Call For Participation --- Second Call
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 {\bf RoboCup} event, and it will be held
in Paris, France, during the World Cup also in France. The
competitions will take place at the Cit\'e 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).
Details of the rules for the different competitions are available from
the RoboCup official Web site.
For optional statement of entry, please send e-mail to
robocup98-com@csl.sony.co.jp.
The final registration form shall be made available on the RoboCup
Web home page, and should be sent either electronically to
robocup98-com@csl.sony.co.jp, kitano@csl.sony.co.jp, or by FAX to
Hiroaki Kitano (+81) 3-5448-4273.
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.
The lengh is four double column printed pages using ijcai.sty.
- 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.
- 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),
Milind Tambe (ISI/USC, 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),
Shoji Suzuki (Osaka Univ., Japan)
- Middle Size League co-Chairs:
Wei Min Shen (ISI/USC, USA)
Andy Jenning (RMIT, Australia)
Hajime Asama (Inst. for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan)
- Expert League Chair:
Robin Murphy (Colorado School of Mines/Golden, USA)
For questions on RoboCup and/or RoboCup-98 Paris, please send e-mail
to kitano@csl.sony.co.jp, robocup98-com@csl.sony.co.jp,
or to committee members (see the RoboCup Web site
http://www.robocup.org/RoboCup/.