THE ROBOT TASK CHALLENGE
In the Robot Task Challenge, there are three tests including medicine-taking reminder, daily service and searching for missing objects. Specifically:
Medicine-taking reminder: The robot is expected to provide the older adult with heartwarming and attentive reminders to take medicine on time as well as not take wrong medicine or take too much.
Daily service: The robot is expected to follow the older adult during the daily life and send alarm signals when an emergency occurs and take photos to record what the older adult is doing.
Searching for missing objects: The robot is expected to follow the older adult, observe the older adult’s movements, and remember the new positions of the objects with its extraordinary memory. When the older adult asks for something, the robot is supposed to offer help.
The winners and prizes will be decided according to the total scores on three tests of the teams.
See the preliminary rulebook for more details. The rulebook can be found from http://robo-tend.ustc.edu.cn/rulebook.pdf.
1、Important dates
May 26, 2019 —— Deadline for submission of qualification materials (Team Description Paper, Team Video, Application for travel support)
Jun. 02, 2019 —— Qualification announcement
Jun. 09, 2019 —— Deadline for Participation Confirmation
Aug. 12-13, 2019 —— Team Setup Days
Aug. 14-16, 2019 —— Competition Days
2、Instructions for the Team Video
In order to prove a running hardware, each team has to provide a qualification video.
As a minimum requirement for qualification, the video must show the robot(s) successfully solving a task in the Robot Task Challenge, or at least part of such a task.
Remarks:
• The shown task execution must look continuous, smooth, and robust.
• When speeding-up video, the speed factor must be indicated.
• The language spoken and shown in the video must be English. When using any other languages, translations must be included.
Note: The teams must provide team videos for the Robot Task Challenge.
Copyright note: When sending videos for qualification, teams implicitly grant permission to the IJCAI-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenges Technical Com- mittees to copy, modify, distribute, upload, publish, and use the multimedia material to promote the event and the league at convenience.
3、Award setting
The first-class prize includes champion, runner-up and third place. The second- class prize includes 4th to 8th place. The third-class prize will be decided according to the total number of participating teams.
4、Qualification procedure
The qualification procedure consists of the following two steps:
1. Qualification Material Submission (mandatory)
The team ***MUST*** send an email to the Committee (yoyo@ustc. edu.cn) to participate in the qualification process for the IJCAI-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenges event. Please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
Challenges: [ RTC | ECRDC | Both ]
Country:
Affiliation:
Team Leader Name:
Contact information (E-mail):
Link to a team video:
Link to a team web site if you have:
Team Description Paper (TDP) attached to the email.
The e-mail subject should be:
[@EldercareRobot2019-Qualification] (YourTeamName)
Considerations:
Only one contact email can be specified per team.
Only one team video url can be specified per team.
The email must be encoded in UTF-8.
**** Deadline: May 26, 2019 *****
2. Participation confirmation (mandatory)
All qualified teams ***MUST*** send an email to the Committee (yoyo@ ustc.edu.cn) to confirm (or cancel) their participation in the IJCAI- 2019 Eldercare Robot Challenges event. Confirming attendance implies that the team commits to attend to the event.
To confirm participation, please fill in the following information:
Team Name:
Challenges: [ RTC | ECRDC | Both ]
Country:
Hereby [Team Name] of [Country] [confirms | forfeits] participation in the IJCAI-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenges 2019.
The e-mail subject should be:
[@EldercareRobot2019-Confirmation] (YourTeamName)
Remark: Qualified teams who miss the participation confirmation will be disqualified automatically.
**** Deadline: Jun. 09, 2019 *****
5、 Instructions for the TDP
The TDP is a no less than 6-pages long scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team’s research, while including also the following:
• TDP
– Group’s research focus and interests.
– Innovative technology and scientific contribution
∗ Please specify when your research is being used by other teams or research groups
∗ Please specify when you are using software from other teams
– Brief, general description of the system when solving a [eldercare] task (applicability in the real world)
– The impact of your research must be clearly visible
– Minimum length is 6 pages (including figures and citations)
• Annex
– Photo(s) of the robot
– Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot’s software (e.g. include MoveIt/YOLO)
– Brief, compact description of all external computing devices, if any
– Brief, compact description of the robot’s hardware
– Please mark with an asterisk home-made software solutions
– Annex should be appended after the References
– There is no page limit for annex, but a maximum of one page is strongly encouraged
• TDP length is no less than 6 pages + annex
For the TDP, please use the Springer LNAI format(http://www.springer. com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and limit yourself to no less than 6 pages without altering margins or spacing (including references but ex- cluding the annex). Exceeding the number of pages will automatically void your application.
Remark: The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be trans- lated.
Copyright note: All TDPs sent for qualification may be made publicly available in the IJCAI-2019 Eldercare Robot Challenges website for further ref- erence. On submitting, teams implicitly grant permission to IJCAI-2019 El- dercare Robot Challenges Technical Committees to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to promote the event and the league at conve- nience.
