[socios-spr] Call for Participation: ERL Consumer Tournament in Lisbon

[Pedro U Lima]

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                             Call for Participation

                   European Robotics League (ERL)
                        Consumer Service Robots

	Local Tournament at ISRoboNet  Home Test Bed

                             05.02 - 08.02.2019
Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa
                                 Lisbon, Portugal

   Web: https://sites.google.com/site/erllisbon2019/
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The European Robotics League - Consumer Service Robots (ERL Consumer) is
an innovative concept for robot competitions that currently focuses on tasks executed
by domestic service robots in a real home environment.

The ERL started in 2016 and had two successful Seasons (2016/17 and 2017/18).
The new ERL framework for 2018-21 is composed of multiple Local or Major
Tournaments (planned for the 2018/19 and 2020/21 Seasons), held in different
research labs across Europe, with certified test beds, or as part of major events
such as top Robotics conferences, and two Smart City Tournaments in 2019
(Milton Keynes, UK) and 2021 (city TBA). 

During the year-long Tournament Seasons, teams participate in a minimum of two
tournaments per year and get scores based on their performances. Scores of the
best two participations in tournaments for each team are added and teams are
ranked based on their cumulative score. Prizes for the top teams are awarded
during the next year’s European Robotics Forum (ERF), e.g., ERF2019 for the
2018/19 Season.

Participating teams in the 2018/19 Season are candidates to take part in the
Major ERL Smart City tournament in Milton Keynes, UK, to be held in the Fall 2019.

For more information, please visit https://eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/ .

As part of the 2018/19 Season, we are pleased to announce a Local Tournament
of the ERL Consumer challenge, to be held between 05-08 February 2019
at the ISRoboNet  Home Test Bed of the Institute for Systems and Robotics,
Instituto Superior Técnico, U. Lisboa, Portugal


Important dates:
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14 Jan 2019 - Deadline for application
18 Jan 2019 - Qualification announcement
05 Feb 2019 - Competition begins
08 Feb 2019 - Competition ends


Rules:
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The rules of the competition can be downloaded from:
https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/upload/documents-2018/ERL_Consumer.pdf

For the Local ERL Consumer Tournaments, the following task benchmarks (TBMs) will be
(tentatively) considered:

       • TBM1: Getting to Know My Home
       • TBM2: Welcoming Visitors
       • TBM3: Catering for Granny Annie's Comfort
       • TBM4: Visit My Home
       • FBM1: Object Perception
       • FBM2: Navigation

Application:
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Applicant teams must send an email to erl.service  robotics-league.eu expressing their
intention to participate in the Tournament and providing the following information about
the team:

     - Team name
     - Team Leader name
     - Total number of team members (including the team leader)
     - Affiliation
     - Contact information (e-mail and phone of team leader)
     - Website
     - Qualification material (see below).

Qualification Material - applicants are required to submit (template can be downloaded from
https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_league/upload/documents-2016/team-description-paper.zip):

     - Team Description Paper (TDP) (max. 4 pages, LNCS [3]) explaining the team’s
approach to the technical challenges - including:
      i) the list of TBMs the team intends to participate in
      ii) a brief description of the robot system software and hardware architectures
      iii) the relation with the team research - including a list of relevant publications
    - Video showing evidence of some performance in the tasks and/or functionalities selected by the team

Selection Criteria:
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Teams will be selected for participation based on
  - Number of available slots for team participation in the tournament (4 / four, in this case);
   -Team research quality, as measured from the TDP and list of relevant publications;

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