RSL2009
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Welcome to the Rescue Simulation League, GRAZ 2009
The Agent and Infrastructure competitions are to be held at the Robocup World Championships in Graz from the June 29th to the July 5th 2009. Information about the participating teams and registration information as well as the schedule for the whole event will be added here in the future.
Call For Participation
Call for Intention: RoboCup Rescue Agent and Infrastructure Competitions 2009
To be held in conjunction with Robocup 2009 in Graz, Austria
Please submit your intention to participate by the 26th of January 2009 (only affiliation information required-see below)
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:
- New scoring schemes for ranking the teams.
- Large number of new maps for the competition.
- Scenarios wherein agents can lose communication.
- 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 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. The information on scoring is detailed in the Media:Score.Vector.pdf. The participants shall be updated with any minor software level changes made to the ScoreVector as is the case with the Rescue server.
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.
Procedure to enter the competitions
We require that groups intent on participating in the competitions should send the following information to kamal AT iiit DOT ac DOT in
Team Name: Affiliation: Leader: Contact email: Website:
For each team member
Email: Address: Previous participation in RoboCupRescue:
The deadline for pre-registration is the 26th of January 2009. 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 soon 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.
Technical and Organising Committee (TOC)
- Kamal Karlapalem (India)
- Nobuhiro Ito (Japan)
- Sarvapali Ramchurn (UK)
- Soheil Hassas Yeganeh (Iran)
- Omid AmirGhiasvand (Iran)
Local Organizing Chair (LOC)
Alexander Kleiner (Germany)
Committee to evaluate TDPs (along with TOC & LOC)
- H. Levent Akin (Turkey)
- Cameron Skinner (New Zealand)
- Tomoichi Takahashi (Japan)
- Jiang Fu (China)
Important Dates
- January 26th, 2009: Deadline for pre-registration.
- January 26th, 2009: Rules of the game and tentative package released.
- February 23rd, 2009: Teams submit their qualification material.
- March 3th, 2009: Acceptance notification to participating teams.
- March 9th, 2009: Registration starts.
- July 2009: Competition takes place in conjunction with Robocup 2009.
Programme for the Tournament
- Monday 29th June
Registration (8:00 to 18:00) + Setup (9:00-22:30)
Participants are encouraged to be at the venue and introduce themselves to the organisers.
- Tuesday 30th June
Registration (8:00 to 16:30) + Setup (9:00-22:30)
Participants are encouraged to be at the venue and introduce themselves to the organisers.
- Wednesday 1st July
(12:00-17:00) First Round -- Agent Competition
- Thursday 2nd July
(9:00-17:00) Second Round -- Agent Competition
- Friday 3rd July
(8:30 - 17:00) Third Round -- Agent Competition
(10:00-12:00) Infrastructure Competition Presentations
- Saturday 4th July
(8:30-16:00) Semi finals - Agent Competition
- Sunday 5th July
(8:30 - 12:30) Finals - Agent Competition
The time table has been decided based on the programme provided by RoboCup. We will try to have more runs based on the availability of machines. However, all participants are encouraged to attend the invited talks and the Symposium and hence, no scores will be advertised at the time when these events are running.
Agent Simulation Competition
Rules
A tentative version of the rules document can be accessed here: Media:rules2009_090204.pdf. We use a new score scheme this year. This scheme document is available hre: Media:Score.Vector.pdf. This is the first release for RoboCup2009.
Pre-registered Teams
The teams that have submitted their intent to participate are listed below.
