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style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Dear MSL and other RoboCuper
friends</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0mm 0mm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The 4th edition of the RoboCup Middle Size League
Workshp was held between 10 and 12 of November/2014, in Eindhoven, The
Netherlands.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0mm 0mm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">This was<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>great event, superbly organized by the Technical University of Eindhoven
and its MSL Team, with an important support from ASML.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0mm 0mm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">It joined 32 people representing six different teams
from Europe and Asia.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0mm 0mm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">A more thorough insight into what happened can be found
at </FONT></FONT><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A
href="http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League/Workshop/4th_Edition,_Eindhoven_2014"
target=_blank><FONT color=#0000ff
face="Times New Roman">http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/Middle_Size_League/Workshop/4th_Edition,_Eindhoven_2014</FONT></A></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
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<P style="MARGIN: 0mm 0mm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">To stress out, in particular, the joint effort during
the workshop second day, where the six teams, working together through out
nearly thirteen <SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: en-us; mso-fareast-language: en-us; mso-bidi-language: ar-sa">continuous
</SPAN>hours, managed to share among their robots a global world model
representing the robots, obstacles and a moving ball in a field that, in the
end, was presented together in each team own base station. This was a very
successful first attempt to standardize common models for different levels of
abstraction of perception and control that we hope, in the near future, will
lead eventually to the possibility of making any general mixed team by picking
up randomly one robot from five different teams and putting them playing
together without having to change any of the local hardware or software
specificities. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0mm 0mm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">In the name of the MSL Executive Committee I would like
to present my public <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>congratulations to the organizers and
participants of this event.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0mm 0mm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">With my best regards</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0mm 0mm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="mso-no-proof: no"><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<DIV
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">+----------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Bernardo
Cunha<BR>MSL EXEC</DIV>
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