Program

Program 2019 RoboCup Symposium, 8 July 2019, Sydney, Australia
8:30 - 8:50	Registration	Use badge from RoboCup
08:50 - 09:00	Welcome and Greetings
9:00 - 9:50	Keynote 1: A Brief History of RoboCup and a Discussion of the Future	Manuela Veloso
9:50 - 10:30	Oral Session 1	2 papers (20 mins each)
	Adaptive Walk-Kick on a Bipedal Robot Pedro Peña and Ubbo Visser
	Efficient and Robust 3D Object Reconstruction based on Monocular SLAM with CNN Semantic Segmentation Thomas Weber, Sergey Triputen and Matthias Raetsch
10:30 - 11:10	Poster Teasers – regular papers	18 posters (< 2 mins each)
11:10 - 12:00	Poster Session 1 + Coffee break (Coffee provided at venue)	all posters
12:00 - 13:00	Oral Session 2	3 papers (20 mins each)
	ROBO: Robust, Fully Neural Object Detection for Robot Soccer Márton Szemenyei and Vladimir Estivill-Castro
	Utilizing Temporal Information in Deep Convolutional Network for Efficient Soccer Ball Detection and Tracking Anna Kukleva, Asif Khan, Hafez Farazi and Sven Behnke
	Learning to run faster in a humanoid robot soccer environment through reinforcement learning Miguel Abreu, Luis Paulo Reis and Nuno Lau
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch (Participants organise it themselves at Darling Harbour.)	all posters
14:00 - 14:50	Keynote 2: Creating Robots That See	Peter Corke
14:50 - 15:30	Oral Session 3	2 papers (20 mins each)
	Neural Semantic Parsing with Token Anonymization for Command Understanding in General Purpose Service Robots Nick Walker, Yu-Tang Peng and Maya Cakmak
	Collision Avoidance for Indoor Service Robots through Multimodal Deep Reinforcement Learning Francisco Leiva, Kenzo Lobos-Tsunekawa and Javier Ruiz-Del-Solar
15:30 - 16:10	Poster Teasers – development track papers Poster Teasers – RCF funded projects	11 posters (< 2 mins each) 8 posters (< 2 mins each)
16:10 - 17:00	Poster Session 2 + Coffee break (Coffee provided at venue)	all posters
17:00 - 17:50	Keynote 3: Robots in the Wild	Gamini Dissanayake
17:50 - 18:30	Oral Session 4	2 papers (20 mins each)
	Gesture Recognition in RGB Videos Using Human Body Keypoints and Dynamic Time Warping Pascal Schneider, Raphael Memmesheimer, Ivanna Kramer and Dietrich Paulus
	People management framework using a 2D camera for human-robot social interactions Jacques Saraydaryan, Raphaël Leber and Jumel Fabrice
18:30 – 19:00	Paper awards and closing remarks
19:00 - 20:30	Farewell (Participants organise it themselves at Darling Harbour.)

Poster Session part 1 (Regular papers)
1	A Review of Robot Rescue Simulation Platforms for Robotics Education Josie Hughes, Masaru Shimizu and Arnoud Visser
2	High-Frequency Multi Bus Servo and Sensor Communication Using the Dynamixel Protocol Marc Bestmann, Jasper Güldenstein and Jianwei Zhang
3	YoloSPoC: Recognition of Multiple Object Instances by using Yolo-based Proposals and Deep SPoC-based Descriptors Patricio Loncomilla and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar
4	Towards Data Driven Development in RoboCup Heinrich Mellmann, Benjamin Schlotter and Philipp Strobel
5	Cooperative Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning in a 2 Versus 2 Free-Kick Task Jim Martin Catacora Ocana, Francesco Riccio, Roberto Capobianco and Daniele Nardi
6	A Fast and Stable Omnidirectional Walking Engine for the Nao Humanoid Robot Mohammadreza Kasaei, Nuno Lau and Artur Pereira
7	JET-Net: Real-Time Object Detection for Mobile Robots Bernd Poppinga and Tim Laue
8	On the Use of Simulated Future Information for Evaluating Game Situations Yudai Suzuki and Tomoharu Nakashima
9	Similarity Analysis of Action Trajectories based on Kick Distributions Takuya Fukushima, Tomoharu Nakashima and Hidehisa Akiyama
10	Modelling and Optimisation of a RoboCup MSL coilgun Valentin Gies, Thierry Soriano, Christopher Albert and Nicolas Prouteau
11	Estimation of Subjective Evaluation of HRI Performance Based on Objective Behaviors of Human and Robots Yoshiaki Mizuchi and Tetsunari Inamura
12	A General and Real-Time Ball Detection Approach Using Convolutional Neural Networks Meisam Teimouri, Mohammad Hossein Delavaran and Mahdi Rezaei
13	A Model-Free Algorithm of Moving Ball Interception by Holonomic Robot Using Geometric Approach Pavel Makarov, Tolga Yirtici, Nurullah Akkaya, Ersin Aytac, Gorkem Say, Gokhan Burge, Berk Yilmaz and Rahib Abiyev
14	Tell Your Robot What To Do: Evaluation of Natural Language Models for Robot Command Processing Erick Jesus Romero Kramer, Argentina Ortega Sainz, Alex Mitrevski and Paul G Plöger
15	"Lucy, Take the Noodle Box!": Domestic Object Manipulation Using Movement Primitives and Whole Body Motion Alex Mitrevski, Abhishek Padalkar, Minh Nguyen and Paul G Plöger
16	Positioning of Active Wheels for Optimal Ball Handling Maximilian Beuermann, Marie Ossenkopf and Kurt Geihs
17	Analysis of the PSO Parameters for a Robots Positioning System in SSL Marcos Laureano and Flavio Tonidandel
18	Towards S-NAMO: Socially-aware Navigation Among Movable Obstacles Benoit Renault, Jacques Saraydaryan and Olivier Simonin

