Organization of RoboCup

President

• Daniele Nardi [1], Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
  • Elected first term in 2011
  • Vice-President 2008-2011
  • Trustee since 2003, Co-Chair RoboCup'03, Padova, Italy

Vice Presidents

• Tucker Balch [2], Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
  • Americas, Finances
  • Appointed new first term in 2008
  • Trustee since 2001, Co-Chair RoboCup'01, Seattle, USA
• Itsuki Noda [3], National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
  • Asia, RoboCup Soccer
  • Appointed new first term in 2008
  • Trustee since 1999
  • Creator and founder of RoboCup Soccer Simulation, 1996
• Gerhard Kraetzschmar [4], Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin, Germany
  • Europe, Finances
  • Appointed new first term in 2008
  • Trustee since 2004
• Luis Almeida [5], Universidade do Porto, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
  • RoboCupJunior
  • Appointed new first term in 2011
  • Trustee since 2008
  • General Chair RoboCupJunior 2005, Osaka,Japan; Local co-Chair RoboCupJunior 2004, Lisbon Portugal

Board of Trustees

• Hiroaki Kitano [6], Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan
  • Founding President 2002-
  • President 1996-2002
  • General Chair RoboCup'97, Nagoya, Japan
• Minoru Asada [7], Osaka University, Japan
  • RoboCup Soccer
  • Elected second term in 2010
  • President 2002-2008
  • Founding Trustee since 1996
  • General Chair RoboCup'02, Fukuoka, Japan
  • Co-Chair RoboCup'05, Osaka, Japan
• Manuela Veloso [8], Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
  • RoboCup Soccer
  • President 2008-2011
  • Vice-President 2002-2008
  • General Chair RoboCup'01, Seattle, USA
  • Founding Trustee, 1996-
• H. Levent Akin [9], Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Robocup Soccer
  • Elected first term in 2011
  • General Chair RoboCup'11, Istanbul, Turkey
• XiaoPing Chen [10], University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
  • RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup@Home
  • Elected second term in 2011
  • General Chair RoboCup'08, Suzhou, China
• Amy Eguchi [11], Bloomfield College, USA
  • RoboCupJunior
  • Elected second term in 2012
  • Co-Chair RoboCupJunior '02, Fukuoka, Japan, Co-Chair RoboCupJunior '09, Graz, Austria, General Chair RoboCupJunior '10, Singapore, Singapore
• Adam Jacoff [12], National Institute for Standards and Technology, Washington DC, USA
  • RoboCup Rescue
  • Elected second term in 2012
• Daniel Polani [13], University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
  • RoboCup Soccer
  • Elected second term in 2011
• Claude Sammut [14], University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  • RoboCup Soccer
  • Elected first term in 2012
• Peter Stone [15], University of Texas, Austin, USA
  • RoboCup Soccer
  • National Committees Advisor
  • Elected second term in 2010
• Tijn van der Zant [16], University of Groningen, The Netherlands
  • RoboCup@Home
  • Elected first term in 2012
• Oskar von Stryk [17], Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
  • RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue
  • Elected first term in 2011
• Changjiu Zhou [18], Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore
  • RoboCup Soccer
  • Elected first term in 2010
  • General Chair RoboCup'10, Singapore, Singapore

Former Trustees

• Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Trustee 2006-2012
• Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
  • Trustee 2006-2012
• Martin Riedmiller, University of Freiburg, Germany
  • Trustee 2008-2011
• Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
  • Trustee 2004-2010
• Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College, New York, USA
  • RoboCupJunior (founding member)
  • Trustee 2002-2008
• Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University, Germany
  • Trustee, 1998-2008, Vice-President, 2002-2008
• Silvia Coradeschi, Orebro University, Sweden
  • Trustee, 1999-2008
  • General Chair RoboCup'99, Stockholm, Sweden
• Enrico Pagello, University Padova, Italy
  • Founding Trustee, 1997-2008, Vice-President, 2002-2008
  • General Chair RoboCup'03, Padova, Italy
• Dominique Duhaut, University of Bretagne Sud, France
  • Founding Trustee, 1996-2002
  • General Chair RoboCup'98, Paris, France
• Frans Groen, Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Trustee, 1999-2001
• Milind Tambe, University of Southern California, USA
  • Trustee 1999-2001
• Andrew Jennings, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
  • Trustee, 1997-2000
  • General Chair RoboCup'00, Melbourne, Australia

Executive Committee

Executive Committee members are responsible for the long term goals of the league and thus have also contact to other leagues as well as to the RoboCup federation. The Executive Committee presents the league and its achievements to the RoboCup federation every year and gets feedback to organize the league. All committee members are also members of the Technical Committee. Executive Committee members are elected by the board of trustees of the RoboCup federation; they serve 3-year terms.

