Call for Participation

Important Dates

Deadline for Application Part 1: 29 October 2018 (extended hard deadline)

Deadline for Application Part 2: 26 November 2018

ERL Emergency Competition: 18-23 February 2019

Rulebook

The complete rules of ERL Emergency 2019 tournament can be found here (updated January 28th).

Please check carefully the requirements for land and air robots (these two documents are extracts from the rulebook to facilitate reading).

Application Procedure

The Call for Participation is open. Applicant teams must send an email to erl.emergency [at] catec [dot] aero before the first deadline (October 29th) with the following attachments:

• Team Information Form
• Team Match Form (for single-domain teams that need to match another team)
• Vehicle Specification Form (one per vehicle): land vehicle form / air vehicle form

For the second Application Deadline (November 26th), teams must also send an email to erl.emergency [at] catec [dot] aero attaching the following additional material:

• Scenario Application Paper (describing how teams plan to tackle the TBM/FBMs).
• Letter of Intent (LOI) regarding liability and insurance.
• Photograph & Video Release Form signed by each of the team members.
• Payment of a non-refundable registration fee.
• Robots validation (videos can be sent via cloud-based file transfer services):
  • Air: description of the aerial system and videos, as specified in the requirements for aerial robots.
  • Land: a video showing the robot driving in an “8” shaped path.

Selection Criteria

Teams will be selected for participation based on:

• Team research quality, as measured from the provided information.
• Number of available slots for team participation in the tournament. Double domain teams (Land+Air) will have priority over single domain teams. If you are a single domain team, please fill the 'Team Match Form' and the organization will help you match with another single domain team.