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<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Call for Applications for Participation </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>RoboCup 2017 RoboCup@Work</p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.robocup2017.org/eng/index.html">http://www.robocup2017.org/eng/index.html</a>
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<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Nagoya, Japan </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Thursday 27th through Sunday 30th July
2017 </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span>RoboCup@Work: Competing for the Factory
of the Future</p>
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</span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">RoboCup@Work is a league and competition
in RoboCup that targets the use of robots in work-related, industrial
scenarios.</p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">It aims to foster research and
development that enables use of innovative mobile robots equipped with advanced
manipulators for current and future industrial applications, where robots
cooperate with human workers for complex tasks ranging from manufacturing,
automation, and parts handling up to general logistics.</p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">The RoboCup@Work league is characterized
by an industrial appealing environment composed of industrial objects such as
screws and nuts, shelfs, containers, platforms of various sizes and networked automation
devices such as conveyor belts, drilling machines and others.<br></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">The actual competition tasks to be
performed in the environment are defined in a set of so-called tests. Each test
addresses various mobile manipulation capabilities such as grasping,
transportation, precision placement and visual servoing.<br></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">The full rules of RoboCup@Work as well
as further technical details are posted on the RoboCup@Work website.<br></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><br></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">Participation in the Competition<br></p>
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<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">All teams that intend to participate at
the competition have to perform the following steps: </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">1.) Submission of qualification
material, including a team description paper and possibly additional material
like videos or drawings<br></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">2.) Final registration (qualified teams
only) </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><br></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">Qualification<br></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">------------- </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The qualification process serves a dual
purpose: It should allow the Technical Committee to assess the safety of the
robots a team intent to bring to a competition, and it should allow to rank
teams according to a set of evaluation criteria in order to select the most promising
teams for a competition, if not all interested teams can be permitted. The TC
will select the qualified teams according to the qualification material
provided by the teams. </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">The evaluation criteria will include:<br></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Team description paper </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Relevant scientific
contribution/publications </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Professional quality of robot and
software </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Novelty of approach </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Relevance to industry </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Performance in previous competitions </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Contribution to RoboCup@Work league,
e.g. by </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- Organization of events </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- Provision and sharing of knowledge </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Team web site </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">Team Description Paper</p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">---------------------- </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The Team Description Paper (TDP) is a
central element of the qualification process and has to be provided by each
team as part of the qualification process. The TDP should at least contain the following
information in the author/title section of the paper: </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">- Name of the team (title)<br></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Team members (authors), including the
team leader </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Link to the team web site </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- Contact information </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">- The body of the TDP should contain
information on the following: </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- focus of research/research interest </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- description of the hardware,
including an image of the robot(s) </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- description of the software, esp. the
functional and software architectures </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- innovative technology (if any) </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- reusability of the system or parts
thereof </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- applicability and relevance to
industrial tasks </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-- usage of components (software or
hardware) developed by other RoboCup@Work teams </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><br></p><p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText">The team description paper should cover
in detail the technical and scientific approach, while the team web site should
be designed for a broader audience. Both the web site and the TDP have to be
written in English.</p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Submission and Evaluation </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">------------------------- </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">All applications with the qualification
material must be submitted by February 15th, 2017, by email to
<a href="mailto:rc-work-tc@lists.robocup.org">rc-work-tc@lists.robocup.org</a>. Applications must not be sent to personal
RoboCup@Work TC/OC email addresses and must not contain video attachments. </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Qualification decisions will be
announced by February 28th, 2017. </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards, </span></p>
<p class="inbox-inbox-MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">The RoboCup@Work Technical and
Organizing Committees</span></p></div>