[robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2015 Humanoid League - Call for Participation
Daniel Seifert
dseifert at fumanoids.de
Wed Dec 24 08:19:03 EST 2014
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2015 Humanoid League
http://www.robocuphumanoid.org
July 17-23th, 2015 (Hefei, China)
http://www.robocup2015.org
The RoboCup humanoid league is inviting interested teams to apply for
participation at the RoboCup 2015 competition in Hefei, China.
The humanoid league will host competitions in three classes:
* KidSize: 40 - 90cm robot height (FIFA size 1 ball)
* TeenSize: 80 - 140cm robot height (FIFA size 3 ball; maximum weight
20kg)
* AdultSize: 130 - 180cm robot height (FIFA size 5 ball; minimum weight
10kg)
For more detailed class definitions and more information about the
humanoid league, please refer to the humanoid league home page at
http://www.robocuphumanoid.org/ and join the humanoid league mailing
list at https://lists.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-humanoid
Due to restrictions on the number of teams able to participate at RoboCup
2015, all teams must provide the qualification material described below.
The technical committee will evaluate the qualification material and select
the best teams.
1) Team Data
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- Team name
- URL of the team's home page
- Name of team leader or team contact person
- E-mail address of team leader or contact person
- Postal address of the team, team leader or contact person
- Competition class: kid or teen or adult size
Please note that teams applying for participation in several classes
must submit individual application material for each class and pay the
appropriate registration fee for each class. At least one team member
must register on each team. Furthermore, teams in different classes
must be able to compete independently and at the same time.
2) Robot Video
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The first part of the qualification material is a video of your
robot demonstrating your team's autonomous soccer playing skills.
The minimum standard for qualification is:
- 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 (Kid Size)
However, more complex and intelligent behavior of teams of robots
demonstrating localization and team play are preferred, particularly
recordings from actual soccer matches.
The qualification video must be supplied as a link to it via www.youtube.com
.
The maximum duration of the video is 5 minutes. The qualifying team is
responsible to ensure that the video adheres to YouTube's TOS (especially
in regards to music copyright) to prevent the video from being blocked
for the reviewers. Videos not viewable by the reviewers may lead to a team
not being qualified.
No video means no qualification!
3) Team Description Paper
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A team description paper (TDP) must be submitted which
- fully describes the scientific aspects of your humanoid robot
system and your research interests,
- includes a summary of previous relevant achievements in
research and development as well as publications,
- mentions prior performance in RoboCup competitions
- points out enhancements of the robots' hardware or software
compared to the previous year
- states explicitly whether software from other teams is used
and if yes, which parts are used and what the team's own
contributions are
The TDP is limited to 8 pages maximum and must be submitted in PDF format.
Resubmitting of last year's TDP will prevent qualification.
The TDP must follow the LNCS format which can be downloaded from
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0
Please pay special attention to the "Author guidelines" that you'll
be able to find there. You are expected to follow all LNCS formatting
and style guidelines.
The quality of the TDP and the robot video will be decisive for
qualification.
Other evaluation criteria include contributions to
the RoboCup community by release of significant papers or software.
New teams and teams from countries that have not previously taken
part in RoboCup competitions may be given priority.
Teams are encouraged to consider joint participation. Joint proposals will
be judged on combined merit.
4) Letter of commitment
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A one-page letter addressed to the RoboCup Humanoid League Technical
Committee including the following:
- a statement committing to participate in the
RoboCup 2015 Humanoid League competition,
- a statement committing to make a person with sufficient
knowledge of the rules available as referee during the
competition,
The letter must be printed, hand signed by the team leader, digitally
scanned and submitted either as a JPG, PNG or PDF file.
The TC may include the fulfillment of the statement of commitment of
participation as well as the performance of the team's referee in previous
RoboCup competitions into consideration for qualification.
5) Robot Specification
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A one-page specification (PDF) for each different type of
humanoid robot used by the team that includes the followings:
- Robot picture
- Robot name
- Height of the robot
- Weight of the robot
- Walking speed in cm/s
- Number of degrees of freedom and type of motors on each
kinematic chain of the robot
- Type of sensors used (incl. type of camera(s))
- Computing unit(s)
- Other specs
6) Plagiarism
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Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words,
code, and ideas is not tolerated in the RoboCup community. See
http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html
for a more detailed description.
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.
7) Online Submission
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All qualification material must be submitted online at
http://submission.robocuphumanoid.org/
8) Deadline
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Deadline for submission: *** February 8th, 2015 ***
Announcement of qualified teams: March 1st, 2015
9) Publication
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Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams
the qualification material of the qualified teams will be made
publicly available. Teams applying for participation therefore
grant the right of publication of their qualification material
to the humanoid league.
10) Rules
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The rules of the RoboCup 2015 Humanoid League are discussed at
https://lists.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-humanoid
and will be published at
http://www.robocuphumanoid.org/
11) Special Offer: ROBOTIS
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A special promotion to all teams participating in the 2015
RoboCup Humanoid League by ROBOTIS will be offered.
Details will be announced early 2015.
12) Special Offer: NimbRo-OP
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University of Bonn provides an offer for TeenSize teams to purchase
a set of NimbRo-OP robots (http://www.nimbro.net/OP) for a reduced
price. University of Bonn offers teams that intend to participate
in RoboCup 2015 to purchase two robots for 40,000 Euros or three
robots for 56,000 Euros.
Please note that the quoted price does not include taxes and shipping.
Teams that are interested in this offer need to place their order at
sales at ais.uni-bonn.de by February 28th, 2015.
With best regards,
Technical and Organization Committees
of RoboCup Humanoid League 2015
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