Introduction
The RoboCup 2D simulation Soccer League is the oldest of the RoboCup Simulation competitions. It is based on the RoboCup Soccer Simulator that enables two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robots plus an autonomous coach agent to play a game of soccer with very realistic rules and game play. Due to its stability the RoboCup Soccer Simulator is a very good research and educational tool for multi-agent systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Since teams competing at the 2D RoboCup Simulation League have settled on a high competitive standard and in order to promote scientific research, the qualification will be based on a measurement of the quality of the team’s scientific work expressed by a submitted Team Description Paper and logfiles with appropriate annotations. In RoboCup 2012 up to 24 teams will be allowed to participate in the 2D Simulation competitions. To register all teams have to provide a Team Description Paper and, in case they are based on another team under a license, they have to attach the agent source code.
Schedule
The schedule of 2D competition is aligned with the general RoboCup 2012 schedule:
Team Pre-Registration Deadline: February 29, 2012 – 23:59 UTC
Team Qualification Material Submission: March 6, 2012- 23:59 UTC
Early Registration: March 1 – April 30, 2012
Regular Registration: May 1 – May 31, 2012 (No team registration accepted after May 31)
Late registration: June 1 – June 23 2012 (Team members only)
You can see details of qualification process here.