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[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation 3D League - Call for Participation

[Adailton J. <ada...@gm...>]

Dear all,

We extended the team qualification materials submission deadline to March
10th.

Please apologize if you receive multiple copies.

Follows the call for the RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation competition.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2025 Soccer Simulation 3D League
July 15 – July 21, 2025 Salvador (Brazil)
https://2025.robocup.org/
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

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 2025 Soccer
Simulation League 3D competition in Salvador, Brazil. If you are interested
in participating, please register your team and follow the procedure as
outlined below.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Important Dates
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
March 10, 2025 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline
March 20, 2025: Qualified Teams Announcement
July 15 – 21 2025: Competition

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team fee
for the RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and 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.
In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to
the best NEW team in the 3D competition.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification is based on a team’s current performance, previous
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas in
past years, cooperation in the discord channels, and development of the
simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams.
In RoboCup 2025, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer
Simulation Competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2024 (FC Portugal,
magmaOffenburg and Apollo3D) are automatically qualified after submitting
an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP).

The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.

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 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.
Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years.
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 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 2024 competitions.
Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

– Two scripts should be included: a startup 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 on the rules page.
– 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. A Java runtime can be assumed to be available.
– 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 24.04. 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 sandbox 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.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name,
create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it to the registration
form.

https://forms.gle/qgnLB1cpcJ2r7gLc9

You should upload only one file including all your qualification materials.
If everything works fine, 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 CfP. 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 in 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.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
3D Soccer Simulation League Resources
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
https://ssim.robocup.org/
Resources with more information on 3D Simulation League and how to enter a
new team using existing base codes.

Best Regards,

RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee

-- 
Best Regards
[]'s
Adailton Cerqueira Junior
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/brt
Mestrado em Mecatrônica - Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA
Bacharel em Sistema de Informação - Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Técnico em Automação Industrial - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica da
Bahia - CEFET-BA

[Sserver-three-d] Robotica 2025 - Call for (remote or in person) Participation - Simulation 3D

[Nuno L. <nu...@ua...>]

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----------------   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION   -----------------
=============================================================

(Our apologies for any cross-posting)

ROBOTICA 2025 - 24th Portuguese Robotics Open

https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2025/

April 04 to 06, 2025
Madeira Island, Portugal

The Portuguese Robotics Open is a RoboCup Event that aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robotic competitions.

We would like to invite you to participate in the 24th Portuguese Robotics Open which will take place from April 04 to 06, 2025, At Madeira Island, Portugal. If you are interested in participating, please register your team in one of the promoted competitions.

==  3D SIMULATION LEAGUE ==

Robot scientific competitions are a growing trend worldwide and particularly at the European level in the past few years. The 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE 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.

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The official rules of this League for the 2025 edition, can be found at:
https://ssim.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Rules_RoboCupSim3D2024.pdf
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Important resources for the 3D Simulation League, including mailing lists, an installation guide for the server and 3D viewer, team binaries, source-code releases, game replays and other documents can be found at:
https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/
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== Schedule ==

Remote Team Late Registration deadline (100 euros): March 27, 2025
Early Registration deadline (275 euros):            March 02, 2025
Late Registration deadline (325 euros):             March 23, 2025
Portuguese Robotics Open:                           April 04-06, 2025

All deadlines are 23:59 GMT.

== Registration ==

Registration is performed through the on-line form at:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbO9mApCynI79bbvenYkJCgquPVo7juw4NYyC6I5WT-fCvUg/viewform

== Description and History ==

The Portuguese Robotics Open (also known as Festival Nacional de Robótica) had its 1st edition in 2001. The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors and also includes an international IEEE conference where national and international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics (https://www.icarsc.pt/2025/).

The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of the Portuguese Robotics Society.

Hoping to see you at the Portuguese Robotics Open!

Kind Regards,
The Portuguese Robotics Open Organizing Committee

[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation 3D League - Call for Participation

[Adailton J. <ada...@gm...>]

Dear all,

Please apologize if you receive multiple copies.

Follows the call for the RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation competition.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2025 Soccer Simulation 3D League
July 15 – July 21, 2025 Salvador (Brazil)
https://2025.robocup.org/
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

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 2025 Soccer
Simulation League 3D competition in Salvador, Brazil. If you are interested
in participating, please register your team and follow the procedure as
outlined below.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Important Dates
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
February 28, 2025 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission
Deadline
March 20, 2025: Qualified Teams Announcement
July 15 – 21 2025: Competition

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team fee
for the RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and 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.
In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to
the best NEW team in the 3D competition.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification is based on a team’s current performance, previous
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas in
past years, cooperation in the discord channels, and development of the
simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams.
In RoboCup 2025, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer
Simulation Competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2024 (FC Portugal,
magmaOffenburg and Apollo3D) are automatically qualified after submitting
an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP).

The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.

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 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.
Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years.
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 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 2024 competitions.
Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

– Two scripts should be included: a startup 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 on the rules page.
– 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. A Java runtime can be assumed to be available.
– 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 24.04. 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 sandbox 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.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name,
create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it to the registration
form.

https://forms.gle/qgnLB1cpcJ2r7gLc9

You should upload only one file including all your qualification materials.
If everything works fine, 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 CfP. 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 in 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.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
3D Soccer Simulation League Resources
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
https://ssim.robocup.org/
Resources with more information on 3D Simulation League and how to enter a
new team using existing base codes.

Best Regards,

RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee

-- 
Best Regards
[]'s
Adailton Cerqueira Junior
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/brt
Mestrado em Mecatrônica - Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA
Bacharel em Sistema de Informação - Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Técnico em Automação Industrial - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica da
Bahia - CEFET-BA

[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation 3D League - Call for Participation

[Adailton J. <ada...@gm...>]

Dear all,

Please apologize if you receive multiple copies.

Follows the call for the RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation competition.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2025 Soccer Simulation 3D League
July 15 – July 21, 2025 Salvador (Brazil)
https://2025.robocup.org/
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

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 2025 Soccer
Simulation League 3D competition in Salvador, Brazil. If you are interested
in participating, please register your team and follow the procedure as
outlined below.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Important Dates
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
February 28, 2025 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission
Deadline
March 20, 2025: Qualified Teams Announcement
July 15 – 21 2025: Competition

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team fee
for the RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and 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.
In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to
the best NEW team in the 3D competition.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification is based on a team’s current performance, previous
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas in
past years, cooperation in the discord channels, and development of the
simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams.
In RoboCup 2025, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer
Simulation Competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2024 (FC Portugal,
magmaOffenburg and Apollo3D) are automatically qualified after submitting
an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP).

