RoboCup 2005 Small Size League - Qualification

This page describes the qualification procedures for the Small Size League for RoboCup 2005. The qualification procedures are similar to those in recent years with some changes. (Note that the travel support form is part of the qualification material to be submitted.)

The organization committee (OC) will assess the qualification material and report the results by the 28th February 2005.

Travel Support Form

The travel support form is available.
Travel support form 2005 (word)
Travel support form 2005(pdf)
Travel support form 2005 (text)

Qualification Criteria:

• Due February 15th, 2005.
• Team must have completed the pre-registration procedure.
• Submission of your Team Description Paper (TDP).
• Submission of your Team Video.
• In past competitions, there have been teams that register but fail to compete at the competition. (Turning up does not count.) This behavior is unfair to the many other teams that could have competed in their place. Any team that registers for a competition and fails to compete will be barred from qualifying for the following competition year (unless the circumstances are exceptional). This rule was introduced for RoboCup 2004 and will be enforced for the RoboCup 2005 qualification process.
• Most communication will be done by e-mail using the "robocup-small@cc.gatech.edu" mailing list. Pay attention to these e-mails and answer the OC's questions. A team that does not reply risks losing its qualified place.

Submission of your Team Description Paper (TDP)

To participate at RoboCup, each team *must* submit a Team Description Paper by February 15th.

The Team Description Paper should focus on one or two main components of your developed system. The choice of topic(s) must be a part of your system. We recommend you choose a topic(s) that you feel are especially novel, important, or different from how other teams approach the problem, and/or other teams would be interested in reading about. Your topic(s) may focus on hardware, software, or any combination thereof.

It is especially important to have clear, and focused explanations. You can assume that the audience is familiar with general small-size league topics and can thus devote most of the TDP to the important issues. In particular, you should explain the technical details of how your approach works so that other researchers can repeat your results. In this way other researchers can gain from your experience, as you will gain from theirs, and together we can achieve the goals of the RoboCup Initiative.

The top four teams from the previous year will be given the opportunity to give a 15 - 20 minute presentation on the key contributions of their approach to the rest of the community.

Technical details of submission:

The details of the TDP submission are as follows. The length of the TDP is limited to 12 pages. Please use the same Springer LNAI format as the symposium submissions (see RoboCup Symposium instructions). There will be no extra review process for the TDPs. Acceptance is decided by the qualification to the RoboCup 2005 competition. The TDPs will be published on a CD that will be part of the final RoboCup 2005 book.

Submission Information:

• Submission format available at: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
• Papers should be sent as a zipped pdf or postscript file via email to the organization chair.
• The email subject should be "2005 TDP (YourTeamName)".

Submission of your Team Video

Your team video for RoboCup 2005 must be made public by midnight Feb. 15th (EST). The video must be 30-60 seconds of unedited footage. Video where you team is conforming to the 2004 rules is acceptable for submission. The Qualification video can be either of the following type although preference will be given to item 1:

1. A 30-60 seconds duration unedited video of your robots participating in a RoboCup standard game (i.e. a game at RoboCup or one of the local regional competitions). The Video should show obstacle avoidance, shooting and passing skill.
2. A 30-60 seconds duration unedited video footage of your robots (there must be at least 2, more preferred ) playing a game against a set of 5 opponents (moving opponents preferred). Video should show obstacle avoidance, shooting and passing skill.

The team video is used by the OC to determine the readiness of a team to compete effectively and is part of the criteria in ranking teams in the qualification process. Teams are advised to submit a video that best demonstrates the readiness of the team to compete in an internation competition.

Submission Instructions:

To submit the video footage, you must send an email prior to Feb. 15th, 2005, to the RoboCup small size list and cc: it also to the organization committee. The mail should read:

    subject: 2005 Qualification Video (YourTeamName)

    message body:

    NAME: your team name

    WEB: a pointer to where the video footage can be retrieved via ftp or http

Do NOT send the video as an attachment to the mailing list nor to the organization committee!

Travel Support

To be announced soon.

Created, 11/06/2004
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