[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup 2015 3D Simulation League: Update and 2nd Call for Participation

[Marco S. <ms...@un...>]

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Call for Participation



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RoboCup 2015 Soccer Simulation 3D League

July 17-22, 2015 (Hefei, China)

http://www.robocup2015.org/

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The RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D Competition provides a great opportunity
to experiment with humanoid robots without the need for investing in robot
hardware. It facilitates experimenting using different learning and
optimization techniques by providing a simulated environment. Since the
games are played with teams of 11 players, the league is also a very good
environment for experimenting on multi-robot coordination methodologies.

We would like to invite you to participate in the RoboCup 2015 Soccer
Simulation League, 3D competition, which will take place July 17-22, 2015,
in Hefei, China. If you are interested in participating, please
pre-register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below.



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Schedule

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Team Pre-Registration Deadline: *February 15th,  2015 (23:59 UTC)*

Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline: *March 15th, 2015 (23:59
UTC)*

Qualified Teams Announcement: *March 30th, 2015*



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UPDATE: Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams

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The RoboCup Federation is pleased to introduce a waiver of the team fee for
the 2015 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major
leagues. A NEW team is defined as a team all of whose team members have
never participated in an annual international RoboCup competition.  The
waiver concerns only the team fee and does not imply any waiver of fees for
team members.


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Pre-Registration

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All teams who wish to qualify need to pre-register before the deadline
(February 15th, 2015). To pre-register, send an E-Mail to
*mar...@gm...
<mar...@gm...>* (cc: *ada...@gm...
<ada...@gm...>* and *fa...@hf... <fa...@hf...>*)
with the subject *'2015 3DSim Pre-registration TEAM_NAME'*. The E-Mail
should contain the following information:

1. Team-Name:

2. Team-Leader:

3. E-Mail:

4. Country/ies:

5. Affiliation(s):

6. Number of team members:

7. Apply for the Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams ? (Yes/No)



You should receive a confirmation E-Mail for your pre-registration within a
few days of submission.



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Qualification

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Qualification is based on a team's current performance, previous
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions to the RoboCup
community in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list and development
of the simulator.



In RoboCup 2015, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D simulation
competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2015 (UT Austin Villa,
Robocanes and Magma Offenburg) are automatically qualified after
pre-registering their teams and submitting an appropriate Team Description
Paper (TDP). The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification
process.



The qualification deadline is *March 15th, 2015*. The OC does not accept
qualification materials from teams who have not been pre-registered by the
pre-registration deadline. Qualification material consists of:



*1.     **Team Description Paper (TDP)*



The TDP should describe your research focus and ideas implemented in the
team. It should clearly describe your own work and your contributions in
addition to explicitly specifying what you have used from others' efforts
(including, but not limited to, any source code released by other teams or
their scientific work). In qualification, teams must be judged based on
their own work, so failing to acknowledge the work of others could result
in an immediate disqualification. The length of the TDP must be at least
four (4) pages and should not exceed twelve (12) pages in Springer LNCS
Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. Please
submit the TDP *only as a PDF document*, with the name of your team in the
filename, i.e. ‘*teamname_TDP.pdf*’.



*2. A List of Publications and Achievements* on previous RoboCup Symposia
and in other relevant international journals and conferences. Please do not
include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years. Please also
include your team's achievements in RoboCup and related events of previous
years. If you are new to the RoboCup 3D community, you may also include
references to relevant research done by your team that shows its potential.
Please submit the contribution list *as a PDF document*, with the name of
your team in the filename, i.e. ‘*teamname_list.pdf*’.



*3. Binary*

All teams should submit a working binary of their team. The OC will use
these binaries to play 11 vs 11 matches, under the rules and with the
simulator used during the 2014 competitions held in João Pessoa (
http://www.robocup2014.org/?page_id=928). These rules can be found at:
http://homepages.herts.ac.uk/~sv08aav/RCSoccerSim3DRules2013.1.pdf and the
changes for 2014 at:
http://wiki.robocup.org/images/0/0f/RoboCupSimulationLeague3D_ruleChanges2014.pdf



Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

·        *Two scripts should be included*: a start up script, called
*start.sh*, to run a full team of agents and a kill script, called *kill.sh*,
to fully kill all agents of the team. The requirements and examples of
these scripts can be found at the rules page given above.

·        *All necessary external libraries should be included and be used
locally by the binary*. The OC will not make an effort to install extra
libraries on the qualification systems.

·        *The binaries should not create any output*, be it through
standard output or to files and no graphical (debugging) interface should
be used.

·        *The binary should be compiled for 64 bit systems* and should work
on a modern GNU/Linux distribution, such as *Ubuntu 12.04*. You may also
send 32 bit binaries, but it is your responsibility to make sure that it
runs correctly on 64 bit distributions. You can assume that basic 32 bit
libraries (e.g. libc) are installed on the 64 bit OS. *To summarize:* the
binary should run out of the box on a standard, clean, headless system in a
restricted sand box environment with the simulation server (possibly)
running on a different machine. *The OC will not try to fix errors*. When a
binary fails to run, the respective team will be notified and will have to
resubmit their material, before the deadline of *March 15th, 2015*.



Please *put all qualification material in a folder with your team name*,
create a tarball named *teamname.tgz* and E-Mail it to
*mar...@gm...
<mar...@gm...>* (cc: *ada...@gm...
<ada...@gm...>* and *fa...@hf... <fa...@hf...>*)
with the subject: '*2015 3DSim Qualification TEAM_NAME*'. If everything
works finel you will receive a confirmation. If you did not receive any
confirmation within two (2) days, please contact the Organizing Committee.



If you encounter any problem sending your qualification materials please
don't hesitate to contact the OC.



Teams will be qualified based on the submitted materials as described in
this E-Mail. The following general qualification limitations will also be
considered:

·        *One-Third-Rule*: The so called One-Third-Rule rule states that
only up to 1/3 of the participants of a competition may be from the same
country.

·        *One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule*: The One-Team-Per-Institute-Rule
states that only one team from each university or research institute is
allowed to participate in a competition. Note that it is okay for different
teams from the same institute to participate in different competitions,
e.g. 2D and 3D soccer.



Best Regards,

Marco Simões and Adailton Junior

On Behalf of Organizing Committee
RoboCup 2015 Soccer Simulation 3D