RoboCup Spanish National Committee
From RobocupSpain
The Spanish RoboCup National Committee has the aim to promote the RoboCup initiative in Spain.
It has been regognized by the RoboCup Federation (http://www.robocup.org/community/7.html)
The committee specific responsibilities are:
- Serve as a point of contact for local RoboCup events and RoboCup Opens
- Promote RoboCup in Spain
- Maintain an English website to be linked to the main RoboCup website describing the RoboCup activities in Spain. (This one is a preliminary version)
Members of Spanish National Committee
The following is the list of the current committee members. Please contact the responsible for your league or the chair for general questions concerning RoboCup in Spain.
- Chair: Vicente Matellán (http://gsyc.es/~vmo) (from the Rey Juan Carlos University Robotics Group (http://www.robotica-urjc.es))
- Standard Platform League (http://www.tzi.de/4legged/bin/view/Website/WebHome): Humberto Martínez Barberá (leader of TeamChaos Team (http://www.teamchaos.es))
- Coach simulation league: Agapito Ismael Ledezma Espino (leader of CAOS Team (http://www.caos.inf.uc3m.es/caoscoachteam/index.htm))
- RoboCup Junior Spain: Eduardo Gallego (leader of the Complubot team (http://www.complubot.org))
- Humanoid league: Davide Faconti (leader of the Pal Technology Team (http://www.pal-robotics.com/media.html))
- Small size: Albert Oller (leader of the URV-bots (http://www.etse.urv.es/recerca/rivi/lines2a.html))
RoboCup in Spain
One of the major goals of the National Committee is to promote the RoboCup in Spain. Until now, Spain has been really under-represented in RoboCup competitions (when compared to GDP ranking, or research indexes). Only the 4-legged team Teamchaos has had a sustained participation in the last years (since 2004 using TeamChaos name (http://www.teamchaos.es). In the last edition, two more teams entered the competition: CAOS (http://www.caos.inf.uc3m.es/caoscoachteam/index.htm) in the coaching league, and Complubot (http://complubot.educa.madrid.org/) in the Junior league, which has encouraged us to create the Spanish National Committe in order to promote the RoboCup initiative in Spain.
Previously, only the RoGi Team (http://rogiteam.udg.es/) had participated in the small size league (from 1997 to 2000), as well as individual participations in the simulation league also in 1997 by Vicente Matellán, and by Humberto Martínez in the 4-legged as part of the Team Sweden (http://www.aass.oru.se/Agora/RoboCup/) from 2001 to 2003.
In 2006 the first team of the RoboCup Junior League entered the competitions (Complubot (http://www.complubot.org)) as well a new simulated team (CAOS (http://www.robocupspain.es/index.php/CAOS)). In 2007 new teams have registered for the German Open (un-official european tournament) in the Humanoid and RoboCup@Home leagues.
RoboCup organization
The current structure of the RoboCup Federation, as well as to other RoboCup National Committees, can be found at:
