<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>Call for Participation</div><div>RoboCup 2014 Rescue Simulation League</div><div>Agent, Infrastructure and</div><div>Multi-Agent Challenge Competitions</div>
<div><span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">July 19-25, 2014</span></span> (Joao Pessoa, Brazil)</div><div><a href="http://www.robocup2014.org/" target="_blank">http://www.robocup2014.org/</a></div><div> </div><div><br>
</div><div>The RoboCup Rescue Agent Simulation league is inviting interested teams to apply for participation at the RoboCup 2014 competition in Joao Pessoa, Brazil.</div><div>The Rescue Simulation league will be held in three classes: Agent, Infrastructure and Multi-Agent Challenge.</div>
<div>If you are interested in participating, please pre-register your team.</div><div><br></div><div>1)Agent Competition</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>The Agent competition involves scoring competing agent coordination algorithms on different maps of the RoboCup Rescue 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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 teams with the highest scores in all the maps are then selected to move up the various rounds of the tournament, which is composed of two preliminaries round, one semi-final round and one final round. </div>
<div><br></div><div>2)Infrastructure Competition</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>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 RoboCup Rescue 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Teams and participants should focus in the following scopes:</div><div><br></div><div>1. A contribution to increase the future number of participants;</div><div>2. A contribution to Provide agent developers kit(New for 2014).</div>
<div>3. An integration of Agent and Virtual Robot competitions;</div><div>4. Improvements for server’s stability;</div><div>5. Improvements for sub simulators.</div><div><br></div><div>DUTY OF RELEASE</div><div>In addition to the submission of a Team Description Paper (TDP), the teams interested in participating in the Infrastrcuture competition are required to provide also a schedule for releasing their source code. The final release date in this schedule must not after the competition date. Even though a team is accepted to participate in the competition, if it does not release the code before the competition as scheduled, it will not be allowed to present its tool in the Infrastructure competition day, and thus it will not be evaluated and considered for winning the prize.</div>
<div><br></div><div>3)Multi-Agent Challenge</div><div>----------------------------------------------------------</div><div>RoboCup Rescue 2014 Multi-Agent Challenge</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench" target="_blank">https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Entries are welcome for the 2014 RoboCup Rescue Agent challenge</div><div>to be held in conjunction with the RoboCup 2014.</div><div>Participation in the challenge will consist of demonstrating efficient algorithms for coordinating large teams of agents solving one or more of the pre-defined challenge tasks in the Rescue Agent simulation environment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The goal of the challenge is to provide scenarios relevant to large-scale</div><div>urban search and rescue (USAR) and disaster mitigation.</div><div>These will include performance metrics to assess technologies in the areas</div>
<div>of distributed and centralized multi-agent task allocation, team formation, and path planning. The challenge comes with an open source policy designed to encourage collaboration and the dissemination of ideas and algorithms.</div>
<div><br></div><div>CHALLENGE FORMAT</div><div>The competition will include several tasks run within various scenarios.</div><div>Teams are encouraged to participate in as many tasks as possible.</div><div>Each task will be designed by a simple interface that does not require</div>
<div>implementing the full agent solution as needed for the main competition.</div><div>This interface could be, for example, a simple function call for assigning</div><div>agents to targets given utilities computed beforehand.</div>
<div>Winners in each of the individual task as well as an overall winner</div><div>will be announced. The overall winner receives an official RoboCup Rescue challenge award.</div><div>Teams have to hand-in beforehand their Team Description Paper (TDP) that should explain the team's methods for addressing the announced tasks.</div>
<div><br></div><div>CHALLENGE TASKS</div><div>Envisioned tasks are, for example, the distributed and centralized</div><div>assignment of agents to targets. These targets could be either fires</div><div>to extinguish or buried civilians to rescue.</div>
<div>The challenge in this task is to distribute agents among the targets</div><div>in that to minimize the overall damage, i.e., either reducing the number</div><div>of burning buildings or increasing the number of rescued civilians.</div>
<div>Another task will be the efficient planning of multi-agent routes</div><div>given the problem of unknown blockage of roads, also known as the</div><div>Canadian Traveler Problem.</div><div><br></div><div>More details can be found on the web page at</div>
<div><a href="https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench" target="_blank">https://github.com/RMASBench/RMASBench</a></div><div><br></div><div> 4)Pre-registration</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------</div>
<div>For the pre-registration you need to send an email to <a href="mailto:faraji.farshid@gmail.com" target="_blank">faraji.farshid@gmail.com</a> with the subject '2014 Pre-registration TEAM_NAME'. </div><div>The E-Mail should contain the following information:</div>
<div><br></div><div>1. Team name:</div><div>2. Team leader:</div><div>3. Email address:</div><div>4. Institution:</div><div>5. City and country:</div><div>6. Estimated size of team: </div><div>7. Competition you want to enter:</div>
<div> [ ] Agent competition</div><div> [ ] Multi-agent challenge (See call for participation below)</div><div> [ ] Infrastructure competition</div><div><br></div><div>The pre-registration deadline is <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">January 31th</span></span>, no qualification materials are required at this stage. A list of pre-registered teams will be published regularly at <a href="http://www.roborescue.sf.net/" target="_blank">http://www.roborescue.sf.net</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>5)Qualification</div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>For qualification, each team is required to submit a team description paper (TDP) for each competition entry. Information about the submission procedure will be sent to the pre-registered teams and to the mailing list at a later stage. Qualification deadline is <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">February 14th</span></span>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>6) Important Dates</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Team Pre-Registration Deadline: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">January 31th, 2014</span></span></div>
<div>Deadline for qualification materials: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">February 14th, 2014</span></span> </div><div>Team Qualification Notification: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">March 10th, 2014</span></span></div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Best Regards,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;direction:ltr">
<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;direction:ltr"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Farshid Faraji</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="LTR" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;direction:ltr">
On Behalf of Organizing Committee<br>RoboCup 2014 Rescue Simulation</p></div><div><br></div></div></div>