<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-0be7473b-ec48-e438-4394-ddcccab1231d"><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:21px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">4th International RoboCup MSL Workshop, Open Invitation</span></h1><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rule changes limiting continuous dribbling distance, and introducing mandatory passing have dramatically changed RoboCup MSL in the past couple of years. These step-changes are happening at a time where several new teams are starting up. Therefore MSL is a league in transition, which means knowledge exchange among teams is extra important. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To facilitate this, multiple initiatives have been taken by the community. A number of robot-designs are </span><a href="http://www.roboticopenplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">released under an open hardware license</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, and a low-cost robot platform </span><a href="http://www.turtle5k.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">has been developed</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. On top of this, a three-day workshop gets organized yearly.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year the workshop will take place in Eindhoven, on November 10th, 11th and 12th. Building on earlier workshops in Stuttgart and </span><a href="http://carpenoctem.das-lab.net/mslworkshop3" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">last year</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at the University of Kassel, the goal of the workshop is to share knowledge among existing and startup teams, and to discuss future directions of the league. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The program contains a mini-symposium with presentations of different teams (Monday), a social event for which we will visit the </span><a href="http://www.gloweindhoven.nl/website/glow/glow.php?gshow=order&eventId=23&Curr=1&action=home&lId=2" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">GLOW festival</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Monday evening), a hands-on part where participants work with software of other teams (Tuesday) and a discussion on the roadmap and on rule changes for the upcoming year (Wednesday). </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Established MSL teams are invited, but we would also like to invite teams starting up, people considering to participate in MSL in the future or RoboCuppers who see possibilities to apply MSL technology to their own league or vice versa. Although traditionally mainly the European teams are participating, we would like to emphasize the workshop is also open for teams from outside Europe. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop will be organized by Robin Soetens, Lotte de Koning and René van de Molengraft of Eindhoven University of Technology. In case you're interested in participating, please contact robinsoetens - at - <a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a></span></p><br></span></div></div></div>
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