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Regional Chapters

European FIRA Chapter

Aims:
• Promotion of robots in entertainment, leisure and hobby especially robot soccer.

Tools:
- Organisation of the European Championchip annually (e.g. 2002 Austria)
- Organisation of national and international Exhibition games
- Organisation of invited sessions on national and international scientific events
- Initiation of common research projects
- Publishing of an INTERNET newsletter twice a year
- Homepage

Topics:
- Autonomous mobile robots (MAS)
- Cooperation
- Path planning in an unknown environment
- Swarms
- Adoption and learning
- Use of incomplete and contradictionary informations
- Smart sensors
- Sensor fusion
- Educational aspects
- Changing roles in a team (flexibility)

Structure:
- President: P. Kopacek
- Vice Presidents: B. Reusch (GER), P. Robinson (UK), J. Sa da Costa (PT)
- Secretary: M.W.Han (KOR/AUT)
- Secretariat: IHRT - VUT

Meetings:
At least one annual meeting - usually during the European Championchip. Other business will be done by e-mail

Involved countries:
- EU
- Partners: Bulgaria, Czeckia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia.

Asian FIRA Chapter

Aims:
• Promotion of robots in entertainment/education, leisure and hobby especially soccer robot
• Contribution to realizing and extending robot technology (RT)

Tools:
- Organization of the Asian Championship
- Organization of national and international conference and exhibition robots
- Organization of national and asian scientific events including exhibition games
- Publishing of an INTERNET newsletter twice a year
- Homepage

Topics:
- Autonomous mobile robots (MAS)
- Multiple-robotic system
- Multi-agent systems
- Adoption and learning
- Smart sensors
- Sensor fusion
- Educational aspects
- Changing roles in a team (flexibility)
- Artificial life
- Machine vision for robot intelligence
- Micro and Nano robots

Structure:
- President: K.H. Choi (Korea)
- Vice Presidents: Han-Pang Huang (Taiwan)
- Secretary: B.Chang (Korea)
- Secretariat: undecided

Meetings:
- One annual meeting usually during the Asian Championship. Also Tele-meeting will be organized. Other business will be done by e-mail

Involved countries:
- China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, U.A.E, Saudi, Iran, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.

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