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Urban
Search and Rescue
Robot Competitions
Qualification
Process
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Qualification
Process for the World Championship Competition:
All
RoboCupRescue Robot League teams should use nearby regional open competitions
to:
1. practice your deployment strategies,
2. familiarize yourselves with the arenas and rules, and
3. demonstrate your capabilities to the Technical Committee.
Teams
that demonstrate competent and reliable systems at the regional open
competition, along with a descriptive TDP, will always be favored for
inclusion in the World Championships.
For
example. this year's RoboCupRescue Robot League regional open competitions
include:
- Japan Open
- German Open
- Iran Open
- Dutch Open
...
and we are actively trying (but need help from locals) to establish
regional open competitions in other areas too.
Unfortunately,
due to the close scheduling of the regional opens and the World Championship
each year, the qualification process can't be completely sequential.
So the Technical Committee qualifies an initial set of teams for the
World Championship based on your team's submitted TDP, and experience
in previous regional opens. The Technical Committee usually keeps a
few slots open to include a final few capable teams which emerge from
the regional open competitions in the current year as well. When there
is no regional open competition in the region of the World Championship,
the technical committee typically qualifies proportionally more teams
from the local region, while encouraging them to try to participate
in other regional open competitions as well. So the best route to participate
in a World Championship is through a regional open competition, and
we encourage all new teams to start there. You'll find the lessons are
well worth it.
Generally
each year the Technical Committee looks at the following criteria to
qualify teams for the World Championship:
1.
Your TDP describes improvements to your robot based on lessons learned
from successfully competing in a semi-final round in a previous World
Championship, or
2.
Your TDP describes improvements to your robot based on lessons learned
from winning a previous regional open or best-in-class competition,
or
3.
Your TDP describes a particularly interesting or innovative approach
that the Technical Committee considers likely to perform well at the
competition even without previous experience at a regional open. This
is especially possible if you can demonstrate your capabilities convincingly
within representative environments through:
a)
video of the robot performing any or all of the requisite capabilities:
- advanced mobility
(traversing random stepfields or confined space cubes)
- navigation
(wall following, centering between obstacles or constrictions)
- localization
and mapping (2D/3D maps, SLAM on non-flat-flooring i.e. pitch/roll
ramps, low-profile stepfields)
- directed perception
(visual acuity for near/far/dark/light, sensor probing into voids,
sometimes with reaching)
- victim identification
(fusion of the various sensory signals to improve confidence and
reduce errors)
- autonomy
(assistive features, bounded intervals, or fully autonomous performance
of any or all of the above)
- effective
operator interfaces
b)
performing any or all of the above in an upcoming regional open competition
Some of the qualifications may be granted by the Technical Committee
to include particular countries, technologies that the league should
be investigating, or to support other league outreach efforts.
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