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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 27 Jan '25

27 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 05 Dec '24

05 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 16 Jul '24

16 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) 16 Jul '24

16 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 16 Jul '24

16 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 10 Jul '24

10 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 21 Jun '24

21 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 21 Jun '24

21 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 19 Feb '24

19 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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