Organization of RoboCup
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President
- Daniele Nardi, 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, 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, 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, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- RoboCupJunior, Finances
- Appointed new first term in 2008
- Trustee since 1999, Co-Chair RoboCup'06, Bremen, Germany
- Luis Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
- RoboCupJunior
- Appointed new first term in 2011
- Trustee since 2008
Board of Trustees
- Hiroaki Kitano, Systems Biology Institute, Tokyo, Japan
- Founding President 2002-
- President 1996-2002
- General Chair RoboCup'97, Nagoya, Japan
- Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan
- RoboCup Soccer
- Elected new 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, 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, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Robocup Soccer
- Elected first term in 2011
- General Chair RoboCup'11, Istanbul, Turkey
- XiaoPing Chen, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
- RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup@Home
- Elected first term in 2008
- General Chair RoboCup'08, Suzhou, China
- Amy Eguchi, Bloomfield College, USA
- RoboCupJunior
- Elected first term in 2009
- Adam Jacoff, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Washington DC, USA
- RoboCup Rescue
- Elected first term in 2009
- Pedro Lima, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal
- RoboCup Soccer
- Editor in Chief of RoboCup Wiki
- Elected second term in 2009
- General Chair RoboCup'04, Lisbon, Portugal
- Daniel Polani, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
- RoboCup Soccer
- Elected first term in 2008
- Peter Stone, University of Texas, Austin, USA
- RoboCup Soccer
- National Committees Advisor
- Elected second term in 2010
- Ubbo Visser, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
- RoboCup Soccer
- Elected second term in 2009
- General Chair RoboCup'06, Bremen, Germany
- Oskar von Stryk, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
- RoboCup Soccer
- Elected first term in 2011
- Changjiu Zhou, Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore
- RoboCup Soccer
- Elected first term in 2010
- General Chair RoboCup'10, Singapore, Singapore
Former Trustees
- Martin Riedmiller, University of Freiburg, Germany
- Trustee 2008-2011
- Satoshi Tadokoro, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Trustee 2004-2010
- Betsy Sklar, Brooklyn College, New York, USA
- Founding Trustee, RoboCupJunior
- 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
- Trustee, 1998-2008, 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, 1st Term, until 2012
- 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
- Roel Merry, 1st Term, until 2012
- Yasunori Takemura, 1st Term, until 2013
Standard Platform Robot Soccer
- Michail Lagoudakis, 1st Term, until 2012
- Dan Lee, 1st Term, until 2012
- 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
- Pasan Kulvanit, 1st Term, until 2013
Rescue Robot
- Johannes Pellenz, 1st Term, until 2013
- Tetsuya Kimura, 2nd Term, until 2014
- Ehsan Mihankhah, 1st Term, until 2012
- Jackrit Suthakorn, 1st Term, until 2014
Rescue Simulation
- Nobuhiro Ito, 1st Term, until 2014
- Stephen Balakirsky, 1st Term, until 2012
- Alexander Kleiner, 1st Term, until 2012
At Home
- Luca Iocchi, 2nd Term, until 2014
- Javier Ruiz de Solar, 1st Term, until 2012
- Tijn van der Zant, 2nd Term, until 2012
- Komei Sugiura, 1st Term, until 2014
Junior
- Martin Bader, 2nd Term, until 2013
- Ashley Green, 2nd Term, until 2012
- Eli Kolberg, 1st Term, until 2013
- Tairo Namura, 1st Term, until 2013
Symposium 2012
- Xiaoping Chen
- Peter Stone
- Luis Enrique Sucar
- Tijn Van der Zant
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)
- Angelo Gurzoni Jr (Brazil)
- Mohammad Hoshyari (Iran)
- Middle Size League
- Oliver Zweigle (Germany)
- Fernando Ribeiro (Portugal)
- José Miguel Almeida (Portugal)
- Darwin Lau (Australia)
- Humanoid League
- Carlos Acosta (Singapore)
