1. 2002 FIRA Cup is selected as a cultural event

2002 FIRA Robot World cup has been officially selected as one
of the cultural events by the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The 2002 FIRA
Cup is the one and only scientific event among the different
cultural events in Korea at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.


2. 2002 FIRA Robot World Cup

2.1 Outline

2002 FIRA Cup Korea will take place in FIFA World Cup cities
from May 23 to 29, 2002, one week before the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
On the sidelines of the 2002 FIRA Cup Korea, the FIRA Robot World
Congress and the Robot Olympiad (http://www.IROC.org) will also
take place.

To organize the 2002 FIRA Cup in a grand way, the event schedules
are being planned carefully. If successful to receive support from
the FIFA World Cup cities, the FIRA preliminary competitions will
be held in Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, and Jeju and
final competitions will take place in Seoul.


[Tentative Schedule] May 23-29, 2002

May 23: Opening Ceremony
May 24-25: Preliminary Competitions
May 25-27: Robot World Congress
May 27-29: Final Competitions and Closing Ceremony

[Venues]

: Preliminary Competitions
- Busan, Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, and Jeju
: Robot World Congress and Final Competitions
- Seoul


* Organizing Chair:
Eui-Jin Jun, Chairman, the Korea Science Foundation


2.2 To Participate in FIRA Robot World Cup

FIRA sincerely looks forward to the participation of the best
teams across the world at the 2002 FIRA Cup Korea. There are
competition categories: MiroSot, NaroSot, RoboSot, HuroSot,
KheperaSot, SimuroSot, and QuadroSot. For details of the FIRA
categories and competition rules, please visit the FIRA web
site (http://www.fira.net/).

Please register or recommend teams to represent your institution/
organization/nation at this world event. Registration Form is
provided below (Item No. 5).


3. Competition Categories

3.1 Introduction of HuroSot

The HuroSot is a competition with real biped robots. We are now
preparing the competition rules for the HuroSot category with
teams from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Yujin Robotics Co.
(Korea), the University of New Hampshire, Yobotics Inc. (USA),
Hungary, etc. If you would like to join in the HuroSot competition
rule formulation, please E-mail to . A draft of the
rules is available provided by Prof. Jacky Baltes and Thomas Braunl.
Your HuroSot technology will be advertised worldwide through this
event, as we expect good media coverage during the event.


* Co-Chairs of HuroSot 2002
Prof. Thomas Braunl, Univ. of Western Australia
Prof. Jacky Baltes, Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand


3.2 Updated Categories: SimuroSot & Middle League MiroSot

a) SimuroSot

>From the 2001 FIRA Cup China, SimuroSot was included in FIRA
Cup categories. SimuroSot 2002 will be 11-a-side game. It
consists of a server which has the soccer game environments
(playground, robots, score board, etc.) and two client programs with
the game strategies. A 2D color graphic screen displays the match.
Teams can make their own strategies and compete with each other.
Now researchers from Australia, China, and Korea are providing the
3D simulation platform for 11 vs. 11 game. The updated version of
the Simulation platform will be available soon at the FIRA web site
. Currently 2D simulation platform for 11 vs.
11 developed by Prof. Bingrong Hong, China, is available at the
FIRAnet , which is basically the same as the 3D software
platform under development. You may please use it tentatively for
building your strategies for SimuroSot 2002.


* Chair of SimuroSot 2002
Prof. Jun Jo, Griffith Univ., Australia

b) Middle League MiroSot

Middle League MiroSot (5-a-side MiroSot) was included in FIRA
Cup categories at the 2001 FIRA Cup China. From 2002, the
Middle League MiroSot (5-a-side MiroSot) will be a major event.

Over the years, the Small League MiroSot (3-a-side MiroSot) has
become stabilized. In order to pace along with the developments
in technology and to cater a platform to provide more challenging
situations, it was required to introduce the Middle League MiroSot
(5-a-side MiroSot) category. This category will lead researchers
to develop more interesting cooperative and competitive strategies.

