• 10-10-2005, added coach results and patters to results section.
• Results will be posted at the results page
• July 6th, presentation time 3D development competition increased. See the rules section.
• June 30th, added information about configuration network in time-table + schedule section.
• June 29th. updated coach page on the rules section
• May 23th, updated time-table to include competition format and schedule. Also updated rules section.
• May 11th, configuration used in the 3D simulation is available.
• May 6th, each qualified team can sent in an updated team description paper (TDP) before May 10th by sending it jellekok@science.uva.nl.. The TDPs should be formated in the same layout of the symposium papers, see here for details. The paper should be formated in PDF. The maxium length of the paper should be 12 pages.

  If no updated version is submitted, the TDP submitted for the qualification procedure will be used.

• Feb 28, 2005 List of qualified teams added
• Feb 22, 2005 Qualification for 2D has finally started, check SSIL result site
• Jan 31, 2005 added qualification form with travel support form
• Jan 12, 2005 added new rules documents.
• Dec 6, 2004: pre-registration open, general rules available.
• Sept 9, 2004: updated website, added time-table

RoboCup Simulation League consists of a number of competitions with simulated soccer matches as the main event.

2D Soccer Competition

In the RoboCup Simulation League teams of 11 autonomous software agents per side play each other using the RoboCup soccer server simulator, available from the official simulator website.
There are no actual robots in this league but spectators can watch the action on a large screen, which looks like a giant computer game.
Each simulated robot player may have its own play strategy and characteristic and every simulated team actually consists of a collection of programmes. Many computers are networked together in order for this competition to take place.
The games last for about 10 minutes, with each half being 5 minutes duration.

Online Coach Competition

This sub-league is for automated coaches which are able to work with a variety of teams through the use of the standard coaching language discussed on the coach-l mailing list (the final language will be announced by the technical and organizing committees). The research focus is on team and opponent modelling and online adaptation. The coaches can work both by analyzing logs of previous games and observing and adapting while a game is proceeding.

3D Soccer Competition

The 3D competition makes use of the simulator that is based on the simulation system introduced at the RoboCup 2003 symposium and the spades simulation middleware system introduced at the RoboCup 2002 symposium. It can be downloaded from sourceforge.

3D Soccer Competition Development

The idea of this competition is to take the current 3D server and improve on it by implementing your own ideas. There will be up to three prizes for the best implementations. If the ideas proposed get accepted by the technical committee, they will be incorporated into the official simulator. By creating this competition we hope to get more input from the community and to speed up the development of the 3D simulator.

There are lots of things that need to be worked on in the server, including speed improvements, implementing more of the fifa rules, coach, different kinds of robots, sensors, controllers, visualization, and various tools.

One of the goals for future 3D soccer competitions is to have simulated robots with articulated bodies, for example like humanoid robots.