| # | Name | Team Leader | Affiliation | Country |
| 1 | SBCe_Saviour | Dr. Eslam Nazemi | Shahid Beheshti University | Iran |
| 2 | NAITO-Rescue | Nobuhiro ITO | Aichi Institute of Technology | Japan |
| 3 | CSU_Yunlu | Jun Peng | School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University | China |
| 4 | BonabRescue | Farshid Faraji | Islamic Azad University Of Bonab | Iran |
| 5 | RoboAKUT | H. Levent Akin | Bogazici University | Turkey |
| 6 | BraveCircles | Khalil Sajjad | SheikhBahaee University | Iran |
| 7 | S.O.S. | Babak Hashemi | Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) | Iran |
| 8 | Impossibles09 | Dr. Jafar Habibi | Sharif University of Technology | Iran |
| 9 | SEU_RedSun | Qingfa Meng | Southeast University | China |
| 10 | LsuAmoyNQ | Xin Li | Louisiana State University and Xiamen University | USA and China |
| 11 | MRL | Mazir Ahmad Sharbafi | Azad University of Qazvin | Iran |
| 12 | New Idea | Shahram Taheri | 'Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht' | Iran |
| 13 | MinERS | Maitreyi Nanjanath | The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Of Minnesota | USA |
| 14 | ZJUBase | Wang Yuankai | National Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology , Zhejiang University | China |
| 15 | BR3 | Tiago Mazzutti | Federal University of Santa Catarina | Brazil |
| 16 | Ri-one | Yuto Otsuki | Ritsumeikan University | Japan |
| 17 | RescueFreiburg | C. Dornhege | University of Freiburg | Germany |
| 18 | Lotus | Mehdi Ajdari | AI & Robotics Laboratory, Computer Engineering Department Shahid Bahonar College, Shiraz - Ir Iran. | Iran |
| 19 | POSEIDON09 | Mostafa Vafadoost | FARZANEGAN EXCEPTIONAL TALENTS HIGH SCHOOL (TEHRAN), ROBOTICS RESEARCH GROUP | Iran |
| 20 | IAMRESCUE | Sarvapali Ramchurn | University of Southampton | England |
| 21 | TU Dresden | Axel Gürtler | N/A | N/A |
| 22 | DNU_EXPLORER | Wenyong Lv | Dalian Nationnalities University Innovation Education Center | China |
Qualified Teams
The teams that have qualified to participate in this year's competition are listed below.
| # | Name | Team Leader | Affiliation | Country |
| 1 | SBCe_Saviour | Dr. Eslam Nazemi | Shahid Beheshti University | Iran |
| 2 | NAITO-Rescue | Nobuhiro ITO, Kazunori Iwata | Aichi Institute of Technology, Aichi University | Japan |
| 3 | CSU_Yunlu | Jun Peng | School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University | China |
| 4 | BonabRescue | Farshid Faraji | Islamic Azad University Of Bonab | Iran |
| 5 | RoboAKUT | H. Levent Akin | Bogazici University | Turkey |
| 6 | S.O.S. | Babak Hashemi | Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) | Iran |
| 7 | Impossibles09 | Dr. Jafar Habibi | Sharif University of Technology | Iran |
| 8 | SEU_RedSun | Qingfa Meng | Southeast University | China |
| 9 | MRL | Mazir Ahmad Sharbafi | Azad University of Qazvin | Iran |
| 10 | New Idea | Shahram Taheri | Islamic Azad University of Marvdasht | Iran |
| 11 | MinERS | Maitreyi Nanjanath | The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Of Minnesota | USA |
| 12 | ZJUBase | Wang Yuankai | National Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology , Zhejiang University | China |
| 13 | Ri-one | Yuto Otsuki | Ritsumeikan University | Japan |
| 14 | Lotus | Mehdi Ajdari | AI & Robotics Laboratory, Computer Engineering Department Shahid Bahonar College, Shiraz - Ir Iran. | Iran |
| 15 | POSEIDON09 | Mostafa Vafadoost | FARZANEGAN EXCEPTIONAL TALENTS HIGH SCHOOL (TEHRAN), ROBOTICS RESEARCH GROUP | Iran |
| 16 | IAMRESCUE | Sarvapali Ramchurn | University of Southampton | England |
Infrastructure Competition
Pre-registered Teams
The teams that have submitted their intent to participate are listed below.
| # | Name | Team Leader | Affiliation | Country |
| 1 | Hinomiyagura | Tomoichi Takahashi | Meijo University | Japan |
| 2 | Kshitij | Dr. Kamal Karlapalem | IIIT-Hyderabad | India |
| 3 | MRL | Abbas Abdolmaleki | Islamic Azad University of Qazvin | Iran |
| 4 | BonabRescue | Farshid Faraji | Azad University Of Bonab | Iran |
| 5 | IAMRESCUE | Sarvapali Ramchurn | University of Southampton | England |
| 6 | RescueFreiburg | C. Dornhege | University of Freiburg | Germany |
Qualified Teams
The teams that have qualified to participate in this year's competition are listed below.
| # | Name | Team Leader | Affiliation | Country |
| 1 | Hinomiyagura | Tomoichi Takahashi | Meijo University | Japan |
| 2 | Kshitij | Dr. Kamal Karlapalem | IIIT-Hyderabad | India |
| 3 | MRL | Abbas Abdolmaleki | Islamic Azad University of Qazvin | Iran |
| 4 | IAMRESCUE | Sarvapali Ramchurn | University of Southampton | England |
| 5 | RescueFreiburg | C. Dornhege | University of Freiburg | Germany |
