All teams should submit a Team Description Paper (TDP) to participate in LARC/CBR 2015. TDPs can be written in English or Portuguese.

Teams who do not submit a TDP or have their TDP rejected can not attend the event even if they have made ​​the payment of registration. Amounts paid will not be returned under any circumstances.

Teams from the same institution that participate in different categories, should submit different TDPs  for each category.

The TDP shall describe the ideas implemented in the team. You can describe the whole system or  focus on one or two main components. We recommend that the innovative and important topics or alternative approaches adopted by other teams to the same problem and topics that might interest the other teams are included in the TDP.

It is especially important to provide clear and objective explanations. You can assume that readers are familiar to general topics related to the category (description, rules, etc.) and focus your text on the important topics of your work. It should be explained the technical details of how your approach works so that other researchers can replicate your experiments and results. Thus all researchers can benefit from each other’s experiences presented.

The TDP should have the same format as LARS.

MS Word template: ieeeconf_A4.dot

LaTex template: ieeeconf.zip

Number of Pages: 4 to 6 pages.

How to Submit your TDP

To submit your TDP go to www.sistemaolimpo.org and follow these steps:

1. Login or register to the System

2. After login you may see a pop-up screen to update your personal data. Update your data and save.

3. If you have not pre-registered your team yet, do this before submitting your TDP. See instructions in Registration.

4. Go to My interests and choose My jobs in LARC/CBR – Latin American and Brazilian Robotics Competition – 2015.

5. Click in the Edit button () of your pre-registered team. Be careful not to click in the Delete button ( ) by mistake !!!

6. Check if all your team members are already registered in the field Authors. If there are any missing team member, register him before continuing the TDP submission. See instructions in Registration.

7. In the field Questionnaire submission of work, fill in the TDP  title and the Summary TDP with your Abstract (up to 1.000 characters) in English or Portuguese.

8. Click in the button Select Files and choose your TDP .pdf file. Then click in the button write files to upload your TDP.

9. If you are sure you will not modify your TDP you can confirm your submission by clicking in the button Submit in Final. After this you should wait for the notification of acceptance or not of your TDP. Attention: Only teams whose TDPs are accepted can enroll in LARC/CBR 2015. So wait the notification of acceptance of your TDP before proceeding with payment of your registration fees. Registration fees will not be refunded under any circumstances.

The following requirements are mandatory for team participation:

• The registered teams must represent an educational institution .

• An institution can be represented by several teams.

• The registration of different teams of the same institution in the same category are allowed only if the teams are composed by different students, robots and strategies.

• The team must be pre-registered before 23th June
  

• Every team must submit a TDP (see Papers)

PS: Only Brazilian teams that take part in LARC/CBR 2017 can be able to integrate the Brazilian National Robotics Team for Robocup 2018.

Registration

After receiving the e-mail with the notification of acceptance of the team’s TDP, you must proceed with the registration. This procedure consists of payment of registration fees as listed below.

1. Login to Sistema Olimpo and go to menu My payments -> Payables.

2. You will see all your teams with their payment status. Choose the teams you want to pay by checking the boxes Select to pay for each team.

3. If your category includes some Free Professors/Teachers or Students you SHOULD check the box Select as free for each Professor/Teacher or Student who will receive the free registration.

4. If you want to pay additional Professors/Teachers or Students, check the boxes Select to pay for each Professor or Student you want to pay. You do not need to pay all team members at the same time. You can return to this screen later to proceed with additional payments. But be CAREFUL with the payments deadlines below. If you lose the team registration deadline your team can not attend the Competition.

5. When you finish checking all payments you will proceed, click on one of the buttons: Paying with PagSeguro or Pay with PayPal. You will be redirected to one of the Secure Payment systems to finish your payment. PagSeguro is a Brazilian secure payment system where you can pay using bank account deposits, bank account transfer, credit or debit cards and other. PayPal is a well-known international secure payment system where you can pay the registration fee using credit cards. As soon as your payment is confirmed your registration will be finished.

