* December 15, 2002: Team participation declaration deadline *
* Please contact the league chair! *
Martin Riedmiller SIMULATION Chair ,
Paulo Costa SMALL-SIZE Chair,
Ansgar Bredenfeld MIDDLE-SIZE Chair ,
Alessandro Saffiotti FOUR-LEGGED Chair ,
Thomas Christaller HUMANOIDS Chair,
Adam Jacoff REAL RESCUE Chair ,
Tomoichi Takahashi RESCUE SIMULATION Chair ,
Jeffrey Johnson JUNIOR Chair ,
* February 15, 2003: RoboCup Symposium Submission deadline *
* Please contact the Symposium Co-Chairs! *
Andrea Bonarini ,
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RoboCup2003 Organizing Structure
Enrico Pagello (Italy) – General Chair
Giovanni Adorni (Italy) and Daniele Nardi (Italy) – Associate Co-Chairs
International RoboCupSymposium
With a wide interdisciplinary nature, the International RoboCupSymposium welcomes technical research contribution to the scientific and engineering afavance of multi-agent and multi-robot systems and their applications.
It will be held on Wed., July 10, 2003, and Thu. July 11, 2003
Andrea Bonarini (Italy) – Co-Chair, Brett Browning (USA) – Co-Chair, Daniel Polani (United Kingdom) – Co-Chair, Kazuo Yoshida (Japan) – Co-Chair
Competitions and Performances
They will be held on July 5-7, 2003 (Preliminaries) and July 8-9, 2003 (Finals). Set-up days: July 2-4, 2003
RoboCupSoccer Simulation League
Teams of eleven fully distributed software agents compete using a rich realistic simulation world.
Martin Riedmiller (Germany) – Chair, Patrick Riley (USA), Junji Nishino (Japan), Oliver Obst (Germany), Maria Simi (Italy) LC
RoboCupSoccer Small-Size League
Teams of up to five small robotic agents of restricted dimensions (18 cm maximum diameter) that compete with global vision and wireless communication with an off-the field computer
Paulo Costa (Portugal) – Chair, Ryad Benosman (France), Beng Kiat Ng (Singapore)
RoboCupSoccer Middle-Size League
Teams of up to four autonomous robot of restricted dimensions (50 cm side) that compete having all sensing on-board
Ansgar Bredenfeld (Germany) – Chair, Yasutake Takahashi (Japan), Fernando Ribeiro (Portugal), Emanuele Menegatti (Italy) LC
RoboCupSoccer Four Legged Robot League
Teams of three autonomous robots with four legs that compete having all sensing on-board
Alessandro Saffiotti (Sweden) – Chair, Claude Sammut (Australia), Scott Lenser (USA), Luca Iocchi (Italy) LC
RoboCupSoccer Humanoid League
Demonstrations and games of up two on two humanoid robots
Thomas Christaller (Germany) – Chair, Hajime Asama (Japan), Lars Asplund (Sweden), Giuseppe Oriolo (Italy) LC
RoboCupRescue Real Robot League
Teams of real robots and distributed software agents that compete in both a real rescue scenario Adam Jacoff (USA) – Chair, Satoshi Tadokoro (Japan), Andreas Birk (Germany), Paolo Fiorini (Italy) LC
RoboCupRescue Simulation League
Teams of real robots and distributed software agents that compete in a challenging simulated rescue task
Tomoichi Takahashi(Japan) – Chair, Lin Padgham (Australia), H. Levent Akin (Turkey), Ranjit Nair (USA), Rosario Sorbello (Italy) LC
RoboCupJunior: Soccer, Rescue, and Dance
Competitions for junior and high-school children, that include simulated soccer, one to one soccer robots and dancing
Jeffrey Jonhson (United Kingdom) – Chair, Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar (Germany), Elizabeth Sklar (USA), Luigi Pagliarini (Denmark/Italy) LC
CALENDAR
Tuesday July 1, 2003, Field construction
Close to public – robots can be delivered
Wednesday July 2, 1st day of Set-up – Registration opening
Thursday July 3, 2nd day of Set-up
Friday July 4, 3rd day of Set-up – Welcome Reception
Saturday July 5, 1st day of Preliminary – Opening Ceremony
Sunday July 6, 2nd day of Preliminary
Monday July 7, 3rd day of Preliminary
Tuesday July 8, Last eight (if needed), Quarter, and Semifinals
Wednesday July 9, Semifinals (if needed), and Finals
Thursday July 10, 1st day of Symposium
Friday July 11, 2nd day of Symposium – Farewell Reception
Saturday July 12, Field break down
Close to public – last day for shipping robots home
Important dates
December 15, 2002 Team participation declaration deadline
February 15, 2003 – Symposium submission deadline
March 15, 2003 – Notification of papers acceptance
April 1, 2003 (or soon later) – Notification of team admission
April 15 , 2003 – Symposium camera-ready copies due
July 5-7, and 8-9, 2003 – International RoboCupCompetitions
July 10-11, 2003 – International RoboCupSymposium