[robocup-rescue-s] Robocup 2007: Infrastructure Competition Challenge Award

Dear all,

Please see below for the details of the Robocup Rescue Simulation 2007
World Championships Challenge Award sponsored by the ALADDIN project
(www.aladdinproject.org).

Only Infrastructure Competition participants are eligible for these.

See http://www.robocuprescue.org/robocup2007/register.html for more details.

Regards,

Gopal

Challenge Award - WIN £500 (~$1000) Prize Money !
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(open to all entrants of the Infrastructure competition)

This year we are proposing the introduction of the Challenge Award that
aims to attract new developments to the simulator and for the whole
benefit of the community. Qualifying submissions to the Infrastructure
Competition will have to specifically consider developing tools that
extend the functionality of the current simulator in significant ways in
such a way to make the simulator more realistic and more useful to real
disaster managers. Submissions will also have to be well documented to
allow code reuse.

The following are only guidelines as to what should be developed and any
other significant addition to the simulator will be on an equal par:

- A converter that allows to easily import maps from online mapping
systems such as GoogleEarth/Live.com/Ordance Survey to the RoboCup
Rescue simulator. The converter should generate map data on which it
will be possible to run any simulation. It will be an added value if 3D
building data is also included.
- A plugin that generates a KML file online such that the the agents'
behaviour can be displayed and periodically updated (also online) with
such tools as GoogleEarth. This plugin would also generate:
   a.) Locations of all agents with status information in the name (So
you can see the status of any specific agent with a mouse-over)
   b.) Map overlays for fire, blockage and collapses (so you can see
e.g. which areas are under fire)

- Additional simulators e.g. Flood simulator, crowd simulator etc...

- Adapting RobocupRescue simulation to the USARsim simulator. This would
involve mapping the behaviour of agents in 2d world to a 3d world. See
the wiki for more details on the USARsim competition to get latest updates.

The winner of the Challenge Award will be decided by majority vote by
the TC/OC which will determine the significance of the contribution. The
winner will take a £500 prize generously offered by the ALADDIN project!

The challenge award is sponsored by the ALADDIN project - see
www.aladdinproject.org

-- 
Dr. Sarvapali Ramchurn
Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group    t: +44 (0) 23 8059 3270
Electronics and Computer Science          f: +44 (0) 23 8059 2865
University of Southampton                 e: sdr@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~sdr
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