[robocup-worldwide] CFP: RoboCup Rescue Simulation Virtual Robot Competition 2021

Tue Mar 16 03:45:39 EDT 2021

Call for Participation

2021 RoboCup Rescue Simulation Virtual Robot Competition

Online — June 22-28, 2021

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Co-located with the

RoboCup 2021

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IMPORTANT DATES

Pre-Registration……………………………….: March 31, 2021 (23:55 GMT)

Team Description Paper (TDP) submission..: May 2, 2021 (23:55 GMT)

Qualified teams announcement…………..…: May 20, 2021

Team registration deadline…….…………..…: June 7, 2021

Camera-ready TDP submission………….….: June 8, 2021 (23:55 GMT)

Tournament dates………………………..……: June 22-28, 2021

Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement. We
would like to invite all robot rescue teams to participate in the 2021
RoboCup Rescue Simulation League World Championship.

If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register
your team for the RoboCup 2021 Virtual Robot Competition as soon as
possible, so that we can inform you about the latest developments. The
current plan is to give the teams remote access to a competition platform
by using a cloud computing service. To know the scale of the cloud
computing server, we need to know the number of participating teams. The
ultimate deadline for pre-registration is set on March 31, 2021.

(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, real-time/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, by 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

Speech processing

2D and 3D mapping

Distributed planning

Distributed learning

(2) Major changes to this year (2021)

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   1.

   Online Competition
   Due to the COVID-19, this league will be a fully remote competition. The
   committee is preparing the competition platform for having the remote games
   by using a cloud computing service.
   2.

   Adding a new challenge
   The “Educational Challenge” will be opened this year. The Educational
   challenge is for undergraduate and/or just graduated teams. The aim of
   adding the Educational challenge is helping the high school students to
   shift to the major league. In the Educational challenge, the committee will
   prepare the mapping task so that the teams can directly use the
   SLAM-packages from ROS.

(3) Intention of participation

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If you are interested to participate in the competition, please respond,
before March 31, 2021, by filling out the following google form:

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(4) Qualification material

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Besides sending the intention of participation, please prepare before May
2, 2021, 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:

https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.springer.com%2Fgp%2Fcomputer-science%2Flncs%2Fconference-proceedings-guidelines&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cf38b10b5a26f48119c7308d8e84f860d%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637514776906033054%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=peijVyOQCJq28i0lnfyB6EZtOM9NZXQ3q9tEZMUzcVU%3D&reserved=0

And the tex template file of the TDP can be found on the overleaf:

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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.

(5) Deadlines

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Pre-Registration……………………………….: March 31, 2021 (23:55 GMT)

Team Description Paper (TDP) submission..: May 2, 2021 (23:55 GMT)

Qualified teams announcement…………..…: May 20, 2021

Team registration deadline…….…………..…: June 7, 2021

Camera-ready TDP submission………….….: June 8, 2021 (23:55 GMT)

Tournament dates………………………..……: June 22-28, 2021

(6) Useful links

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Official Virtual robot competition website:

 https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frescuesim.robocup.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cf38b10b5a26f48119c7308d8e84f860d%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637514776906033054%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=H%2FDDyDL8GBuo6Q8VDQawYqHbqUkGZnNQxetOfnrBa2Y%3D&reserved=0

Previous Virtual rescue robot competitions materials:

1. https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frobocup-rsvrl.github.io%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cf38b10b5a26f48119c7308d8e84f860d%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637514776906033054%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ZtMqDAXoVOXXl4NgQo2BDlUMej1FR6c7J1mByytMGOY%3D&reserved=0 (The index page for past year codes and
TDPs)

2. https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fm-shimizu%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cf38b10b5a26f48119c7308d8e84f860d%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637514776906033054%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=45lwMIUEHOOFXRGsxL2BNhSKpGKAnGdREae2nT8LshA%3D&reserved=0

3. https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Freyhanehpahlevan%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cf38b10b5a26f48119c7308d8e84f860d%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637514776906038031%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=byJ3BolVTyqf%2Fxps1Gi6JGjtTCvjVVx%2Fqfw%2FDkvCh%2Fw%3D&reserved=0

4. https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Famirezakabiri%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cf38b10b5a26f48119c7308d8e84f860d%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637514776906038031%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=Pg1nNwC51Ym5t0TlXWq28VuUvOBGsMYISncBq2Q7hHs%3D&reserved=0

Here is the list of useful links:

1. Robotic Operating System(ROS)

2. Gazebo Simulator

3. Virtual Robot Competitions 2019 rules

4. Available team description papers

5. Virtual Robot former Robocup setup

6. Available Open source code

7. Robocup 2016-2019 maps and information could be found in
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FRoboCup-RSVRL&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cf38b10b5a26f48119c7308d8e84f860d%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637514776906038031%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=2EUTLcUun18NqQRivfHwfSofCLagg6UxMg9JbWwAwwA%3D&reserved=0

8. More documentation could be found on the rescuesim website
<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frescuesim.robocup.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobocup-worldwide%40cc.gatech.edu%7Cf38b10b5a26f48119c7308d8e84f860d%7C482198bbae7b4b258b7a6d7f32faa083%7C0%7C0%7C637514776906038031%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=r%2ByMsmfFUkdEQW7WNJ8TuA2wCbqIR0VRebxsTALtKIM%3D&reserved=0>

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Masaru SHIMIZU
School of Engineering, CHUKYO UNIVERSITY, 101-2 Yagoto Motomachi, Showa-Ku,
Nagoya City, Aichi Pref., JAPAN 466-8666
TEL:+81-52-835-8653 , FAX:+81-52-835-7956 E-Mail:shimizu at sist.chukyo-u.ac.jp

清水 優
〒466-8666 愛知県名古屋市昭和区八事本町１０１－２ 中京大学 工学部
TEL:052-835-8653（ダイアルイン）, 052-832-2151（名古屋学舎代表，内線2654）, FAX:052-835-7956
E-Mail:shimizu at sist.chukyo-u.ac.jp
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Masaru SHIMIZU
School of Engineering, CHUKYO UNIVERSITY, 101-2 Yagoto Honmachi,
Showa-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Pref., JAPAN 466-8666
TEL:+81-52-835-8653 , FAX:+81-52-835-7957
E-Mail:shimizu at sist.chukyo-u.ac.jp

清水 優
〒466-8666 愛知県名古屋市昭和区八事本町１０１－２ 中京大学 工学部
TEL:052-835-8653（ダイアルイン）, 052-832-2151（名古屋学舎代表，内線2654）, FAX:052-835-7957
E-Mail:shimizu at sist.chukyo-u.ac.jp
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