[robocup-worldwide] ERF 2016 5th Workshop on Robot Competitions, Challenges and Benchmarking

[Pedro U. Lima]

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5th Workshop on Robot Competitions, Challenges and Benchmarking: 
Witnesses from 3 European projects: euRathlon, EuRoC, RoCKIn 

https://sites.google.com/site/erf2016robocompworkshop/

European Robotics Forum 2016, 21-23 March 2016, Ljubljana 

http://www.erf2016.eu
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Dear colleagues, 
on behalf of all the organizers it is a pleasure to invite you to the *5th Workshop on Robot Competitions, Challenges and Benchmarking: Witnesses from 3 European projects: euRathlon, EuRoC, RoCKIn/*. 

Robot competitions, including the EU FP7 funded projects RoCKin and euRathlon, and robotics challenges such as EuRoC, are becoming widely accepted as a complementary approach to advance robotics R&D. Competitions stimulate innovation in a compelling way by providing researchers and developers with realistic mock up scenarios to test and compare their robots. 

At the same time benchmarking is recognised as a major challenge in robotics – without benchmarks it is impossible to properly compare robot solutions – and several efforts have attempted to define and publish benchmarks (e.g., RawSeeds, BRICS, EURON SIG and IEEE TC on Good Experimental Methodology, Benchmarking, Challenges and Competitions). 

This workshop is the fifth of a series on Robot Competitions, following one at IROS 2012, and three at previous European Robotics Fora. This year it includes speakers from euRathlon, RoCKIn and EuRoC, who will report on the events held so far within the frameworks of these projects. 

This workshop is aimed at opening a discussion on the outcomes of 3 of the main challenges/ competitions funded within the EC: euRathlon, EuRoC, RoCKIn. 

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Ljubljana! 

ORGANISERS 
Prof Gianluca Antonelli, Università di Cassino e Lazio Meridionale,  Italy 
Prof Francesco Basile, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy 
Prof Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 
Prof Alan Winfield, Bristol Robotics Lab, UWE Bristol, UK 

Additional information can be found on the event website: https://sites.google.com/site/erf2016robocompworkshop/

Registration information can be found at: http://www.erf2016.eu

Regards, 
Francesco Basile