The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.

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 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.
Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years.
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 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 2024 competitions.
Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

– Two scripts should be included: a startup 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 on the rules page.
– 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. A Java runtime can be assumed to be available.
– 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 24.04. 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 sandbox 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.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name,
create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it to the registration
form.

https://forms.gle/qgnLB1cpcJ2r7gLc9

You should upload only one file including all your qualification materials.
If everything works fine, 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 CfP. 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 in 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.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
3D Soccer Simulation League Resources
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
https://ssim.robocup.org/
Resources with more information on 3D Simulation League and how to enter a
new team using existing base codes.

Best Regards,

RoboCup 2025 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee

-- 
Best Regards
[]'s
Adailton Cerqueira Junior
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/brt
Mestrado em Mecatrônica - Universidade Federal da Bahia - UFBA
Bacharel em Sistema de Informação - Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Técnico em Automação Industrial - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica da
Bahia - CEFET-BA

[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup Brazil Open 2024 - 2nd Call for Remote Teams Participation

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

Sorry for any duplicates.

RoboCup Brazil Open 2024 - Call for Remote Teams Participation

 The RoboCup Brazil Open is a regional RoboCup competition that takes place in conjunction with the Brazilian Robotics Competition(CBR), the National Robotics Exhibition (MNR), and the Brazilian and Latin-American Robotics Symposiums(SBR).

Remote Participation

 Remote participation is available for non-Brazilian teams only in simulation leagues. Teams that qualified for RoboCup 2024 in Eindhoven can use the same TDP sent for the world competition or a new version with minor changes. Other teams must upload a Technical Description Paper (TDP) describing the main strategies and solutions used or planned for their team. See instructions and templates here: https://cbr.robocup.org.br/index.php/papers-tdps/

League Available
RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D
RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D

Important Dates
Early Registration: October 7
Regular Registration: from October 8 to 20
Late Registration: from October 21 to November 10
Competition: from November 11 to 17

Registration fees: see https://cbr.robocup.org.br/index.php/pagamentos/

Registration is now open using Sistema Olimpo (https://olimpo.robocup.org.br/?lang=en). People who participated in Brazil Open 2023 can log in using the same account used last year. New participants must register to the system to proceed with team registration. Further information about the competition, such as registration fee values and rules, is available at https://cbr.robocup.org.br<https://cbr.robocup.org.br/>.

Support: If you have problems or doubts, please email cb...@ro...


Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br<http://www.acso.uneb.br/>
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup Brazil Open 2024 - Call for Remote Participation

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

RoboCup Brazil Open 2024 - Call for Remote Teams Participation

 The RoboCup Brazil Open is a regional RoboCup competition that takes place in conjunction with the Brazilian Robotics Competition(CBR), the National Robotics Exhibition (MNR), and the Brazilian and Latin-American Robotics Symposiums(SBR).

Remote Participation

 Remote participation is available for non-Brazilian teams only in simulation leagues. Teams that qualified for RoboCup 2024 in Eindhoven can use the same TDP sent for the world competition or a new version with minor changes. Other teams must upload a Technical Description Paper (TDP) describing the main strategies and solutions used or planned for their team. See instructions and templates here: https://cbr.robocup.org.br/index.php/papers-tdps/

League Available
RoboCup Soccer Simulation 3D
RoboCup Soccer Simulation 2D

Important Dates
Early Registration: October 7
Regular Registration: from October 8 to 20
Late Registration: from October 21 to November 10
Competition: from November 11 to 17

Registration fees: see https://cbr.robocup.org.br/index.php/pagamentos/

Registration is now open using Sistema Olimpo (https://olimpo.robocup.org.br/?lang=en). People who participated in Brazil Open 2023 can log in using the same account used last year. New participants must register to the system to proceed with team registration. Further information about the competition, such as registration fee values and rules, is available at https://www.cbrobotica.org/.

Support: If you have problems or doubts, please email cb...@ro...


Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br<http://www.acso.uneb.br/>
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

[Sserver-three-d] ENC: [RoboCup-worldwide] [Call for papers] Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR 2024)

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

Sorry for any duplicates

Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br<http://www.acso.uneb.br/>
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.
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De: Thiago Pedro Donadon Homem via RoboCup-worldwide <rob...@li...>
Enviado: quarta-feira, 17 de abril de 2024 11:46
Para: sim...@gm... <sim...@gm...>
Assunto: [RoboCup-worldwide] [Call for papers] Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR 2024)


Dear Colleagues,


It is my pleasure to invite you all to submit your work to the Brazilian Symposium on Robotics (SBR 2024).


Call for Papers

SBR 2024 - Brazilian Symposium on Robotics

Goiânia, GO, Brazil - November 13 to 15, 2024

https://natalnet.br/sbr2024<https://cas5-0-urlprotect.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fnatalnet.br%2fsbr2024&umid=7cdaf1a5-fcc9-11ee-8159-000d3a37b293&auth=582888e3e5f15ece1e97463e2c64a1c9b74ba308-e01729b71c42a060cf6fa68d9fbedae0f4122653>


Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: July 8, 2024

Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2024

Camera Ready Submission Deadline: October 16, 2024


Proceedings

Accepted papers will be available at IEEE Xplore.

The best selected papers will be invited for submission of an extended version in the Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems - JINT, Impact factor 3.3 (2022)


Overview

The SBR (Brazilian Symposium on Robotics aim at promoting a comprehensive scientific meeting in the area of Intelligent Robotics, bringing together researchers, undergraduate and graduate students of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, and related fields.


The event will include technical sessions of an oral presentation of full papers and technical lectures of recognized importance in the area. SBR will take place in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil from November 13 to 15, 2024.


The SBR and its associated scientific events are the primary scientific/academic meetings of a larger event that brings relevant robotics developments, named ROBÓTICA 2024. That also comprises the CBR (Brazilian Robotics Competition), OBR (Brazilian Robotics Olympiad), MNR (National Robotics Fair), besides the SBR, WRE (Workshop of Robotics in Education), and WTDR/CTDR (Workshop on MSc Dissertation and Ph.D. Thesis in Robotics and Best MSc Dissertation and Ph.D. Thesis Contest in Robotics).


