[robocup-worldwide] 1st Call for Participation - RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation 3D Competition

Tue Dec 31 11:02:30 EST 2013

Call for Participation

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RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation 3D League

July 20-24, 2014 (João Pessoa, Brazil)

http://www.robocup2014.org/

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The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great opportunity
to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot
hardware. It facilitates experimenting with different learning and
optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. Since the
games are played with teams of 11 players, the league is also a very good
environment for experimenting on multi-robot coordination methodologies.

We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2014 Soccer
Simulation League, 3D competition, which will take place July 20-24, 2014,
in João Pessoa, Brazil. If you are interested in participating, please
pre-register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below.

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Schedule

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Team Pre-Registration Deadline: *January 31, 2014 (23:59 UTC)*

Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline: February 14, 2014 (23:59
UTC)

Qualified Teams Announcement: March 1, 2014

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Pre-Registration

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All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline (31
of January, 2014). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to *lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt
<lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt> (cc: msimoes at uneb.br <msimoes at uneb.br>) *with the
subject *'2014 3DSim Pre-registration TEAM_NAME'*. The E-Mail should
contain the following information:

1. Team-Name:

2. Team-Leader:

3. E-Mail:

4. Country/ies:

5. Affiliation(s):

6. Number of team members:

You should receive a confirmation E-Mail for your pre-registration within a
few days of submission.

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Qualification

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Qualification is based on a team's current performance, previous
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions to the RoboCup
community in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list and development
of the simulator.

In RoboCup 2014, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D simulation
competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2013 (Apollo, UT Austin Villa
and FC Portugal) are automatically qualified after pre-registering their
teams and submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP). The other
21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.

The qualification deadline is *14 February 2014*. The OC does not accept
qualification materials from teams who have not been pre-registered by the
pre-registration deadline. Qualification material consists of:

*1. Team Description Paper (TDP)*

The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the
team. It should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in
addition to explicitly specifying what you have used from others' efforts
(including, but not limited to, any source code released by other teams or
their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be judged based on
their own work, so failing to acknowledge the work of others could result
in an immediate disqualification. The length of the TDP has to be at least
four (4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS
Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Please
submit the TDP only as a PDF document, with the name of your team in the
filename, i.e. ‘*teamname_TDP.pdf’*.

*2. A List of Publications and Achievements* on previous RoboCup Symposia
and in other relevant international journals and conferences. Please do not
include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please also
include your team's achievements in RoboCup and related events of previous
years. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also include
references to relevant research done by your team that shows its potential.
Please submit the contribution list as a PDF document, with the name of
your team in the filename, i.e. ‘*teamname_list.pdf*.

*3. Binary*

All teams should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use
these binaries to play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the
simulator used during the 2013 competitions held in Eindhoven (
http://www.robocup2013.org/3d-simulation-league/). These rules can be found
at: http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~sv08aav/RCSoccerSim3DRules2013.1.pdf

Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

   - Two scripts should be included: a start up script, called start.sh, to
   run a full team of agents and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill
   all agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can
   be found at the rules page given above.
   - All necessary external libraries should be included and be used
   locally by the binary. The OC will not make an effort to install extra
   libraries on the qualification systems.
   - The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard
   output or to files and no graphical (debugging) interface should be used.
   - The binary should be compiled for *64 bit* systems and should work on
   a modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu 12.10. You may also send 32
   bit binaries, but it is your responsibility to make sure that it runs
   correctly on 64 bit distributions. You can assume that basic 32 bit
   libraries (e.g. libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS.

To summarize: the binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean,
headless system in a restricted sand box environment with the simulation
server (possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to
fix errors. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be
notified and will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline of *14
February, 2014*.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name,
create a tarball name *teamname.tgz* and E-Mail it to *lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt
<lpreis at dsi.uminho.pt> (cc: msimoes at uneb.br <msimoes at uneb.br>) *with the
subject: '*2014 3DSim Qualification TEAM_NAME*'. If everything went well
you will receive a confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation
within two (2) days, please contact the Organizing Committee.

Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in
this E-Mail. Also, the following general qualification limitations will be
considered:

   - One-Third-Rule: The so called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up
   to 1/3 of the participants of a competition may be from the same country.
   - One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states
   that only one team from each university or research institute is allowed to
   participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different teams from
   the same institute to participate in different competitions, e.g. 2D and 3D
   soccer.

If you encounter any problem sending you qualification materials please
don't hesitate to contact the OC.

Best Regards,

Luis Paulo Reis & Marco Simões

On Behalf of Organizing Committee

RoboCup 2014 Soccer Simulation 3D

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Associate Professor at University of Minho - DSI/School of Engineering
University of Minho, Campus de Azurém 4800-058 Guimarães
Member of the Directive Board of LIACC - Artificial Intelligence
and Computer Science Lab.
President of the Portuguese Society for Robotics
Tel. +351 253510312 / +351 919455251 / Fax: +351 253510300
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