[robocup-worldwide] Call for Participation: 3D Soccer Simulation at RoboCup Worldwide Championship 2021
Klaus Dorer
klaus.dorer at hs-offenburg.de
Thu Feb 4 01:12:57 EST 2021
Dear RoboCupers,
please find below the call for participation to RoboCup Worldwide 2021
3D Soccer Simulation with apologies if you received it more than once.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask.
Greetings
RoboCup 2021 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee
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Call for Participation
RoboCup 2021 Soccer Simulation 3D League
June 22 – June 28, 2021 RoboCup Worldwide Championship
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The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great
opportunity to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for
investing in robot hardware. It facilitates experimenting using
different learning and optimization techniques by providing a simulated
environment. Since the games are played with teams of 11 players, the
league is also a very good environment for experimenting on multi-robot
coordination methodologies.
We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2021 Soccer
Simulation League 3D competition, which will take place from June 22 –
June 28 as a remote event worldwide. If you are interested in
participating, please register your team and follow the procedure as
outlined below.
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Important Dates
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May 2, 2021 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline:
May 22, 2021 : Qualified Teams Announcement
Jun 22 – 28 2021 : Competition
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Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
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The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team
fee for the 2021 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the
major leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and all of whose team
members have never participated in an annual international RoboCup
competition. The waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply
any waiver of fees for team members.
In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to
the best NEW team in the 3D competition. Since the event is held remote,
no travel costs occur. This is a UNIQUE chance to participate in a world
championship!
In order to simplify the entry into the league, league members will
offer a tutorial in March or April that explains step by step how to
install the required software and how to start coding with team software
released by existing teams. The precise data will be announced through
the 3D soccer simulation official mailing list to which you can
subscribe through the 3D Soccer Simulation official website (link see
below).
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Pre-Registration
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No Pre-Registration required this year.
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Qualification
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Qualification is based on a team's current performance, previous
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas
in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list and development of the
simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams.
Since RoboCup 2020 had to be postponed to 2021, as a special rule for
this year only, all ten teams qualified for 2020 are automatically
qualified for 2021 once they register.
In RoboCup 2021, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer
Simulation competition. The remaining (at least) 14 slots will be
selected through a qualification process.
The qualification deadline is 2nd of May 2021.
Qualification material consists of:
1. Team Description Paper (TDP)
The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the
team.
It should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in
addition to explicitly specifying what you have used from others'
efforts (including, but not limited to, any source code released by
other teams or their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be
judged based on their own work, so failing to acknowledge the work of
others could result in an immediate disqualification. The length of the
TDP must be at least four (4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12)
pages in Springer LNCS Style:
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Please submit the TDP only as a PDF document, with the name of your team
in the filename, i.e. Teamname_TDP.pdf .
2. A List of Publications and Achievements on previous RoboCup Symposia
and in other relevant international journals and conferences. Please do
not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please
also include your team's achievements in RoboCup and related events of
previous years. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also
include references to relevant research done by your team that shows its
potential. Please submit the contribution list as a PDF document, with
the name of your team in the filename, i.e. Teamname_list.pdf .
3. Binary
All teams should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use
these binaries to play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the
simulator used during the 2019 competitions. These rules can be found at:
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fssim.robocup.org%2F3d-simulation%2F3d-rules%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7C277c54dba9a04cf5adf608d8c8d3ed57%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637480159836336656%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=sYS6HfELquaH%2BOOt26l%2F%2FRVf5L0gxQuH%2FxG7iTuo2QY%3D&reserved=0
Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:
- Two scripts should be included: a startup script, called start.sh, to
run a
full team of agents and a kill script, called kill.sh, to fully kill all
agents of the team. The requirements and examples of these scripts can
be found at the rules page given above.
- All necessary external libraries should be included and be used
locally by the binary. The OC will not make an effort to install extra
libraries on the qualification systems. A Java runtime can be assumed to
be available.
- The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard
output or to files and no graphical (debugging) interface should be used.
