1. MiroSot American and European Tours

FIRA MiroSot American and European tours were conducted by Prof. Jong-Hwan Kim with two teams from KAIST in August and September respectively. The same was a grand success.

At Sacramento the ABC TV aired a news item on demonstrations. In Campinas and Rio (Brazil) roughly 30 media persons were present. MiroSot was aired as a news item by several TV companies there. Professor Kim was in a TV studio for 15 minutes for a live talk show in Campinas. In Mexico, a TV company aired the robot soccer demonstration game for one hour live. Also Televisa Sky TV aired a news item all around south America. In Vancouver, Canada, CTV (Canadian National TV) covered MiroSot games and broadcast the same. Recently CNN aired a news item on MiroSot American tour.

At Girona 3 TVs aired news items on the demos and the newspapers gave a good coverage on our activities. In Vienna we had a press conference along with the President of the Technical University of Vienna, wherein many media persons participated. The demons there, were broadcast and published as a news item by National TV companies and newspapers. In Pisa, there were two excellent professional photographers who covered our games throughout and there was a press conference with good response from the media. In Bremen, a TV company broadcast the games and the Yugosovian International TV covered the game along with interviews. It will be aired as a one hour special program on Robotics through out Europe after a month's time. In London, The Times published an article on our activities and on 19th we were in BBC studios for the famous Blue Peter's program. The same might have aired on September 19th evening by BBC.

These tours definitely help us to get a very good representation from America and Europe for the FIRA Robot World Cup98 in Paris.



2. FIRA Robot World Cup Paris'98

June 29 and 30: For setting up, training and workshop.
July 1, 2 and 3: Competitions for NaroSot, MiroSot & S-MiroSot.

In MiroSot, we will have two categories, one is the same as that of MiroSot'97 (Law 3: The host computer can send any information during the game, autonomously.) and the other one is that the host computer can send the strategies and the position information only as was designed in 1996. The latter will give more research topics for developing autonomous robots. The detailed information will be posted in the firanet soon.



3. FIRA Regional Championships

IRA American Cup: 1998 May 09-14 in conjunction with WAC
at Alaska.
http://ace.unm.edu/wac98
http://ace.unm.edu/wac98/waccup

Contact: waccup@eece.unm.edu,
fira@fira.net

FIRA South American Cup: Mid May, 1998, Brazil

Contact: tavares@trellis.ia.cti.br,
fira@fira.net

FIRA Asia-Pacific Cup: 1998 April 29 - May 2 at KAIST,
Taejon, Korea.

Contact: johkim@vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr,
fira@fira.net

FIRA European Cup: 1998 April 25-26, at Technical University of
Vienna, Austria.

Contact: Kopacek@ihrt1.ihrt.tuwien.ac.at,
fira@fira.net




4. MiroSot Korean National Championship: October 2-3, 1997

MiroSot Korean National Championship will be held on October 2nd and 3rd in Taejon, hosted by Taejon City Mayor Mr. Sungi Hong and organizied by KAIST.



5. FIRA Brazil, Korea, U.K. and FIRA European Union

FIRA Brazil is formed recently. Please contact Dr. Roberto F. Tavares for further details.

FIRA Korea is formed recently. Please contact Professor Ju-Jang Lee for further details.

FIRA United Kingdom is formed recently. Please contact Professor Jeffrey Johnson for further details.

FIRA European Union is being formed. For further details please contact
Professor P. Kopacek: Kopacek@ihrt1.ihrt.tuwien.ac.at
Professor P. Rosa : peplluis@songoku.udg.es, peplluis@ei.udg.es
Professor J. Johnson: J.H.Johnson@open.ac.uk
Professor P. Dario : dario@arts.sssup.it
Professor D. Duhaut : ddu@robot.uvsq.fr



6. FIRA Newsletter Associate Editors

We are happy to have the following Associate Editors for the FIRA
Newsletter. We wish to have few more for the same.

Amitabha Mukerjee : amit@iitk.ernet.in
Andon Topalov : topalov@tu-plovdiv.bg
Castillo Toledo : toledo@gdl.cinvestav.mx
Chao Cheng : chao@cs.sfu.ca
Holger Haas : haas@atb-bremen.de
Jeffrey Johnson : J.H.Johnson@open.ac.uk
Jing Wang : jing@drs.UCR.edu
K.Kozlowski : kk@ar-kari.put.poznan.pl
Luca Odetti : luco@shamash.sssup.it
Victor Romano : romano@serv.com.ufrj.br

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FEDERATION OF INTERNATIONAL ROBOT-SOCCER ASSOCIATION
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Publisher: Zeungnam Bien Editor-in-Chief: Jong-Hwan Kim
(President, FIRA) (General Secretary, FIRA)
Associate Editor: Prahlad Vadakkepat
(Secretary, FIRA Executive Committee)

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

Email: fira@fira.net, mirosot@vivaldi.kaist.ac.kr
WWW: http://www.mirosot.org/, http://www.fira.net/


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