Registration: https://centraldesistemas.sbc.org.br/ecos/sbrwrectdr2024

Paper submission: https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4589

Conference website: https://natalnet.br/sbr2024<https://cas5-0-urlprotect.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fnatalnet.br%2fsbr2024&umid=7cdaf1a5-fcc9-11ee-8159-000d3a37b293&auth=582888e3e5f15ece1e97463e2c64a1c9b74ba308-e01729b71c42a060cf6fa68d9fbedae0f4122653>


Topics of Interest

1.  Vision in robotics and automation;

2.  Symbol mediated robot behavior control;

3.  Sensory mediated robot behavior control;

4.  Active sensory processing and control;

5.  Industrial applications of autonomous systems;

6.  Sensor modeling and data interpretation e.g. models and software for sensor data integration, 3D scene analysis, environment description and modeling, pattern recognition;

7.  Robust techniques in AI and sensing e.g. uncertainty modeling, graceful degradation of systems;

8.  Robot programming e.g. on-line and off-line programming, discrete event dynamical systems, fuzzy logic;

9.  Multi-Robot and Multi-Agents, Cooperation and Collaboration;

10. CAD-based robotics e.g. CAD-based vision, reverse engineering;

11. Robot simulation and visualization tools;

12. Tele-operated and autonomous systems;

13. Microelectromechanical robots;

14. Robot modeling;

15. Robot control architectures;

16. Sensor-Motor control of Robots;

17. Robot planning, reasoning, communication, adaptation, and learning;

18. Mechanical design;

19. Robotic Manipulators;

20. Robot soccer;

21. Evolutionary robotics;

22. Bio-Inspired robotics;

23. Robots for robotic surgery and rehabilitation;

24. Micro/nano-robotics, new Devices, and materials for robots;

25. Human-Robot Interaction and Interfaces;

26. Education issues in Robotics;

27. Computing architectures;

28. Sensor Networks, architectures of embedded Hardware and software;

29. Self-Localization, Mapping and Navigation;

30. Multi-robot systems;

31. Aerial vehicles;

32. Autonomous vehicles;

33. Mobile robot platforms;

34. Service robots and entertainment robots;

35. Underwater robots;

36. Humanoids.


Organization chairs:

Chair: Dr. Thiago Pedro Donadon Homem - IFSP

Co-chair: Dr. Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr. - UFPel

Robotica 2024 General chair: Dr. Marco Antonio Assfalk de Oliveira - UFG

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Dr. Thiago Pedro Donadon Homem
Associate Professor
Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of São Paulo (IFSP)
CV Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/6109272293288485
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2140-0129

[Sserver-three-d] Robotica 2024 - Call for (remote or in person) Participation

[Nuno L. <nu...@ua...>]

=============================================================
----------------   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION   -----------------
=============================================================

(Our apologies for any cross-posting)

ROBOTICA 2024 - 23rd Portuguese Robotics Open

https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2024-1/

May 02 to 05, 2024
Paredes de Coura, Portugal

The Portuguese Robotics Open is a RoboCup Event that aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robotic competitions.

We would like to invite you to participate in the 23rd Portuguese Robotics Open which will take place from May 02 to 05, 2024, in Paredes de Coura, Portugal. If you are interested in participating, please register your team in one of the promoted competitions.


==  3D SIMULATION LEAGUE ==

Robot scientific competitions are a growing trend worldwide and particularly at the European level in the past few years. The 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE 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.

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The official rules of this League for the 2024 edition, can be found at:
https://ssim.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Rules_RoboCupSim3D2023.pdf
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Important resources for the 3D Simulation League, including mailing lists, an installation guide for the server and 3D viewer, team binaries, source-code releases, game replays and other documents can be found at:
https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/
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== Schedule ==

Remote Team Late Registration deadline (100 euros): April 26, 2024
Early Registration deadline (250 euros):            April 12, 2024
Late Registration deadline (300 euros):             April 19, 2024
Portuguese Robotics Open:                           May   02-05, 2024

All deadlines are 23:59 GMT.

== Registration ==

Registration is performed through the on-line form at:
https://forms.gle/fung9nuh1DtxpHMPA


== Description and History ==

The Portuguese Robotics Open (also known as Festival Nacional de Robótica) had its 1st edition in 2001. The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors and also includes an international IEEE conference where national and international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics (https://www.icarsc.pt/2024/).

The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of the Portuguese Robotics Society.

Hoping to see you at the Portuguese Robotics Open!

Kind Regards,
The Portuguese Robotics Open Organizing Committee

[Sserver-three-d] REMINDER: RoboCup 2024 3D Soccer Simulation 3D League - Call for Participation

[Nuno L. <nu...@ua...>]

Hello all,

please apologize if you receive multiple copies.
Please find attached a reminder for the call for the RoboCup 2024 3D Soccer Simulation competition (deadline: 28 Feb).

Greetings,
Nuno
OC 3D soccer simulation

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Call for Participation
RoboCup 2024 Soccer Simulation 3D League
July 17 – July 21, 2024, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
https://https://2024.robocup.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 2024 Soccer Simulation League 3D competition in Eindhoven, Netherlands. If you are interested in participating, please register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below.

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Important Dates
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February 28, 2024 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline
March 20, 2024: Qualified Teams Announcement
July 17 – 21 2024: Competition

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Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
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The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team fee for the 2022 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and 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.
In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to the best NEW team in the 3D competition.

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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 in relevant areas in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list, and development of the simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams. In RoboCup 2024, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer Simulation Competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2023 (FC Portugal, magmaOffenburg and UT Austin Villa) are automatically qualified after submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP).

The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.

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 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. Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years.
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 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 2023 competitions.
Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

– Two scripts should be included: a startup 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 on the rules page.
– 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. A Java runtime can be assumed to be available.
– 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 20.04. 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 sandbox 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.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name, create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it to the registration form.

https://forms.gle/hyUUvmbAPZHamPPN8

You should upload only one file including all your qualification materials.
If everything works fine, 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 CfP. 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 in 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.

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3D Soccer Simulation League Resources
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https://ssim.robocup.org/
Resources with more information on 3D Simulation League and how to enter as new team using existing base codes.


Best Regards,

RoboCup 2024 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee

[Sserver-three-d] Join the 3D Soccer Simulation League with FC Portugal's codebase release!

[Miguel A. <mig...@ou...>]

Dear RoboCup Community,

We hope this email finds you well!
We are thrilled to announce the codebase release of FC Portugal, a team
that won the 2023 RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation League. This code
encompasses almost all modules utilized during the event.

In the spirit of encouraging more teams to participate in the 3D league, we
are making our codebase available to the entire community. Our goal is to
facilitate the transition for teams moving from other leagues, as well as
to inspire new teams to engage in the 3D competition.

This codebase is not only beneficial for RoboCup teams but also serves as a
valuable resource for exploring several features of humanoid robotics and
reinforcing learning skill development, among other potential applications.