Brazilian Teams – values in R$

 

Registration	Phase	SBC/IEEE Member: Yes	SBC/IEEE Member: No
Team (includes 1 free student)*	Early Registration 1 (01/8 to 08/8) Early Registration 2 (09/8 to 20/8	R$ 400,00 R$ 480,00
	Registration (21/8 – 20/09)	R$ 600,00
Student	Early Registration 1 (01/8 to 08/8) Early Registration 2 (09/8 to 20/8)	R$ 180,00 R$ 220,00	R$ 200,00 R$ 240,00
	Registration (21/8 to 20/9)	R$ 260,00	R$ 300,00
	On-Site	R$ 500,00	R$ 550,00
Teacher	Early Registration 1 (01/8 to 08/8)Early Registration 2 (09/8 to 20/8)	R$ 400,00 R$ 480,00	R$ 450,00 R$ 500,00
	Registration (21/8 to 20/9)	R$ 600,00	R$ 650,00
	On-Site	R$ 750,00	R$ 800,00

* The team registration for Junior Categories includes the registration of 1 Supervisor for free.

Non-Brazilian Teams – values in US$

Registration	Phase	SBC/IEEE Member: Yes	SBC/IEEE Member: No
Team (includes 1 free student)*	Early Registration(01st to 20th August)	US$ 250,00
	Registration(21 August to 20 Sept)	US$ 300,00
Student	Early Registration ( 01st to 20th August)	US$ 110,00	US$ 130,00
	Registration (21 August to 20 Sept)	US$ 130,00	US$ 150,00
	On-Site	US$ 230,00	US$ 250,00
Teacher	Early Registration (01st to 20th August)	US$ 190,00	US$ 200,00
	Registration (21 August to 20 Sept)	US$ 230,00	US$ 250,00
	On-Site	US$ 320,00	US$ 350,00

* The team registration for Junior Categories includes the registration of 1 Supervisor for free.

Remote Participation – Available only for non-Latin American teams in some Categories

Registration	Phase	SBC/IEEE Member: Yes	SBC/IEEE Member: No
Team	Early Registration (01st to 20th August)	US$ 300,00
	Registration (21 August to 20 Sept)	US$ 350,00

Check each category rules to see if Remote Participation is available.

Information for Brazilian Teams ONLY

Pre-registration

Each team should pre-register on Olympo System (http://www.sistemaolimpo.org/) until 23th June, 2017. To perform pre-registration follow these steps:

1. Log in Olimpo System or select the Register option to register an account to access the system. If you have forgotten your password, click Forgot Password?

2. Choose the option Events and locate the LARC/CBR – Latin American and Brazilian Robotics Competition – 2016.

3. Click on the button Participate.

4. In the confirmation window, choose your institution and Confirm. If your account is not associated to any institution you should cancel this procedure and select My data -> My Institutions. In this window you can associate your account to an existing institution or register a new institution in the system before associate it to your account. When you finish, go back and confirm your participation.

5. Go to My interests and select the button My jobs in LARC/CBR – Latin American and Brazilian Robotics Competition – 2016.

6. Click Include job and then Continue.

7. In the next window you will see a field called Title of Work. You should fill in this field with your TEAM NAME. Attention: It is not your TDP title, it is your TEAM NAME. You can not change this name after final registration.

8. In the next window select ONLY ONE category to pre-register your team. Each team should be pre-registered exactly to ONE category.

9. After choosing your team category, you should add all your team members in the field Authors. Even if you are not sure if a team member will attend the competition, you should add him in this field. It will not be possible to add or change team members after TDP submission, so it is better to add all possible team members at this point. To add a team member click in the button . In the registration of Authors window, you should choose if the team member is a Teacher or Student. Then you need to fill in at least the mandatory fields(*). It is a better practice that each team member register himself before you proceed with this step, so when you type the member Name you will see his registration and just choose it and retrieve all information. Repeat this step for each team member.

10. At this point your team pre-registration is finished and you can save it by clicking in the button Save for After Submitting. If you want to submit your TDP see further instructions in Papers.