<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear all,<br></div>Please find below the call for participation for the RoboCup 2014 MSL World Championships to be held in Joćo Pessoa, Brazil (19-25 July, 2014).<br><br></div>Best regards<br>
</div>Jose Luis Azevedo<br><div><div><div><div><div><br>Note for new teams or teams planning to renew their hardware: the
TURTLE-5k consortium provides a low-cost base platform for RoboCup MSL. As of this
season TURTLE-5k robots will be produced and sold at cost-price.
More info via
<a href="http://www.turtle5k.org" target="_blank">www.turtle5k.org</a>'<br><br><br>******************************************************<br>Call for Participation<br><br>RoboCup 2014 Middle Size League<br><br>July 19-25, 2014 (Joćo Pessoa, Brazil)<br>
<a href="http://www.robocup2014.org/">http://www.robocup2014.org/</a><br>******************************************************<br><br>We would like to invite all MSL teams to participate in the 2014 RoboCup MSL World Championships. If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2014 MSL competitions.<br>
<br>1) Pre-registration<br>*********************<br><br>For the pre-registration please send an e-mail to <a href="mailto:rc-msl-oc@lists.robocup.org">rc-msl-oc@lists.robocup.org</a> containing the following data:<br>- team name<br>
- URL of the teams home page<br>- name of the team leader<br>- e-mail address of team or team leader<br>- affiliation<br>- country<br>- link to the qualification materials<br><br>2) Qualification materials<br>*****************************<br>
<br>By the time of pre-registration, please have ready the following qualification materials:<br>- list of five RoboCup related scientific publications<br>- overview of the performance in past events<br>- a Team Description Paper describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results (the TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a>)<br>
- a qualification video (the maximum duration of the video is 1 minute)<br>- an overview of the contributions to the MSL community<br>- a mechanical and electrical description together with a software flow chart (please include size and weight of the robots)<br>
<br>The details regarding the qualification materials are contained in the rules and regulations document available at <a href="http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League">http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League</a>. Please read it thoroughly.<br>
<br>The qualification materials should be placed in a dedicated page of the team's web page. Please include the link to the qualification materials in the pre-registration information.<br><br>3) Important dates<br>*********************<br>
<br>- Deadline for pre-registration and submission of the qualification materials: February 14, 2014<br>- Announcement of qualified teams: February 28, 2014<br><br>4) Rules<br>**********<br><br>The rules and regulations for the RoboCup 2014 Middle Size League will be published at<br>
<a href="http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League">http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League</a><br><br>The updated rules and regulations will be released by December 31, 2013, at the latest.<br><br>5) Publication<br>
****************<br><br>Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the qualification materials of the qualified teams will be made publicly available. Teams applying for participation therefore grant the right of publication of their qualification materials to the MSL league.<br>
<br>6) Plagiarism<br>***************<br><br>Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code and ideas (see <a href="http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html">http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/plagiarism_FAQ.html</a> for a more detailed description) is not tolerated in the RoboCup community.<br>
The teams and team members that plagiarize other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any expenses related to their disqualification.<br>
<br>We hope to welcome you all in Joćo Pessoa.<br><br>With kind regards,<br><br>The 2014 RoboCup MSL Organizing and Executive committees.<br><br>-- <br>********************************************************************<br>
Jose Luis Azevedo<br>University of Aveiro<br>Dep. of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics<br>3810-193 Aveiro<br>Portugal<br>Tlf. +351.234 370500 / Fax. +351.234 370545<br>(<a href="mailto:jla@ua.pt" target="_blank">jla@ua.pt</a>)<br>
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