Qualification Need and Process
| Similarly to the other RoboCup leagues, the RoboCup Sony Four-legged League
introduces a qualification process, starting with the teams that will participate
in RoboCup-2004. There are several reasons for the need of this qualification,
in particular the continued interest in the league combined with the fact
that we cannot increase the number of teams every year. As opposed to other
leagues, the qualification procedure qualifies teams based on their performance
at RoboCup in the previous year. The process is designed to allow for teams
to show their technical contributions in terms of performance in the competition,
challenges, and research publications. |
Procedure
| The total teams qualified, TAll is the union of three categories of
teams:
1. TComp - Teams classified from the competition (Winners from the Championship tournament)
2. TChallenge - Teams classified from the RoboCup Challenges (Winners from the challenges)
3. TRec - Teams recommended by Committee (including new teams based
on the applications) So #TAll = #(TComp+TChallenge+TRec) |
Number of Teams
For example, if #TAll = 24 teams (#(Tcomp+Tchallenge+Trec) = 24),
then the proposed distribution is:
# Tcomp = 8 (Quarter finalists)
# TChallenge = 4 (select from the order of Challenge result excluding
Tcomp)
# Trec = #Tall-(Tcomp+Tchallenge)
The committee will take into account the years in the league, research
publications, and scientific and engineering achievements. (So, freshman
teams should be fine.) |
Declination of participation
| In case a qualified team declines to participate in the next year RoboCup,
Tchallenge classification will be increased. |
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