ROBOCUP JUNIOR RESCUE Robocup Junior Rescue July 11, 2014 WELCOME! NEWSLETTER #1 OPEN TECHNICAL EVALUATION Welcome RoboCuppers! Attention! Your technical innovation will be evaluated prior to by RoboCup Junior Rescue Organizing Committee the start of the field competition. We will focus on it the first days starting on the setup day (July 20th) at Once again, it is an honor for us to share, released by the RCJ Rescue Technical the evening on the working area. with the best teams around the world, the Committee and have priority over any experience of the RoboCupJunior world cup translation. Do not forget to bring your robot, poster, and the engineering journal printed out. Be prepared to championship. This time we will meet in the If you have any question please contact them explain about your work! beautiful city of João Pessoa, Brazil. How through the International RCJ Community quickly the time passes since we had the Forum at http://www.rcjcommunity.org/ opportunity to see each other in our 2013 edition at Eindhoven, the Netherlands and Inspection for others this will be a great first experience. As stated in the RoboCupJunior Rescue 2014 The Organizing Committee have worked rules under the 2.4 Inspection section, all the hard in the contest to be a great source of teams have to comply with: knowledge and experience for each one of “2.4.5 All teams will need to email a you. Here you will have the opportunity to technical document containing the major list test the hard work carried out in recent of hardware and software components […]” RCJ 2014 Members months. Always remember the basics and “2.4.6 All teams have to submit their codes General Chair: Kate Sim (UK) ethics of RoboCup and share what you have LOC General Chair: Carmen Faria (Brazil) prior to the competition. The code is never learned during this journey, in addition to shared with other teams without the team’s Co‐Chairs: Gerard Elias (Australia) ensure that the competition is competitive, permission.” Co‐Chairs: Nicky Hughes (UK) fair and most importantly fun. “It is not LOC Co‐Chair: Teerasilapa Dumawipata (Thailand) whether you win or lose, but how much you Please proceed submitting the form at learn that counts.” http://mytech.zone/robocupjunior-inspection Organization Committee (OC) as soon as possible, but no later than July Andrique Amorim (Brazil), LOC CHAIR This year you will have the opportunity to be 18th. Remember to keep a copy of the Siam Chareonsiang (Thailand), LOC Co-Chair on the “Open Technical Evaluation”. submission confirmation. You can still work Karsten Nolte (Germany), CHAIR Participants are strongly encouraged to ask in your code after submiting it. Naomi Chikuma (Japan) Roberto Bonilla (Mexico) questions of their fellow competitors to Fredrik Lofgren (Sweden) foster a culture of curiosity and exploration in Further Announcements the fields of science and technology. Phil Wade (Australia) The OC will send you regular newsletters to Carlos Amorim (Portugal) Come and prepare to be the most successful keep you informed about the RoboCup Rescue Response Team. Junior Rescue organization and important Technical Committee (TC) details; you can also find this printed at the Roberto Bonilla (Mexico), CHAIR Fredrik Lofgren (Sweden) Rules and Questions venue in the noticeboard. Tiago Docilio Caldeira (United Arab Emirates) The official rules for our 2014 international competition are located at Naomi Chikuma (Japan) We ae looking forward to see you in Brazil! Elizabeth Mabrey (USA) http://rcj.robocup.org/rescue.html. They are Safe travels.. Kai Hannemann (Germany).