Call for Participation: The Future of Rescue Simulation workshop 29 Feb - March 4, 2016

[Francesco Amigoni]

(Apologies for cross-postings.)

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Call for Participation

The Workshop on the Future of Rescue Simulation

29 Feb - March 4, 2016
Snellius Venue, Lorentz Center
Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden, The Netherlands

https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/FutureOfRescue/

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Important Dates
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Pre-registration: December 1th, 2015
Participant selection: December 15th, 2015 (25 participants)
Registration: December 31th, 2015

Workshop Goal
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The goal of the workshop is to redefine the challenge of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation virtual robot competition, make the transition from the current Unreal based environment towards a ROS / Gazebo based environment and define the roadmap of the scientific challenge in the competition for the coming 5 years.

Participants
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The workshop is a combination of brainstorming and hacking; lectures and tutorials. The venue has a small lecture room, 7 offices and a common room. We actively promote involvement from all over the world, from participants involved in related initiatives, such as the virtual competition of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, the Japan Virtual Robotics Challenge and the real RoboCup Rescue League.

Pre-registration procedure
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The venue and workshop has a limit of 25 participants. Participants will be selected based on their technical and academic background, as indicated in the pre-registration form:

https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/FutureOfRescue/IntentWorkshop.txt.

Please email this form as attachment to francesco.amigoni at polimi.it

The selection of participants will be made on a good distribution of diversity and contribution potential.

Program
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Monday - Getting accustomed to USARSim / Gazebo / ROS
Tuesday - Modifying Gazebo with new sensor / actuator models
Wednesday - Creating a rescue world for Gazebo
Thursday - Setting up a try-out competition
Friday - Try to apply your code to real robots
 
A more detailed program is maintained at https://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/a.visser/activities/FutureOfRescue/

Travel support
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Depending on the contribution of the sponsors, partial travel support could be available for the participants. 

Workshop organizers
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Arnoud Visser, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Francesco Amigoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Masaru Shimizu, Chukyo University, Aichi, Japan


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Francesco Amigoni, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
I-20133 Milano (MI), Italy

Voice: +39 02 2399-3475
Fax: +39 02 2399-3411
Email: francesco.amigoni at polimi.it
Web: http://www.deib.polimi.it/people/amigoni
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