1. Results of FIRA-ISI Robot Soccer Workshop and Championship

The FIRA-ISI Robot Soccer Workshop and Championship took place
at the American University in Dubai from March 17 to 21, 2001
in conjunction with the International NAISO Congress on
INFORMATION SCIENCE INNOVATIONS (General Chair: Milad Fares Sebaaly).

Eight (8) teams from Austria, Germany, Korea, Philippines, Poland,
Singapore, Taiwan, and U.K. participated.

[Rank]

1) Nemisis, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
2) NTU Formosa, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
3) Soty IV, KAIST, Korea
4) PALASO philippines, De La Salle University Manila,
Philippines

For further details,
please visit: http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/robolion/dubai/


2. MiroSot at the Singapore Robotic Games 2001

The MiroSot competitions are held annually at the Singapore
Robotic Games from May 15 to 17, 2001. Eight (8) teams
participated at the National level.

[Rank]

1) Team O, Singapore Polytechnic
2) Team N, Singapore Polytechnic
3) 334 Bangers, Nanyang Polytechnic
4) Kesoguhe United, Nanyang Polytechnic

For further details,
please visit: http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/robolion/
or contact Dr. Prahlad Vaddakkepat, the National University
of Singapore (E-mail: prahlad@nus.edu.sg).


3. Results of FIRA-KAIST Cup 2001

The FIRA-KAIST Cup 2001 was held in Seoul, Korea from May 16
to 17, 2001. Four teams from Australia, China, Germany,
and Korea participated.

[Rank]

1) Soty IV, KAIST, Korea
2) Mensa Dortmund, University of Dortmund, Germany
3) Griffith University, Australia
4) Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China


4. Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics:

Application to Mobile Robots at CEC 2001

Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics: Application to Mobile Robots
was held at CEC 2001, IEEE at Coex center in Seoul, Korea on
May 30, 2001.

Organizer: Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat and Dr. Sung Ho Kim

Below are presented papers.

[1] "Real-Time Path Planning in a Mobile Robot Environment
using Multi-Objective EP"
:Dr. Prahlad Vadakkepat
(National University of Singapore)
[2] "Modified Uni-Vector Field Navigation and Modular
Q-learning for Soccer Robots"
:Kui-Hong Park (KAIST)
[3] "Limit-cycle Navigation Method for Robot Soccer"
:Dong-Han Kim (KAIST)
[4] "Client-Server Based Robot Soccer Simulation Platform:
SimuroSot"
:Dr. Sung Ho Kim (MRDEC), demonstration


5. Results of FIRA European Cup 2001

The FIRA European Cup 2001 was held in Ostrava in Czech Republic
on June 5-8, 2001. For more details, please contact Dr. Bohumil
Horak (bohumil.horak@vsb.at).

[Rank]

1) Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic
2) University of Dortmund, Germany
3) Austro, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
4) IHRT, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
5) Technical University of Ostrava, Czech republic

The FIRA European Chapter was founded during this event.

President: Prof. Peter Kopacek (Vienna University of Technology)
Vice president: Prof. Bernd Reusch (University of Dortmund)
Prof. Bohumil Horak
(Technical University of Ostrava)
Secertary general: Prof. Man-Wook Han
(Vienna University of Technology)

The goal is to make FIRA Robot-soccer be popular and attractive
in Europe.



6. FIRA Robot World Cup and Robot World Congress 2001

The FIRA Robot World Cup 2001 will take place along with the FIRA
Robot World Congress 2001 in Beijing during August 1-5, 2001
(http://www.cis.pku.edu.cn/fira2001/).

Venue - The Science and Technology Museum, Beijing
Period - Robot World Congress: August 1-2, 2001
- Robot World Cup: August 3-5, 2001

Please submit papers in camera-ready form to Prof. Bingrong Hong via
e-mail (hong@hope.hit.edu.cn) until June 30, 2001. The style file
for papers can be downloaded in FIRA homepage (http://www.fira.net).

For application of official Chinese VISA or other things,
please contact Prof. Bingrong Hong, Harbin Institute of Technology.
(Tel: +86-451-641-3396 Fax: +86-451-622-1048
E-mail: hongbr@hope.hit.edu.cn)


7. Middle League (5 a side) MiroSot Competition

The 5 a side MiroSot competition will be introduced at the FIRA Cup
2001 in Beijing. The 5 a side MiroSot will be named as "the Middle
League MiroSot", and the 3 a side MiroSot will be known as
"the Small League MiroSot" from 2001 onwards.

The details of the Middle League MiroSot are available from the FIRA
homepage (http://www.fira.net).


8. SimuroSot - The Middle League (5 a side) Simulation platform

FIRA is glad to announce the Simulation version of the Middle League
MiroSot, the SimuroSot platform. We want you to join this category
with no hardware. Only thing that you need is a computer and your
enthusiasm. It consists of a server which has soccer game environments
(playground, robots, score board, etc.) and two client programs
which have a game strategy and let you know the result with 2D color
graphic. You can make your own strategy which has same structure with
the MiroSot and compete with other team's strategy. 5 vs. 5 and
11 vs. 11 SimuroSot competition will take place at the FIRA Cup 2001.
This platform and details are available at the FIRA homepage
(http://www.fira.net).

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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

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[June. 25, 2001]