[robocup-worldwide] RoboCup 2020 Virtual Robot Competition - Call for Participation

Sun Dec 29 01:55:23 EST 2019

Dear All,

This is the First Call for Participation for RoboCup 2020 Virtual Robot
Competition, which will be held in Bordeaux, France, from June 23 to June
28. I should mention that the *Deadline for the intention of participation* to
Virtual Robot Competition: *January 25*, 2019

We will be very happy to welcome you next year and hope to see you all in
*France*!

Please apologize for multiple postings and we would be thankful if you
forward this call for participation to other mailing lists and colleagues
you find useful.

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        RoboCup 2020 Virtual Robot Competition

       *June* *23* - *June* *2**8*, 2020 (Bordeaux, France)
          http://www.robocup.org/ <https://robocup.org/>

Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.
We would like to invite all robot rescue teams to participate in
the 2020 RoboCup Rescue Simulation League World Championship.

If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register
your team for the RoboCup 2020 Virtual Robot Competition as soon as
possible, so that we can inform you about the latest developments.

(1) RoboCup Rescue Simulation League and Virtual Robot Competition

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The RoboCup Rescue Simulation League is a socially relevant part of
the RoboCup event. Its main purpose is to provide emergency decision
support by integration of disaster information, prediction, planning, and
human interface.

A generic urban disaster simulation environment is constructed on network
computers. Heterogeneous intelligent agents such as firefighters,
commanders, victims, volunteers, etc. conduct search and rescue activities
in this virtual disaster world. Agents can sense their environment and make
decisions on the basis of the perceived data. Mission-critical human
interfaces support disaster managers, disaster relief brigades, residents,
and volunteers to decide their actions to minimize the disaster damage.

Addressing this problem involves advanced and interdisciplinary research
themes. As AI/robotics research, for example, behavior strategy (e.g.,
multi-agent planning, realtime/anytime planning, heterogeneity of agents,
robust planning, mixed-initiative planning) is a challenging problem. For
disaster researchers, RoboCup Rescue works as a standard basis in order to
develop practical comprehensive simulators adding necessary disaster
modules.

The Virtual Robot Competition is based on ROS/Gazebo, an advanced robot
simulator in which users can simulate multiple agents whose capabilities
closely mirror those of real robots. ROS/Gazebo currently features several
ground and air robots, as well as a wide range of sensors and actuators.
Moreover, exploiting ROS, users can easily develop their robot systems
integrating standard modules.

Currently addressed research topics include but are not limited to

   - Human-robot interfaces
   - Autonomous navigation
   - Sensor fusion
   - Image processing
   - Speach processing
   - 2D and 3D mapping
   - Distributed planning
   - Distributed learning

(2) Intention of participation
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If you are interested to participate in the competition, please send,
before January 25, 2020, an email to  reyhanehpahlevan at ce.sharif.edu with
as attachment the following form filled in:
http://ce.sharif.edu/~reyhanehpahlevan/Robocup/IntentVirtual.txt

(3) Qualification material
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Besides sending the intention of participation, please prepare before March
15, 2020, a Team Description Paper describing the most innovative
contributions or scientific results your team is intended to provide.
The TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS
format:
http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

The Team Description Paper is an overview of the methodologies you use or
intend to use to control your robots inside the Virtual Robot Competition.
If applicable, include a reference to your latest publications.
The qualification material should be placed on a dedicated web page on the
team's home page.
Please include the link to the qualification material on the intention
of participation information.

(4) Deadlines
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- Deadline for the intention of participation to Virtual Robot
Competition: *January
25*, 2020
- Deadline for qualification material Virtual Robot Competition: *March 15*
, 2020
- Team qualification notification: *March 30*, 2020
- Early registration period: will be announced
- Team setup: *June 23-24*, 2020
- competition: *June 25-28*, 2020
- RoboCup symposium: *June 29*, 2020

(5) Useful links

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*Official Virtual robot competition website:*

1. Robocup Rescue simulation Website
<https://rescuesim.robocup.org/competitions/virtual-robot-competition/>

*Previous Virtual rescue robot competitions materials:*

1. https://github.com/RoboCup-RSVRL

2. https://github.com/m-shimizu/

3. https://github.com/reyhanehpahlevan/
<https://github.com/reyhanehpahlevan/>

4. https://github.com/amirezakabiri/

*Here is the list of useful links:*

1. Robotic Operating System(ROS)
<https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/robocup/ROS.pdf>
2. Gazebo Simulator
<https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/robocup/Gazebo.pdf>
3. Virtual Robot Competitions 2019 rules
<https://rescuesim.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/RoboCup2019-RVRL-Rules-v1_0.pdf>
4. Available team description papers
<https://github.com/RoboCup-RSVRL/RoboCup-RSVRL.github.io/tree/master/Previous_TDP>
5. Virtual Robot former Robocup setup
<https://github.com/RoboCup-RSVRL/RoboCup2019RVRL_Demo>
6. Available Open source code <https://github.com/SOSVR/base_code-v2>
7. Robocup 2016-2019 maps and information could be found in
https://github.com/RoboCup-RSVRL
8. More documentation could be found in rescuesim website
<http://rescuesim.robocup.org/resources/documentation/>

Feel free to ask! Hope to see you at the Robocup 2020 competitions in
France.

With kind regards,
Masaru Shimizu, Fatemeh Pahlevan Agahababa, Amirreza Kabiri, Francesco
Amigoni, Josie Hughes and Arnoud Visser(members of the 2020 RoboCup Rescue
Simulation Virtual Robot Competition Technical and Organization Committees)
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Fatemeh Pahlevan Aghababa,

Intelligence System Laboratory,
Computer engineering department
Sharif University of Technology
Azadi Ave, Tehran, Iran
PO Box: 11365-11155

Voice: +98 912 516-9683
Email: reyhanehpahlevan at ce.sharif.edu
Web: http://ce.sharif.edu/~reyhanehpahlevan/
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