From MSS isep.ipp.pt Mon Mar 21 11:55:20 2016 From: MSS isep.ipp.pt (Manuel Silva) Date: Mon Mar 21 12:11:35 2016 Subject: [socios-spr] Robotica 2016: 16th Portuguese Robotics Open - JUST 10 DAYS to registration deadline Message-ID: (Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) ======================================================================= *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - 10 DAYS to registration deadline *** ======================================================================= Robotica 2016 - 16th Portuguese Robotics Open http://robotica2016.ipb.pt/ May 4-8, 2016 Bragança, Portugal The Portuguese Robotics Open is a RoboCup Event that aims at promoting Science and Technology among students from the 1st grade to university studies, as well among the general public, through robotic competitions. We would like to invite you to participate in the 16th Portuguese Robotics Open which will take place May 4-8, 2016, in Bragança, Portugal. If you are interested in participating, please follow the procedure as outlined below. == Competitions The following competitions are offered for the 16th Portuguese Robotics Open: Major Competitions - RoboCup Middle Size League - RoboCup 2D Simulation League - RoboCup 3D Simulation League - Autonomous Driving Competition - Robot@Factory - FreeBots Competition Junior Competitions - RoboCupJunior Dance - RoboCupJunior Soccer - RoboCupJunior Rescue - FreeBots Junior Competition The rules of RoboCup competitions are based on the RoboCup 2016 rules for each League. All competitions rules are available at: http://robotica2016.ipb.pt/#article2 Some Competitions may not take place if the number of participating teams does not reach the minimum. == Schedule == Registration deadline: Mar. 31, 2016 Late registration deadline: Apr. 30, 2016 Portuguese Robotics Open: May. 4-8, 2016 All deadlines are 23:59 GMT. == Registration == Registration is performed through the online form at: http://robotica2016.ipb.pt/registo/web/index.php?r=user-management%2Fauth%2Flogin Registration Fees: - Until 31st March 2016 (early) - Payment until 10th April Major Leagues Fee per team: 200 euros (up to 5 members) Additional team member: 50 euros (no limit of extra members) Junior Leagues Fee per team: 80 euros (up to 4 members) Additional team member: 30 euros (limited to 2 extra members) Scientific meeting Full time Students: 200 euros ; 150 euros (SPR Ass./IEEE members) Non Students: 320 euros ; 250 euros (SPR Ass./IEEE members) - Late registrations - Until 30 April 2014 (late) - Payment until 2nd May Major Leagues Fee per team: 250 euros (up to 6 members) Additional team member: 75 euros (no limit of extra members) Junior Leagues Fee per team: 120 euros (up to 4 members) Additional team member: 50 euros (limited to 2 extra members) Scientific Meeting Full Time Students: 250 euros ; 200 euros (SPR Ass./IEEE members) Non Students: 380 euros ; 300 euros (SPR Ass./IEEE members) == Description and History == The Portuguese Robotics Open (also known as Festival Nacional de Robótica) had its 1st edition in 2001. The event has had an enormous growth since the 1st edition, both in the number of teams, participants and visitors and also includes an international IEEE conference where national an international researchers present their latest work in the field of Robotics (http://icarsc2016.ipb.pt/). The 16th edition of the Portuguese Robotics Open will be held in Bragança, Portugal, on May 4-8, 2016. The district of Bragança is located in Trás-os-Montes, in the northeast of Portugal, an attractive region known for its traditions, handicraft, gastronomy and its landscape. The regions located in the north part of the district, more cold and highest in altitude, are known as Terra Fria Transmontana and present a landscape dominated by plateaus and mountains, with deep and narrow valleys. More to the south, we find the region known as Terra Quente Trasmontana, of milder climate, marked by the Douro river and the valleys of its tributary rivers. In this region you can visit the Natural Park of Montesinho, the International Douro Park or the Protected Landscape of Azibo, where you can be marvel at the scenery with a diverse flora and fauna. It has very good connections by airport and highways. The Portuguese Robotics Open is currently an initiative of Portuguese Society of Robotics. Hoping to see you at Portuguese Robotics Open! Kind Regards, The Portuguese Robotics Open Organizing Committee Manuel Silva Professor Adjunto Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail@isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt -------------- próxima parte ---------- Um anexo em HTML foi limpo... URL: http://listas.ansol.org/pipermail/socios-spr/attachments/20160321/8c05a89f/attachment.html From nunolau ua.pt Thu Mar 24 12:28:55 2016 From: nunolau ua.pt (Nuno Lau) Date: Thu Mar 24 12:29:13 2016 Subject: [socios-spr] FW: Field Robotics Hackathon Challenge In-Reply-To: References: <6f70c13a2b9c45559f318328e9363814@AZEVINHO.ua.pt>, Message-ID: <3653D822BBE359419CF44AD777DF8B45019D7333CD@SEQUOIA.ua.pt> From: Jonathan Aitken Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 2:51 PM Subject: Field Robotics Hackathon Challenge Dear all, Please see the announcement of our field robotics hackathon, below, and circulate to anyone you think may be interested; this event is especially relevant for Masters and PhD students! Best wishes, Jonathan As part of UK Robotics Week, and in conjunction with the TAROS (Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems) conference, Sheffield Robotics and the UK-RAS network are hosting an agricultural field robotics hackathon challenge. Date: 26-27 June Venue: High Bradfield, Sheffield, UK Website: http://www.sheffieldrobotics.ac.uk/event/field-robotics-challenge-2016/ Format: The challenge will run from the 26th-27th June 2016, in the two days preceding the TAROS conference (http://www.sheffieldrobotics.ac.uk/conferences/taros-2016/), at the Sheffield Robotics High Bradfield outdoor robotics proving ground in the Peak District national park*. Successful applicants will be arranged into teams of 6/7 for the two days, and will compete against each other to complete a series of incremental robotics challenges. The competition will reflect an agricultural scenario, played out on real world, challenging terrain*. Teams will develop software to control, as well as collect