Access our codebase at:
https://github.com/m-abr/FCPCodebase

Key Features:
- Python-based: We've dedicated considerable effort to ensure our Python
codebase is user-friendly;
- Ready to use: The codebase includes an agent with a basic strategy for
playing soccer matches and penalty shootouts. It also includes all the
necessary auxiliary algorithms, such as communication, self-localization,
path planning, etc.;
- Demos: Several demos showcase the codebase's potential visually and
interactively, including behaviors, joints, forward and inverse kinematics,
localization, and more;
- Skills: It includes excellent skills for getting up, walking and
dribbling. A basic kick is provided;
- Reinforcement Learning: The codebase enables fast development of new
RL-based skills using OpenAI Gym;
- Documentation: A comprehensive explanation of the codebase is available
in a Google Doc at https://tinyurl.com/FCPortugal;
- Easy competition entry: You can easily enter a competition by defining a
better high-level strategy. For those seeking to go further, you can
develop your own kicking skill and aim for the podium!

Feel free to explore, modify, and build upon our codebase.

We look forward to seeing the innovative ways in which our codebase
contributes to the success of your team/research/teaching!

Best regards,
Miguel Abreu, Luís Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau
(FC Portugal)

[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup 2024 3D Soccer Simulation 3D League - Call for Participation

[Nuno L. <nu...@ua...>]

Hello all,

please apologize if you receive multiple copies.
Please find attached the call for the RoboCup 2024 3D Soccer Simulation competition.

Greetings
Nuno
OC 3D soccer simulation

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Call for Participation
RoboCup 2024 Soccer Simulation 3D League
July 17 – July 21, 2024, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
https://https://2024.robocup.org//
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

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 2024 Soccer Simulation League 3D competition in Eindhoven, Netherlands. If you are interested in participating, please register your team and follow the procedure as outlined below.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Important Dates
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
February 28, 2024 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission Deadline
March 20, 2024: Qualified Teams Announcement
July 17 – 21 2024: Competition

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Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team fee for the 2022 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the major leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and 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.
In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to the best NEW team in the 3D competition.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification is based on a team’s current performance, previous achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list, and development of the simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new teams. In RoboCup 2024, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer Simulation Competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2023 (FC Portugal, magmaOffenburg and UT Austin Villa) are automatically qualified after submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP).

The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.

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 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. Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to RoboCup in previous years.
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 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 2023 competitions.
Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

– Two scripts should be included: a startup 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 on the rules page.
– 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. A Java runtime can be assumed to be available.
– 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 20.04. 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 sandbox 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.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name, create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it to the registration form.

https://forms.gle/hyUUvmbAPZHamPPN8

You should upload only one file including all your qualification materials.
If everything works fine, 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 CfP. 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 in 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.

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3D Soccer Simulation League Resources
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https://ssim.robocup.org/
Resources with more information on 3D Simulation League and how to enter as new team using existing base codes.


Best Regards,

RoboCup 2024 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee

Re: [Sserver-three-d] UsersManual

[Hannes B. <hb...@st...>]

Hi Klaus,

> The manual (as pdf) can be downloaded from 
> https://simspark.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Users_Manual

Meanwhile, it's also available through
https://robocup-sim.gitlab.io/SimSpark/downloads.html.

> It is quite old, but sometimes still useful.
> The sources are a bit hidden in gitlab: 
> https://gitlab.com/robocup-sim/SimSpark/-/tree/master/rcssserver3d/doc/users?ref_type=heads
> Anyone volunteering to update it? May be a common effort?

If I've got the time, I can try to help updating it. But I don't know
how soon that is going to be. I don't mind if someone's taking the task
before me.

> Hannes, if you send me a link that can be used to join Discord, I can 
> update the website on robocup.org

You can put the following link on the website:
https://discord.gg/RKtyE99wnJ

Greetings,
Hannes

Re: [Sserver-three-d] UsersManual

[Klaus D. <kla...@hs...>]

Hi Stefan,

good points.
The manual (as pdf) can be downloaded from 
https://simspark.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Users_Manual
It is quite old, but sometimes still useful.
The sources are a bit hidden in gitlab: 
https://gitlab.com/robocup-sim/SimSpark/-/tree/master/rcssserver3d/doc/users?ref_type=heads
Anyone volunteering to update it? May be a common effort?

Hannes, if you send me a link that can be used to join Discord, I can 
update the website on robocup.org

Greetings
Klaus


Am 20.08.2023 um 00:24 schrieb Ro...@St...:
> Hi,
> i am looking for the Users Manual, at
> https://gitlab.com/robocup-sim/SimSpark/-/wikis/Agents
> there is a broken link. Any idea where to find it?
> The site
> https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/
> still suggests joining this mailing list, wheras a post suggests to 
> join Discord.
> Maybe a hint to the Discord server on that site would be helpful for 
> beginners?
> Stefan
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sserver-three-d mailing list
> Sse...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sserver-three-d

[Sserver-three-d] UsersManual

[<Ro...@St...>]

Hi,
i am looking for the Users Manual, at
https://gitlab.com/robocup-sim/SimSpark/-/wikis/Agents
there is a broken link. Any idea where to find it?
The site
https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/
still suggests joining this mailing list, wheras a post suggests to join Discord.
Maybe a hint to the Discord server on that site would be helpful for beginners?
Stefan

[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup Brazil Open 2023 - EXTENDED DEADLINE

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

Sorry for any duplicates


### RoboCup Brazil Open 2023 - EXTENDED DEADLINE ###

The RoboCup Brazil Open is a regional RoboCup competition that takes place
in conjunction with the IEEE Latin-American competitions, the National
Robotics Exhibition, and the Brazilian and Latin-American Robotics
Symposiums.

### Important Dates ###

Pre-registration and TDP submission:
*August 7*Early Registration:  *September 15*
Regular Registration: *September 24*
Late Registration (only for participants, no teams registration
available): *October
10*
Competition:* from October 7 to 12*

### Remote Participation ###

Remote participation is available for non-Brazilian Teams only for
Simulation Leagues. For 3D Simulation teams who qualified for RoboCup 2023
in Bordeaux, the same TDP sent for the world competition can be sent, or a
new version with minor changes is also accepted.

### Leagues ###

The competition offers several RoboCup Leagues:

*Soccer Simulation 2D (remote participation available for non-Brazilian
Teams)Soccer Simulation 3D (remote participation available for
non-Brazilian teams)*
Humanoid League
Small Size League (SSL)
RoboCup @Home
RoboCup Brazil Flying Robots Trial League
RoboCupJunior Rescue Maze
RoboCupJunior Rescue Simulation (remote participation available for
non-Brazilian Teams)
RoboCupJunior Soccer

We also offer some IEEE challenges:
IEEE Very Small Size Soccer (VSS)
IEEE Open
IEEE Standard Educational Kit
IEEE Humanoid Racing

Registration is now open using Sistema Olimpo (
https://olimpo.robocup.org.br/?lang=en). This is a new version of our
system, so even former participants need to register again to the system
and request a new registration for their institutions.

