Organizers:  Daniel M. Lofaro, Rosy Luo, Patrick MacAlpine, and Olivier Ly

http://lofarolabs.com/events/robocup/ws18/

Objectives

            Humanoid soccer has seen impressive progress in recent years. Bipedal standard or open platforms (Nao, Robotis-OP2, NimbRo-OP, Thormang) make soccer robots accessible to many research groups, advanced 3D simulation games make the investigation of team play with complex heterogeneous humanoid robots possible, and soccer games for larger robots are a step towards playing with humans.

The ultimate goal of this initiative is to develop a team of humanoid soccer players – i.e. robots with human-like awareness of the game situation, efficient and safe dynamic motion skills, and cooperation abilities. This poses a unique set of challenges to robotics, AI, and other fields.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from the RoboCup and FIRA communities, as well as other researchers interested in the subject. The full-day program will consist of invited talks, contributed presentations, and a panel discussion.

Since 2006, every year Humanoid Soccer Workshops have been held at the Humanoids conference. Special issues based on workshop contributions appeared in the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics and in the RAS Journal.

All contributed presentations are subject to a peer review process. 

We solicit submissions of original, previously unpublished research papers, optionally accompanied by a video. Papers should be between 2 and 6 pages in length, formatted according to IEEE conference layout (two-column). Accepted papers and videos will be available online.

Topics of interest

• Design of humanoid robots
• Bipedal locomotion
• Dynamic full-body motions
• Control architectures
• Motion and action planning
• Perception of the game situation
• Team coordination
• Skill and strategy learning
• 3D simulation of humanoid robots
• Humanoid 3D Printing
• Humanoid Mechanism Design
• Using neural networks in RoboCup