[robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation: RoboCup 2015 Rescue Agent Simulation League

Farshid Faraji faraji.farshid at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 04:15:42 EST 2015


Call for Participation

RoboCup 2015 Rescue Simulation League

Agent&Multi-agent Challenge and

Infrastructure Competitions

July 17-23, 2015(Hefei, China)

http://www.robocup2015.org/



The RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation league is inviting interested teams to
apply for participation at the RoboCup 2015 competition held in Hefei,
China.



The Rescue Simulation league will be held in three types of
competitions: *Agent&
Multi-agent Challenge*, *Infrastructure and Presentation* *Competition*. If
you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team as
described in Section 3.





*1.    **Agent & Multi-agent Challenge Competition*

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The Agent & Multi-agent Challenge competition is composed of two different
stages.



*FIRST STAGE*

In the first stage, the competition involves evaluating competing agent
coordination algorithms on different maps of the RoboCup Rescue simulation
platform. Specifically, it involves evaluating coordination algorithms
enabling teams of Ambulances, Police Forces, and Fire Brigades to rescue as
many civilians as possible and extinguish fires in cities where an
earthquake has just happened.Teams have to individually achieve a score on
chosen maps which represent different situations (e.g., civilians and
fires, major fire in one corner of a city, blocked roads to refuges,
damaged platoon agents, fire maps, civilian maps where only fires need to
be extinguished or civilians need be saved respectively) and this will
determine how they compare with other teams.



*SECOND STAGE*

In the second state, the competition consists of demonstrating efficient
algorithms for coordinating large teams of agents solving one or more of
the pre-defined challenge tasks in the Multi-agent Coordination Benchmark
(RMAS) platform (https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench). The goal of the
challenge is to provide scenarios relevant to large-scale urban search and
rescue and disaster mitigation.These will include performance metrics to
assess technologies in the areasof distributed and centralized multi-agent
task allocation, team formation, and path planning. The challenge comes
with an open source policy designed to encourage collaboration and the
dissemination of ideas and algorithms.



*FORMAT*

The teams need to implement a code to compete on the Agent RoboCup Rescue
platform (http://sourceforge.net/projects/roborescue) and another code to
compete on the Multi-agent Coordination Benchmark platform (
https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench). The competition will be carried
out in rounds and at each round an Agent and a Multi-agent simulation will
be executed with the score being the summary of both simulations results.
The teams with the highest scores in all the maps are then selected to move
up the various rounds of the tournament, which is composed of two
preliminaries round, one semi-final round and one final round.



The Multi-agent simulation challenge envisions the distributed and
centralized assignment of agents to targets. These targets could be either
fires to extinguish or buried civilians to rescue.The challenge in this
task is to distribute agents among the targetsin that to minimize the
overall damage, i.e., either reducing the number of burning buildings or
increasing the number of rescued civilians.





*2.    **Infrastructure Competition*

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The Infrastructure competition involves the presentation of already
existent tools and simulators of disaster management problems in general.
The intent is the evaluation of possible enhancements and expansions of the
basic RoboCup Rescue simulator based on the new ideas and concepts proposed
in these tools and simulators. The evaluation will be done in a panel and a
winner chosen accordingly to a set of factors related to the technical
aspects of the tool or simulator and the presentation. The best tool will
be selected for further integration with the simulation platform.



*DUTY OF RELEASE*

In addition to the submission of a Team Description Paper (TDP), teams
interested in participating in the Infrastructure competition must release
their source code as an open-source project before the competition. Even
though a team is accepted to participate in the competition, if it does not
release the source code before the infrastructure competition day, it will
be disqualified and it will not be allowed to participate in the
competition, and thus it will not be evaluated and considered for winning
the prize.



Teams and participants should address topics including, but not limited to



1.     Increase of the number of participants in the RoboCup Rescue league;

2.     Provide agent development kits that render easy the participation of
new comers;

3.     Integrate the Agent and Virtual Robot competitions;

4.     Improve the RoboCup Rescue server' stability;

5.     Improve the RoboCup Rescue sub-simulators.





*3.    **Presentation Competition*

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The aim of this competition is sharing the knowledge of the teams and
improving the academic research aspects of the league. It consists in a
detailed presentation of the coordination algorithm used to coordinate
agents in the Agent RoboCup Rescue simulation platform. Each team will have
about 20 minutes to present advances and main contributions to the league.
The presentation will be evaluated by a panel and the winner chosen
accordingly to a set of factors related to the technical aspects of the
proposed improvement and the presentation.This competition is mandatory
part of whole competition and all teams in Agent & Multi-agent competition
are considered to be in this competition.





*4.    **PRE-REGISTRATION*

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For the pre-registration you need to send an email to
faraji.farshid at gmail.com with the subject "2015 Pre-registration
*[TEAM_NAME]*". The email should contain the following information:



·         Team name:

·         Team leader:

·         Contact email address:

·         Name of the Institution:

·         City:

·         Country:

·         Estimated size of team coming to the venue:

·         Competition(s)the team wants to participate:

[ ] Agent & Multi-Agent Challenge competition (Including Presentation
competition)

[ ] Infrastructure competition



The pre-registration deadline is *January 31th, 2015*. No qualification
materials are required at this stage of the competition. A list of
pre-registered teams will be published at http://roborescue.sourceforge.net





*5.    **QUALIFICATION*

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For qualification, each team is required to submit a Team Description Paper
(TDP) limited to 8 pages in the LNCS format (
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) for each
competition entry. Further information about the submission procedure will
be sent to the pre-registered teams and to the mailing list at a later
stage. Qualification deadline is *February 14th, 2015 **(tentative).*



*6.    **Important Dates*

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Team Pre-Registration Deadline: *January 31th, 2015*

Deadline for qualification materials:*  February 14th, 2015 **(tentative)*

Team Qualification Notification:  *March 10th, 2015 **(tentative)*



We may update these dates if we receive new information about schedule from
RCF.


We hope to welcome you all at Hefei.


The RoboCup 2015 Rescue Agent Simulation Executive, Technical and
Organizing Committees
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