The RoboCup Federation is an international organization, registered in Switzerland, to organize international effort to promote science and technology using soccer games by robots and software agents.

President

• Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan) 2002-2008

The Board of Trustees: as of 2007 July

• Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) *Vice President / President-Elect 2008-2011
• Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Humboldt University, Germany) *Vice President -2008
• Hiroaki Kitano (Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan) *Founding President
• Tucker Balch (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) - 2009
• Silvia Coradeschi (Orebro University, Sweden) -2008
• Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg , Germany) -2010
• Pedro U. Lima (Institute for Systems and Robotics and Instituto Superior
  Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal) - 2012
• Daniele Nardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy) -2012
• Itsuki Noda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) - 2009
• Enrico Pagello (University Padova, Italy) - 2008
• Elizabeth Sklar (Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA) - 2011
• Peter Stone (The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.) - 2010
• Satoshi Tadokoro (Tohoku University, Japan) - 2011
• Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen, Germany) -2012

Former Trustees: *Affiliations above are those of the time.

• Andrew Jennings (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
  1997 -2000, General Chair RoboCup 2000 Melbourne.
• Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA) -1999
• Dominique Duhaut (Laboratorie Robotic de Paris, then University of Southern Bretagne, France) 1997 - 2001, General Chair RoboCup 1998 Paris
• Frans Groen (University of Amsterdam, Holland) - 2001

The Executive Committee: (2007-2008)
The Executive Committee consists of members of the board of trustee, and
representative of each activity area. The terms are three years as shown.

• Simulation League
  • Daniel Polani (Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK) 2006-2009
  • Oliver Obst (CSIRO, Sydney, Australia) 2006-2009
  • Xiaoping Chen (University of Science and Technology China, China) 2006-2009
• Small Size Robot (F-180) League
  • Tadashi Naruse (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan) 2005-2008
  • Ng BengKiat (Ngee Ann Poly Technic, Singapore) 2005-2008
  • Paulo Costa (University of Porto, Portugal) 2006-2009
• Middle Size Robot (F-2000) League
  • Yasutake Takahashi (Osaka University, Japan) 2006-2009
  • Andrea Bonarini (Polytechnico di Milano, Italy) 2006-2009
  • Fernando Ribeiro (University of Minho, Portugal) 2004-2010
• 4-Legged Robot League
  • Claude Sammut (University of New South Wales, Australia) 2003-2009
  • Thomas Roefer (University of Bremen, Germany) 2004-2010
• Humanoid League
• Changjiu Zhou (Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore) 2006-2009
• Norbert M. Mayer (Osaka University, Japan) 2004-2010
• RoboCupRescue Robot League
  • Adam Jacoff (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) 2006-2009
  • Andreas Birk (International University Bremen) 2005-2008
• RoboCupRescue Simulation League
  • H. Levent Akin (Bogazici University, Turkey) 2005-2008
  • Alexander Kleiner (University of Freiburg, Germany) 2006-2009
  • Stefano Carpin (University of California, Merced, USA) 2006-2009
• RoboCup@Home
  • Thomas Wisspeintner (Fraunhofer AIS, Germany) 2006-2009
  • Tijn van der Zant (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands) 2006-2009
• RoboCupJunior
  • Ashley Green (Open University), 2006-2009
  • Luis Almeida (University of Aveiro, Portugal) 2004-2007
  • Martin Bader (Germany) 2007-2010

The Technical Committee: (2007-2008)
The Technical Committee is responsible for technical issues of each league along
with the Exec members from above. The TCs consist of the exec members from above and the members listed below.

• Simulation League
  • Joschka Boedecker (Osaka University, Germany/Japan)
  • Jan Murray (University of Koblenz,Germany)
  • Sahar Asadi (University of Teheran, Iran)
  • Hidehisa Akiyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
• Small Size Robot (F-180) League
  • Tim Laue (Bremen, Germany)
  • Mahisorn Wongphati (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
    Thailand)
  • Stefan Zickler (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
• Middle Size Robot (F-2000) League
  • Frank Schreiber (Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany)
  • Yasumori Takemura (Kitakyushu Science Res. Park, Japan)
  • Roel Merry (Univ. of Eindhoven, Netherlands)
  • Humin Lu (National Univ. of Defence Technology, China)
• 4-Legged Robot League
  • Michael Quinlan (Univ. of Newcastle, Australia)
  • Max-Risler (Techniocal Univ. of Dearmstadt, Germany)
  • Javier Ruiz-del-Solar (Univ. of Chile, Chile)
  • Eric Chown (Bowdoin College, USA)
• Humanoid League
• Jacky Baltes (Univ. of Manitoba, Canada)
• Oskar von Stryk (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
• Pasan Kulvanit (King Mongkut's Univ. of Tech., Thailand)
• RoboCupRescue Robot League
  • Ehasn Mihankhah (K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Iran)
  • Johannes Pellenz (University of Koblenz, Germany)
  • Raymond Shea (Australia)
• RoboCupRescue Simulation League
  • Kamal Karlapelem (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
  • Ioannis Vetsikas (University of Southampton, U.K.)
  • Omid AmirGhiasvand (Mechatronics Reserach Lab, Iran)
  • Steve Balakirsky (NIST, USA)
  • Arnoud Visser (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• RoboCup@Home
  • Paul Rybski (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  • Stefan Schiffer (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
  • Amin Yazdani (Sharif University of Teheran, Iran)
• RoboCupJunior (To be posted)
  • Dance Tech Committee:
  • Rescue Tech Committee:
  • Soccer Tech Committee:
  • Demos Committee:
    • Luis Almeida (Portugal)

The Advisory Board: (to be announced shortly)

Contact Information:

last updated 07/08/03