[robocup-worldwide] 2019 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation - Call for Participation
Luis Gustavo Nardin
gnardin at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 07:27:46 EST 2019
Call for Participation
2019 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation Competitions
to be held at International Convention Centre,
Sydney, Australia -- July 2-8, 2019
https://rescuesim.robocup.org/2019-sydney-agent-cfp/
Co-located with the
RoboCup 2019
https://2019.robocup.org
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Pre-Registration................................................:
February 15, 2019 (23:59 UTC)
Team Description Paper (TDP) submission.: March 1, 2019 (23:59 UTC)
Qualified teams announcement......................: March 15, 2019
Camera-ready TDP submission.....................: June 15, 2019
Tournament dates.............................................: July 2-8,
2019
ABOUT ROBOCUP RESCUE AGENT SIMULATION LEAGUE
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Natural disasters are major adverse events that cause large-scale
economic, human, and environmental losses. They are usually difficult to
predict and even more challenging to prevent from happening. These
characteristics demand disaster management strategies to be in place to
mitigate damaging consequences when a disaster happens.
The mission of the RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League is to promote
research and development in the socially significant domain of natural
disaster with focus on multiagent teamwork coordination and decision
support systems. The effective implementation of this mission is
translated into three main objectives. First, the league aims to provide
a simulator able to realistically represent natural disaster scenarios
where response rescue plans can be assessed. Second, it aims to define
evaluation benchmarks for response plans elaborated by policy-makers.
Finally, it aims to promote research and development by organizing
competitions to stimulate the exchange of ideas and experience between
researchers and practitioners. These aims are designed to help in the
development of more sophisticated and formalized response plans to
effectively respond to natural disasters and reduce the negative impacts
on society.
The 2019 RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation League is composed of three
competitions:
* Agent Simulation
* Infrastructure
* Technical Challenge
COMPETITIONS
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Agent Simulation Competition
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This competition involves primarily evaluating the performance of agent
teams developed using the Agent Development Framework
(https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-adf) on different maps of the
RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation (RCRS) platform
(https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-server). Specifically, it involves
evaluating the effectiveness of Ambulance, Police Force, and Fire
Brigade agents on rescuing civilians and extinguishing fires in cities
where an earthquake has just happened.
The Agent Simulation competition is composed of a preliminary round
split in 2 phases, a semi-final round, and a final round. Each round is
composed of a set of maps representing different scenarios used to
evaluate and score each agent team at each round. A single score is
assigned to each team per round.
In addition to the evaluation of teams performance on the maps, teams
are also evaluated based on a presentation of their implemented
strategy. This presentation aims to share the knowledge of the teams and
improve the academic research aspects of the league. Each team will have
20 minutes to present their implementation and another 10 minutes for
questions and answers. The presentation will be evaluated by a panel of
experts and these evaluations will be incorporated into the score of the
teams. The presentation ranking will be considered as an additional map
in the scoring system of all rounds.
The teams participating in the Agent Simulation competition will
automatically participate in the Technical Challenge competition (see
description below).
The participation in the Agent Simulation competition requires the
submission of a detailed Team Description Paper (TDP) describing the
strategies implemented on the agents' code.
The three teams with the highest scores at the final round receive a prize.
Specific rules for participating on the RCRS competition are available
at http://rescuesim.robocup.org/2019-sydney/.
Infrastructure Competition
------------------------------------
The Infrastructure competition involves the presentation of tools or
simulators related to disaster management issues already developed by
the participating team. The aim is to evaluate possible enhancements and
expansions of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League environment (both the
agent simulator and frameworks and the virtual robot platform) based on
the new ideas and concepts proposed in these tools and simulators. The
evaluation will be done by a panel of experts and the winner chosen
accordingly to a set of factors related to the technical aspects of the
tool or simulator and the presentation. The winner tool will be selected
for further integration with the simulation platform.
The participation on Infrastructure competition requires the submission
of a detailed Team Description Paper (TDP) describing the tool or
simulator. In addition to the submission of the TDP, teams interested in
participating on the Infrastructure competition must release their
source code as an open-source project PRIOR to **July 2, 2019**. Even
though the team is accepted for participating on the competition, if it
does not release the source code before the agreed date, it will be
disqualified and it will not be allowed to participate in the
competition. Thus it will not be evaluated and considered for winning
the prize.