and process data from, air and ground robots provided by the organisers. Tasks will include high- and low- level surveying by fixed- and rotary-wing unmanned aerial systems, and ground-based sampling and intervention by wheeled rovers. Participants will be encouraged to present their challenge solutions during a special session of the TAROS conference, with prizes awarded to the best teams. Participation: The event is designed to bring together young researchers and developers working in robotics and agri-tech. It is well-suited to good final-year masters students, PhD students, early-career researchers, and anyone with similar relevant experience in areas including: - Robotics and autonomous systems - Control systems - Computer vision - Signal processing - Data acquisition - Co-operative or multi-robot systems - Unmanned Aerial Systems - Field Robotics - Agri-tech - Remote sensing Registration: To register your interest in the event, please fill out the application form (http://goo.gl/forms/bw5lV1Af8B). The number of places is limited, and the organisers will shortlist candidates based on the information provided. Applications will close at midnight (GMT) on the 18th April, with notification given by 2nd May. Successful applicants will be expected to attend the event, and pay a nominal registration fee of £30 to cover lunches. Accommodation will not be provided, but we will provide assistance with booking. Some bursaries may also be available. Details: Date ? 26-27 June Venue ? High Bradfield, Sheffield Fee ? £30 per successful applicant Registration ? http://goo.gl/forms/bw5lV1Af8B Application deadline ? 18th April 2016 Notification ? 2nd May 2016 Sheffield Robotics Organisers: James Law ? j.law@sheffield.ac.uk Jonathan Aitken ? jonathan.aitken@sheffield.ac.uk Owen McAree Felix Dawes *In the event of bad weather, some or all of the challenge will re-locate to the Sheffield Robotics Indoor Field Robotics Facility (where the terrain will be slightly less realistic, but challenges will be comparable). -- Dr Jonathan M. Aitken Senior Research Fellow Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering Rm B05, Sheffield Robotics, Pam Liversidge Building University of Sheffield Sheffield S1 3JD Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5660 From pal isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt Thu Mar 31 13:35:53 2016 From: pal isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt (Pedro U. Lima) Date: Thu Mar 31 13:38:28 2016 Subject: [socios-spr] Fwd: euRathlon/TRADR Summer School 2016 on Heterogeneity in Robotics Systems References: Message-ID: > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Marta Palau Franco > Subject: euRathlon/TRADR Summer School 2016 on Heterogeneity in Robotics Systems > Date: 31 March 2016 at 11:41:38 GMT+1 > To: Antidio Viguria , Ayoze Castro , Bernd Brueggemann , Darío Sosa , Ferreira Fausto | CMRE , "Ferri, Gabriele CMRE" , "Frank Schneider " , Juha Röning (juha.roning@oulu.fi) , Xingkun Liu , Yvan Petillot > Cc: "philip.piatkiewicz@eu-robotics.net" , Alan Winfield , "Pedro U. Lima (pal@isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt)" , "Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova (ivana.kruijff@dfki.de)" , "Marta Palau Franco" > > Dear all > > The euRathlon/TRADR Summer School 2016 on Heterogeneity in Robotics Systems will take place from Monday 22nd to Friday 26th August in Oulu, Finland, at the University of Oulu. > > The Workshop is jointly organised by EURATHLON (www.eurathlon.eu ) and TRADR (http://www.tradr-project.eu /) EU Horizon 2020 and FP7 projects, respectively. > > The summer school is designed as a five-day course to provide participants with a full overview and hands-on experience with multi-domain real robotic systems. The intended audience is undergraduate students, Master students, PhD students, postdoc students, researchers from universities/organizations and engineers from industry companies around the world. The summer school aims to provide the participants with both theoretical and practical insight in multi-domain real robotic systems for deployment in disaster response scenarios. The trend in this area is going towards multi-robot systems with different outfits, processing powers and operation spaces (ground, water, air) that shall be deployed over long periods and several sorties. This raises many challenges, including multi-modal heterogeneous mapping, semantic analysis and reasoning, (collaborative) planning under uncertainty. The summer school program will consist of lectures on these topics, and hands-on sessions during which the participants work on practical tasks using several robots with different sensory equipment. > > We invite submissions which focus on topics of unmanned ground, air, sea vehicles and their combination on real systems. > We are stressing real applications on: > - Learning in complex robotic systems / Semantic mapping. > -Multi-modal heterogeneous mapping. > - (Collaborative) Planning under uncertainty / Integration of Mapping and Planning. > > We welcome papers from non-competitors, if they are within the scope. We encourage especially young researchers to participate. There will be the possibility to earn study credits (doctoral or basic) from the summer school. > > Applications should be submitted via email in PDF format to Prof Juha Röning (eurathlon@uwe.ac.uk ). All applicants must provide a free format letter (max. 2 pages) describing their research. Papers/posters are not compulsory for attending the summer school, but participants who have submitted a paper will have priority over participants who haven not submitted one. > > - Registration fee with accommodation: 230€/person > - Registration fee without accommodation: 60€/person > Students enrolled in EU Universities, EU Research Centres or EU Companies have the possibility of getting travel support. > > Application deadline: 20 May 2016 > > For more information see document attached to this e-mail or visit www.eurathlon.eu > > Best regards > -- Instituto de Sistemas e Robotica, Instituto Superior Tecnico - Torre Norte Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal Tel.: +351-218418274 http://www.isr.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~pal In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice ... but in practice, there is! -------------- próxima parte ---------- Saltou-se o conteúdo do tipo multipart/mixed