RoboCup Junior Rescue
The scenario is based on an area that is too dangerous for humans to rescue the victims of a natural disaster; so the most difficult task has been given to a robot. He must be able to carry out the rescue mission in a totally autonomous manner without human intervention. The robot must be strong and smart enough to navigate through dangerous terrain with hills, uneven terrain and debris without getting stuck.
There are three subcategories:
- Rescue Line (Line Rescue): An autonomous robot must follow a black line while overcoming different problems in a modular arena formed by frames with different patterns. The floor is white and the squares are on different levels connected by ramps. When the robot finally finds the victims, it has to transport them very carefully to the evacuation point so that humans can take care of them.
- Rescue Maze (Rescue in Labyrinth): The robot needs to search for victims through a maze, so it should not find the fastest way to go through the maze, if not to explore it as much as possible while avoiding areas with black ground. When the robot finally finds the victims, it has to provide them with a help team and a locator, so that humans can locate them and take them to a safe place.
- Rescue Simulation: In the Rescue Simulation subcategory, teams must develop and program appropriate strategies for virtual and real autonomous robots to capture objects while competing with the robot of another team that is searching for and capturing objects in the same virtual and real world. The open source for its Development is available at http://www.cospacerobot.org/.
Restrictions
Since RoboCupJunior encourages teamwork and collaboration among members, RCJ Rescue teams must conform to at least 2 members and up to a maximum of 4.
The age is considered on July 1 of each year for the RoboCup World Cup, and therefore also for the Mexican Robotics Tournament.
Each contestant can only be enrolled in 1 unique team, sub-league and league in all RoboCupJunior.
Rules
The rules for the competition of RoboCupJunior Rescue are published on the international site of RoboCupJunior. The rules for the 2020 tournament in France are already published, which will be the same as for the Mexican Robotics Tournament.
These rules can be consulted in https://junior.robocup.org/rescue/. Take into account that the international committees are in the process of reviewing the rules, so it is advisable to pay attention to the comments of the international forum https://junior.forum.robocup.org/. To clarify the rules and share knowledge in the Mexican Robotics Tournament, you can create an account at https://comunidad.femexrobotica.org/ and start a new conversation within the RoboCupJunior Rescue forum.
Equipment limit per institution
Each institution can register the following number of teams for each Junior Category:
- Maximum 1 team per sub-league in Rescue Line and Rescue Maze.
- Maximum 2 teams per sub-league in all Soccer and OnStage sub-leagues.
- The number of devices in Rescue Simulation will not be limited.
- The institution that has obtained first place in each subcategory of the last tournament (TMR2019) and has submitted its participation report in RoboCup 2019 Sydney (Australia) obtains the right to register one more team in that same subcategory. You must register the additional team and its members, and before concluding the pre-registration send an email to regtmr@femexrobotica.org indicating the name of the team that wishes this right to be applied.
Age Restriction by Sub-leagues
Age is considered July 1 of each year for RoboCup, and therefore for the Mexican Robotics Tournament.
- Primary Line: All team members must be between 10 and 14 years old (inclusive). This implies being born between 02 / Jul / 2005 and 01 / Jul / 2010. This sub-league is solely national and does not grant the right to participate in the competition of RoboCupJunior International.
- Line: All team members must have members between 13 and 19 years of age (inclusive). This implies being born between 02 / Jul / 2000 and 01 / Jul / 2007.
- Maze: All team members must have members between 13 and 19 years of age (inclusive). This implies being born between 02 / Jul / 2000 and 01 / Jul / 2007.
- Simulation Primary: All team members must be between 10 and 14 years old (inclusive). This implies being born between 02 / Jul / 2005 and 01 / Jul / 2010. This sub-league is only nationally and does NOT grant the right to participate in the RoboCupJunior International competition.
- Simulation: All team members must have members between 13 and 19 years of age (inclusive). This implies being born between 02 / Jul / 2000 and 01 / Jul / 2007.
Technical Committee
Diego Garza Rodríguez
e-mail: diego.garza.rdz@gmail.com
Roberto Bonilla González
e-mail: rbonilla@femexrobotica.org
Ruben Anaya García
e-mail: ranaya_garcia@hotmail.com
Javier Zetina
e-mail: javierg.zetina@gmail.com
Local committee
Fernando Ruíz
e-mail: fruizm@tec.mx
Ricardo Guzman
e-mail: ricardo.guzmanl@tec.mx
Lamberto Álvarez
e-mail: lamberto.alvarez@tec.mx
RoboCupJunior Rescue is an educational initiative focused on elementary, high school and college students, to develop a robot that needs to solve diverse obstacles in an autonomous way to fulfill rescue missions.
