[robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation / Intention to Participate - RoCKIn Competition 2014

[Pedro U. Lima]

[apologies for duplicates]

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Call for Participation - Intention to Participate
RoCKIn Competition 2014, November 26-30, 2014 (European Robotics Week)
Cité de L’Espace, Toulouse
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RoCKIn is short for “Robot Competitions Kick Innovation in Cognitive 
Systems and Robotics” and it is an EU-funded Coordination Action aiming 
at the promotion of research and education in Robotics through 
competitions (http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu).

After a successful sequence of two preparatory Camps where more than 70 
students did their first steps towards building a team, RoCKIn is now 
announcing the RoCKIn Competition 2014, to be held in Toulouse in the 
mind-blowing spaces of the science museum "La Cité de L’Espace” 
(http://www.cite-espace.com/en), November 26-30, 2014.

RoCKIn addresses two challenges — RoCKIn at Home and RoCKIn at Work —
that take  inspiration from the corresponding RoboCup competitions, but focus on 
benchmarking and networked robot systems. Both challenges require basic 
navigation capabilities for mobile platforms, advanced (possibly distributed)
perception, manipulation and human-robot interaction. 
RoCKIn at Home focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home 
environment, while the tasks to be performed in RoCKIn at Work target an 
industrial automation scenario. There will be two competition events 
during the project lifetime, both during the European Robotics Week, in 
November 2014 (Toulouse) and 2015 (Lisbon).

The initial details of the two competitions that will materialize the two 
challenges in the 2014 edition are available at 
http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu/rockin_work_nutshell.pdf and 
http://rockinrobotchallenge.eu/rockin_home_nutshell.pdf. The rulebook for 
both competitions will be available April 1st, 2014.

The full schedule fort the registration and qualification process for 
RoCKIn Competition 2014 is as follows:

Schedule
- Rulebook online: 01 April 2014
- Intention to participate deadline: 15 April 2014 (see below)
- Application deadline: 09 May 2014 (for all teams, even if no intention 
to participate was declared)
- Decision on Qualified Teams: 31 May 2014
- Registration open: 01 June 2014 - 1 July 2014 (for the qualified teams only)

Intention to Participate
All teams interested to participate in RoCKIn Competition 2014 are 
invited to declare such intention from now up to April 1st, 2014, by 
filling the online form available at http://rockincompetition.eu which 
addresses the following questions:

1. Team name + Affiliation
2. Expected number of team members
3. Competition where the team will participate;
4. Whether teams plan to bring their own robot or not;
5. Middleware used for software development.

Remarks
* intention to participate is used by the RoCKIn consortium for an early 
assessment of the potential number of participants, their hardware and 
software
* there will be no registration costs for qualified teams
* the RoCKIn consortium has been working on attracting sponsorship to 
ensure travel support, but for the moment no travel support should be 
expected
* we are also working with companies that might lend one of their robots 
during the competition, so as to include the possibility of accepting 
teams with no robot
* the team selection process will take into account the quality and 
novelty of research proposed by the team, the quality of the robot 
design, and other materials showing the potential ability of the team to 
guarantee high level performances during the competition
* if the number of teams qualified by May 31st is less than the capacity 
of the venue, a second round of the application and qualification process 
may take place.
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