- Daniel Seifert (Germany)
- Mingguo Zhao (China)
- Standard Platform League
- Somchaya Liemhetcharat (USA)
- Stefan Taase (Czarnetzki) (Germany)
- Tekin Mericli (Turkey)
- Robert King (Australia)
- Simulation League
- Hedayat Vatankah (3D, elected, Iran)
- Drew Noakes (3D, elected, GB)
- Hidehisa Akiyama (2D, elected, Japan)
- Luis Paulo Reis (2D, elected, Portugal)
- Tomomi (2D, nominated, Japan)
RoboCup Rescue
- Robot League
- Michael Hofbaur (Austria)
- Jafar Chegini (Iran)
- Sören Schwertfeger (Germany)
- Rescue Simulation League
- Agent
- Moritz Göbelbecker (Germany)
- Farshid Faraji (Iran)
- Luis Nardin (Brazil)
- Virtual
- Arnoud Visser (The Netherlands)
- Behzad Tabibian (UK)
- Amir Abdi (Iran)
RoboCup@Home
- @Home League
- Sven Wachsmuth (Germany)
- Dirk Holz (Germany)
- Caleb Rascon (Mexico)
- Fariborz Mahmoudi (Iran)
RoboCupJunior
- Junior
- RCJ Soccer
- Sebastian Polly (Germany)
- Giacinto "Gio" Spina (Canada)
- Peter van Lith (Netherlands)
- Junqiu Lin (China)
- Katsumi Masaoka (Japan)
- Eduardo Gallego (Spain)
- RCJ Rescue
- Damien Kee (Australia)
- Kate Sim (UK)
- Naomi Chikuma (Japan)
- Tiago Docilio Caldeira (Portugal)
- Timothy Jump (USA)
- Winfried Schmitz (Germany)
- RCJ Dance
- Lisebeth Uribe (USA)
- Mikael Carlsson (Sweden)
- Sara Iatauro (Canada)
- Shoko Niwa (Japan)
- Li Shi (China)
- Nicky Hughes (UK)
Sponsored Leagues
- Logistics League Sponsored by FESTO
- Peter Megyeri (Hungary)
- Christian Deppe (Germany)
- Amr M. Labib Hussein (Egypt)
- Ulrich Karras (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: Amanda Li (Canada)
- Local Chair: Marco Morales (Mexico)
- Tanakorn Panyapiang (Thailand)
- Huzeyfe Esen (Turkey)
- Middle Size League
- Chair: Jose Luis Azevedo (CAMBADA, Portugal)
- Local Chair: Héctor Vargas (Mexico)
- Saeed Ebrahimijam (MRL, Iran)
- Amir Ali Forough Nassiraei (Hibikino-Musashi, Japan)
- Humanoid League
- Chair: Carlos Acosta (Singapore)
- Local Chair: Luis F. Lupian (Mexico)
- Jacky Baltes (Canada)
- Reinhard Gerndt (Germany)
- Akash Gupta (India)
- Soroush Sadeghnejad (Iran)
- Standard Platform League
- Chair: Rico Tilgner (Germany)
- Local Chair: Alejandro Aceves (Mexico)
- Quinten Palmer (USA)
- Sam Barrett (USA)
- Simulation League
- Local Chair: Leonardo Garrido (Mexico)
- Tomomi Kawarabayashi-Kubo (Japan)
- 3D Chair: Hedayat Vatankah (Iran)
- Patrick MacAlpine (3D, USA)
- 2D Chair: Luis Paulo Reis (Portugal)
- Aijun Bai (2D, China)
RoboCup Rescue
- Robot League
- Chair: Adam Jacoff (USA)
- Local Chair: Guillermo Hernandez (Mexico)
- Amir H. Soltanzadeh (Iran)
- Fernando Arreola (Mexico)
- Raymond Sheh (Australia)
- Rescue Simulation League
- Local Chair: Eduardo Morales (Mexico)
- Agent Chair: Moritz Göbelbecker (Germany)
- Farshid Faraji (Iran)
- Luis Nardin (Brazil)
- Virtual Robot Chair: Behzad Tabibian (UK)
- Andreas Kolling (USA)
RoboCup@Home
- @Home League
- Chair: Mohan Rajesh (Singapore)
- Local Chair: Enrique Sucar (Mexico)
- Susanne Thierfelder (Germany)
- James Xie (China)
- Mauricio Matamoros (Mexico)
RoboCupJunior
- Junior
- General Chair: Carlos Cardeira (Portugal)
- Co-Chairs: Eli Kolberg (Israel), Kate Sim (UK)
- Local Chair: Angélica Muñoz (Mexico)
- RCJ Soccer
- Chair: Giacinto "Gio" Spina (Canada)
- Local Chair: Luis Jose Lopez (Mexico)
- Gerard Elias (Australia)
- Paul Manns (Germany)
- Greg Hunter (UK)
- Irene Kipnis (Israel)
- Takumi Tamashima (Japan)
- RCJ Rescue
- Chair: Karsten Nolte (Germany)
- Co-Chair: Tiago Caldeira (Portugal)
- Local Chair: Rubén Anaya (Mexico)
- Carmen Faria dos Santos (Brazil)
- Yossi Hazan (Israel)
- John O'Neill (UK)
- Naomi Chikuma (Japan)
- RCJ Dance
- Chair: Mikael Carlsson (Sweden)
- Local Chair: Alejandra Barrera
- Sara Iatauro (Canada)
- Nicky Hughes (UK)
- Mayumi Kayama (Japan)
- Sarit Salzman (Israel)
- Barbara Walcher (Germany)
- CoSpace
- Shen Jiayao (Singapore)
- Martin Bader (Germany)
Sponsored Leagues
- Logistics League Sponsored by FESTO
- Local Chair: Andrés Gómez (Mexico)
- Octavio Rojas (Mexico)
- Ulrich Karras (Germany)
Demonstrations
- RoboCup@Work
- Chair: Gerhard Kraetzschmar (Germany)
- Local Chair: Román Osorio (Mexico)
