<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>(apologies for duplicates)</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">=========================</span><br style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***</span><br style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">=========================</span><br style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span><br style="font-size: 13px; "><b style="font-size: 13px; ">2nd Workshop on<br>Robot Competitions: Benchmarking, Technology Transfer, and Education</b><br style="font-size: 13px; ">European Robotics Forum 2013, 20 March, Lyon</div><div><br><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/erf2013robocompworkshop/">https://sites.google.com/site/erf2013robocompworkshop/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Robot competitions, such as the DARPA Grand Challenge, RoboCup, IEEE ICRA Robot Challenge, ELROB, SAUC-E and IEEE/RSJ IROS 2012 competitions have recently emerged as a complementary approach to advanced robotics R&D. These competitions often use grand challenges, require the integration of robotic systems and benchmark results on a common reference test bed (e.g., a urban driving scenario, the NIST USaR arena, RoboCup@Home). One can find outdoor and indoor challenge scenarios. Many competitions focus on research problems, others enforce educational aspects. All of them are excellent vehicles for disseminating the relevance of robotics research and education to the general public, and especially young people. Some pose long-term challenges and have developed well-established principles for research progress through annual rule updates, while others challenge teams to tackle a difficult large-scale problem, which is, in principle, solvable by a suitable integration of the state of the art. Frequently, innovative approaches are developed along the way and - ideally - part of the resulting technology is transferred to real world applications.<br><br>In this workshop our overall aim is to discuss and compare how different robot competitions and participating researchers pursue their research objectives, and learn lessons to improve the competitions, with the objective of fostering research advances in intelligent (multi-)robot systems, by providing challenging and imaginative scenarios, test beds and benchmarking methods and tools.<br><br>This workshop will be organized jointly by the EURATHLON and RoCKIn EC FP7 Coordinated Actions, and follows a first edition of this Workshop organized during the latest IEEE/RSJ IROS Conference, that took place in Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012.<br><br>We solicit the submission of short papers on robot competitions, to be selected for presentation during the workshop (only three/four papers will be selected for oral presentation, as the workshop program includes also four invited talks). Topics include, but are not limited to:<br><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Aerial robot competitions<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Autonomous driving competitions<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Benchmarking through robot competitions<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Competition test beds<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Domestic robots competitions<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Field robot competitions<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Position papers on robot competitions<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Robot Soccer competitions<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>• Underwater Autonomous Vehicle competitions<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><b>Submission Guidelines</b><br><br>Authors should submit their papers electronically in PDF format to Lyn Haigh <<a href="mailto:lyn.haigh@uwe.ac.uk">lyn.haigh@uwe.ac.uk</a>> until March 4. Four pages in the standard IEEE format are allowed for each paper, including figures. Papers must be written in English following the standard IEEE guidelines.<br><br>All accepted papers will be made publicly available in the Workshop web pages.</div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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