robocup.org <mailto:robocup-small@lists.robocup.org> . The old address will be closed as soon as possible. Therefore, please update the list address with the new one and remove the old one. Please note that the old passwords are not usable anymore. In order to get your password, please enter your email address on https://lists.robocup.org/options/robocup-small and then click on the remind button. You will receive an email with your password immediately. In addition, you can share the list link via https://lists.robocup.org/listinfo/robocup-small. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. Best regards, Flavio Tonidandel on behalf of RoboCup IT Team

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