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RoboCup Overview Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt www.robocup.org 1

History 1996: RoboCup created by group of Japanese, American, and European Artificial Intelligence and Robotics researchers with a formidable, visionary long-term challenge: By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human world soccer champion team! Note: 1996 very few effective mobile robots, Honda P2 humanoid robot presented for the first time RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 2

History 1997: 1 st RoboCup in Nagoya, Japan (w/ IJCAI ‘97) • ~40 teams in Soccer Simulation, Small-Size, Middle-Size, 100 participants, 5000 spectators 1999: RoboCup Rescue • Robots for search and rescue, motivated by difficulties of Kobe earthquake 2000: RoboCup Junior • Educational initiative, students up to 19 years 2006: RoboCup@Home • Robots assisting humans in everyday life 2012 Logistics League, 2013 RoboCup@Work • Robots assisting in industrial environments RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 3

History 1997: 1 st RoboCup in Nagoya, Japan (w/ IJCAI ‘97) • 40 teams in Soccer Simulation, Small-Size, Middle-Size, 100 participants Today: International RoboCup Event • 3 - 4,000 participants (Major & Junior) • > 200 teams (Major only) • From > 40 countries International RoboCup Event: • 2 setup days • 4 competition days • 1 symposium day • Travels Americas, Asia, Europe RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 4

RoboCup Leagues RoboCup Rescue RoboCup Soccer  Rescue Robot  Humanoid  Rescue Simulation  Standard Platform  Middle Size  Small Size RoboCup RoboCup @Home  Simulation  Logistics  @Work RoboCup Junior  Soccer  Rescue  Dance RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 5

RoboCup Organization RoboCup Federation: International non profit organization based in Bern, Switzerland Board of Trustees: Current 21  President & 4 Vice Presidents International Advisory Executive Committee (2-4 Regional Committees Board per league) Organizational Committee Technical Committee (per league) (per league) Teams (per league, highly international, diverse and cooperative) RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 6

Impact on Science  Pioneering benchmarking of robotics and AI research through competitions  Ten thousands of scientific publications at renowned international conferences in robotics and artificial intelligence  IEEE IROS RoboCup Best Paper Award  Annual RoboCup Symposium: … RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 7

Impact on Technology  Many open source developments from RoboCup teams, used by many other research groups inside and outside RoboCup  Basis technology of Kiva Systems developed in Small Size Robot League.  Quince robot used in Fukushima 2011 has been developed and tested in RoboCup.  Aldebaran started successful humanoid Nao robot in RoboCup.  Motors from ROBOTIS were first widely used in RoboCup. DARwIn-OP and NimbRo-OP robots have been developed together with RoboCup teams. RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 8

Impact on Education Unique soft skills training  In multi-disciplinary teams participants develop internationally competitive, highly complex R&D projects observing strict deadlines RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 9

Regional Committee  A sufficiently large number of teams, researchers and teachers from any nation, group of nations, or nation-sized region (henceforth “region”) with significant past and current RoboCup participation is invited to form a “RoboCup Regional Committee.”  Purposes: 1. Promote RoboCup within your region. 2. Organize local RoboCup events and RoboCup opens. 3. Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. 4. Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within your region and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition. 5. Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in your region. 6. Ensuring proper user of RoboCup emblems (names & logos) in your region RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 10

Summary  Since 1997 RoboCup has developed as the world's leading, largest and most sustainable competition for intelligent robots driven by a large worldwide community. www.robocup.org RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 11

Workshop Agenda  09:00 - 09:10 Welcome and Introduction (Organizers)  09:10 - 09:30: RoboCup Overview (Oskar von Stryk) 09:30 - 09:50: Humanoid League (Reinhardt Gerndt) 09:50 - 10:10: Standard Platform League (Rico Tilgner) 10:10 - 10:30: 3D-Soccer Simulation League (Klaus Dorer)  10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break  11:00 - 11:20: Rescue Robot League (Johannes Pellenz) 11:20 - 11:40: RoboCup @Home League (Paul Plöger) 11:40 - 12:00: Logistics League (Ulrich Karras) 12:00 - 12:20: RoboCup @Work League (Walter Nowak)  12:30 - 14:00: Lunch in workshop room with all speakers  14:00 - 16:00: Parallel small group workshops in the team areas (Hall 1) depending on specific league interests of participants  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break  16:30 - 17:30: Final round of all participants (workshop room Tessenowgarage 1) RoboCup Overview | Oskar von Stryk, TU Darmstadt | April 23, 2015 12