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Call for Participation
RoboCup 2014 Virtual Robot competition
July 19-25, 2014 (Joao Pessoa, BRAZIL)
http://www.robocup2014.org/
We would like to invite all robot rescue teams to participate in the 2014
RoboCup Rescue Simulation League World Championship.
If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your
team for the RoboCup 2014 Virtual Robot competition.
1) RoboCup Rescue Simulation League and Virtual Robot competition
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The RoboCup Rescue Simulation League is a socially relevant part of RoboCup
event. Its main purpose is to provide emergency decision support by integration
of disaster information, prediction, planning, and human interface.
A generic urban disaster simulation environment is constructed on network
computers. Heterogeneous intelligent agents such as fire fighters, commanders,
victims, volunteers, etc. conduct search and rescue activities in this virtual
disaster world. Real-world interfaces such as helicopter images synchronize the
virtuality and the reality by sensing data. Mission-critical human interfaces
such as PDAs support disaster managers, disaster relief brigades, residents,
and volunteers to decide their action to minimize the disaster damage.
Addressing this problem involves advanced and interdisciplinary research
themes. As AI/robotics research, for example, behavior strategy (e.g.,
multi-agent planning, realtime/anytime planning, heterogeneity of agents,
robust planning, mixed-initiative planning) is a challenging problem. For
disaster researchers, RoboCup Rescue works as a standard basis in order to
develop practical comprehensive simulators adding necessary disaster modules.
The Virtual Robot competition is based on USARSim, a high fidelity simulator.
Within USARSim users can simulate multiple agents whose capabilities closely
mirror those of real robots. USARSim currently features wheeled, tracked, and
air robots, as well as a wide range of sensors and actuators. Moreover, users
can easily develop models of new robotic platforms, sensors, and test
environments.
See for more information http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Rescue_Simulation_League
2) Pre-registration
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For the pre-registration please send before February 5 an email to
[email protected] with as attachment the following form filled in:
http://home.deib.polimi.it/amigoni/IntentVirtual2014.txt
3) Qualification material
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Besides the pre-registration please prepare before February 28 the following
qualification material:
A Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or
scientific results.
The TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS
format:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
The Team Description Paper is an overview of the methodologies you used and
intent to use
to control your robots inside the Virtual Robot competition. If applicable,
include a reference
to your latest publications.
The qualification material should be placed on a dedicated web page on the
team's home page.
Please include the link to the qualification material on the pre-registration
information.
4) Deadlines
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- Deadline for pre-registration Virtual Robot competition: February 5, 2014
- Deadline for qualification material Virtual Robot competition: February 28,
2014
- Team qualification notification: March 5, 2014
5) Rules
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The rules for the RoboCup 2014 Virtual Robot competition will be published at:
http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Rescue_Simulation_League#Rules
The latest version currently available is April 22, 2013.
It will be finalized with minor changes, also according to the input from the
participating teams.
We hope to see you all in Brazil.
on behalf of
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Sanaz Taleghani, Amir Abdi, and Francesco Amigoni,
2014 RoboCup Rescue Simulation Virtual Robot competition Technical committee
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