RoboCup Japan Open 2004 Rescue Robot League Overview

Official Page

Official pages are written in Japanese.

Overview

RoboCupRescue Robot League is a competition of rescue robots and systems for search and surveillance in real-size collapsed buildings for urban search and rescue.

It started from a demonstration at RoboCup 2000 Melbourne, and have had several competitions: RoboCup 2001 Seattle, RoboCup 2002 Fukuoka, RoboCup Japan Open 2003 Niigata, RoboCup 2003 Padova, etc.

In 2004, it will have competitions at RoboCup Japan Open 2004 Osaka and RoboCup 2004 Lisbon.

Schedule

Year	Month	Day	Time	Item	Notes
2004	April	28		Construction of arena	Teams cannot enter.
		29	noon-	Carry-in and preparation of teams
		30	9:00-	Carry-in and preparation of teams
	May	1	10:00-	Opening ceremony
			10:30-	Exhibition match
			11:00-	Preliminary games (tentative)
		2	10:00-	Preliminary games (tentative)
		3	10:00-	Preliminary games (tentative)
		4	10:00-	Final games (tentative)
			16:00-	Closing ceremony
			17:00-	Carry-out

Site

Intex Osaka, Japan

Arena

Using the Japanese House Field of National Museum of Future Science and Technology and Innovation (Tokyo), the following two situations are prepared.

Real-size Japanese rooms with a little rubbles. Robots starts from the first floor.
Real-size rubble pile prepared in Japanese rooms. Robots are entered by an operator from the second floor.

Rules

RoboCup 2003 Padova Rules are applied, except that robots can touch victims if an operator calls to touch in order for check their conditions.

Participation

Send an e-mail to Ms. Tomoko Yamaguchi (yamaguchi@rescuesystem.org) with the following information. The deadline is the end of January.

CATEGORY: Competition, or Demonstration
FIELD: Normal japanese rooms, or Rubble pile rooms
TEAM: Name of the team
TEAM LEADER: Name, affiliation and e-mail address of the team leader
TEAM MEMBERS: Names, affiliations and e-mail addresses of the team members
WEB: URL of team web page, if exists

All the announcement will be done by e-mail. Official language is Japanese.

Contact

Tomoko Yamaguchi (International Rescue System Institute, yamaguchi@rescuesystem.org)