Soccer Simulation

• Hideisa Akiyama, 2nd Term, until 2014
• Klaus Dorer, 2nd Term, until 2015
• Sanem Sariel Talay, 1st Term, until 2014

Small Size Robot Soccer

• Mehmet Akar, 1st Term, until 2014
• Kanjanapan Sukvichai, 1st Term, until 2014
• Alfredo Weitzenfeld, 2nd Term, until 2014

Middle Size Robot Soccer

• Bernardo Cunha, 1st Term, until 2013
• Yasunori Takemura, 1st Term, until 2013

Standard Platform Robot Soccer

• Michail Lagoudakis, 2nd Term, until 2015
• Dan Lee, 2nd Term, until 2015
• Brad Hall, 1st Term, until 2014
• Gal Kaminka, 1st Term, until 2013

Humanoid Robot Soccer

• Jacky Baltes, 2nd Term, until 2014
• Luis F. Lupian, 1st Term, until 2013
• Sven Behnke, 1st Term, until 2014
• Carlos Acosta, 1st Term, until 2015

Rescue Robot

• Johannes Pellenz, 1st Term, until 2013
• Tetsuya Kimura, 2nd Term, until 2014
• Ehsan Mihankhah, 2nd Term, until 2015
• Jackrit Suthakorn, 1st Term, until 2014

Rescue Simulation

• Nobuhiro Ito, 1st Term, until 2014
• Arnoud Visser, 1st Term, until 2015
• Alexander Kleiner, 2nd Term, until 2015

At Home

• Luca Iocchi, 2nd Term, until 2014
• Javier Ruiz de Solar, 2nd Term, until 2015
• Komei Sugiura, 1st Term, until 2014
• Dirk Holz, 1st Term, until 2015

Junior

• Martin Bader, 2nd Term, until 2013
• Eli Kolberg, 1st Term, until 2013
• Tairo Namura, 1st Term, until 2013
• Kate Sim, 1st Term, until 2015

Symposium 2013

• Manuela Veloso
• Sven Behnke
• Rong Xiong
• Arnoud Visser

Former Executive Committee Members

Simulation League

• Oliver Obst (CSIRO, Sydney, Australia)
• Sahar Asadi (Orebro University, Sweden)

Small Size Robot League

• Tadashi Naruse (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan)
• Ng BengKiat (Ngee Ann Poly Technic, Singapore)
• Paulo Costa (University of Porto, Portugal)
• Brett Browning (Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.)
• Raul Rojas (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
• Tim Laue (DFKI Bremen, Germany)

Middle Size Robot League

• Roel Merry (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
• Yasutake Takahashi (Osaka University, Japan)
• Andrea Bonarini (Politechnico di Milano, Italy)
• Fernando Ribeiro (University of Minho, Portugal)
• Gerald Steinbauer (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

Standard Platform League

• Claude Sammut (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Thomas Roefer (University of Bremen, Germany)
• Noriaki Mitsunaga (ATR, Japan)
• Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University, Sweden)
• Masahiro Fujita (Sony Corp., Japan)
• Michael Quinlan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Humanoid League

• Norbert M. Mayer (Osaka University, Japan)
• Thomas Christaller (Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany)
• Pasan Kulvanit (King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thailand)

Education

• Paul Levi (University of Stuttgart, Germany)

RoboCupRescue Robot League

• Andreas Birk (International University Bremen, Germany)

RoboCupRescue Simulation League

• Stefano Carpin (University of California, Merced, USA)
• Tomoichi Takahashi (Meijo University, Japan)
• Stephen Balikirsky (NIST, USA)

At Home

• Thomas Wisspeintner (Fraunhofer AIS, Germany)
• Tijn van der Zant (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
• Javier Ruiz de Solar (Universidad de Chile, Chile)

Junior

• Ashley Green (The Open University, UK)
• Brian Thomas (Bellarine Secondary College, Victoria, Australia)
• Jeffrey Johnson (Open University, United Kingdom)
• Henrik Hautop Lund (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

Web Presentation

• Ansgar Bredenfeld (Fraunhofer AiS, Germany

Technical Committees

The Technical Committee for each league is responsible for planning the technical aspects of the league in short term to keep in the roadmap of the whole RoboCup in long term, i.e. the committee defines the rules for the next RoboCup and takes care of the according refereeing. All members are elected by the team leaders of the teams which have participated in the previous competition. In addition, all members of the Executive Committee are members of the Technical Committee.

