<span>Call</span>
<span>for</span> <span>Participation</span><br>
<br>
<div bgcolor="#ffffff"> 3D Competition, RoboCup 2013
Soccer Simulation League<br><br> June 24-30, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)<br> <a href="http://www.robocup2012.org/" target="_blank">http://www.robocup2013.org/</a><br>
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The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great
opportunity to
experiment with humanoid robots without the need <span>for</span> investing in
robot hardware. It
facilitates experimenting with different learning and optimization
techniques by providing
a simulated environment. <br>
<br>We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2013
Soccer Simulation League, 3D competition, which will take place Jun 24-30, 2013, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below.<br>
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Schedule<br>
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Team Pre-Registration Deadline: <b>January 31, 2013 - 23:59 UTC</b><br>
Team Qualification Material Submission Deadline: February 15,
2013 - 23:59 UTC<br>
Qualified Teams Announcement: March 1, 2013<br><br>
Pre-Registration<br>
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<br>
All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the
deadline (31 January 2013).
To pre-register, send an E-Mail to<b> <a href="mailto:sgvandijk%2B3dreg@gmail.com" target="_blank">sgvandijk+3dreg@gmail.com</a></b> with the subject
'<b>2013 Pre-registration TEAM_NAME</b>'. The E-Mail should contain the
following information:<br>
<br>
1. Team-Name:<br>
2. Team-Leader:<br>
3. E-Mail:<br>
4. Country:<br>
5. Affiliation:<br>
6. Number of team members:<br>
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You should receive a confirmation E-Mail <span>for</span> your pre-registration
within a few days of submission.<br>
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Qualification<br>
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Qualification is based on a team's current performance, previous
achievements in RoboCup,
and scientific contributions to the RoboCup community in past years,
cooperation in
the 3D mailing list and development of the simulator.<br>
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In RoboCup 2013, up to 28 teams will <span>participate</span> in the 3D
competitions. The top three teams
from RoboCup 2012 (UT Austin Villa, RoboCanes and Bold Hearts) are
automatically qualified
after pre-registering their teams and submitting an appropriate Team
Description Paper (TDP).
The other 25 teams will be selected through a qualification process.<br>
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The qualification deadline is <b>15 Feb 2013</b>. The OC does not
accept qualification materials from
teams who have not been pre-registered by the pre-registration
deadline. Qualification material consists of:<br><br><div><b>1. Team Description Paper (TDP)</b></div><div>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
<span>qualification</span>, 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 has to be at least four (4) pages and should
not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS Style: <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0</a>. Please submit the TDP only as a PDF document, with the name of your team in the filename, i.e. <b>teamname_TDP.pdf</b>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>2. A list of contributions</b> to previous RoboCup
Symposia and your team's achievements in RoboCup events of previous
years. Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in
previous years. You may include a TDP, if you presented a talk about
your team at the Symposium. 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. <b>teamname_list.pdf</b>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><b>3. Binary</b></div><div>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 2012
competitions held in Mexico. These rules can be found at:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.robocup2009.org/125-0-rules" style="color:rgb(7,77,143)" target="_blank">http://hedayat.fedorapeople.org/misc/rc2012rules-v1.0.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:</div>
<div><ul><li>Two scripts should be included: a start up 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.</li><li>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.</li><li>The binaries should not create any output, be it through standard output or to files.</li><li>No graphical (debugging) interface should be used.</li><li>The binary should be compiled for <b>64 bit</b> systems and
should work on a modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu 12.10. You
mayalso 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.</li></ul></div>
<div><br>
</div><div>To
summarize: the binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean,
headless system in a restricted sand box 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
of <b>15 Feb 2013</b>.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please put all qualification material in a folder
with your team name, create a tarball name <b>teamname.tar.bz2</b> and E-Mail it to <a href="mailto:sgvandijk%2B3dqual@gmail.com" target="_blank">sgvandijk+3dqual@gmail.com</a> with the subject: '<b>2013 Qualification TEAM_NAME</b>'. If
everything went well you will receive a confirmation. If you did not
receive any confirmation within two (2) days, please contact the
Organizing Committee.</div><span><font color="#888888"></font></span><br>If you encounter any problem sending your <span>qualification</span> material
please don't hesitate to contact the OC.
<p>Teams will be <span>qualified</span> based on the submitted materials as
described in this E-Mail. Also, the following general
<span>qualification</span> limitations will be considered:</p>
<ul><li>One-Third-Rule: The so called One-Third-Rule rule states that
only up to 1/3 of the participants of a competition may be from
the same country.</li><li>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.</li></ul>
<p>Good luck,</p><p>Sander van Dijk<br>On Behalf of Organizing Committee<br>
RoboCup 2013 Soccer Simulation 3D</p>
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