Simulation Phase
The simulation phase serves as a qualification round before the selected teams may use the real robots. Anyone can participate, you don't need to register. However, please sign up to our forum. Make sure to enable notifications or check the forum regularly, since we may make important announcements. It will also serve as a platform for you to ask questions in case anything is not clear.
The goal of the simulation phase is to pick up a cube and move it on a trajectory (see "Pre-Stage" of the protocol for an overview, and the code documentation for details).
At the end of the simulation phase, participants will self-report their score, and they will hand in their code. We will verify participants' scores, reporting false scores will be considered scientific misconduct. Instructions on how to set up the simulation, develop your code and prepare your submission can be found here.
In addition, teams will also be required to hand in a 3-page proposal describing the methods they used in the simulation phase and how they intend to solve the real-world tasks, see instructions below.
We will select teams based on a combination of the quality of the proposal and the achieved score.
Instructions where to submit will follow.
The entire submission, including proposal, will be treated confidentially. We may publish anonymised scores, though.
Instructions for the Proposal
Requirements
The report must be a PDF generated through latex. The documentclass must be article (\documentclass{article}) without any modifications to font size, spacing etc.
- Page 1 must contain only
- the title,
- the names and affiliations of all team members,
- an email address for contacting the team,
- and an abstract of no more than 500 characters.
- Page 2 and 3 contain the proposal, describing the methods used in simulation, the methods the team is planning to use on the real system, and why they believe this is a promising approach. Please include also a short section on the ressources your team will be able to commit to his challenge, in particular an estimate of the person-hours.
- Page 4 contains only the references.
Evaluation Criteria
The report will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- Clarity and rigor,
- creativity of the proposed method,
- how well we expect the team to perform on the real robots, based on the proposed methods and resources.
Submission Instructions
Deadline: See Imporant Dates.
To create a submission, please fill in the google form here: https://forms.gle/svW9YKTnw8em5TDA9.
Note that you cannot make changes after submission and that you should make only one submission. If you encounter any problems, please contact us on the forum.
Regarding the code and score submission, please follow the instructions in the challenge documentation.
For the Proposal, please submit a PDF which is structured as detailed above.
Due to technical limitations, the Singularity image cannot be uploaded via the form directly. Please upload it to some location from where we can fetch it (e.g. some cloud storage) and add the download link in the submission form. To ensure compatibility, please only submit Singularity images that are based on the challenge image that we provide (see here). In case your code does not have additional dependencies (i.e. it runs with the unmodified base image), you don't need to submit an image.