The arena is based in a very dangerous area for humans to rescue the victims of a natural disaster; accordingly, the hardest task has been assigned to a robot. It needs to be able to perform the rescue mission completely in an autonomous way without human intervention. The robot must be strong and intelligent enough to navigate through a hazardous land with hills, uneven terrain and debris, without getting stuck.
Three sub-categories are available:
- Rescue Line: An autonomous robot should follow a black line while overcoming different problems in a modular arena formed by tiles with different patterns. The floor is white in color and the tiles are on different levels connected with ramps. When the robot finds the victims, needs to carry them carefully to the evacuation zone for the humans to take care of them.
- Rescue Maze: The robot needs to search through a maze for victims. The robot should not find the fastest path through the maze, instead it should explore as much of the maze as possible. The robot must avoid areas with a black floor. When the robot finds the victims, needs to provide a rescue kit and a tracker, so the humans can localize them and take them to a secure place.
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- Rescue Simulation: In Rescue Simulation sub-league teams have to develop and program appropriate strategies for both real and virtual autonomous robots to navigate through the real and virtual worlds to collect objects while competing with another team's robot that is searching and collecting objects in the same real and virtual worlds The open source code can be found in http://www.cospacerobot.org/.
Restrictions
Since RoboCupJunior embraces teamwork and collaboration among team members, a team should have at least two tea _ _m members and at most four team members to form a RoboCupJunior team.
Age is counted as of July 1st for the international RCJ event and TMR event each year.
Each participant only can sign up in one team, sub-category and category inside RoboCupJunior.
Rules
The rules for the RoboCupJunior Rescue competition are available online in the international RoboCupJunior website. The 2020 rules for France are already published and will be used for the TMR.
These rules can be found in https://junior.robocup.org/rescue/. Please consider that the international committees are in the rule revision process, take a look for rules clarification inside the international forum at https://junior.forum.robocup.org/. For the TMR rules clarification and knowledge sharing, you can create an account in https://comunidad.femexrobotica.org/ and start a new conversation inside the RoboCupJunior Rescue forum. _ _
Teams limit per institution
Each institution can sign up the following number of teams per Junior sub-category:
- Maximum 1 team per sub-category in Rescue Line and Rescue Maze.
- Maximum 2 teams per sub-category in all Soccer and Onstage leagues.
- There is no team limitation for Rescue Simulation.
- The institution that obtained the first place in each sub-category in the last tournament (TMR2019) and sent its participation report in RoboCup 2019 Sydney (Australia) has the benefit to sign up an extra team in the same sub-category. It's necessary to include the additional team and its members in the pre-sign up page and send an em _ail to regtmr@femexrobotica.org specifying the name of the team that will use this benefit.
Sub-categories age restriction
Age is counted as of July 1st for the international RCJ and TMR event each year.
- Primary Line: All team members need to be between 10 and 14 years old (inclusive). This means have been born between Jul / 02/2005 and Jul / 01/2010. This sub-category is only at national level and DO NOT give the opportunity to participate in the RoboCupJunior international competition.
- Line: All team members need to be between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive). This means have been born between Jul / 02/2000 and Jul / 01/2007.
- Maze: All team members need to be between 13 an _d 19 years old (inclusive). This means have been born between Jul / 02/2000 and Jul / 01/2007.
- Simulation Primary: All team members need to be between 10 and 14 years old (inclusive). This means have been born between Jul / 02/2005 and Jul / 01/2010. This sub-category is only at national level and DO NOT give the opportunity to participate in the RoboCupJunior international competition.
- Simulation: All team members need to be between 13 and 19 years old (inclusive). This means have been born between Jul / 02/2000 and Jul / 01/2007.
Technical Committee
Diego Garza Rodríguez
e-mail: diego.garza.rdz@gmail.com
Roberto Bonilla González
e-mail: rbonilla@femexrobotica.org
Ruben Anaya García
e-mail: ranaya_garcia@hotmail.com
Javier Zetina
e-mail: javierg.zetina@gmail.com
Local committee
Fernando Ruíz
e-mail: fruizm@tec.mx
Ricardo Guzman
e-mail: ricardo.guzmanl@tec.mx
Lamberto Álvarez
e-mail: lamberto.alvarez@tec.mx