RoboCup Soccer

• Small Size League
  • Christopher Head (Canada)
  • Michael Bleir (Germany)
  • Yonghai Wu (China)
  • Mehmet Akar (Turkey)
  • Kanjanapan Sukvichai (Thailand)
  • Alfredo Weitzenfeld (USA)

• Middle Size League
  • Hamed Rasam Farad (Iran)
  • Robin Soetens (The Netherlands)
  • Zhao Yong (China)

• Humanoid League
  • Daniel Seifert (Germany)
  • Pieter van Zutven (The Netherlands)
  • Marcell Missura (Germany)

• Standard Platform League
  • Wils Dawson (USA)
  • Heinrich Mellmann (Germany)
  • Subramanian Ramamoorthy(UK)
  • Dietmar Schreiner (Austria)

• Simulation League
  • Hedayat Vatankah (3D, Iran)
  • Patrick MacAlpine (3D, USA)
  • Nuno Lau (3D, Portugal)
  • Luis Paulo Reis (2D, Portugal)
  • João Alberto Fabro (2D, Brazil)

RoboCup Rescue

• Robot League
  • Gerald Steinbauer (Austria)
  • Sören Schwertfeger (Germany)
  • Jafar Chegini (Iran)

• Rescue Simulation League
• Agent:
  • Farshid Faraji (Iran)
  • Moritz Göbelbecker (Germany)
  • Luis Nardin (Brazil)

• Virtual
  • Sanaz Taleghani (Iran)
  • Amir H. Abdi (Iran)
  • Behzad Tabibian (US)

RoboCup@Home

• @Home League
  • Mohan Rajesh Elara (Singapore)
  • Jiongkun Xie (China)
  • Fariborz Mahmoudi (Iran)
  • Jörg Stückler (Germny)

RoboCupJunior

• Junior
• RCJ Soccer
  • José Dias (Portugal)
  • Gerard Elias (Australia) Luis José López (Mexico)
  • Katsumi Masaoka (Japan)
  • Sebastian Polly (Germany)
  • Gio Spina (Canada)

• RCJ Rescue
  • Roberto Bonilla (Mexico)
  • Tiago Docilio Caldeira (United Arab Emirates)
  • Naomi Chikuma (Japan)
  • Fredrik Lofgren (Sweden)
  • Elizabeth Mabrey (USA)
  • Greig Tardiani (Australia)

• RCJ Dance
  • Susan Bowler (Australia)
  • Mikael Carlsson (Sweden)
  • Nicky Hughes (UK)
  • Sara Iatauro (Canada)
  • Shoko Niwa (Japan)
  • Li Shi (China)

• CoSpace Sub-Committee
  • Wang Baogang (China)
  • Martin Barder (Germany, Exec)
  • Josie Hughes (UK)
  • Jiayao Shen (Singapore)

Sponsored Leagues

• Logistics League Sponsored by FESTO
  • Tim Niemüller (Germany)
  • Sören Jentzsch (Germany)
  • Daniel Ewert (Germany)

Organizing Committees

The Organizing Committee of each league is responsible for preparing and organizing the competition. This mainly includes making the schedule, performing the qualification process, and running the competition. The committee members are selected by the Executive Committee of the league and the RoboCup Trustees.

RoboCup Soccer

• Small Size League
  • Chair: Tanakorn Panyapiang (Thailand)
  • Local Chair: Heico Sandee (The Netherlands)
  • José Angelo Gurzoni (Brazil)
  • Mohammad Hosein Fazeli (Iran)
  • Ali Erdinc Koroglu (Turkey)

• Middle Size League
  • Chair: Jose Luis Azevedo (Portugal)
  • Local Chair: Oliver Zweigle (Germany)
  • Amir Ali Forough Nassiraei (Japan)

• Humanoid League
  • Chair: Jacky Baltes (Canada)
  • Local Chair: Pieter van Zutven (The Netherlands)
  • Carlos Acosta (Singapore)
  • Reinhard Gerndt (Germany)
  • Soroush Sadeghnejad (Iran)

• Standard Platform League
  • Chair: Katie Genter (USA)
  • Advisor: Rico Tilgner (Germany)
  • Local Chairs: Frans C. A. Groen (The Netherlands), Duncan ten Velthuis (The Netherlands)

• Simulation League
  • 3D Chair: Sander van Dijk (The Netherlands)
  • 3D Local Chair: Sander van Dijk (The Netherlands)
  • Sajjad Haider (Pakistan)
  • 2D Chair: Aijun Bai (China)
  • 2D Local Chair: Karl Tuyls (The Netherlands)
  • Joao Alberto Fabro (Brazil)

RoboCup Rescue

• Robot League
  • Chair: Adam Jacoff (USA)
  • Ann-Marie Virts (USA)
  • Amir H. Soltanzadeh (Iran)
  • Raymond Sheh (Australia)

