[robocup-worldwide] 2nd Call for Participation: RoboCup2021 Soccer Simulation 2D League
Hidehisa Akiyama
hidehisa.akiyama at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 07:49:24 EDT 2021
Apologies for cross-posting.
About 2 weeks before the deadline for submitting qualification materials.
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Call for Participation
RoboCup2021 Soccer Simulation 2D League
June 22 - June 28, 2021 (online)
https://2021.robocup.org/
The call for participation document can be found at
http://bit.ly/rc2021ssim2dcfp
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# Introduction
The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D League is one of the oldest of the RoboCup
Soccer competitions. It is based on the RoboCup Soccer Simulator that
enables two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robots plus an autonomous
coach agent to play a game of soccer with very realistic rules and
gameplay. Due to its stability, the RoboCup Soccer Simulator is very good
research and educational tool for multiagent systems, artificial
intelligence, and machine learning.
We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2021 Soccer
Simulation League 2D competition, which will take place June 22 - 28 2021,
as a remote worldwide event. If you are interested in participating, please
submit qualification materials first. Please see below in detail.
# Important Dates
- May 2, 2021 - 23:59 UTC: Qualification Materials Submission Deadline
- May 22, 2021: Qualification Notification
# Pre-registration
No Pre-registration is required this year.
# Last Year’s Qualified Teams
The teams qualified for RoboCup2020 will be automatically qualified if they
submit their TDP again. Of course, the TDP can be updated based on the
progress in the past year. Their team name cannot be changed except
replacing the string '2020' with '2021'.
List of last year’s qualified teams:
- CYRUS
- FCP_GPR_2020
- FRA-UNIted
- HELIOS2020
- ITAndroids
- Jyo_sen2020
- Oxsy
- Ri-one
- RobôCIn
- YuShan2020
# Qualification Materials
All teams have to submit qualification materials before May 2, 2021. If
your team was qualified for RoboCup2020, your team’s material is only the
team description paper. Other teams have to submit the following three
materials:
- Team Description Paper
- Log Files
- Server Document
Teams have to submit their team description paper (TDP) (in English) and
log files through the following form:
https://forms.gle/km1p4Q37siTFjhEX9
Please note that the submitted materials of all qualified teams will be
made publicly available after the announcement of qualification results.
## Team Description Paper
The TDP must have a length of 2 to 8 pages in Springer LNCS style and has
to be submitted as PDF (to be named ‘TDP_TeamName.pdf’). Please note: A
team can only be qualified if the quality of its TDP is appropriate! The
quantity and the quality of your TDP are very important.
The TDP should comprise, among other things: the scientific focus of the
team; team's current efforts; progress since last TDP/competition; team
base code and a description of how the team is different from the base
code; originality of the team's approach; results (team results or ideally
results achieved using the team's main scientific contribution(s)); related
work (at least 5 and ideally more than 10 references comparing the work
with related work developed by other teams).
Please be aware that the TDP has to describe the team's very own scientific
efforts and explicitly illustrate whether a team has used external
knowledge (ideas, code, agent base, or the like) to build upon. If a team
did use knowledge not evolved by this team, the own achievements have to be
outlined in contrast to this. This also applies if one or more team members
have switched from another team or a new team is created on the base of
another even though the involved persons have not changed. If external
knowledge is used but not referenced, explained, and differentiated in the
TDP, the team and its members will be penalized with banning for this and
next year's RoboCup.
## Log Files
To assess the team's performance and evaluate its scientific efforts in the
context of gameplay, teams have to submit two log files against two
different teams from the top four of RoboCup2019 (Fractals2019, HELIOS2019,
CYRUS, or YuShan. The team binaries are available at
http://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/2D/binaries/RoboCup/2019/Elimination/).
Log files comprise both rcg and rcl in version 5 (server::game_log_version
= 5) on using the most recent version of the Soccer Server. These log files
have to prove that the team is competitive enough to participate and
demonstrate the team's characteristics.
