<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail-"><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4" color="#000000">Call for Participation</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000">RoboCup 2017 RoboCup@Home League</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000">July 25 - 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan)</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.robocup2017.org/" target="_blank">http://www.robocup2017.org</a> </div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://www.robocupathome.org/" target="_blank">http://www.robocupathome.org</a> </div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/@Home_League/" target="_blank">http://wiki.robocup.org/wiki/@<wbr>Home_League/</a> </div><div> </div></span><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div>RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior).</div><div><br></div><div>The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviours, Behaviour Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration.</div><div><br></div><div>The RoboCup@Home league is itegrated by three sub-leagues officially referred as</div><div><ul><li><font face="monospace, monospace">Domestic Standard Platform sub-league</font> (Toyota HSR)<br></li><li><font face="monospace, monospace">Social Standard Platform</font><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"> sub-league</span> (Aldebaran/Softbank Pepper)<br></li><li><font face="monospace, monospace">Open Platform sub-league</font><br></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>This message describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home League 2017.</div><div>Important dates:</div><div><br></div></font></span><div><font color="#000000">Feb 5, 2017<span class="gmail-m_-4792360152349256398gmail-m_3064542217161283288gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Intention of Participation</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Mar 12, 2017<span class="gmail-m_-4792360152349256398gmail-m_3064542217161283288gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Preregistration and Deadline for qualification material</font></div><span class="gmail-"><div><font color="#000000"> (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Team Website, Information in @Home Wiki).</font></div></span><div><font color="#000000">Mar 26, 2017<span class="gmail-m_-4792360152349256398gmail-m_3064542217161283288gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Qualification announcement</font></div><font color="#000000"><span class="gmail-"><div><br></div><div>The qualification procedure consists of the following two steps:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></span><span class="gmail-"><div><b>Step 1) Intention of Participation (strongly recommended)</b></div><div><br></div></span></font><div><font color="#000000">The team sends an email to the Oranizing Committee</font> <<a href="mailto:oc@robocupathome.org" target="_blank">oc@robocupathome.org</a>> <font color="#000000">to indicate your intention to participate in the RoboCup@Home 2017 event, including the following basic information:</font></div></div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div><div><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Team Name:</font></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">Sub-league:</span><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Platform:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Country:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Affiliation:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Team Leader Name:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Contact information (E-mail):</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Web site:</font></div></blockquote></font></span><div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div><br></div><div>Only one platform can be specified per team.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The e-mail subject should be:<font face="monospace, monospace"> [@Home2017-Participation] (YourTeamName)</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace"><br></font></div></font></span><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Please check the email is encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><i><b><font color="#000000">**** Deadline: Sunday, 5th Feb. 2017 23:59 GMT *****</font></b></i></div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Step 2) Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)</b></div><div><br></div></font></span><div><font color="#000000">The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Oranizing Committee</font> <<a href="mailto:oc@robocupathome.org" target="_blank">oc@robocupathome.org</a>> <font color="#000000">to participate in the qualification process for the RoboCup@Home 2017 event. Please fill in the following information:</font></div></div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Team Name:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Sub-league:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Country:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Affiliation:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Team Leader Name:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Contact information (E-mail):</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Link to a team video:</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Link to a team web site devoted to their efforts: </font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email based on the official template.</font></div></blockquote></font></span><div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div>The e-mail subject should be: <font face="monospace, monospace">[@Home2017-Qualification] (YourTeamName)</font><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div></font></span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Considerations:</font></span></div><div><ul><li><font color="#000000">Only one platform can be specified per team.<br></font></li><li><font color="#000000">All the publications and software to be evaluated for qualification ***MUST*** be in the team’s website.<br></font></li><li><font color="#000000">The email must be encoded in UTF-8 using only the ISO-8859-1 character set.<br></font></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><b>Important Notice: </b> As platforms are independent, you must send an application email for each platform you want to compete in, specifying different team names in each. Qualification Material (e.g. video and TDP) must match the robot to qualify.</font></span></div><div><i><b><font color="#000000"><br></font></b></i></div><div><i><b><font color="#000000">**** Deadline: Sunday, Mar. 12, 2017 23:59 GMT *****</font></b></i></div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Instructions for the Team Video</div><div>===========================</div><div><br></div><div>As a proof of running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification video. As a minimum requirement for qualification, we consider showing the robot(s) successfully solving at least one test of the current or last year's rulebook.</div><div><br></div></font></span><div><font color="#000000"><b>[Standard Platforms Only]</b> The robot shown in the video must not be altered or modified in any way.</font></div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Instructions for the TDP</div><div>===========================<br></div><div><br></div><div>The TDP is an 8-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following:</div></font></span><div><ul><font color="#000000"><span class="gmail-"><li>Innovative technology and scientific contribution<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Photo(s) of the robot<br></li><li>Focus of research/research interests<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Re-usability of the system for other research groups<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Applicability of the robot in the real world<br></li></span></font><li><font color="#000000">Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot's software (e.g. ROS vision should be included, but not OpenCV).</font></li><li><font color="#000000"><b>[Open Platform Only] </b>Brief, compact description of the robot's hardware.<br></font></li><li><font color="#000000"><b>[Standard Platforms Only] </b>Specify all external computing devices, if any.<br></font></li></ul></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">For the TDP, please use the</font> <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0" target="_blank">Springer LNAI format</a> <font color="#000000">used in the RoboCup Symposium submissions and limit yourself to 8 pages without altering margins or spacing. You may</font> <a href="https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/TDPTemplate" target="_blank">download a template for the TDP from here</a>.</div><span class="gmail-"><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Instructions for the Web site<br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">===========================<br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">While the TDP goes into detail about the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, the website should be designed for a broader audience, including:</font></div></span><div><ul><font color="#000000"><span class="gmail-"><li>Photos of the robot(s)<br></li><li>Videos of the robot(s)<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Description of the approaches and information on scientific achievements<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Relevant publications (last 5 years, preferably available to download)<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Link to repositories with software for the community<br></li></span></font><li><font color="#000000">Team members<br></font></li><li><font color="#000000">Previous participation in RoboCup<br></font></li></ul></div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Evaluation criteria:</div><div>===========================</div><div><br></div><div>Qualification materials will be judged by the following criteria:</div></font></span><div><ul><font color="#000000"><span class="gmail-"><li>Team description paper (clarity, scientific contributions, re-usability by the league, applicability in real world)<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Qualification Video (navigation, human-robot interaction, people/object recognition, object manipulation and new features)<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Website (multimedia, publications from last 5 years, downloadable content, open-source software and other contributions)<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Relevant Scientific contribution/publications (downloadable papers and open-source software)<br></li></span><span class="gmail-"><li>Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home)<br></li></span></font></ul></div><span class="gmail-"><font color="#000000"><div>We encourage teams to produce self-explicative videos for a general audience where complex tasks are solved. For Team Description Papers focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system.<br></div><div><br></div></font></span><div><font color="#000000"><b>Note to experienced competitors:</b> Major changes are being done in the rulebook. You may download the latest version from: </font><a href="https://github.com/RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook" target="_blank">https://github.com/RoboC<wbr>upAtHome/RuleBook</a></div><span class="gmail-"><div> </div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in Nagoya,</font></div><div><font color="#000000">The 2017 RoboCup@Home Organizing and Technical Committees</font></div></span></div></div>
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