[robocup-worldwide] Deadline Extension: Call for Participation 3D Development Competition RoboCup2011

[Klaus Dorer]

Hello all,

since teams are quite busy these days with Iran Open and German Open
competitions we have extended the deadline for 3D Development
competition to April 15th.
Below you find the original call. The following two dates are changed now:

Qualification Material Submission: 15.4.2011
Qualification Results: 25.4.2011

Best wishes,
Klaus

On behalf of the simulation league technical committee RoboCup 2011



On 17.01.2011 17:32, Klaus Dorer wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> ============================================================
> Call for 3D Development Competition RoboCup2011 entries [1]
> ============================================================
> 
> Important Date: March 31st, 2011 Qualification Material Submission
> 
> Important Note: 3DD competition will only be held
> if at least four teams are accepted by the TC!
> 
> 3D Development competition has been part of soccer simulation league
> since RoboCup2005. The main idea behind the development competition is
> to get more input from the community in order to speed up the
> development of the 3D simulator.
> During these years, some of the work from teams participating in 3DD
> competition merged with the 3D simulator but some of them were a bit far
> from the road map of the soccer simulation league.
> 
> As in last years teams will be evaluated by Technical Committee (TC)
> from the time they submit their material. TC and MC will express teams
> its opinion and teams should consider these notes. The following
> describes the procedure.
> 
> 
> Competition scenario: Heterogeneous robots
> ------------------------------------------
> Different to last years, there is a fixed topic to which teams
> participating should contribute: heterogeneous robots.
> We plan to have different robot types available in 2012 3D simulation
> competition.
> This year's 3DD development competition should path the way to it.
> 
> Participation is done in following steps:
> 1. Submit your qualification material which consists of a 4 page (A4
> LNCS) paper describing in detail how you suggest to have 3D simulation
> compete with different robots. (See also below)
> 
> 2. Teams will be informed if they qualified for the competition.
> 
> 3. Qualified teams submit their code/documentation to the technical
> committee just before RoboCup 2011
> 
> 4. Qualified teams present the implementation of their suggestion at
> RoboCup 2011.
> 
> 
> Qualification material structure
> ----------------------------------
> It should be in LNCS format and express the following:
> 1. Research title and authors
> 
> 2. The qualification paper should make clear in detail
> - the competition format you envision, like if you plan to allow teams
> to suggest/adjust robot models
> or if you plan to have predefined robot models to select from
> - what the robot models look like, e.g. is it a variation of sizes,
> masses, forces of the current Nao
> or do you allow for new joints or similar or do you plan to add a
> completely new robot model
> - how you achieve balance between different robot types so that not each
> team is ending up using 'the best' robot
> 
> 3. How you plan to implement your suggestion into the 3D simulator for
> the 3DD competition at RoboCup 2011 and what requirements
> (software/hardware) it has.
> It is important that this part is convincing to be doable in the current
> simulator and with respect to the time table.
> 
> 4. Previous related work of the team
> 
> 5. Previous related publications of the team
> 
> 
> Competition format
> ----------------------------------
> Qualified teams should implement their suggested competition format and
> suggested robots or robot variations to be able to present a demo at
> RoboCup 2011.
> Each team is allowed 20 minutes to present their idea and
> implementation. The audience is
> the teams participating in 3D simulation.
> Evaluation will be by teams election after presentation at RC2011 and
> the vote of the TC.
> The evaluation of entries by TC is based on the usefulness, maturity and
> integration of the
> proposed approach into the current simulator.
> 
> 
> Time Table
> ---------------------------------
> * Qualification Material Submission: 31.3.2011
> * Qualification Results: 15.4.2011
> * First source code and documentation submission: 18.06.2011
> * Team Presentation: TBA by OC (during RC2011 event) and announcement of
> winners
> * Final source code and documentation submission: 10.07.2011
> 
> 
> Submission of the qualification material
> ----------------------------------------
> In order to submit your paper, send it to
> 
> klaus.dorer at fh-offenburg.de
> 
> before the deadline. The paper should be in pdf format.
> You should receive a receipt within few days.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Klaus
> 
> On behalf of the simulation league technical committee
> RoboCup 2011
> 
> [1] http://www.robocup2011.org/
>