[robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation RoboCup Humanoid League 2009 / Now open for submission

[Oskar von Stryk]

Dear Teams Interested in Participation in the Humanoid League 2009,

The website for online submission of the qualification material
is now open at

	http://application.germanteam.org/entries/new

Please submit your material not later than *** February 6, 2009 ***.

It is expected to qualify 24 teams in KidSize and up to 16 teams
in TeenSize in total.

Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams
the qualification material of all teams will be made publicly available.

Finally, for the preparation of the new website we have to thank
Tim Laurinat and Thomas Roefer from Bremen a lot for their efforts!

With best regards,
Oskar von Stryk
(On behalf of HL 2009 organizational and technical committees)

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Oskar von Stryk wrote:

> 
>                    Call for Participation
> 
>                Robocup 2009 Humanoid League 
> 
>           June 29 - July 5, 2009 (Graz, Austria) 
>                 http://www.robocup2009.org/
> 
> 
> The interested team must provide the following qualification material 
> for evaluation to the technical committee of the humanoid robot league.
> 
> 1) Team Data:
>         - team name
>         - www home page of the team
>         - name of team leader or team contact person
>         - e-mail addreass of team leader or contact person
>         - postal address of the team
>         - competition class: kid or teen or both
> 
> 2) A video of a demonstration of sufficient skills of your team's
> autonomous, soccer playing humanoid robots. 
> Namely the following skills must be demonstrated in the video:
>         - localization of unknown ball position,
>         - walking ability towards the ball,
>         - robot positioning at the ball for kicking,
>         - kicking the ball towards the goal,
>         - ability of getting up autonomously from a fall.
> The maximum duration of the video is 5 minutes.
> The video must be supplied as a link to it at YouTube.
> No video means no qualification. 
> 
> 3) A team description paper which fully describes your humanoid robot
> system, your research interests and a summary of previous relevant
> work and publications. The paper must be concise and of 6 pages maximum.
> The TDP must be according to the LNCS format which 
> can be downloaded from
> http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
> The paper must be submitted in PDF format.
> 
> 
> 4) A one-page specification (PDF) for each different type of 
> humanoid robot used by the team that includes the followings:
>         - Robot picture
>         - Robot name
>         - Number of degrees of freedom
>         - Type of motors
>         - Computing unit
>         - Camera
>         - Sensors
>         - Walking speed
>         - Other specs
> 
> 
> Deadline for submission: *** February 6, 2009 ***
> 
> Announcement of qualified teams: February 23, 2009
> 
> The technical details on how and where to submit all 
> qualifying material will be announced soon.
> 
> 
> Technical and Organization Committees 
> of RoboCup Humanoid League 2009