Further information about the competition, such as registration fee values
and rules,  is available at https://www.cbrobotica.org/.

If you have any doubts, please contact cb...@ro...
-- 
Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e
Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

[Sserver-three-d] RoboCup Brazil Open 2023 - Call for Participation

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

The RoboCup Brazil Open is a regional RoboCup competition that takes place
in conjunction with the IEEE Latin-American competitions, the National
Robotics Exhibition, and the Brazilian and Latin-American Robotics
Symposiums.

*### Important Dates ###*

Pre-registration and TDP submission: *July 23*
Early Registration: *September, 15*
Regular Registration: *September, 24*
Late Registration (only for participants, no teams registration
available): *October,
10*
Competition: *from October 7 to 12*.

*### Remote Participation ###*

Remote participation is available for non-Brazilian Teams in Simulation
Leagues. For 3D Simulation teams who qualified for RoboCup 2023 in
Bordeaux, the same TDP sent for the world competition can be sent, or a new
version with minor changes is also accepted.

*### Leagues ###*

The competition offers several RoboCup Leagues:
Soccer Simulation 2D (remote participation available for non-Brazilian
Teams)
Soccer Simulation 3D (remote participation available for non-Brazilian
teams)
Humanoid League
Small Size League (SSL)
RoboCup @Home
RoboCup Brazil Flying Robots Trial League
RoboCupJunior Rescue Maze
RoboCupJunior Rescue Simulation (remote participation available for
non-Brazilian Teams)
RoboCupJunior Soccer

We also offer some IEEE challenges:
IEEE Very Small Size Soccer (VSS)
IEEE Open
IEEE Standard Educational Kit
IEEE Humanoid Racing

Registration is now open using Sistema Olimpo (
https://olimpo.robocup.org.br/?lang=en). This is a new version of our
system, so even former participants need to register again to the system
and register their institutions.

Further information about the competition is available at
https://www.cbrobotica.org/.

If you have any doubts please email cb...@ro...


-- 
Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e
Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

[Sserver-three-d] Link to the results file and live stream RoboCup Bordeaux 3D Soccer Simulation

[Klaus D. <kla...@hs...>]

Dear friends,

sorry, I forgot that not all of you are in Discord (you should consider 
going there).

Here is the link to all schedules and results of RoboCup 2023 3D Soccer 
Simulation:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xAx8wYvgeqRj7IVjjPWWnn0iT4yRMG18fIHrEoVyb3c/edit?usp=sharing

And here the link to the YouTube playlist with live streaming:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcFfgSPO26ESpQz1LXEa_zhl7FVdHT6AZ

Challenges start now and semi finals and finals are tomorrow.

Greetings

Klaus

[Sserver-three-d] [meetings][CFP] EXTENDED Deadline for paper submission at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium

[Alessandra R. <ale...@gm...>]

Dear colleagues,

*Apologies for any cross-posting*

Please notice that the paper submission deadline has been extended to *01
May 2023*. The *26th RoboCup International **Symposium* will be held on 10
July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in
Bordeaux, France.
*Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/
*Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023
*Submission deadline* May 1, 2023

Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the
International **Symposium 2023*.

Kindest regards,
Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser

[image: image.png]

The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in
conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France.

We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original
research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A
full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found below.
Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of
high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and
papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit
their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup
competitions or have a RoboCup team.

The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However,
a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it.

In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the
*development
track* encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software
frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of
papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects
and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup.

*Submission deadline:* May 1st, 2023
List of Topics

   - Robot Hardware and Software
      - mobile robotics
      - humanoid robotics
      - sensors and actuators
      - embedded and mobile devices
      - robot construction and new materials
      - robot system integration
      - robot software architectures
      - robot programming environments and languages
      - real-time and concurrent programming
      - robot simulators
      - sim2real learning
   - Perception and Action
      - 3D perception
      - distributed sensor integration
      - sensor noise filtering
      - real-time image processing and pattern recognition
      - motion and sensor models
      - sensory-motor control
      - robot kinematics and dynamics
      - high-dimensional motion control
   - Robot Cognition and Learning
      - world modelling and knowledge representation
      - learning from demonstration and imitation
      - localisation, navigation, and mapping
      - planning and reasoning
      - decision making under uncertainty
      - neural systems and deep learning
      - complex motor skill acquisition
      - reinforcement learning and optimisation
      - motion and sensor model learning
   - Human-Robot Interaction
      - robot social intelligence
      - fluency of interaction
      - speech synthesis and natural language generation
      - natural language recognition
      - explainable robot behaviours
      - emotion recognition and reaction
      - understanding human intent and behaviour
      - safety, security and dependability
      - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour
   - Multi-Robot Systems
      - team coordination methods
      - communication protocols
      - learning and adaptive systems
      - teamwork and heterogeneous agents
      - dynamic resource allocation
      - adjustable autonomy
   - Education and Edutainment
      - robotics and artificial intelligence education
      - educational robotics
      - robot kits and programming tools
      - robotic entertainment
   - Applications and Benchmarking
      - search and rescue robots
      - robot surveillance service and social robots
      - robots at home, at work and in public spaces
      - robots in the real world
      - performance metrics
      - human-robot interaction

Submission Guidelines

All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior
program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium
will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference.
Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (
*https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines*
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>)
and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic
submission system (
*https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>).

Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references.

Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf:
*https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj*
<https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj>

Invited Speakers

   - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)*
   - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
   *(confirmed)*

Committees Organizing committee

   - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - ced...@en...
   - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy -
   a....@he...
   - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - ms...@un...
   - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - vi...@cs...

Venue

The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des
Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France.
Contact

Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra
Rossi - a....@he...

[Sserver-three-d] Robotica2023: Tomar, Portugal - 3D Simulation - Call for Participation - Deadline Extended

[Nuno L. <nu...@ua...>]

=============================================================
             ----------------   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION   -----------------
=============================================================

(Our apologies for any cross-posting)

ROBOTICA 2023 - 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open

https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2023/en

April 28 to 30, 2023
Tomar, Portugal

The Portuguese Robotics Open is a RoboCup Event that aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robotic competitions.

We would like to invite you to participate in the 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open which will take place from April 28 to 30, 2023, in Tomar, Portugal. If you are interested in participating, please register your team in one of the promoted competitions.
3D Simulation competition ALLOWS for the participation of REMOTE TEAMS.