Middle League MiroSot game rule is available at the FIRAnet.
The rule contains the layout of the 5-a-side MiroSot playground.

The playground can be covered by a CCD camera with 6mm focal length
and F number 1.4 (F 1.4) around 2m height without distortion.


4. 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress

2002 FIRA Robot World Congress will take place in May 25-27, 2002
along with the FIRA Cup. It will provide a platform for presenting
the technical aspects of robotics in general. The Congress will
contribute the development of robotics in the areas of
entertainment/education robots, personal robots, service robots,
field robots, humanoid robots, etc.

Scientists and technologists involved in related areas are encouraged
to submit technical papers for the 2002 FIRA Robot World Congress.
Also, all participants are recommended to present technical papers
at the FIRA Congress. No restrictions on the qualifications of the
participants will be imposed.


Topics of interest to this Congress include, but not limited to:

- Adaptive Systems
- Artificial Life
- Collective Behavior Emergence
- Distributed Sensing & Sensor Fusion
- Entertainment/Education robot
- Environment Modeling
- Evolutionary Approach to Autonomous Agents/Robots
- Field Robot
- Human Robot
- Human Robot Interface
- Hybrid Learning Systems
- Intelligent Control
- Machine Vision for Robotic Intelligence
- Mechatronics
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Multiple Robotic Systems
- Navigation Systems
- Personal Robot
- Robot Soccer Systems
- Sensors and Controls for AI
- Service Robot

- HuroSot 2002
- KheperaSot 2002
- MiroSot 2002
- NaroSot 2002
- QuadroSot 2002
- RoboSot 2002
- SimuroSot 2002


[ Important Dates ]

- Abstract Due: February 15, 2002
- Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2002
- Camera-ready Manuscript: April 15, 2002


* General Chair
Prof. Hyung Suck Cho, KAIST, President of ICASE, Korea
(hscho@lca.kaist.ac.kr)

* Program Chair
Prof. Ju-Jang Lee, KAIST, Korea
(jjlee@ee.kaist.ac.kr)



5. Registration Form

After filling up the following information to register 2002 FIRA
Robot World Cup Korea, please send this to fira@fira.net.

[1] Team Name: _____________________________

[2] Affiliation: _____________________________

[3] City/State/Zip/Country: ________________________________

________________________________

[4] Tel: ________________________ Fax: ________________________

[5] E-mail: _______________________________________

(Please enter a valid e-mail address)

[6] Categories: Choose Number(s) ( )

1) MiroSot
2) NaroSot
3) RoboSot
4) HuroSot
5) KheperaSot
6) SimuroSot
7) QuadroSot

[7] Team Coordinator

First Name ____________________ Last Name ____________________

[8] Team Members

1) First Name ____________________ Last Name ____________________
2) First Name ____________________ Last Name ____________________
3) First Name ____________________ Last Name ____________________
4) First Name ____________________ Last Name ____________________

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THE FEDERATION OF INTERNATIONAL ROBOT-SOCCER ASSOCIATION
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Editor-in-chief: Jong-Hwan Kim

Editors: Prahlad Vadakkepat, Han Pang Huang, Igor Verner,
Elmer Dadios, Jun Jo, Norbert Jesse, Paul Robinson,
Hong Bingrong, Man-Wook Han, Amitabha Mukerjee,
Roberto Tavares, Chao Cheng, Chris H. Messom,
Krzysztof R.Kozlowski, J.L. de la Rosa I Esteva

Editorial Staff: Jin-Ah Lee, Hye-Young Park,
Mi-Hong Sim, and Min-Jeong Kim

FIRA Head-Quarters
Undergraduate Building 2, KAIST,
373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu,
Taejon 305-701, Korea.
Tel: +82-42-869-3448, 8871~9
Fax: +82-42-869-8870
E-mail: fira@fira.net
http://www.fira.net * http://www.iroc.org

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[September. 19, 2001]