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Call for Participation
RoboCup-98 Paris
The Second Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences
2-9, July, 1998, La Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Paris, France
In conjunction with ICMAS-98
The Robot World Cup, RoboCup, is an international initiative to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem, a soccer game, where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. This is the Second RoboCup event, and it will be held in Paris, France, during the World Cup also in France. The competitions will take place at the Cite des Sciences, La Villette, in conjunction with International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS-98), as a part of Agent's World. The First Robot World Cup, RoboCup-97, was help in Nagoya, Japan, in August 1997, and included the participation of more than 40 teams.
In order for a team of robot agents to actually play a soccer game, different technologies must be incorporated, including design principles of autonomous agents, multi-agent collaboration, strategy acquisition, real-time reasoning, sensor-fusion, and learning. RoboCup is a task for a team of multiple fast-moving robot agents in a dynamic, nondeterministic, and adversarial environment.
RoboCup-98 includes competitions, an expert robot exhibit, and a technical workshop. There are several competition tracks in RoboCup-98 corresponding to robots and soccer fields of different sizes and a simulator league with software agents. We invite submissions for participation in any of the competitions, expert robot exhibit, or workshop, depending on your research and/or development interests.
- Real Robot Small League: Teams of up to five real robots of small size (approximately 15 cm in diameter) compete on a field of the size of a ping-pong table.
- Real Robot Full Set Small League: Teams of up to eleven real robots of small size (approximately 15 cm in diameter) compete on a field of the size of nine ping-pong table used for the middle size robot league.
- Real Robot Medium League: Teams of up to five real robots of medium size (approximately 50cm in diameter) compete on a field of the size of about nine ping-pong tables.
- Simulator League: Software agents play soccer using the RoboCup soccer server simulator, available from the RoboCup's Web page. Participants do not need to use real robots and can easily enter this RoboCup event developing software agents. The RoboCup Simulator League is a part of IJCAI's official Challenge Paper Program, where successful results can be reported at IJCAI-99, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Expert Robot Exhibit: Exhibition of robots which perform specific tasks with a high skill level. Penalty kick robots, Goal keeper robots, are such examples.
- Workshop: A workshop will be held to present and discuss technical details of the robots and software agents which participated in the competition, as well as other research and educational topics related to RoboCup. A post-workshop proceedings will be published from Springer-Verlag as a subline of Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI).
Rules for each league are available from RoboCup Official Web Site.
For the statement of entry, please e-mail to robocup98-com@csl.sony.co.jp.
The formal registration shall be done using the registraton form available from the RoboCup Web Site.
Important Dates:
- Team Registration first deadline: March 1, 1998.
- Submission of Technical papers for Workshop: March 15, 1998
- Submission of Team Description: May 15, 1998
- Application for Simulator and Real Robot Leagues and Exhibit: March 1, 1998
- Notice of Technical Paper Acceptance: May 1, 1998
- Camera-Ready Workshop Paper Due Date: May 15, 1998
Paper Submission
- Team Description:
Participants to the competition MUST submit a team descripotion paper to the workshop, which describes scientific aspect of their robot team design.
- Regular Technical Papers:
Anyone (including those who do not participate in competition or exhibition, is qualified to submit full length technical paper related to RoboCup.
Please refer Workshop Call For Paper for details.
- Honorary Chair: Jean Lemerle (President, University Paris-VI)
- General Chair: Dominique Duhaut (L.R.P., France)
- General Vice-Chair: Alexis Drogoul (Paris-VI, France)
- Organizing Co-Chairs: Hiroaki Kitano (Sony CSL, Japan), Enrico Pagello (Padua U. and Ladseb-CNR, Italy), Manuela Veloso (CMU, USA)
- Workshop co-Chairs: Minoru Asada (Osaka U., Japan), Pierre Blazevic (University Versailles), Sridhar Mahadevan (Michigan State University, USA)
- Simulator co-Chairs: Silvia Cordeschi (Linkoeping U., Sweden), Itsuki Noda (ETL, Japan), Peter Stone (CMU, USA)
- Small Size League co-Chairs: Tucker Balch (Georgia Tech, USA), Josep Lluis de la Rosa i Esteva (Univ. Girona, Spain), Antony Rowstron (Cambridge University, UK)
- Middle Size League co-Chairs: Wei Min Shen (ISI/USC, USA) Andy Jenning (RMIT, Australia) Shoji Suzuki (Osaka Univ., Japan)
- Expert League Chair: Robin Murphy (Colorado School of Mines/Golden, USA)
For questions on RoboCup-98 Paris, please send e-mail to robocup98-com@csl.sony.co.jp.
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