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<span lang="PT" style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">O INESC TEC está a participar no projeto IMMC - Industrial Mobile Manipulator Challenge (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px"><a href="https://www.immchallenge.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext ContentPasted0" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px">https://www.immchallenge.eu/</a></span><span lang="PT" style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">),
que tem como objetivo organizar uma competição anual na área de Manipuladores Móveis. Neste ano, entre 23 e 26 de Outubro, estamos a organizar um desafio online durante o IROS 2022 (<a href="https://iros2022.org/program/competition/#toggle-id-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext ContentPasted0" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px">https://iros2022.org/program/competition/#toggle-id-7</a>)
chamado IMMC Virtual Micro Challenge.</span></p>
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<span lang="PT" style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Neste sentido solicitamos a vossa colaboração na divulgação do desafio entre estudantes e investigadores. A participação no desafio é gratuita, e as equipas só precisam de alguns conhecimentos básicos
de ROS e Gazebo. Mais informações no call for participants abaixo:</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">As a participant, you can expect four days of simulation-based robotics competition around mobile </span>manipulation. You will need to write software to control the behavior of the simulated mobile manipulator
provided by organizers. The virtual environment will generate orders for object handling. <span class="ContentPasted0" style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">So,
your program should be able to retrieve information about orders, the location of objects to be </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">handled,
and send commands to the robot for grasping and manipulation.</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">You might want to participate because you want to practice your robotics software skills, get some </span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">fun,
and have an opportunity to win a prize.</span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">💵</span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Some more details about the challenge:</span><br class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">👉</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">The stack for the virtual
environment consists of ROS framework and Gazebo simulator with ROS </span></span>Navigation stack and MoveIt for mobile manipulator control.</p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">👉</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Solutions developed by participants
must work with Ubuntu 20.04 and ROS Noetic. Any </span></span>third-party libraries should be explicitly included in the solution package as dependencies.</p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">👉</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Details about the competition
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evaluate solutions and score them. The expected date of the results is </span></span>October 30 with a possibility for an extension.</p>
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">👉</span></span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px"><span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Take a chance and submit your
registration HERE:<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><a href="https://lnkd.in/efV_SwRW" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext ContentPasted0" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px">https://lnkd.in/efV_SwRW</a><br class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Any individual or a team can participate in the virtual micro challenge. The challenge is virtual so that </span></span></span>all the related
events will be organized completely online. The organizers reserve the right to change the conditions of the contest before it begins.</p>
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<span lang="PT" style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Convidamos todos a seguir o Linkedin do projeto (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/immchallenge/posts/?feedView=all" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_moz-txt-link-freetext ContentPasted0" data-safelink="true" data-linkindex="3" style="margin:0px">https://www.linkedin.com/company/immchallenge/posts/?feedView=all</a>)<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span></p>
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