- The binary should be compiled for 64 bit systems and should work on a
modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu 18.04. You may also send
32-bit binaries, but it is your responsibility to make sure that it runs
correctly on 64-bit distributions. You can assume that basic 32-bit
libraries (e.g. libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS. To summarize: the
binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean, headless system
in a restricted sandbox environment with the simulation server
(possibly) running on a different machine. The OC will not try to fix
errors. When a binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified
and will have to resubmit their material, before the deadline.
Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name,
create a tarball named <teamname>.tar.gz and upload it at
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You should upload only one file including all your qualification
materials. Teams qualified for 2020 please upload an empty text file
qualified.txt. If everything works fine, you will receive a
confirmation. If you did not receive any confirmation within two (2)
days, please contact the Organizing Committee.
If you encounter any problem sending your qualification materials please
don't hesitate to contact the OC.
Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in
this CfP. The following general qualification limitations will also be
considered:
- One-Third-Rule: The so-called One-Third-Rule rule states that only up
to 1/3 of the participants in a competition may be from the same country.
- One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule states
that only one team from each university or research institute is allowed
to participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different
teams from the same institute to participate in different competitions,
e.g. 2D and 3D soccer.
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3D Soccer Simulation League Resources
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Important resources with more information on 3D Simulation League are:
- RoboCup Competitions archive (TDPs, binaries, logs, and replays)
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.robocup.info%2FSoccer%2FSimulation%2F3D%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7C277c54dba9a04cf5adf608d8c8d3ed57%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637480159836346620%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=5gQtz8JA4XI5iod4Af7I7chy5BpddMqsgRHodNK%2BUqM%3D&reserved=0
(Watch the 2019 Final in your browser!!!):
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.robocup.info%2FSoccer%2FSimulation%2F3D%2Freplays%2FRoboCup%2F2019%2FElimination%2FFinal%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7C277c54dba9a04cf5adf608d8c8d3ed57%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637480159836346620%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=PX%2FVMIpuPqWMZ%2BTDvF1UwCW4BuEu2DxNAFaZ6s%2Bz5mA%3D&reserved=0
- 3D Main Simulator:
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgitlab.com%2Frobocup-sim%2FSimSpark%2F-%2Freleases&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7C277c54dba9a04cf5adf608d8c8d3ed57%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637480159836346620%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=8SesQjf8GaHSFByW2wa6xrm0uT73S0L9MgIlXYcI9jM%3D&reserved=0
Prebuilt binaries from opensuse build service for openSUSE and Ubuntu:
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoftware.opensuse.org%2F%2Fdownload.html%3Fproject%3Dscience%253ASimSpark%26package%3Drcssserver3d&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7C277c54dba9a04cf5adf608d8c8d3ed57%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637480159836346620%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=qmWqA5zghWMA9iMSbCFsa%2BXdiTRFGfUYdQy7eph82w8%3D&reserved=0
- 3D Viewer
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FmagmaOffenburg%2FRoboViz&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7C277c54dba9a04cf5adf608d8c8d3ed57%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637480159836346620%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=tJjXrqWCTiaHdRnjAozT9P9dfhIPaqHoVG3fQyF7C4E%3D&reserved=0
- 3D agent source code releases (includes several champion teams)
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fssim.robocup.org%2F3d-tools%2F%23basecodes&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7C277c54dba9a04cf5adf608d8c8d3ed57%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637480159836346620%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=FYCnX0Rj8jYSuE0gM9b1%2Bxq7aqwnmUvunKXnkVRNcxU%3D&reserved=0
(These source codes include omni-directional walks, getup behaviors,
kick motions, and interface to simspark/gazebo simulator)
- the 3D Soccer Simulation official website
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fssim.robocup.org%2F3d-simulation%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7C277c54dba9a04cf5adf608d8c8d3ed57%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637480159836346620%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=4pTXkPwPa9r0cLIHX%2Fz3iKplbkKfLEMieXMPA5ZSg8I%3D&reserved=0
Best Regards,
RoboCup 2021 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee
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