The grand challenge of RoboCup-Rescue Simulation
Competition (Simulation League) is to promote
competitive international research cooperation
by providing opportunities to researchers
to evaluate their research results.
One of the reasons why RoboCup Soccer has
3,000 participating researchers from 35 countries
is the competition mechanism. The desire
to win the game, the periodical hot communication
and discussion, and the open policy of all
research results make Linux-type research
community. This mechanism should be effective
in this disaster domain. If the same number
of researchers begin search and rescue research,
the technology will advance in a short time.
This is a revolution.
Another important factor of the competition
is the social attention. It is amazing to
observe RoboCup wide activities creating
a robot culture worldwide. If the same mechanism
functions in the disaster domain, it will
form a disaster mitigation culture where
every citizens believe this serious problem
important and consider how to behave in emergency.
It surely creates the safer social system.
This is not a mere competition. This is not
a simply game. Our activities contribute
to solve the global disaster problem.
The purpose of 2001 competition is to minimize
the damage of disaster.
In the 2001 competition, the version 0 simulator
is used. Participants make agent programs.
Good intelligent behavior of emergency response
save many victims, quickly extinguish fires,
and efficiently open the blocked streets.
The loss of simulation results is evaluated
to decide the winner.
Three competitions are scheduled in 2001. All the competitions are open for international participation.
The detail and the schedule of each competition is announced below and the corresponding call for papers.
The rule, evaluation, etc. will be determined by the rule committee according to proposals from the potential participants. In January, 2001, it will be announced on this web page.The rule, evaluation, etc. are under discussion at present by the rule committee. In January, 2001, it will be announced here. Tentative rule discussion memo is available here.
The following three items are open for proposals. Inputs to the mailing list or direct e-mail are welcome.
The first competition of RoboCup-Rescue will be held in Japan Open 2001. This is internationally open although this is a domestic competition in Japan. The rule, etc. will be basically the same as the RoboCup World Cup 2001, but the World Cup should include small improvement according to the result of the Japan Open. The program codes of participating agents should be open after the competition.
Call for participants is here, and the rule and the detail will be announced in this page.
Schedule:
November 2001: Call for participants (deadline: March 11, 2001)
December, 2000: Deadline of proposals
January 2001: Announcement of guideline of
competition
April 28-30, 2001: Competition
Japan Open competition report.
Log files, disaster situation maps, simulator
codes, and agent source codes of Japan Open
competitors will be open soon.
Preliminary competition for the RoboCup World Cup 2001 will be held in Osaka as a part of RoboFesta Kansai 2001. Participants are welcome to test their agent behaviors in the real simulation environment as a competition just the same as the RoboCup World Cup 2001. This festival is internationally open to everyone who would like to check their performance beforehand. The secret of participants' program code is guaranteed by the organizer.
Call for participants is here, and the rule and the detail will be announced in this page.
Schedule:
November 2001: Call for participants (deadline: June 11, 2001)
December, 2000: Deadline of proposals
January 2001: Announcement of tentative rule
& evaluation
May, 2001: Announcement of final rule &
evaluation
June 11, 2001: Registration deadline
End of July, 2001: Competition
RoboCup-Rescue Simulation League and RoboCup-Rescue Robot League will start at the RoboCup World Cup 2001 in Seattle. The detail will be announced in the web page. The program codes of participating agents should be open after the competition.
Call for participants is here, and the rule and the detail will be announced in this page.
Schedule:
September, 2000: Demonstration of rescue
simulator version 0 & Call for proposals
November, 2000: Call for participants
December, 2000: Deadline of proposals
January, 2001: Announcement of tentative rule & evaluation
April 20, 2001: Registration of participation
deadline
May 15, 2001: Announcement of final rule
& evaluation
2-4 August, 2001: Preparation of competition
4-6, August, 2001: Competition (preliminary
games)
9 or 10, August, 2001: Competition (final
game)
The detail of RoboCup-2002 competition will be discussed after RoboCup-2001.
Co-Chairpersons:
Satoshi Tadokoro, Kobe University
Tomoichi Takahashi, Chubu University
Members:
Masayasu Atsumi, Soka University
Michael Bowling, Carnegie Melon University
Silvia Coradeschi, Orebro University
Michinori Hatayama, Kyoto University
Nobuyuki Ito, Nagoya Institute of Technology
Tetsuhiko Koto, The University of Electro-Communications
Yoshitaka Kuwata, NTT Data Corporation
Fumitoshi Matsuno, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ranjit Nair, ISI, Southern California University
Jun Nobe, Mitsubishi Research Institute
Ituki Noda, Electrotechnical Laboratory
Masayuki Ohta, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Atsushi Shinjoh, Institute of Advanced Media
Arts and Sciences
Hironao Takahashi, Port and Harbour Research
Institute
Milind Tambe, ISI, Southern California University