RoboCup offers a set of short and mid term challenge tasks in order to further promote research activities of RoboCup participants. Although RoboCup envisons longer range challenges which takes few decades to accomplish, there are a set of middle range, as well as short range goals which researchers can measure their accomplishment in 1 - 2 years. Defining a set of tasks and their evaluations, as the RoboCup Challenge, compliments well with the competition based evaluations of proposed architecutre, algorithms, theories, and implementations. While playing games against each other can evalute an overall performance of the team, it does not necessary provide us with a rigid set of evaluation criteria on specific technical issues. Since RoboCup was initiated as a long range research program, not as an entertainment events, the introduction of the scheme which can be a test of scientific and engineering achievements is cirticallly important. Therefore, we will create the RoboCup Challenge Committee to organize the Challenges. RoboCup Synthetic Agent Challenge 97 RoboCup Physical Agent Challenge:Phase-I RoboCup Infrustructure Challenge RoboCup Humanoid Challenge Physical Agent Challenge Evaluation Sequence In order to facilitate technical progress based on the RoboCup challenge, we offer basic resources and opportunities. The RoboCup Challenge Committee: The RoboCup Challenge Committee will be formed to execute the challenge initiative. The commitee will include members of the international executive committee for RoboCup and distinguished researchers not directly involved in the RoboCup. The committee will create specific tasks and criteria for evaluation, as well as providing technical advises for the challengers. Resources: In the RoboCup home page, basic software resources and technical information can be obtained. (http://www.robocup.org/RoboCup) Software includes the Soccer Server system, which is a server system for the simulation track, and various sample teams. In addition, sample test sequences will be provided. The home page also provides a set of papers and technical documents related to RoboCup. Competitions: A series of RoboCup competitions are planned to provide opportunities to test ideas. Such competitions includes RoboCup-98 in Paris, RoboCup-98 Victoria (as a part of IROS-98 conference), and RoboCup-98 Singapore (as a part of PRICAI-98 Conference). Several local competitions and workshops will be organized by local committee in each region. Workshops: Workshops will be organized at major international conferences, as well as at local workshops, in order to faciliate exchange of information, to have technical discussions, and to get feedback on the status of the challengers in relation to the overall framework of the challenge.
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