The 8th RoboCup International Symposium will be held in conjunction and immediately after the RoboCup 2004 Competitions and Demonstrations as the core meeting for the presentation of scientific contributions in areas of relevance to RoboCup. Its scope encompasses, but is not restricted to, the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Education. The Symposium will take place at the Congress Center of Instituto Superior Técnico from 4 to 5 July.

For information about how to get to the symposium venue, please click here.

The IFAC/EURON 5th Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles (IAV04) will also take place at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon from 5 to 7 July 2004. IAV2004 will bring together researchers and practitioners from the fields of land, air and marine robotics to discuss common theoretical and practical problems, describe scientific and commercial applications and explore avenues for future research.

On July 5, IAV2004 runs in parallel with the RoboCup Symposium and both events will share two plenary sessions on topics of common interests for both research communities.

We wish to thank EOARD (European Office of Aerospace Research
and Development of the USAF) for their contribution to the success of this conference.

Awarded papers

Scientific Challenge Award 
 
Map-based Multi Model Tracking of a Moving Object
Cody Kwok and Dieter Fox

Engineering Challenge Award 
 
UCHILSIM: A dinamically and Visually Realistic Simulator for the RoboCup four Legged League
Juan Cristóbal Zagal Montealegre and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar

Accepted Papers

Oral presentation (30 out of 118 submitted)

Poster presentation (38 out of 118 submitted)

The ROBOCUP 2004 Symposium poster sessions will be held together with the coffee breaks. All posters for each day will be on display during the entire day. These arrangements should provide a relaxed atmosphere for presenting and discussing the posters.

POSTER FORMAT: posters should not exceed 1 metre (height) by 1.6 metre(width).

Plenary Speakers

July 4

Hugh Durrant-Whyte, U. Sydney, Australia
"Autonomous Navigation in Unstructured Environments"

Luigia Carlucci Aiello, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
"Seven Years of RoboCup: time to look ahead"

July 5 (joint with IAV 2004)

James Albus, NIST, USA
"RCS: a Cognitive Architecture for Intelligent Multi-agent Systems"

Shigeo Hirose, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
"Development of Rescue Robots in Tokyo Institute of Tecnhology"