<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">Call for Participation<br></div><div style="text-align:center"> RoboCup 2012 Rescue Simulation League<br></div><div style="text-align:center"> June 18-24, 2012 (Mexico City, Mexico)<br>
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<span>We would like to invite all RSL teams to participate in the 2012 RoboCup RSL World Championships.</span><br><br><span> 1) Agent Competition</span><br><span>------------------------------</span><span>------------------------------</span><span>-----</span><br>
<div dir="ltr"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The
Agent competition involves scoring competing agent coordination
algorithms on different maps of the RobocupRescue simulation platform.
The challenge in this case involves developing coordination algorithms
that will enable teams of Ambulances, Police forces, and Fire Brigades
to save as many civilians as possible and extinguish fires in a city
where an earthquake has just happened.</font><br>
<br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Teams have to
individually achieve a score on chosen maps which represent different
situations (e.g., civilians and fires, major fire in one corner of a
city, blocked roads to refuges, damaged platoon agents, fire maps,
civilian maps where only fires need to be extinguished or civilians need
be saved respectively) and this will determine how they compare with
other teams. The best teams on each map are then selected to move up the
various rounds of the tournament.</font><br>
<br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">2) Infrastructure Competition</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The Infrastructure
competition involves evaluating tools and simulators for simulating
disaster management problems in general. Here, the intent is, to build
up realistic simulators and tools that could be used to enhance the
basic RobocupRescue simulator and expand upon it. The best tools and
simulators will be evaluated by a panel and a winner chosen accordingly.
The best tools will be selected for further integration with the
simulation platform.</font><br>
<br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">This year, teams and participants should focus in the following scopes:</font><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">1. A contribution to increase the participants</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">2. An integration Agent and Virtual robot competition</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">3. Improvement for stability of server</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">4. Improvement for sub simulator</font><br>
<br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Duty of release</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">In
the tdp, a team must describe a schedule for release of their result.
If the winner release their result, the prize will be sent to them.</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">If the team don't release, we cancel the prize of infrastructure winner.</font><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">3) Multi Agent Challenge</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">----------------------------</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> RoboCup Rescue 2012 Multi-Agent Challenge</font><br>
<br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><a href="http://kaspar.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/%7Erslb" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://kaspar.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~rslb</a><br>
<br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Entries are welcome for the 2012 RoboCup Rescue Agent challenge</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">to be held in conjunction with the RoboCup 2012.</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Participation in the challenge will consist of demonstrating efficient</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">algorithms for coordinating large teams of agents solving one or more of the</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">pre-defined challenge tasks in the Rescue Agent simulation environment.</font><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The goal of the challenge is to provide scenarios relevant to large-scale</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">urban search and rescue (USAR) and disaster mitigation.</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">These will include performance metrics to assess technologies in the areas</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">of distributed and centralized multi-agent task allocation, team formation,</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">and path planning. The challenge comes with an open source policy designed</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">to encourage collaboration and the dissemination of ideas and algorithms.</font><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">CHALLENGE FORMAT</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The competition will include several tasks run within various scenarios.</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Teams are encouraged to participate in as many tasks as possible.</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Each task will be designed by a simple interface that does not require</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">to implement the full agent solution as needed for the main competition.</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">This interface could be, for example, a simple function call for assigning</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">agents to targets given utilities computed beforehand.</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Winners in each of the individual task as well as an overall winner</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">will be announced. The overall winner receives an official RoboCup Rescue</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">challenge award.</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Teams have to hand-in beforehand their team description paper (TDP) that</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">should explain the team's methods for addressing the announced tasks.</font><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">CHALLENGE TASKS</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Envisioned tasks are, for example, the distributed and centralized</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">assignment of agents to targets. These targets could be either fires</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">to extinguish or buried civilians to rescue.</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The challenge in this task is to distribute agents among the targets</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">in that to minimize the overall damage, i.e., either reducing the number</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">of burning buildings or increasing the number of rescued civilians.</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Another task will be the efficient planning of multi-agent routes</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">given the problem of unknown blockage of roads, also known as the</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Canadian Traveler Problem.</font><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">More details can be found on the web page at</font><br>
<a href="http://kaspar.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/%7Erslb" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://kaspar.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~rslb</a><br><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> 4) Pre-registration</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">-----------------------</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">For the pre-registration you need to send an email with the following information to</font><br>
<a href="mailto:faraji.farshid@gmail.com" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">faraji.farshid@gmail.com</a><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> :</font><br><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Team name :</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Team leader :</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Email address :</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Institution :</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">City and country :</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Estimated size of team :</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Competition you want to enter:</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> [ ] Agent competition</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> [ ] Multi-agent challenge (See call for participation </font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">below)</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> [ ] Infrastructure competition</font><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The
pre-registration deadline is February 8th, no qualification materials
are required at this stage. A list of pre-registered teams will be
published</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">regularly at </font><a href="http://www.roborescue.sf.net/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.roborescue.sf.net</a><br>
<br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">5) Qualification:</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">--</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">For qualification, each team is required to submit a team description paper</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">(TDP) for each competition entry. Information about the submission procedure</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">will be sent to the pre-registered teams and to the mailing list at a later</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">stage. Qualification deadline is March 1st.</font><br>
<br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">6) Rule and Package</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">-----------</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">In the RoboCup 2012, we will keep the RoboCup 2010's rules and package. But minor changes maybe added.</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">We will announce final rule and package by qualification deadline. </font><br>
<br><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">7) </font>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">RoboCup Rescue: Communication Library </font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">-------</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">This library is a "Communication Library".</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">By using this library teams can share a part of their source code, easily.</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">This library provides the communication protocol between agents and center.</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">We recommend teams to use this library:</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> </font><a href="http://sourceforge.jp/projects/rcrscs/releases/" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.jp/projects/rcrscs/releases/</a><br>
<br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">8) Important Dates</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">------------------------------</font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">-----------</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Team Pre-Registration Deadline: February 8, 2012</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Team Qualification Deadline: March 1, 2012</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Early Registration: March 1 – April 30, 2012</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Regular Registration: May 1 – May 31, 2012 (No team registration</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">accepted after May 31)</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Late registration: June 1 – June 23, 2012</font><br>
<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Team Setup: June 18 & 19, 2012</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Competitions: June 20 – 23, 2012 (Final June 23)</font><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Symposium: June 24, 2012</font></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">We hope to welcome you all in Mexico City.</font><br>
<br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">With Best regards,</font><br><br><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">The 2012 RoboCup RSL Organizing and Technical committees</font></div>