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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none"><strong>Call for Participation</strong> <br /> RoboCup - 2017 RoboCup Industrial Logistics League (RCLL)<br /> July 25 - July 30, 2017 (Nagoya, Japan) <br /> <a href="http://www.robocup2017.org">http://www.robocup2017.org</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">The RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) is an application driven league inspired by the industrial scenario of a smart factory, where a number of machines provide manufacturing services to refine, assemble, or modify a workpiece eventually resulting in a final product. In this new paradigm, the factory provides a number of production technologies rather than production types. The idea is to allow cost effective production even for low volume or high variance products. Such a factory requires a more flexible logistics, where robots are a natural choice. The RCLL provides a testbed and benchmark of a comprehensible and yet meaningful size for such a system. We see the RCLL in a larger context as a central — but by no means exclusive — requirement for modern manufacturing industries. It focuses on research questions about task level planning and scheduling, automation in an industrial production workflow, and multi-robot system integration.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Submit your <strong>Intention of Participation</strong> to <a href="mailto:robocup-logistics-oc@lists.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de">robocup-logistics-oc@lists.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de</a> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none"><br /></span> latest by<strong> April 15, 2017</strong>. The template you find on <a href="http://www.robocup-logistics.org/call-for-participation">http://www.robocup-logistics.org/call-for-participation</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Please send your <strong>Qualification Material</strong> to <a href="mailto:robocup-logistics-oc@lists.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de">robocup-logistics-oc@lists.kbsg.rwth-aachen.de</a> <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;text-decoration:none"><br /></span> latest by <strong>May 31, 2017</strong>. The template for the Qualification Material you find on</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">The OC Committee of the RCLL</p></body></html>