The RoboCup Federation is an international organization, registered in Switzerland, to organize international effort to promote science and technology using soccer games by robots and software agents.

President

• Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), 2008-2011

The Board of Trustees: as of 2008 July

• Hiroaki Kitano (Kitano Symbiotic Systems Project, JST, Japan), Founding President (1997-2002)
• Minoru Asada (Osaka University, Japan), Former President (2002-2008)
• Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar (Fraunhofer IAIS and University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany), Vice President for RoboCupJunior, --2010
• Tucker Balch (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), --2009
• Itsuki Noda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan), --2009
• Peter Stone (The University of Texas at Austin, U.S.A.), --2010
• Elizabeth Sklar (Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA), --2011
• Satoshi Tadokoro (Tohoku University, Japan), --2011
• Pedro U. Lima (Institute for Systems and Robotics and Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal), --2012
• Daniele Nardi (University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy), --2012
• Ubbo Visser (University of Bremen, Germany), 2007-2012
• Luis Almeida (University of Aveiro, Portugal), 2008-2013
• XiaoPing Chen (University of Science and Technology of China, China), 2008-2013
• Daniel Polani (University of Hertfordshire, UK), 2008--2013
• Martin Riedmiller (University of Osnabrück, Germany), 2008-2013

Former Trustees: *Affiliations (below) are those of the time.

• Hans-Dieter Burkhard (Humboldt University, Germany), Former Vice President, --2008
• Enrico Pagello (University Padova, Italy), --2008
• Silvia Coradeschi (Orebro University, Sweden),--2008
• Andrew Jennings (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia), 1997-2000, General Chair RoboCup 2000 Melbourne
• Milind Tambe (University of Southern California, USA), --1999
• Dominique Duhaut (Laboratorie Robotic de Paris, then University of Southern Bretagne, France) 1997-2001, General Chair RoboCup 1998 Paris
• Frans Groen (University of Amsterdam, Holland), --2001

The Executive Committee: (2008-2009)
The Executive Committee consists of members of the Board of Trustees and representatives from each activity area. The terms are three years as shown.

• Soccer Simulation
• Oliver Obst (CSIRO, Sydney, Australia) 2006-2009
• Sahar Asadi (Orebro University, Sweden) 2008-2011
• Hidehisa Akiyama (AIST, Japan) 2008-2011
• Small Size Robot (F-180)
• Tadashi Naruse (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan) 2005-2011
• Paulo Costa (University of Porto, Portugal) 2006-2009
• Alfredo Weitzenfeld (ITAM, Mexico) 2008-2011
• Tim Laue (DFKI Bremen, Germany) 2008-2011
• Middle Size Robot (F-2000)
• Yasutake Takahashi (Osaka University, Japan) 2006-2009
• Andrea Bonarini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) 2006-2009
• Fernando Ribeiro (University of Minho, Portugal) 2004-2010
• Standard Platform Robot (formerly: 4-Legged Robot League
• Claude Sammut (University of New South Wales, Australia) 2003-2009
• Thomas Roefer (DFKI Bremen, Germany) 2004-2010
• Michael Quinlan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) 2008-2011
• Humanoid
• Changjiu Zhou (Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore) 2003-2009
• Norbert M. Mayer (Osaka University, Japan), 2004-2010
• Oskar von Stryk, (University of Darmstadt, Germany) 2008-2011
• Jacky Baltes (University of Manitoba, Canada), 2008-2011
• Rescue Robot
• Adam Jacoff (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) 2006-2009
• Andreas Birk (Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany) 2005-2011
• Rescue Simulation
• H. Levent Akin (Bogazici University, Turkey) 2005-2011
• Alexander Kleiner (University of Freiburg, Germany) 2006-2009
• Stefano Carpin (University of California, Merced, USA) 2006-2009
• @ Home
• Thomas Wisspeintner (Fraunhofer AIS, Germany) 2006-2009
• Tijn van der Zant (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands) 2006-2009
• Luca Iocchi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), 2008-2011
• Junior
• Ashley Green (Open University, UK), 2006-2009
• Martin Bader (Lessing-Gymnasium Gymnasium, Germany) 2007-2010
• Amy Eguchi (Bloomfield College, USA), 2008-2011

The Technical Committees: (2008-2009)
The Technical Committee (TC) is responsible for technical issues of each league along with the Executive Committee members listed above. The TC members are listed below.

• Soccer Simulation
• 2D
• Sebastian Marian (COMPA-IT, Romania)
• Ke Shi (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
• 3D
• Sander van Dijk (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
• Jie Ma (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Hedayat Vatankhah (University of Isfahan, Iran)
• Mixed Reality (MR)
• Rodrigo da Silva Guerra (Osaka University, Japan)
• Matthias Bohnen (University of Koblenz, Germany)
• Small Size Robot (F-180)
• Mahisorn Wongphati (Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,Thailand)
• Stefan Zickler (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
• Ulfert Nehmiz (University of Bremen, Germany)
• Middle Size Robot (F-2000)
• Yasunori Takemura (Japan)
• Roel Merry (Netherlands)
• Bernardo Cunha (Portugal)
• Darwin Lau
• Andrea Bonarini (Italy)
• Fernando Ribeiro (Portugal)
• Yasutake Takahashi (Japan)
• Standard Platform Robot (formerly: 4-Legged Robot League)
• Michael Quinlan (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Max-Risler (Techniocal University of Dearmstadt, Germany)
• Javier Ruiz-del-Solar (University of Chile, Chile)
• Eric Chown (Bowdoin College, USA)
• Humanoid
• Jacky Baltes (University of Manitoba, Canada)
• Oskar von Stryk (University of Darmstadt, Germany)
• Pasan Kulvanit (King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thailand)
• Rescue Robot
• Ehasn Mihankhah (K.N.Toosi University of Technology, Iran)
• Johannes Pellenz (University of Koblenz, Germany)
• Raymond Shea (Australia)
• Rescue Simulation
• Kamal Karlapelem (International Institute of Information Technology, India)
• Ioannis Vetsikas (University of Southampton, U.K.)
• Omid AmirGhiasvand (Mechatronics Reserach Lab, Iran)
• Steve Balakirsky (NIST, USA)
• Arnoud Visser (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• @ Home
• Javier Ruiz-del-Solar (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• Stefan Schiffer (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
• Komei Sugiura (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)
• Junior
  • