Call for Participation

            Robocup 2008 Humanoid Robot League 

   July 14-20, 2008 (Suzhou, China) http://www.robocup-cn.org/


The interested team must provide the following qualification material 
for evaluation to the technical committee of the humanoid robot league.

1. A video of a demonstration of sufficient skills of your team's
autonomous, soccer playing humanoid robots. 
No video means no qualification. 
Namely the following skill must be demonstrated in the video:
- localization of unknown ball position,
- walking ability towards the ball,
- robot positioning at the ball for kicking,
- kicking the ball towards the goal,
- ability of getting up autonomously from a fall.
Please make sure that the video is in a widely used, standard format and
can be displayed with a standard viewer easily!

2) A Team description paper which fully describes your humanoid robot
system. The paper must be concise and should not be longer than 6 pages.
Please use the LNCS format as your guideline. The LNCS format for 
proceedings can be downloaded from
http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SGWID=5-164-7-72376-0&teaserId=45515&CENTER_ID=73062
The LNCS format is available for LaTeX and Word.
Other formats will be rejected.

3) A one-page specifications page that includes the followings:
- Robot picture
- Robot name
- Number of degree of freedom
- Computing unit
- Walking speed
- Camera
- Sensors
- Other specs.


Deadline for submission: *** February 1, 2008 ***

Announcement of qualified teams: February 15, 2008

Remark:
- The technical details on how and where to submit all qualifying material
  will be announced later.


On behalf of the Technical Committe,
Pasan Kulvanit, Oskar von Stryk