== Schedule ==

Early Registration deadline (250 euros):            April  7, 2023   ** EXTENDED **
Late Registration deadline (300 euros):             April 16, 2023
Remote Team Late Registration deadline (100 euros): April 16, 2023
Portuguese Robotics Open:                           April 28-30, 2023

All deadlines are 23:59 GMT.

==  3D SIMULATION LEAGUE ==

Robot scientific competitions are a growing trend worldwide and particularly at the European level in the past few years. The 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE 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.

---------
The official rules of this League for the 2023 edition, can be found at:
https://ssim.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/3D-Rulebook2022.pdf
---------

---------
Important resources for the 3D Simulation League, including mailing lists, an installation guide for the server and 3D viewer, team binaries, source-code releases, game replays and other documents can be found at:
https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/
---------

== Registration ==

Registration is performed through the on-line form at:
https://forms.gle/7WnmRiTnLAmHLTxj8


== Description and History ==

The Portuguese Robotics Open (also known as Festival Nacional de Robótica) had its 1st edition in 2001. The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors and also includes an international IEEE conference where national and international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics (https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/).

The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of the Portuguese Robotics Society.


Hoping to see you at the Portuguese Robotics Open!

Kind Regards,
The Portuguese Robotics Open Organizing Committee

[Sserver-three-d] [meetings][CFP] Third call for papers at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium

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

Dear colleagues,

*Apologies for any cross-posting*

We are very pleased to invite you to the *26th RoboCup International *
*Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023
(July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France.
*Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/
*Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023
*Submission deadline* *April 16, 2023*

Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the
International **Symposium 2023*.

Kindest regards,
Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser

[image: image.png]

The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in
conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France.

We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original
research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A
full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found below.
Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of
high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and
papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit
their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup
competitions or have a RoboCup team.

The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However,
a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it.

In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the
*development
track* encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software
frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of
papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects
and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup.

*Submission deadline:* April 16, 2023
List of Topics

   - Robot Hardware and Software
      - mobile robotics
      - humanoid robotics
      - sensors and actuators
      - embedded and mobile devices
      - robot construction and new materials
      - robot system integration
      - robot software architectures
      - robot programming environments and languages
      - real-time and concurrent programming
      - robot simulators
      - sim2real learning
   - Perception and Action
      - 3D perception
      - distributed sensor integration
      - sensor noise filtering
      - real-time image processing and pattern recognition
      - motion and sensor models
      - sensory-motor control
      - robot kinematics and dynamics
      - high-dimensional motion control
   - Robot Cognition and Learning
      - world modelling and knowledge representation
      - learning from demonstration and imitation
      - localisation, navigation, and mapping
      - planning and reasoning
      - decision making under uncertainty
      - neural systems and deep learning
      - complex motor skill acquisition
      - reinforcement learning and optimisation
      - motion and sensor model learning
   - Human-Robot Interaction
      - robot social intelligence
      - fluency of interaction
      - speech synthesis and natural language generation
      - natural language recognition
      - explainable robot behaviours
      - emotion recognition and reaction
      - understanding human intent and behaviour
      - safety, security and dependability
      - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour
   - Multi-Robot Systems
      - team coordination methods
      - communication protocols
      - learning and adaptive systems
      - teamwork and heterogeneous agents
      - dynamic resource allocation
      - adjustable autonomy
   - Education and Edutainment
      - robotics and artificial intelligence education
      - educational robotics
      - robot kits and programming tools
      - robotic entertainment
   - Applications and Benchmarking
      - search and rescue robots
      - robot surveillance service and social robots
      - robots at home, at work and in public spaces
      - robots in the real world
      - performance metrics
      - human-robot interaction

Submission Guidelines

All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior
program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium
will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference.
Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (
*https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines*
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>)
and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic
submission system (
*https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>).

Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references.

Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf:
*https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj*
<https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj>

Invited Speakers

   - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)*
   - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
   *(confirmed)*

Committees Organizing committee

   - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - ced...@en...
   - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy -
   a....@he...
   - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - ms...@un...
   - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - vi...@cs...

Venue

The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des
Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France.
Contact

Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra
Rossi - a....@he...


-- 
Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e
Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

[Sserver-three-d] Robotica2023: Tomar, Portugal - 3D Simulation Competition - Call for Participation

[Nuno L. <nu...@ua...>]

=============================================================
             ----------------   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION   -----------------
=============================================================

(Our apologies for any cross-posting)

ROBOTICA 2023 - 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open

https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/2023/en

April 28 to 30, 2023
Tomar, Portugal

The Portuguese Robotics Open is a RoboCup Event that aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robotic competitions.

We would like to invite you to participate in the 22nd Portuguese Robotics Open which will take place from April 28 to 30, 2023, in Tomar, Portugal. If you are interested in participating, please register your team in one of the promoted competitions.
3D Simulation competition allows for the participation of remote teams.


==  3D SIMULATION LEAGUE ==

Robot scientific competitions are a growing trend worldwide and particularly at the European level in the past few years. The 3D SIMULATION LEAGUE 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.

---------
The official rules of this League for the 2023 edition, can be found at:
https://ssim.robocup.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/3D-Rulebook2022.pdf
---------

---------
Important resources for the 3D Simulation League, including mailing lists, an installation guide for the server and 3D viewer, team binaries, source-code releases, game replays and other documents can be found at:
https://ssim.robocup.org/3d-simulation/3d-tools/
---------


== Schedule ==

Early Registration deadline (250 euros):            April  2, 2023
Late Registration deadline (300 euros):             April 16, 2023
Remote Team Late Registration deadline (100 euros): April 16, 2023
Portuguese Robotics Open:                           April 28-30, 2023

All deadlines are 23:59 GMT.

== Registration ==

Registration is performed through the on-line form at:
https://forms.gle/7WnmRiTnLAmHLTxj8


== Description and History ==

The Portuguese Robotics Open (also known as Festival Nacional de Robótica) had its 1st edition in 2001. The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors and also includes an international IEEE conference where national and international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics (https://www.festivalnacionalrobotica.pt/icarsc/).

The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of the Portuguese Robotics Society.


Hoping to see you at the Portuguese Robotics Open!

Kind Regards,
The Portuguese Robotics Open Organizing Committee

[Sserver-three-d] [3D] [Qualification Results] RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 3D qualification results is announced

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

Hi all,

The RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 3D has just announced the list of
qualified teams for RoboCup 2023 in Bordeaux.

See the list here:
https://ssim.robocup.org/2023/03/14/robocup-2023-soccer-simulation-3d-qualifed-teams-announced/

Congratulations to all teams.