Your log files have to be archived to one file (to be named
‘LogFiles_TeamName.tar.gz’) and submitted through the submission form. We
recommend the archive file is stored online and put the link in the remarks
column of the submission form.
## Server Document
Teams have to submit a part of the documentation of the soccer server by
Pull Request on GitHub. This action is aimed at introducing the league to
those who are interested in participation but do not have a good
information source. We need to update the server manual because the current
documentation is still under migration and construction from the old manual:
- https://rcsoccersim.github.io/manual/ (New manual page)
- https://github.com/rcsoccersim/manual (Git repository)
- https://rcsoccersim.github.io/rcssserver-manual-20030211.pdf (Old manual)
Teams have to migrate at least one incomplete (sub)section from the old
manual or have to write new (sub)section(s) about new features not
described in the old manual. Teams need to clone the git repository, then
update something, and send Pull Request with the team name(e.g.
“[YOUR_TEAM_NAME] Update the section XXX”).
If the submitted document conflicts with other teams’ ones or is required
to refine, the Pull Request may be refused. But, your Pull Request will be
surely referred for the qualification. However, please be careful not to
conflict the edits with other teams as much as possible.
It should be noted that the required documentation is on the official
soccer server, not any soccer client libraries provided by teams (e.g.,
helios-base, wrighteagle, etc.).
# Qualification Rules
Qualification is based on the quality of the TDP, and the team's current
performance based on submitted log files. The TDPs will be peer-reviewed by
experts in 2D RoboCup Simulation League nominated by the organizing
committee. The reviewers will evaluate the qualification materials. The
team will be qualified if its averaged evaluation score reaches a passing
score. The review results can also be used for other purposes during the
competition. For example, if there are more than expected, those teams with
low evaluation scores of the qualification materials will participate in
the first round and the other teams will proceed to the second round
without the first round.
There are several general rules on which the qualification processes, as
well as the tournaments, are based:
- One-Team-Per-One-Person:
Each participant can belong to only ONE team. Do not submit qualification
materials from several teams. If you submit qualification materials from
several teams, OCs will assign you to a randomly selected team.
- Plagiarism-Penalty:
If a team commits plagiarism, the team and its members will be banned from
participation for this and next year's RoboCup. The term plagiarism
comprises any use of external knowledge without proper referencing, i.e.
copying or using the thoughts, ideas, texts, or language in general and
presenting them as their own. This applies to Team Description Papers as
well as log files, team code, and binaries. All kinds of licenses and
copyright have to be respected. This applies to the qualification process
as well as the RoboCup tournaments. If suspicious behavior is found,
Committee members may request to review the team’s source code. 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.
- No-Show-Penalty:
If a team qualifies for RoboCup2021 but is not able to participate, it has
to cancel its participation before the RoboCup2021’s final registration
deadline for the TEAM (by a form or an email to Organizing Committee
Members), to give the next-ranked team the chance to take its place. If a
team fails to observe this rule ('no-show'), the team and its members will
be banned from the RoboCup2022 competition.
- Academic-Fairness-Rule:
If any team breaches general academic fairness in any other way, it has to
face penalties as well.
# Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
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.
# Resources
- RoboCup Soccer Simulation League: https://ssim.robocup.org/
- General competition web page: https://2021.robocup.org/
- The RoboCup Soccer Simulator
- https://rcsoccersim.github.io/
- https://github.com/rcsoccersim
- Mailing list
- Simulation: https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-sim
- WorldWide:
https://mailman.cc.gatech.edu/mailman/listinfo/robocup-worldwide
- RoboCup Competitions archive:
https://archive.robocup.info/Soccer/Simulation/2D/
- Information for Authors of Springer Computer Science Proceedings:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
# Contacts
If you have any questions and/or information, please send the message from
the contact form: https://forms.gle/nKrxoP1qSpeRADje9
Best Regards,
RoboCup2021 Soccer Simulation 2D League Organizing Committee
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