August 2-10, 2001
Co-located with IJCAI-01
Seattle, USA

RoboCup-2001 is the Fifth International RoboCup event. RoboCup is an International entreprise supported by the RoboCup Federation. RoboCup-2001 will bring together researchers working in a variety of different aspects of multiagent and multirobot systems. For technical information on RoboCup research contributions, see the following three books:

  • RoboCup-99: Robot Soccer World Cup III, Veloso, Pagello, Kitano (Eds).
  • RoboCup-98: Robot Soccer World Cup II, Asada, Kitano (Eds).
  • RoboCup-97: Robot Soccer World Cup I, Kitano (Ed).

    News:

    See the IEEE Spectrum RoboSoccer Forum
    for information on possible awards for RoboCup participants.
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    Make your travel arrangements ASAP through Irene, CTS International, cts@usaor.net.
    Irene may also be able to help you find good hotel rates and car rentals.
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    Prof. Takanishi from Waseda University will be giving the invited talk
    at the RoboCup Symposium on August 8th on:
    "Humanoid Robots in the 21st Century"
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    RoboCup-2001 will be at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.
    More information on the the venue, including a short movie.

    Schedule:
    Wednesday Aug 1 Construction - Hall CLOSED to everyone
    Teams arrive
    Thursday Aug 2 RoboCup-2001 CLOSED to the public
    Team setup
    Friday Aug 3 RoboCup-2001 CLOSED to the public
    Team setup
    Saturday Aug 4 RoboCup-2001 OPEN to the public
    Round Robin Competition - Preliminary Games
    (IJCAI-01 workshops and tutorials start)
    Sunday Aug 5 RoboCup-2001 OPEN to the public
    Round Robin Competition - Preliminary Games
    Monday Aug 6 RoboCup-2001 OPEN to the public
    Round Robin Competition - Preliminary Games
    Tuesday Aug 7 RoboCup-2001 OPEN to the public
    RoboCup International Symposium
    RoboCup Junior Competition
    (IJCAI-01 technical program starts)
    Wednesday Aug 8 RoboCup-2001 OPEN to the public
    RoboCup International Symposium
    RoboCup Junior Competition
    RoboCup/AAAI Robot Rescue Final Games
    Thursday Aug 9 RoboCup-2001 OPEN to the public
    Quarter-final, Semi-final Competitions
    RoboCup Junior Workshop - 9am-3pm
    Friday Aug 10 RoboCup-2001 OPEN to the public
    Final Competitions
    Noon - RoboCup-2001 Award Ceremony
    (IJCAI-01 ends)

    RoboCup-2001 will include a variety of different events:

    SYMPOSIUM FOR TECHNICAL RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS:

  • RoboCup International Symposium, August 7-8, 2001.

    SIMULATION AND REAL ROBOT COMPETITIONS continuing the events previously held at RoboCup-97 through RoboCup-2000:

  • Soccer Simulation League
  • Small-Size Soccer Robot League
  • Middle-Size Soccer Robot (F-2000) League
  • Sony Legged Robot League
  • RoboCup Junior - Soccer and Dancing Robot

    For the first time, in RoboCup-2001, the HUMANOID and the RoboCup RESCUE COMPETITIONS and DEMONSTRATIONS:

  • Humanoid Soccer Robot League
  • Rescue Simulation League
  • Rescue Robot League
  • RoboCup Junior - Rescue Simulation
  • RoboCup Junior - Rescue Robot

    Official Worldwide Sponsors of RoboCup 2001

    Official Sponsors of RoboCup 2001
    RoboCup-2001 supported by:


    mmv@cs.cmu.edu - Last updated: April 5, 2001, by (Manuela Veloso)
    Created by Manuela Veloso