The team leaders will receive a registration code in their e-mails to
proceed with the registration. All further communication about the
competition will use the Discord server: https://discord.gg/8BF4c7Pu.

I highly recommend that all team members join the server using the link
above.

In the following days, the OC will also release updated rules and server
versions to be used in Bordeaux. Teams should manage to prepare their
binaries to run on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04. If you have any questions, please
ask *@Organizing Committee* in Discord.

Best Regards,
Klaus Dorer, Marco Simões and Hannes Braun
RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 3D Organizing Committee

-- 
Dr. Marco Antonio Costa Simões
Centro de Pesquisa em Arquitetura de Computadores, Sistemas Inteligentes e
Robótica - ACSO - http://www.acso.uneb.br
Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.

[Sserver-three-d] Second Call for Participation: RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 3D competition

[Klaus D. <kla...@hs...>]

Hello all,

please apologize if you receive multiple copies.

This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for team qualification 
material submission is February 28th (next Tuesday).
If you consider participation, but are not sure if you can come, you 
still have to submit qualification material by 28th. A later 
qualification will not be possible. We hope to see you in Bordeaux!

Web version at https://ssim.robocup.org/

Greetings
Marco, Hannes, Klaus
OC 3D soccer simulation

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Call for Participation
RoboCup 2023 Soccer Simulation 3D League
July 4 – July 9, 2023 Bordeaux (France)
https://2023.robocup.org/
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»

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 2023 Soccer 
Simulation League 3D competition in Bordeaux, France. If you are 
interested in participating, please register your team and follow the 
procedure as outlined below.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Important Dates
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
February 28, 2023 (23:59 AoE): Team Qualification Materials Submission 
Deadline
March 20, 2023: Qualified Teams Announcement
July 4 – 9 2023: Competition

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Waiver of the team fee for NEW Teams
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
The RoboCup Federation is pleased to continue with a waiver of the team 
fee for the 2022 International RoboCup competition for NEW teams in the 
major leagues.
A NEW team is defined as a team with a new name and 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.
In addition, the 3D soccer simulation league will issue a certificate to 
the best NEW team in the 3D competition.

»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Qualification is based on a team’s current performance, previous 
achievements in RoboCup, and scientific contributions in relevant areas 
in past years, cooperation in the 3D mailing list, and development of 
the simulator. Also, up to six slots will be assigned in priority to new 
teams. In RoboCup 2023, up to 24 teams will participate in the 3D Soccer 
Simulation Competition. The top three teams from RoboCup 2022 (FC 
Portugal, magmaOffenburg and UT Austin Villa) are automatically 
qualified after submitting an appropriate Team Description Paper (TDP).

The other 21 teams will be selected through a qualification process.

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 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. Please do not include TDPs that you submitted to 
RoboCup in previous years.
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 
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 2022 competitions.
Submitted binaries should adhere to the following:

– Two scripts should be included: a startup 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 on the rules page.
– 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. A Java runtime can be assumed to 
be available.
– 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 18.04. 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 sandbox 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.

Please put all qualification material in a folder with your team name, 
create a tarball named teamname.tar.gz and upload it to the registration 
form.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5EYsPI4wSnu2vNLQVqTZo6YhN1LI91Xit_h4FsQ39gnKABg/viewform?usp=sf_link 


You should upload only one file including all your qualification materials.
If everything works fine, 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 CfP. 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 in 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.

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3D Soccer Simulation League Resources
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
https://ssim.robocup.org/
Resources with more information on 3D Simulation League and how to enter 
as new team using existing base codes.


Best Regards,

RoboCup 2023 3D Soccer Simulation Organizing Committee


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[Sserver-three-d] [meetings][CFP] Second call for papers at the 26th RoboCup International Symposium

[Alessandra R. <ale...@gm...>]

Dear colleagues,

*Apologies for any cross-posting*

We are very pleased to invite you to the *26th RoboCup International *
*Symposium* will be held on 10 July 2023, in conjunction with RoboCup 2023
(July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France.
*Conference website* https://2023.robocup.org/en/symposium/
*Submission link* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023
*Submission deadline* *April 16, 2023*

Please find attached the full call for proposals and papers for *the
International **Symposium 2023*.

Kindest regards,
Alessandra Rossi, Cédric Buche, Marco Simões, Ubbo Visser

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The 26th RoboCup International Symposium will be held on *10 July 2023*, in
conjunction with RoboCup 2023 (July 4 to 10, 2023) in Bordeaux, France.

We are looking for submissions of papers reporting innovative and original
research with relevance to areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. A
full list of topics welcomed to this year's symposium can be found below.
Within the described scope of topics, we also encourage submissions of
high-quality overview articles, papers describing real-world research, and
papers reporting theoretical results. Researchers are invited to submit
their work independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup
competitions or have a RoboCup team.

The symposium is planned to be held in person in Bordeaux, France. However,
a hybrid version will be evaluated in case circumstances should require it.

In addition to the *regular track* with regular research papers, the
*development
track* encourages reports on innovative hardware developments, software
frameworks, and open-source releases of software components. A review of
papers describing these contributions will be based on technical aspects
and benefits to the practice of communities specifically working in RoboCup.

*Submission deadline:* April 16, 2023
List of Topics

   - Robot Hardware and Software
      - mobile robotics
      - humanoid robotics
      - sensors and actuators
      - embedded and mobile devices
      - robot construction and new materials
      - robot system integration
      - robot software architectures
      - robot programming environments and languages
      - real-time and concurrent programming
      - robot simulators
      - sim2real learning
   - Perception and Action
      - 3D perception
      - distributed sensor integration
      - sensor noise filtering
      - real-time image processing and pattern recognition
      - motion and sensor models
      - sensory-motor control
      - robot kinematics and dynamics
      - high-dimensional motion control
   - Robot Cognition and Learning
      - world modelling and knowledge representation
      - learning from demonstration and imitation
      - localisation, navigation, and mapping
      - planning and reasoning
      - decision making under uncertainty
      - neural systems and deep learning
      - complex motor skill acquisition
      - reinforcement learning and optimisation
      - motion and sensor model learning
   - Human-Robot Interaction
      - robot social intelligence
      - fluency of interaction
      - speech synthesis and natural language generation
      - natural language recognition
      - explainable robot behaviours
      - emotion recognition and reaction
      - understanding human intent and behaviour
      - safety, security and dependability
      - enabling humans to predict robot behaviour
   - Multi-Robot Systems
      - team coordination methods
      - communication protocols
      - learning and adaptive systems
      - teamwork and heterogeneous agents
      - dynamic resource allocation
      - adjustable autonomy
   - Education and Edutainment
      - robotics and artificial intelligence education
      - educational robotics
      - robot kits and programming tools
      - robotic entertainment
   - Applications and Benchmarking
      - search and rescue robots
      - robot surveillance service and social robots
      - robots at home, at work and in public spaces
      - robots in the real world
      - performance metrics
      - human-robot interaction

Submission Guidelines

All papers will be peer-reviewed and evaluated by members of the senior
program committee. The proceedings of the RoboCup International Symposium
will be published and archived within the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI) series by Springer-Verlag after the conference.
Papers should be formatted following the LNAI author guidelines (
*https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines*
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>)
and must be electronically submitted through the EasyChair electronic
submission system (
*https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rcsymposium2023*
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rcsymposium2023>).

