The RoboCup Portuguese Committee has the aim to promote the RoboCup initiative in Portugal.
The committee specific responsibilities are:
- Manage qualification for RoboCup leagues when slots are limited. The
qualification will be based on the results from the corresponding
national competition but will also consider other criteria related to
the technical quality and number of participants
- Serve as a point of contact for local RoboCup events and RoboCup Opens
- Promote RoboCup within Portugal
- Maintain RoboCup standards for scientific research and education within Portugal and uphold the RoboCup mission of sharing advances through friendly competition
- Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in Portugal
Members of Portuguese National Committee
The following is the list of the current committee members. Please contact the responsible for your league or the chair for general questions concerning RoboCup in Portugal.
Chair:
Pedro Lima (RCF Trustee), Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
MSL:
Fernando Ribeiro (RCF Executive), Dep. de Electrónica Industrial, University of Minho
SSL:
Paulo Costa, Faculdade de Engenharia, University of Porto
4LL:
Luis Paulo Reis, Faculdade de Engenharia, University of Porto
Soccer and Rescue Simulation:
Nuno Lau, Dep. de Electrónica e Telecomunicações, University of Aveiro
Junior:
Luis Almeida (RCF Executive), Dep. de Electrónica e Telecomunicações, University of Aveiro
Carlos Cardeira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon
Eduardo Pinto, Escola Profissional Gustavo Eiffel - Amadora (High School)
Ludgero Leote, Escola Secundária Emídio Navarro - Almada (High School)
What is RoboCup?
RoboCup is an international research and education initiative, attempting to foster Artificial Intelligence and Robotics research by providing a standard problem where a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined, as well as being used for integrated project-oriented education.
For this purpose, RoboCup chose to use the soccer game as a primary domain, and organizes every year The Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences. Since 2000, the competitions include Search and Rescue robots as well.
In order for a robot team to actually perform a soccer game, various technologies must be incorporated, including: autonomous agents design principles, multi-agent collaboration, real-time planning and control, Robotics, and sensor-fusion.
The RoboCup Federation proposed the ultimate goal of the RoboCup Initiative to be stated as follows: "By 2050, a team of fully autonomous humanoid robot soccer players shall win a soccer game, complying with the official FIFA rules, against the winner of the most recent World Cup of Human Soccer."
Robotics and RoboCup in Portugal
Portugal is one one the most represented countries in RoboCup, and has a tradition of organizing Robotics competitions that dates back to 1996, including the organization of RoboCup2004. Also, a considerable number of Portuguese Research Institutions and Universities have groups working in Robotics.
Portuguese Teams list.
Festival Nacional de Robótica / Portuguese Robotics Open (a RoboCup recognized local event) web page, browsing through the links therein.
RoboCup Organization
Links to the current structure of the RoboCup Federation, as well as to other RoboCup National Committees, can be found at http://www.robocup.org/overview/24.html.
