FIRA-ISI Robot Soccer
Workshop and Championship 2001

March 17-21, 2001
American University in Dubai, U.A.E


In Conjunction with the International NAISO Congress on
INFORMATION SCIENCE INNOVATIONS

Robotics competitions have become popular and attract people from all walks of life through out the world irrespective of their ages.  Robot soccer makes heavy demands in all the key areas of robot technology, mechanics, sensors, communication, and intelligence. The hope of course, is that by discovering how to get a robot to move with agility, see with acuity, and think perceptively in the limited context of a soccer game, it will be possible to use the same techniques to build robots to carry out other more useful tasks. 

Invited Nations:

Australia, Austria, Germany, Korea, Philippines, Poland, P.R. China, Singapore, Taiwan and United Kingdom.  Due to some unforeseen circumstances, the Australian and the Chinese teams could not take part in the competition.  

Schedule:

March 17: Workshop on Soccer Robotics
March 18: Orientation, group selection, and system set-up
March 19: Preliminary games (till 4:00 pm)
March 20: Preliminary games
March 21: Semi-final and final games, and Award ceremony (in the evening)

Robot soccer Workshop

The FIRA-ISI Robot Soccer Workshop is scheduled on March 17, 2001, from 9:00 am to 12:55 pm with a 15 minutes break. Each team is required to present a paper based on their teams at the workshop for 15 minutes. The format for the workshop paper and other details will be made available soon.
 

Robot Soccer Championship

The MiroSot robot soccer championship among ten invited nations will take place.  The detailed schedule of the competition will be available soon.  The FIRA MiroSot competition rules will be followed.

For general information on FIRA and previous tournaments please visit their website at www.fira.net.

For further information, please contact:

Milad Fares Sebaaly, Dr. Eng. (Email)
ISI2001 General Chair

Jong-Hwan Kim, Ph.D. (Email)
Workshop Co-Chair, FIRA-ISI Robot Soccer Workshop
(President, FIRA)

Prahlad Vadakkepat, Ph.D.
Workshop Co-Chair, FIRA-ISI Robot Soccer Workshop
Organizing Chair, FIRA-ISI Robot Soccer Championship
(General Secretary, FIRA)