Activities

RoboCup Humanoid League: Organizers: Ludovic Hofer (Bordeaux University, France), Reinhard Gerndt (Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Germany)

• Middle Size League: a new omnidirectional mobile platform -> eight wheels [Douven et al., 2019].
• Small Size League: the curved shoot mechanism [Yoshimoto et al., 2017].
• Humanoid League: new platforms for adult size humanoids [Farazi et al., 2019], biped walking: the genetic algorithm of Zahn et al. [2020].
• Standard Platform League: Deep Learning Applications à synthetic database [Szemenyei and Estivill-Castro, 2019], game analysis [Mellmann et al., 2019]

• Full integration of ASTM E54.09 Standard Test Methods for Response Robots results compatible with industry and public safety.
• Increasing integration with local public safety end-users
• Remote proctoring of distributed competition for continuation during the pandemic.
• A growing contingent of high school students competing with mostly 3D printed robots in smaller, but still standardized, versions of the full-size tests.

• Virtual Robot League now fully transitioned to the more widely used Gazebo simulator and ROS to reduce barriers to entry for new teams, which now include high school students.
• Distributed map integration across their multiple simulated robots is now the norm across the league.
• Developing Agent Development Framework (ADF) that unifies the architecture of agents and makes the different components of an agent reusable and modular.
• Refuges now only admit a limited number of victims, creating a challenge to the Ambulance Teams to decide where to transport the victims rather than just the closest refuge.
• Webviewer is a web-based service that enables the simulation runs on cloud servers to be watched online and or offline using a web browser.

• Two standard platforms were introduced in 2017 as a result of an open call for tenders: the Toyota HSR for the new Domestic Standard Platform League, and Pepper from SoftBank Robotics for the new Social Standard Platform League.
• Inamura & Mizuchi [2018] proposed a novel software platform called “SIGVerse” for statistically evaluating human–robot interaction in competitions.
• Hagg et al. [2017] proposed a method for recognizing transparent objects using combinations of four modalities: 2-D shapes, 3-D geometry, transparency, and specular reflection.

Invited Speakers for RoboCup Symposium 2021

Dieter Fox (Nvidia Research and University of Washington): “Toward robust manipulation in complex environments” Jean-Paul Laumond (CNRS): “Robotics: The Science of Motion” Stefanie Tellex (Brown University): “Towards Complex Language in Partially Observed Environments”

Inviter Speakers for RoboCup Symposium 2019

Peter Corke (Queensland University of Technology): “Creating Robots That See” Gamini Dissanayake (University of Technology Sydney): “Robots in the Wild”

Invited Speakers for RoboCup Symposium 2018

Yoshua Bengio (Universite de Montreal): “Deep Learning for AI” Jeannette Bohg (Stanford): “On the Role of Structure in Learning for Robot Manipulation” Torsten Kroeger (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ): “Robot Manipulation: Real-time Motion Planning, Hybrid Control, and Reinforcement Learning”

RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2021

Aichi – Japan, November 25-29

RoboCup Brazil Open 2021

Online, October 11-15

RoboCup Russia Open 2021

Tomsk – Russia, May 13-16

RoboCup Portugal Open 2021

Aveiro – Portugal, April 28 – May 2

RoboCup Kazakhstan 2021

Online, April 26 – May 2

German Open 2021

Magdeburg – Germany, April 20-24

• RoboCup Japan Open 2020 (Aichi – Japan, March 20 – 22)
• RoboCup Russia Open 2020 (Tomsk – Russia, April 16-19)
• RoboParty 2020 (Guimarães – Portugal, July 9-11)
• RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2020 (Virtual, October 8-12)
• RoboCup Japan Open 2020 (Online, October 31 – November 1)

RoboCup 2019, Sydney, Australia. July 2-8

• German Open 2019 (Magdeburg – Germany, May 3-5)
• European RoboCupJunior Championship 2019 (Hannover – Germany, June 21 – 23)
• Brazil Open 2019 (Rio Grande – Brazil, October 22-26)
• RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2019 (Moscow – Russia, November 6-11)

RoboCup 2018, Montreal, Canada. June 16-22

• RoboCup Iran Open 2018 (Tehran – Iran, April 3-7)
• German Open 2018 (Magdeburg – Germany, April 27-29)
• European RoboCupJunior Championship 2018 (Montesilvano – Italy, May 29 – June 1)
• RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2018 (Kish Island – Iran, December 5-10)

RoboCup 2017, Nagoya, Japan. July 25-31

• RoboParty 2017 (Guimarães – Portugal, March 2-4)
• RoboCup Iran Open 2017 (Tehran – Iran, April 5-7)
• Robotica 2017 (Coimbra – Brazil, April 26-30)
• RoboCup U.S. Open 2017 (Miami – USA, April 28-29)
• German Open 2017 (Magdeburg – Germany, May 5-7)
• RoboCup Russia Open 2017 (Tomsk – Russia, May 17-19)
• RoboCupJunior Italian Open 2017 (Montesilvano – Italy, May 26-28)
• RoboCup Asia-Pacific 2017 (Bangkok – Thailand, December 12-18)

• Tutorial at IROS 2016 – Multi-Robot Autonomy in Robot Soccer as an Adversarial Domain, Daejeon, Korea. October, 2016 (Agenda(pdf))
• RoboCup 2016, Leipzig, Germany. June 30, 2016  
• The First Meeting of IEEE RAS TC on RoboCup, Stockholm, Sweden. May 18, 2016 (presentation slide)

• RoboCup 2015, Hefei, China. July 17-23, 2015
• 2015 International Spring School on Humanoid Soccer Robots, Kaohsiumng, Taiwan. May 20-22, 2015
• 2015 RoboCup National Opens: German Open (Madgeburg, Germnay, April 24-26, 2015), Iran Open (Tehran International Fair, Iran, April 8-10, 2015), Portuguese Open (Vila Real, Portugal, April 8-12, 2015)
• AAAI15 Tutorial on RoboCup, Austin, TX, USA. January 26, 2015

• 4th International RoboCup MSL Workshop, Eindhoven, Netherlands. November 10-12, 2014
• RoboCup China Open 2014, Hefei, China. October 10-12, 2014
• RoboCup 2014, João Pessoa, Brazil. July 19-25, 2014
• 2014 RoboCup National Opens: Japan Open (Kyushu Institiute of Technology, Kitakyushu Science and Reseaerch Park, and Niigata Institute of Technology, May 4-6, 2014), Iran Open (Tehran, Iran, April 07-11, 2014), RoboCupJunior Austrian Open ( University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien, April 26-27, 2014)
• 2014 International Spring School on Humanoid Soccer Robots, Amirakabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran. April 12-16, 2014

• 1st Workshop on Developments in RoboCup Leagues, Montevideo, Uruguay. November 25, 2013