Virtual Ocean Robotics Challenge announcement

Maritime Robotics
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Open Robotics and the Naval Postgraduate School are happy to announce the Virtual Ocean Robotics Challenge (VORC), sponsored by the Office of Naval Research.

https://www.oceanroboticschallenge.com/

This competition is targeted at university teams or any individual with an interest in maritime simulations. The main goals of this challenge are: (i) offer a way to learn about maritime robotics using simulation; (ii) leverage previous participation in similar competitions to improve team solutions; and (iii) offer a ramp up challenge towards physical maritime competitions.

Participation is free. Phase 1 will be held on November 23 and Phase 2 on December 7-11. The timeline is tight, so we encourage everyone to register right away and start coding!

The VORC technical team:
Carlos Agüero <caguero@openrobotics.org>
Brian Bingham <bbingham@nps.edu>
Sean Kragelund <spkragel@nps.edu>
Michael McCarrin <mrmccarr@nps.edu>
Carson Vogt <crvogt@nps.edu>
Mabel Zhang <mabel@openrobotics.org>

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This looks really fun and terrifically interesting - but it is going to be extremely difficult to field this kind of thing for a Monday event of the week of the US Thanksgiving Holiday, when it is announced just the Friday before. If the Phase 1 event could be more flexible in some way, even pushing it back after Thanksgiving, it would go a long way toward greater participation.

Thanks,
Val

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Hi Val, the competition was announced before in other channels. Phase 1 is just a video and we can be quite flexible about it. I hope you can make it!

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VRX Tasks 2019 Wiki and VRX Documentation Wiki links mentioned in the Task Description pdf are not available.

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Thanks, the links have been updated.