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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The Workshop on the Future of Rescue Simulation</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">29 Feb - March 4, 2016</font></p>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Important Dates<br>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Pre-registration: December 1th, 2015</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Workshop Goal</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The goal of the workshop is to redefine the challenge of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation virtual robot competition, make the transition from the current Unreal based environment towards
a ROS / Gazebo based environment and define the roadmap of the scientific challenge in the competition for the coming 5 years.</font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The workshop is a combination of brainstorming and hacking; lectures and tutorials. The venue has a small lecture room, 7 offices and a common
room. We actively promote involvement from all over the world, from participants involved in related initiatives, such as the virtual competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, the Japan Virtual Robotics Challenge and the real RoboCup Rescue League.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The venue and workshop has a limit of 25 participants. Participants will be selected based on their technical and academic background, as indicated
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><a href="https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/FutureOfRescue/IntentWorkshop.txt" target="_blank" style="color: purple;"><span style="color: windowtext;">https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/FutureOfRescue/IntentWorkshop.txt</span></a>.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 13.3333px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Please email this form as attachment to <span style="color: windowtext;"><a href="mailto:francesco.amigoni@polimi.it" target="_blank" title="Ctrl+Click to follow link" style="color: purple;">francesco.amigoni@polimi.it</a></span></font></p>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px;"><font size="3"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman">Monday - Getting accustomed to USARSim / Gazebo / ROS</font></font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">A more detailed program is maintained at <a href="https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/FutureOfRescue/" target="_blank">https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/FutureOfRescue/</a></font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 13.3333px; margin: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Workshop organizers</font></div>
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