Submissions are limited to 12 pages including references.

Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf:
*https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj*
<https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer-science/kzwwpvhwnvfj>

Invited Speakers

   - Laurence Devillers, Sorbonne University, France *(confirmed)*
   - Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
   *(confirmed)*

Committees Organizing committee

   - Cédric Buche, CNRS/ENIB, France - ced...@en...
   - Alessandra Rossi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy -
   a....@he...
   - Marco Simões, Universidade do Estado da Bahia, Brazil - ms...@un...
   - Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, USA - vi...@cs...

Venue

The conference will be held in the Bordeaux Exhibition Center (Parc des
Expositions de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France.
Contact

Please feel free to ask for further information by emailing Alessandra
Rossi - a....@he...

[Sserver-three-d] Fwd: [Robotica-l] Call for Participation - RoboCup 2023 Humanoid Research Demonstration

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

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* Call for Participation *

RoboCup 2023 Humanoid Research Demonstration https://humanoid.robocup.org/

July 06 - 09, 2023, Bordeaux, France

===========================================================


The RoboCup Humanoid League invites the research community to apply for
showcasing the latest research and development results that are relevant
for humanoid robots. Researchers are invited to submit their demonstrations
independently of whether they participate in the RoboCup competitions,
symposium or have a RoboCup team. Contributions will be evaluated for
scientific and technical excellence.


Topics of Interest
---------------------------------------

We welcome demonstrations containing new ideas, concepts, practical
studies, and experiment demonstrations relevant to the field of Humanoid
Robotics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:


* Components, joints and mechanics;
* Soft robotics;
* Anthropomorphic vs. non-anthropomorphic;
* Walking, running, jumping and other humanoid locomotion;
* Adaptability and scalability;
* Sensors and perception;
* Control and stability;
* Dealing with falling;
* Reflexes and learning;
* Energy supply and efficiency;
* Robot design and robotic kits;
* Virtual robots and simulation;
* Benchmarking;
* Bipedal robots applied to real problems;
* Education with and for humanoid robots.


Procedure
---------------------------------------

The Humanoid Research Demonstration will take place in one or several
sessions and participating teams are asked to show a demonstration of the
system live in Bordeaux or stream their demonstration from their lab during
the session. As a back-up solution, each team needs to provide a video
demonstration prior to the beginning of the tournament. If the
demonstration is performed in Bordeaux, the Humanoid League will provide a
humanoid league soccer playing field for the demonstration. However, the
members of the Technical Committee of the Humanoid League understand that
for some demonstrations this setup may not be ideal and will try to
accommodate all teams. If a team requires other arrangements for the
demonstration, it must submit a request to the Technical Committee at least
3 months before the competition to allow sufficient time for alternative
arrangements.


Application
---------------------------------------

We invite teams to apply to participate in the Humanoid Research
Demonstration by submitting the following material:


Demonstration Data
* Demonstration title;
* URL of the group’s home page;
* Name of the contact person;
* E-mail address of the contact person;
* Postal address of the contact person.


Demonstration Video
The first part of the material is a video of your robot or robotic part
demonstrating its skills or a brief overview of the software demonstration
if your demonstration does not involve a physical embodiment.


The video must be supplied as a link to it via YouTube. The maximum
duration of the video is 3 minutes. The proponent is responsible to ensure
that the video adheres to YouTube’s TOS (especially in regard to music
copyright) to prevent the video from being blocked for the reviewers.


Hardware Specification
If the demonstration includes any type of hardware to be showcased, a
one-page specification (PDF) for each different type of humanoid type
robot/mechanism used that includes the following:
* Robot/mechanism picture;
* Robot/mechanism name;
* Size of the humanoid type robot/mechanism;
* Weight of the robot/mechanism;
* Robots/mechanisms joint specification;
* Type of sensors used (incl. type of camera(s));
* Computing unit(s);
* Other specifications


Short paper
A short paper describing the robot, robot part of software and its task and
required environment, limited to four (4) pages including text, references,
tables, and figures.

The short paper must follow the LNCS format which can be downloaded from
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Please pay
special attention to the “Author guidelines” that you’ll be able to find
there.


Plagiarism
=======================================

Plagiarism, loosely the unattributed use of other peoples' words, code, and
ideas is not tolerated in the RoboCup community. See the point “Publishing
Ethics” at
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
for
a more detailed description. The teams and team members that plagiarize
other peoples' work and present it as their own will be disqualified. For a
first offense, the team and team members will be banned from RoboCup
competition for two years (usually the current and next year). Harsher
penalties will be applied to repeat offenders or extremely serious cases of
plagiarism. A team may be disqualified at any time for plagiarism, even
after the competition has started. RoboCup will not reimburse teams for any
expenses related to their disqualification.


Online Submission
=======================================

All qualification material must be submitted online at
https://submission.robocuphumanoid.com
<https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fsubmission.robocuphumanoid.com&umid=7500dda4-56fd-4759-91cd-36b97f316f00&auth=bcb6ba01a4a62ea9858096c8bfe8bd8788858f68-f8292b2d432523c707735ca5eeed515f4dedc5ed>




Important Dates
=======================================

Humanoid Research Demonstration
* Submission system open: November 20th, 2022
* Submission deadline: April 2nd, 2023


Publication
=======================================

Please note that after the announcement of the qualified teams the
qualified teams submitted material will be made publicly available on the
Humanoid League website. Teams applying for participation, therefore,
implicitly grant the right of publication of their qualification material
to the Humanoid League.


Visa Process
=======================================

If you are a citizen of a country that needs a Visa for traveling to
France, please start the VISA process as soon as you receive your
notification of qualification. If you are not sure if you're eligible for a
VISA-exempt, please consult the official website of the France government
for information, at
https://france-visas.gouv.fr/en/web/france-visas/welcome-page.



With best regards,
Technical Committee of RoboCup Humanoid League 2022

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Bahia Robotics Team - http://www.acso.uneb.br/bahiart
Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
Ciência da Computação, Ph.D.