[robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2014 - MSL Call for participation

[Jose Luis Azevedo]

Dear all,
Please find below the call for participation for the RoboCup 2014 MSL World
Championships to be held in João Pessoa, Brazil (19-25 July, 2014).

Best regards
Jose Luis Azevedo

Note for new teams or teams planning to renew their hardware: the TURTLE-5k
consortium provides a low-cost base platform for RoboCup MSL. As of this
season TURTLE-5k robots will be produced and sold at cost-price. More info
via www.turtle5k.org'


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Call for Participation

RoboCup 2014 Middle Size League

July 19-25, 2014 (João Pessoa, Brazil)
http://www.robocup2014.org/
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We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2014 RoboCup
MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take
the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2014 MSL competitions.

1) Pre-registration
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For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to
rc-msl-oc at lists.robocup.org containing the following data:
- team name
- URL of the team’s home page
- name of the team leader
- e-mail address of team or team leader
- affiliation
- country
- link to the qualification materials

2) Qualification materials
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By the time of pre-registration, please have ready the following
qualification materials:
- list of five RoboCup related scientific publications
- overview of the performance in past events
- 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)
- a qualification video (the maximum duration of the video is 1 minute)
- an overview of the contributions to the MSL community
- a mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow
chart (please include size and weight of the robots)

The details regarding the qualification materials are contained in the
rules and regulations document available at
http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League. Please read it thoroughly.

The qualification materials should be placed in a dedicated page of the
team's web page. Please include the link to the qualification materials in
the pre-registration information.

3) Important dates
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- Deadline for pre-registration and submission of the qualification
materials: February 14, 2014
- Announcement of qualified teams: February 28, 2014

4) Rules
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The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2014 Middle Size League will be
published at
http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League

The updated rules and regulations will be released by December 31, 2013, at
the latest.

5) Publication
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Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the
qualification materials of the qualified teams will be made publicly
available. Teams applying for participation therefore grant the right of
publication of their qualification materials to the MSL league.

6) Plagiarism
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Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and
ideas (see “
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html”
for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community.
The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present
it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and
team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually
the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat
offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be
disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has
started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their
disqualification.

We hope to welcome you all in João Pessoa.

With kind regards,

The 2014 RoboCup MSL Organizing and Executive committees.

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Jose Luis Azevedo
University of Aveiro
Dep. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal
Tlf. +351.234 370500 / Fax. +351.234 370545
(jla at ua.pt)
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