• Rescue Simulation League
  • Agent Chair: Farshid Faraji (Iran)
  • Moritz Göbelbecker (Germany)
  • Luis Nardin (Brazil)
  • Virtual Robot:
  • Sanaz Taleghani (Iran)
  • Amir H. Abdi (Iran)
  • Behzad Tabibian (US)

RoboCup@Home

• @Home League
  • Chair: Sven Wachsmuth (Germany)
  • Local Chair: Maja Rudinac (The Netherlands)
  • Mauricio Matamoros (Mexico)
  • Viktor Seib (Germany)
  • Krit Chaiso (Thailad)

RoboCupJunior

• Junior
  • Local General Chair: Peter van Lith (Netherlands)
  • Local General Co-Chair: Martin Klomp (Netherlands)
  • Local General Co-Chair: Carmen Faria (Brazil)

• RCJ Soccer
  • Local Chair: Jan ten Bokkel, (Netherlands)
  • Local Co-Chair: Felipe Nascimento Martins (Brazil)
  • Chair: Eduardo Gallego (Spain)
  • Irene Kipnis (Israel)
  • Luis José López (Mexico)
  • Paul Manns (Germany)
  • Katsumi Masaoka (Japan)
  • Gio Spina (Canada)

• RCJ Rescue
  • Local Chair: Xin Wang, (Netherlands)
  • Local Co-Chair: Luiz Marcos Garcia Gonçalves (Brazil)
  • Chair: Greig Tardiani (Australia)
  • Co-Chair: Karsten Nolte (Germany)
  • Naomi Chikuma (Japan)
  • Yossi Hazan (Islarel)
  • Fredrik Lofgren (Sweden)
  • John O’Neill (UK)

• RCJ Dance
  • Local Chair: Wim van Broeck (Belgium)
  • Local Co-Chair: Marcos Vallim (Brazil)
  • Chair: Sara Iatauro (Canada)
  • Nicky Hughes (UK)
  • Mayumi Kayama (Japan)
  • Sarit Salzman (Islael)
  • Li Shi (China)
  • Barbara Walcher (Germany)

• CoSpace Sub-Committee
  • Local Chair: Jan Lepeltak (Netherlands)
  • Local Co-Chair: Mauro Viana Junior (Brazil)
  • Chair: Jiayao Shen (Singapore)
  • Wang Baogang (China)
  • Martin Bader (Germany, Exec)
  • Josie Hughes (UK)
  • Technical Consultant: Yang Tianwu (Singapore)

Sponsored Leagues

• Logistics League Sponsored by FESTO
  • Chair: Ulrich Karras (Germany)
  • Alexander Ferrein (Germany)
  • Guilherme Cano Lopes (Brazil)
  • Sebastian Reuter (Germany)
  • Alexander Ratai (Germany)
  • Sören Jentzsch (Germany)

Demonstrations

• RoboCup@Work
  • Chair: Gerhard Kraetzschmar (Germany)

Internal Advisory Board

All past members of the RoboCup Federation (RCF) Executive Board and Trustees Board as well as past RoboCup Chairs are invited to the RCF Internal Advisory Board (IAB). Please send email to April Foster, april[dot]robocup[at]gmail[dot]com, if you are missing from this list and would like to join our IAB.

• IAB Members
  • Alessandro Saffiotti (Orebro University, Sweden)
  • Andreas Birk (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  • Ansgar Bredenfeld (Fraunhofer AiS, Germany)
  • Ashley Green (Open University, United Kingdom)
  • Brian Thomas (Bellarine Secondary College, Australia)
  • Cetin Mericli (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
  • Dominique Duhaut (University of Bretagne Sud, France)
  • Elizabeth Sklar (Brooklyn College, New York, United States)
  • Enrico Pagello (University Padova, Italy)
  • Fernando Ribeiro (University of Minho, Portugal)
  • Frans Groen (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • Franz Wotawa (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
  • Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)
  • Jesus Savage (National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
  • Martin Riedmiller (University of Freiburg, Germany)
  • Michail Lagoudakis (Technical University of Crete, Greece)
  • N. Michael Mayer (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
  • Noriaki Mitsunaga (ATR, Japan)
  • Oliver Obst (CSIRO, Sydney, Australia)
  • Pedro Lima (Instituto Superior Técnico - Lisbon Technical University, Portugal)
  • Raul Rojas (Free University of Berlin, Germany)
  • Satoshi Tadokoro (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
  • Silvia Coradeschi (Orebro University, Sweden)
  • Stefano Carpin (University of California, Merced, United States)
  • Stephen Balakirsky (NIST, United States)
  • Thomas Roefer (University of Bremen, Germany)
  • Tim Laue (DFKI Bremen, Germany)
  • Ubbo Visser (University of Miami, Coral Gables, United States)