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 1998 FIRA Robot World Cup France was held in Paris along with 1998 FIFA World Cup France.
Genearl Chair was Dr. Dominique Duhaut.
Period
June 29 – July 3, 1998
June 29-30, 1998: FIRA Workshop.
July 01-03, 1998: Competitions and benchmark problems.
Venues
La cite des Sciences et de I’Industrie, Paris, France
Competition Categories
Three categories of competitions was held: MiroSot, S-MiroSot, NaroSot and S-KheperaSot.
| Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Rumania, Singapore, Spain, U.K., U.S.A., and etc. |
MiroSot: 18 teams
S-MiroSot (Single MiroSot): 16 teams
NaroSot: 2 teams
S-KheperaSot: 2 teams |
June 30: Reception (Rule Meeting, Discussion and Team Grouping)
July 1: Opening Ceremony
July 3: FIRA MiroSot final game
Closing ceremony (prize distribution)
Banquet
The FIRA American, South American, European and Asia-Pacific Regional Championships was held prior to the same. |
| Schedules of FIRA Regional Championships |
• FIRA American Cup: May 9-14, 1998, in conjunction with the World Automation Congress (WAC’98), Anchorage, Alaska
Contact: waccup@eece.unm.edu, http://ace.unm.edu/wac98/waccup
• FIRA South American Cup: May 20-21, 1998, CTI, Campinas, Brazil
Contact: tavares@trellis.ia.cti.br.
• FIRA European Cup: April 25-26, 1998, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Contact: Kopacek@ihrt1.ihrt.tuwien.ac.at.
• FIRA Asia-Pacific Cup: June 6-8, 1998, KAIST, Korea
Contact: mirosot@vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr |
| The results of FIRA Regional Championships’98 |
[FIRA European Championship]
1. Steam Engines: Switzerland
2. AUSTRO: Austria
3. ROGI II: Spain
[FIRA North America Championship]
1. MIRO II: KAIST, Korea
2. Auusie Bandicooots: Australia
3. SMART: UNM, U.S.A.
[FIRA South American Championship]
1. BRAVO: CTI, Campinas
2. UNESP: Sao Paulo
3. SAMBA: UFMG, Belo Horezonte
[Asia Pacific Championship] |
A series of benchmark problems was considered for the FIRA Robot World Cup France'98 event, suggested by Peppluis Rosa and formulated by Jeffery Johnson. The benchmark problems included:
1. Fundamental Motion of Robot Football, to gauge how well robots move from one position to another,
2. Ball Striking Task, to move the robot from a position to strike a stationary ball,
3. Ball-passing Task, to strike a stationary ball and to pass it to another robot,
4. Moving Ball-striking Task, to strike a moving ball and to make it to move through a defined point,
5. Passing a Moving Ball, to strike a moving ball and to pass it to another and,
6. Dribbling the Ball Through Obstacles, to push the ball through a series of obstacles.
The benchmark problems gave an arena for researchers to implement the state of the art developments in related areas of technology and to test them on a competitive platform. |
| Workshop and Paper Submission |
All participants were requested to submit and present papers on their robots and schemes followed. Scientists and technologists involved in related areas are also encouraged to submit technical papers for the associated workshop on May 29th and 30th. No restrictions on the qualifications of the participants was imposed.
Important Deadlines:
Early registration: 20th January 1998.
Extended abstract: 1st March 1998.
Intimation of acceptance: 31st March 1998.
Camera-ready manuscript: 15th May, 1998. |
[MiroSot]
1. The Keys, (Human Interface Inc., Korea)
2. Guarana, (Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
3. Eliza (Korea Univ., Korea) |
[S-MiroSot]
1. The Keys, (Human Interface Inc., Korea)
2. SOTY III (KAIST, Korea)
3. Ball Breaker (POSTECH, Korea)
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[NaroSot]
1. MIRO III (KAIST, Korea)
2. SOTY III (KAIST, Korea) |
[S-KheperaSot]
1. STATIC (Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark)
2. WAYNE (Wayne State Univ., U.S.A.) |
| [FIRA Assembly] |
| President: |
Z.Bien |
| Vice Presidents: |
G.A.Bekey, J.L.Casti, L.Fogel, P. Kopacek,
A.C.Sanderson, T.J.Tarn |
| Regional Presidents: |
A.Elfes, T. Fukuda, S. Hsia, M. Jamshidi,
C.S.G. Lee |
| General Secretary: |
J.-H. Kim | | |
| [Excutive Committee] |
| Executive President: |
J.-H.Kim |
| Executive Vice Presidents: |
R.Filho, J. Ll de la Rosa, M.A.Soderstrand,
R.Stonier |
| Secretary: |
V.Prahlad |
| Treasurer: |
S.Jung |
| Members: |
J. Chen, M.J. Chung, P. Dario, D. Duhaut,
F.C. A. Groen, J. Johnson, B.K. Kim,
K.R. Kozlowski, J.-J. Lee, J.-S. Lee,
S.H. Lee, R. Murphy, J.-H. Oh, S. Payandeh,
R. Sargent, M. Sugisaka, B.C. Toledo,
A.Topalov, J. Wang, X. Yao | | |
| [Organizing Committee] |
| Hon. General Chair: |
M. Garnier |
| General Chair: |
D. Duhaut |
| General Vice-chair: |
A. Drogoul |
| Organizing Co-chairs: |
J.-H. Kim, J. Ll. de la Rosa, J. Johnson |
| Competition Co-chairs: |
J.-H. Oh, K.R. Kozlowski, H. H. Lund |
| Workshop Co-chairs: |
R. Stonier, M.-J. Chung |
| Benchmark Co-chairs: |
B.-K. Kim, P. Robinson |
| Award Co-chairs: |
J.-S. Lee, M. Sugisaka |
| Publicity Co-chairs: |
J.-J. Lee, R. Sargent, C. H. Messom,
M.-C. Thomas |
| Local Arrangement: |
S. Rocher, J.-C. Travers |
| Secretariat: |
V. Prahlad, S. Regnier |
| Technical Associates: |
J.-Y. Jeon, C.-H. Lee, M.A.A. Oliveira,
A. Oller | | |
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