Poster Session part 2 (Development track)
1	Gliders2d: Source Code Base for RoboCup 2D Soccer Simulation League Mikhail Prokopenko and Peter Wang
2	An Open Source Vision Pipeline Approach for RoboCup Humanoid Soccer Niklas Fiedler, Hendrik Brandt, Jan Gutsche, Florian Vahl, Jonas Hagge and Marc Bestmann
3	Reusable Specification of State Machines for Rapid Robot Functionality Prototyping Alex Mitrevski and Paul G Plöger
4	Game-Watching Should be More Entertaining: Real-Time Application of Field-Situation Prediction to a Soccer Monitor Yudai Suzuki, Takuya Fukushima, Lea Thibout, Tomoharu Nakashima and Hidehisa Akiyama
5	Human Support Robot as Research Platform of Domestic Mobile Manipulator Takashi Yamamoto, Yutaro Takagi, Akiyoshi Ochiai, Kunihiro Iwamoto, Yuta Itozawa, Yoshiaki Asahara, Yasukata Yokochi and Koichi Ikeda
6	ROS 2 for RoboCup Marcus M Scheunemann and Sander G van Dijk
7	A JIT Compiler for Neural Network Inference Felix Thielke and Arne Hasselbring
8	RoboCup@Home-Objects: Benchmarking Object Recognition for Home Robots Nizar Massouh, Lorenzo Brigato and Luca Iocchi
9	On Field Gesture-based Robot-to-robot Communication with NAO Soccer Players Valerio Di Giambattista, Mulham Fawakherji, Vincenzo Suriani, Domenico Bloisi and Daniele Nardi
10	A Simulation Platform Design and Kinematics Analysis of MRL-HSL Humanoid Robot Amir Gholami, Milad Moradi and Majid Majidi
11	Optimization of Robot Movements using Genetic Algorithms and Simulation Brandon Zahn, Jake Fountain, Trent Houliston, Alexander Biddulph, Stephan Chalup and Alexandre Mendes

Poster Session part 3 (RCF funded projects)
1	Referee Training for RoboCup Soccer Humanoid League Michael Sattler, Ludovic Hofer and Maike Pätzel
2	Educational Software Framework Supporting Multiple Hardware Systems for RoboCup@Home Zeng Qingyi and Hu Tianshuai
3	European RoboCup@Home Education Challenge 2019 Luca Iocchi
4	RoboCup@Home Education Outreach Initiative to Australia in Promotion of RoboCup 2019 Jeffrey Too Chuan Tan, Luca Iocchi and Amy Eguchi
5	An Integration of the Open Source Shopping Cart Solution OpenCart in the RoboCup Logistics League Alexander Ferrein, Nicolas Limpert and Stefan Schiffer
6	Benchmarking Humanoid Robotics - A Workshop to Develop a New RoadMap for the League Maike Paetzel and Ludovic Hofer
7	Filling the Gap between RCJ Cospace and Virtual Rescue Robot competition Masaru Shimizu, Fatemeh Pahlevan Aghababa, Amirreza Kabiri, Josie Hughes and Arnoud Visser
8	Workpiece Tracking and Networking Robustness for the Logistics League Till Hofmann, Ulrich Karras, Tim Niemueller, Mostafa Gomaa, Alain Rohr and Thomas Ulz

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