Participant teams should address topics including, but not limited to
* Improvements to the Virtual Robot Simulator
* Improvements to the Agent Development Framework
* Increase the number of participants on the RoboCup Rescue league
* Provide agent development kits that render easy the participation
of newcomers
* Integrate the Agent and Virtual Robot competitions
* Improve the RoboCup Rescue sub-simulators
Technical Challenge Competition
-----------------------------------------------
The Technical Challenge competition assesses the modularity of the teams
implementation using the ADF. The participation to the Technical
Challenge will be compulsory to teams participating in the Agent
Simulation Competition because the teams are required to implement their
code using the ADF. Therefore, teams are not required to send a separate
Team Description Paper (TDP) to participate in this competition.
The Technical Challenge competition will select one specific ADF module
(To Be Defined) from the best three teams in the Preliminary round to
use in all participating teams. Each team will have their ADF module
replaced by the selected module of the best three teams and the team's
code will be run in selected scenarios (all teams will run on the same
scenarios). The final team' score will be the worst score among all runs.
The RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation chairs will use the Sample Agent to
check the modularity of the selected module of the best three teams at
the end of the Agent Competition Preliminary round. If the module is not
exchangeable, meaning that it depends on specific information from the
team's code, then the team will have the best scenario score of the
semi-finals disregarded. The next best team in the Preliminary round
will be assessed to share its module to replace the one disqualified.
PRE-REGISTRATION
==================
Teams must register via the submission system available at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2019 no later than
**February 15, 2019 (23:59 UTC)**. This pre-registration requires only
to fill the the "Title" field and the name, institution, and contact
information of all team members. The "Title" field should be
"Agent_[TeamName]" to participate in the Agent Competition and
"Infrastructure_[TeamName]" for the infrastructure competition, where
[TeamName] should be replaced by the name of the team. The
pre-registration does not imply that the team will be evaluated to
participate in the competition, please see section QUALIFICATION below
for further information.
QUALIFICATION
==============
Teams must submit a Team Description Paper (TDP) (in English) for each
competition it aims to participate describing the focus, ideas, and
recent advancements implemented in the team. The TDP is limited to 16
pages and must be electronically submitted as PDF through the submission
system available at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2019 no
later than **March 1, 2019 (23:59 UTC)**.
The TDP file name has to be "Agent_[TeamName]" for the Agent Competition
and "Infrastructure_[TeamName]" for the infrastructure competition,
where [TeamName] is the name of the team submitting the TDP. This format
should be also used in the "Title" field in the submission system
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcrs2019.
All teams should prepare their Agent Competition TDP and presentation
slides based on the templates available at
https://github.com/roborescue/rcrs-templates. The Infrastructure TDP
does not have a specific template.
All TDPs will be peer-reviewed by at least two PC members. The
evaluation criteria of contributions will be based on originality,
quality, clarity, and its relevance to the league's aims.
The suggestions of the reviewers should be incorporated into an improved
version (i.e., Camera-Ready version) of the TDP. The camera-ready
version should be uploaded to EasyChair no later than **June 15, 2019**.
GENERAL QUALIFICATION RULES
==============================
There are several general rules specified by the RoboCup Federation on
which the qualification process and the tournament are based:
1. One-Third-Rule: Only one third of the participating teams may come
from the same country. If more than one third of the qualified teams
come from the same country, the first one third (floor rounded) will be
qualified and the remaining disqualified due to this rule. If a team has
members from more than one country, all country counts. False country
statement results in penalty.
2. One-Team-Per-Research-Institution: A university or research institute
may only qualify one team. If a team is affiliated with more than one
institution, all affiliation counts. False institution statement results
in penalty.
3. Plagiarism-Penalty: If a team commits plagiarism, the team and its
members will be banned participating on the current and next year's
RoboCup Rescue Simulation competitions. The term plagiarism comprises
any use of external knowledge without proper referencing, i.e., copying
or using thoughts, ideas, texts or language in general and presenting
them as their own. This applies for Team Description Papers as well as
team code. All kinds of licenses and copyright have to be respected.
This applies to the qualification process and the RoboCup tournaments.
Please be aware that when a team is found guilty of committing
plagiarism it is disqualified and banned at any time. This may also be
in the middle of the tournament.
4. No-Show-Penalty: If a team qualifies for the RoboCup 2019, but is not
able to come to the venue, the team is required to cancel its
participation ONE MONTH before the final registration deadline of the
RoboCup 2019 by sending an email to robocuprescuesim at gmail.com. This
will give an opportunity to the next qualified-ranked team to
participate in the competition. If a team fails to report it is unable
to participate in the competition ('no-show'), the team and its members
will be banned of RoboCup 2019 competition.
5. Academic-Fairness-Rule: If any team breaches general academic
fairness in any other way, it may face penalties as well.
QUALIFICATION RESULTS
=======================
Qualification results will be announced on **March 15, 2019**.
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