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March 2022 Update
by Tobias Heineken 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

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

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

03 Mar '22

Dear RoboCuppers, Please consider submitting your paper to this year's symposium! Call for papers RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-papers/ 17 July 2022 Bangkok, Thailand (hybrid setting) The 25th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. We call for submissions of papers reporting innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence as listed below. Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions or have a RoboCup team. The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bangkok, Thailand, with remote participation options for both presenters and attendees. In addition to the regular track with regular research papers, there is the development track encouraging reports on innovative hardware developments, software frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects and benefits to the practice of communities working in the above fields in general and RoboCup in particular. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of full papers: 17 April 2022 Notification to authors: 5 June 2022 Submission of camera-ready copies: 26 June 2022 RoboCup Symposium 2022: 17 July 2022 (RoboCup on 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference. Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022). Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf: https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-… TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Robot Hardware and Software - mobile robotics - humanoid robotics - sensors and actuators - embedded and mobile devices - robot construction and new materials - robot system integration - robot software architectures - robot programming environments and languages - real-time and concurrent programming - robot simulators - sim2real learning * Perception and Action - 3D perception - distributed sensor integration - sensor noise filtering - real-time image processing and pattern recognition - motion and sensor models - sensory-motor control - robot kinematics and dynamics - high-dimensional motion control * Robot Cognition and Learning - world modelling and knowledge representation - learning from demonstration and imitation - localisation, navigation, and mapping - planning and reasoning - decision making under uncertainty - neural systems and deep learning - complex motor skill acquisition - reinforcement learning and optimisation - motion and sensor model learning * Human-Robot Interaction - robot social intelligence - fluency of interaction - speech synthesis and natural language generation - natural language recognition - explainable robot behaviours - emotion recognition and reaction - understanding human intent and behaviour - safety, security and dependability - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour * Multi-Robot Systems - team coordination methods - communication protocols - learning and adaptive systems - teamwork and heterogeneous agents - dynamic resource allocation - adjustable autonomy * Education and Edutainment - robotics and artificial intelligence education - educational robotics - robot kits and programming tools - robotic entertainment * Applications and Benchmarking - search and rescue robots - robot surveillance - service and social robots - robots at home, at work and in public spaces - robots in the real world - performance metrics - human-robot interaction DEVELOPMENT TRACK To encourage open-source release of hardware and software systems, the RoboCup International Symposium has included a development track in recent years. In 2021, we expand the scope of this track to include datasets and benchmarks. We encourage the submission of papers describing open-source hardware and software, tools and frameworks that facilitate development of robotics hardware and software, datasets that enable new robotic capabilities, as well as benchmarks that establish reproducible test beds and performance metrics to advance research. If applicable, contributions to the special track should include evidence of the released system or dataset, and highlight past, ongoing, and/or potential future impacts on the RoboCup community. A review of these contributions will be based on technical merit and benefits to the RoboCup community and the research topics listed above. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego CONTACT robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org<mailto:robocupsymposium2022@easychair.org>

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RoboCup International Symposium 2022 - Call for Satellite Events
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 24 Feb '22

24 Feb '22

* Call for Satellite Events * RoboCup International Symposium 2022 https://2022.robocup.org/symposium-call-for-satellite-events/ Submission of proposals: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) =========================================================== We invite you to organize a satellite event for the 25th RoboCup International Symposium, which will be held on 17 July 2022, in conjunction with RoboCup 2022 (11 July to 17 July 2022) in a hybrid setting. The RoboCup symposium is an annual event in which innovative, original research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence is presented. The Symposium Program Co-Chairs would like to facilitate the organization of satellite workshops, focus groups, roundtable discussions, and other events that are related to RoboCup itself or the general aim of the RoboCup Symposium. This includes league-specific discussions about rules and/or roadmaps, shared infrastructure projects between leagues, as well as scientific workshops focusing on a particular research topic, among others. League committee members, as well as teams or individuals from RoboCup leagues participating in the Symposium, are invited to submit their proposals. The organizers of a satellite event are free to propose events between 2 and 8 hours in length to be held during or a day after the RoboCup Symposium (17 or 18 July) in a fully virtual, hybrid, or fully local format. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission of satellite events: 3 April 2022 Notification to authors: 25 April 2022 Satellite Events: 17 or 18 July 2022 (RoboCup 2022: 11-17 July 2022) SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS ========================== Proposals will be evaluated by the Symposium Program Co-Chairs based on their thematic relevance to the RoboCup Symposium as well as their proposed schedule and required resources. Satellite events will not be included in the RoboCup Symposium proceedings. Proposals should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines [0] and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic submission system [1]. Please follow the LaTeX template created by us by either downloading the template file [2] or by creating a private copy of this Overleaf template [3]. Submissions are limited to a 4-page extended abstract, excluding references. Each submission must include the following sections: * Name of the satellite event * A description of the format (e.g., discussion group, workshop, tutorial, invited talks, ...) and intended length of the event * Prefered date and time of the event (17 or 18; morning or afternoon, or the whole day [no lunch will be provided unless it’s on the 17th]) * A description of the content and aim of the satellite event * Names and contacts of all members of the organizing committee/group with one clearly marked person as the corresponding member of the organizing committee * The intended audience and the number of participants expected * Any resources required to organize the workshop After the acceptance of their proposal, organizers are expected to create a short description of their event as well as a website providing further information which will both be linked from the RoboCup symposium page on the RoboCup 2022 website. Organizers of accepted proposals for satellite events will receive a location for their event as well as other required resources (e.g., a projector), if possible. Apart from this, the organizers are responsible for organizing their event independent of the RoboCup Symposium. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS ================== Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann, University of Potsdam, Germany Nuno Lau, University of Aveiro, Portugal Thanapat Wanichanon, Mahidol University, Thailand Amy Eguchi, University of California San Diego, USA CONTACT ======= robocupsymposium2022(a)easychair.org [0] https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… [1] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=robocupsymposium2022 [2] https://2022.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Symposium-Satellite-Eve… [3] https://de.overleaf.com/read/gqspxdtvpwsn

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Peer Review
by Carla Cosenza 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

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

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Omid
by Omid Robotics 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

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

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2022 Qualification Video <ITAndroids>
by Arthur Rodrigues 03 Feb '22

03 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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