1. Brief report of the MIROSOT'96

The tournament started after the opening ceremony, keynote talk and the demonstration game between Newton Lab team (USA) and MIRO team (Intelligent Control Lab, KAIST) for the media people, where Newton Lab team won MIRO team by 12:3. During the first and second days, 11 games were carried out as the preliminary games. During the next two days, the final 8 and then 4, and the last game were carried out together with the S-MIROSOT (Single robot competition) among the teams which were eliminated during the preliminary games. The Hanminjok Cup was awarded to the Newton Lab team which defeated the Soty team (Intelligent Control Lab, KAIST) by 20:0 in the final game. The first place winner of the S-MIROSOT was T-Switzerland team which defeated the CMU team (USA) by 5:4 in the final game. All the games were broadcasted twice every four days considering time difference via internet worldwide. The games were covered by M-TV Asia in Singapore and broadcasted in the Asia countries. CNN also broadcasted the news on MIROSOT as the first micro-robot WorldCup.




2. Videotape of the games and the proceedings are available

All the games were recorded by the local professional production for distribution. If you are interested in getting the videotape and the MIROSOT proceedings, please contact the MIROSOT Secretariat at mirosot@vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr.



3. Special Issue

Selected 8 papers from the winning teams will be published in the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier Science Publishers, as a special issue early next year.



4. MIROSOT'97 Information

MIROSOT'97 will be held in Seoul Olympic Student Gymnasium on May 31 - June 4, 1997 (tentative). We will have two categories: one-to-one robot competition (S-MIROSOT) for RobotCup and three robots competition for HanminjokCup. The rules will be slightly updated from the MIROSOT'96 rules and posted on the website: www.mirosot.org. If you would like to participate in MIROSOT'97 with your own robot team, please let us know via email to johkim@vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr by December 15, 1996. This preliminary information will be very helpful in preparing MIROSOT'97. The final entry deadline will be March 1, 1997. As a future plan, the number of robot players and the size of the playground will be increased considering the state of the art of the technology and the number of participants.



5. FIMA (Federation of International MIROSOT Association)

Organizing committee meeting together with one member from each participating team was held in the evening on November 11, 1996 to discuss MIROSOT'97 and FIMA. General consensus was for the formation of an international steering committee, keeping it as informal as we can, and keeping it very loosely for the moment. A more formal process should follow as national identities become more complete. The steering committee should consist of members of the MIROSOT'96 organizing committee and one member from each MIROSOT'96 participating team.



6. Results of the games

A. November 9, 1996 (Preliminary games)
(1). Cendori(ME,KAIST) vs Lami(Switzerland)
3 : 1
(2). Mr. Gon(EE,KAIST) vs Alpha United 1(Singapore)
2 : 0
(3). Hi-Chip(EE,KAIST) vs Rogi(Spain)
3 : 1
(4). Canada IJT vs UC Riverside and USC(USA)
gave up
(5). Mr. Gon IJT(Japan) vs Alpha United 2(Singapore)
gave up
(6). POSTECH(Korea) vs Soty(EE,KAIST)
gave up
(7). Davis Soccer Robot(UC Davis) vs Mecharo(ME,KAIST)
gave up

B. November 10, 1996 (Semi-quarter-final)
(1). (EE,KAIST) vs Soty(EE,KAIST)
1 : 2
(2). Mirage(EE,KASIT) vs Mr. Gon IJT(Japan)
1 : 4
(3). Austraila IJT vs Cendori(ME,KAIST)
1 : 4
(4). Best(EE,KAIST) vs Mecharo(ME,KAIST)
1 : 2
(5). CM United(CMU) vs Miro(EE,KAIST)
3 : 7
(6). Newton Lab(USA) vs Mr. Gon(EE,KAIST)
13 : 0
(7). CK2(Solvit,Korea) vs Hi-Chip(EE,KAIST)
0 : 3
(8). Canada IJT vs Kinggo(SeongKyunKwan Univ.)
1 : 3


C. November 11, 1996 (Quarter-final)
(1). Soty(EE,KAIST) vs Cendori(ME,KAIST)
2 : 1
(2). Mr. Gon IJT(Japan) vs Mecharo(ME,KAIST)
4 : 4
pk 2 : 1
total 6 : 5
(3). Miro(EE,KAIST) vs Hi-Chip(EE,KAIST)
8 : 0
(4). Newton Lab(USA) vs Kinggo(SeongKyunKwan Univ.)
15 : 1

D. November 12, 1996 (Semi-final and Final)
a. Semi-final
(1). Soty(EE,KAIST) vs Mr. Gon IJT(Japan)
3 : 1
(2). Newton Lab(USA) vs Miro(EE,KAIST)
19 : 0
b. Determine 3-4
Mr. Gon IJT(Japan) vs Miro(EE,KAIST)
4 : 2
c. Final
Newton Lab(USA) vs Soty(EE,KAIST)
20 : 0

E. S-MIROSOT
a. Semi-final
(1) Rogi(Spain) vs CM United(CMU)
2 : 4
(2) Lami(Switzerland) vs Davis Soccer Robot(UC Davis)
5 : 2
b. Final
Lami(Swizterland) vs CM United(CMU)
5 : 4

November 9-12, 1996, KAIST, Taejon, Korea
Organized by KAIST
Sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Supported by LG Semicon Co., Ltd.
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Publisher : Jong-Hwan Kim
Editor : Bok-Kyung Kim
MIROSOT'96 Secretariat
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, KAIST
373-1 Kusong-dong, Yusong-gu, Taejon 305-701, Korea
Tel: +82-42-869-8048
Fax: +82-42-869-8010
WWW: http://www.mirosot.org
Email: mirosot@vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr

[November 20, 1996]