RoboCupRescue 2008 World Championships
The 2008 edition of the RoboCupRescue competition will be held in Suzhou, China.
Call
Please submit your intention to participate by the 4th of January 2008 (only affiliation information required-see below)
Invite
The RobocupRescue Agent Simulation Competition is divided two main sub-leagues: the Agent competition and the Infrastructure competition.
Agent Competition:
The Agent competition involves scoring competing agent coordination algorithms on different maps of the RobocupRescue simulation platform. The challenge in this case involves developing coordination algorithms that will enable teams of Ambulances, Police forces, and Fire Brigades to save as many civilians as possible and extinguish fires in a city where an earthquake has just happened. The following general issues have to be dealt with:
- Path planning under uncertainty (given that roads may be blocked).
- Communication with constrained bandwidth
- Reasoning under uncertainty
- Scheduling
- Data fusion
- Distributed constraints optimisation problems
Teams have to individually achieve a score on chosen maps which represent different situations (e.g., civilians and fires, major fire in one corner of a city, blocked roads to refuges, damaged platoon agents, fire maps, civilian maps where only fires need to be extinguished or civilians need to be saved respectively) and this will determine how they compare with other teams. The best teams on each map are then selected to move up the various rounds of the tournament.
Infrastructure Competition:
The Infrastructure competition involves evaluating tools and simulators for simulating disaster management problems in general. Here, the intent is, (but not limited to), to build up realistic simulators and tools that could be used to enhance the basic RobocupRescue simulator and expand upon it. The best tools and simulators will be evaluated by a panel and a winner chosen accordingly. The best tools will be selected for further integration with the simulation platform.
While the general goal of the competition is to develop tools for disaster management, it also provides a playground to try out tools and techniques developed by Multi-Agent Systems and Artificial Intelligence research communities.
For the 2008 edition of the championship, special consideration will be given to entries dealing with the following:
- A map converter which takes standard file formats (e.g. google maps, shape files etc..) and converts them to the RobocupRescue map format.
- A new traffic simulator that conforms to more realistic settings.
- A flood simulator.
Procedure to enter the competitions:
We require that groups intent on participating in the competitions We require that groups intent on participating in the competitions should send the following information to kamal@iiit.net:
- Team Name:
- Competition (Agent/Infrastructure):
- Affiliation:
- Leader:
- Contact email:
- Website:
For each team member:
- Email:
- Address:
- Previous participation in RoboCupRescue:
The deadline for pre-registration is the 4th of January 2008. This does not require submitting any code or detailed explanation of your strategy/simulator.
New-comers
We understand that not all groups are familiar with the RobocupRescue platform. However, new teams can either choose to code their own algorithms for the Agent competition or use algorithms developed by other teams in previous years. While the basic robocuprescue package comes with dummy agents pre-intalled, there are a number of JAVA-based and C++-based code that are open source and will be available for download here.. Last years top 3 teams' codes will be directly downloadable from this page in the coming weeks.
Note: It is important that new teams improve upon and acknowledge previous teams' codes. Otherwise, they may be disqualified.
Important Dates:
- January 4, 2008: Deadline for pre-registration.
- February 2008 (Exact date to be decided): Rules of the game and tentative package released to be tested.
- March 2008 (Tentative): Teams submit their qualification material.
- April 2008 (Tentative): Acceptance notification to participating teams.
- July 2008: Competition takes place in conjunction with Robocup 2008.
Organising Committee
- Sarvapali Ramchurn (University of Southampton, UK)
- Nobuhiro Ito (Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Technical committee:
- Kamal Karlapalem (Indian Institute of Information Technology, India)
- Ioannis Vetsikas (University of Southampton, UK)
- Omid AmirGhiasvand (Mechatronics Research Lab, Iran)
- Jiang Fu (South East China University, China)
Execs
- Prof. H. Levent Akin (Bogaziçi University, Turkey)
- Alexander Kleiner (University of Freiburg, Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Stefano Carpin (International University Bremen, Germany)
Archives
2007 World Championships Results
Rescue Agents Competition
The results of the 2007 competition are:
| 1: | MRL | Azad University of Qazvin, Iran |
| 2: | Impossibles 2007 | Sharif University of Technology, Iran |
| 3: | TsinghuaAeolus | Tsinghua University , China |
The detailed results can be found here.
Infrastructure Competition
The winner of the Infrastructure competition was:
| 1 | AladdinRescue | University of Southampton, UK |
2006 World Championships Results
The 2006 RoboCup Rescue World Championships were held in Bremen (14-20 June).
Infrastructure Competition
Winner: ResQ Robots Freiburg (tdp)
Special Mention: Human in the Loop Agents
Rescue Agents Competition
Winner: MRL [source](4MB)
Runners Up:
Check the logfiles and detailed scores. Also check out the 2006 rules. All RoboCupRescue 2006 TDPs can be accessed from here.
2005 World Championships
The competition webpage can be reached here.
Team description papers (tdp) for RoboCupRescue 2005:
Maps from the 2005 Rescue Simulation competitions can be downloaded here.
