RoboCup 2019

Virtual Robot Competition to be held at International Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia — July 2-8, 2019

Rules

You can download Virtual Robot Competitions 2019 rules with following link:

https://robocup-rsvrl.github.io/assets/rules/RoboCup2019-RVRL-Rules.pdf

Important Dates

Topic	Deadline
The intention of participation	January 30, 2019
Team Description Paper (TDP) submission	Feb. 28, 2019
Qualified teams announcement	March 30, 2019
Team setup dates	July 2-3, 2019
Competition dates	July 4-7, 2019
RoboCup Symposium	July 8, 2019

Qualified Teams

Team Name	TDP Link	Source Code	Result
MRL	link		First Place
Eslam	link		Second Place
ATR-Kent	link		Third Place

Intention of participation

If you are interested to participate please take the time to pre-register your team for the RoboCup 2019 Virtual Robot Competition as soon as possible, so that we can inform you about the latest developments.

Qualification material

Besides sending the intention of participation, please prepare before March 15, 2019, a Team Description Paper (TDP) describing the most innovative contributions or scientific results your team is intended to provide.

The TDP is limited to 8 pages and must be formatted according to the LNCS format:

http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

The Team Description Paper is an overview of the methodologies you use or intend to use to control your robots inside the Virtual Robot Competition. If applicable, include a reference to your latest publications. The qualification material should be placed on a dedicated web page on the team’s home page. Please include the link to the qualification material on the intention of information.

Useful links

• Official Virtual robot competition websites:

  https://rescuesim.robocup.org/

• Previous Virtual rescue robot competitions materials:

  https://rescuesim.robocup.org/

  https://github.com/reyhanehpahlevan/

  https://github.com/amirezakabiri/

• Here is the list of useful links:

  • Robot Operating System(ROS)
  • Gazebo Simulator
  • Virtual Robot setup and results RoboCup 2017
  • Virtual Robot Competitions 2018 rules
  • Robocup 2018 Repository(you can set up the environment and control your robots using keyboard/joystick using this repository) Available Open source code
  • Robocup 2017 Repository
  • Robocup 2016 Repository(old models and launch files could be found here)

More documentation could be found in rescuesim website Feel free to ask! Hope to see you in Robocup 2019 competitions in Sydney.

With kind regards,

Masaru Shimizu, Fatemeh Pahlevan Agahababa, Amirrezakabiri, Francesco Amigoni, Sanaz Taleghani, Josie Hughes and Arnoud Visser

Members of the 2019 RoboCup Rescue Simulation Virtual Robot Competition Technical and Organization Committees