[robocup-worldwide] Reminder (deadline for Lisbon Tournament is Monday): ERL Service Robots - Calls for Participation in Robot Competitions

[Pedro U Lima]

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        Call for Participation

     European Robotics League (ERL)
     Service Robots

     Local Tournaments:

         21.11 - 25.11.2016
         Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), U. Lisbon
         Lisboa, Portugal

         30.1 - 3.2.2017
         Peccioli RIF
         Peccioli, Italy


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The European Robotics League is an innovative concept for robot competitions which stems from its predecessor, the RoCKIn at Home competition, and focuses on tasks that service robots execute in a real home environment. 
The ERL is composed of multiple "Local tournaments", held in different research labs across Europe, with certified test beds, and a few competitions as part of "Major tournaments" such as RoboCup. Teams participate in a minimum of two tournaments (Local and/or Major) per year and get scores based on their performances. Scores of the best two participations in tournaments for each team are added and teams are ranked based on their cumulative score. Prizes for the top teams will be awarded during the next year’s European Robotics Forum (ERF). For more information, please visit https://eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/.

We are pleased to announce the second and the third Local Tournaments on the ERL Service Robots (ERL-SR) challenge, to be held between 21-25 November at the Institute for Systems and Robotics at IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal and from January 30th to February 3rd, 2017 in Peccioli RIF, Italy. 



Important dates:
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      2nd Local Tournament (Lisbon)

      24 Oct 2016 - Deadline for application and request for travel support
      31 Oct 2016 - Qualification announcement
      21 Nov 2016 - Competition begin
      25 Nov 2016 - Competition closing


      3rd Local Tournament (Peccioli)

      12 Dec 2016 - Deadline for application and request for travel support
      23 Dec 2016 - Qualification announcement
      30 Jan 2017 - Competition begin
       3 Feb 2017 - Competition closing


Rules:
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The rules of the competition can be found in https://eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/upload/about/ERL_Service.compressed.pdf.

For the Local ERL-SR Tournaments, only the following task and functionality benchmarks will be considered:

		• TBM1: Getting to know my home
		• TBM4: Visit My Home (shared with RoboCup at Home)
		• TBM5: General Purpose Service Robot (GPSR)  (shared with RoboCup at Home)
		• FBM1: Object Perception
		• FBM3: Speech Recognition


Application:
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Applicant teams must send an email to erl.service at robotics-league.eu expressing their intention to participate in the Tournament and providing the following information about the team:

	- Team name
	- Team Leader name
	- Total number of team members (including the team leader)
	- Affiliation
	- Contact information (e-mail and phone of team leader)
	- Website
	- Qualification material (see below).

Qualification Material  - applicants are required to submit: 

      - Team Description Paper (max. 4 pages, LNCS [3]) explaining the team’s approach to the technical challenges
        including a brief description of software and hardware architectures, and the relation with the team research –
        including a list of relevant publications
      - Video showing evidence of some performance in the tasks and/or functionalities of the challenge selected by the team
      - Filled travel support request form requesting and justifying travel support, if needed

Selection Criteria:
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Teams will be selected for participation and travel support based on 

_            number of available slots for team participation in the tournament (3, in this case);
_            available funds for travel support (maximum of 2K€ per team per year);
_            team research quality, as measured from the TDP and list of relevant publications;
_            team financial needs (as declared by the team request for travel support).


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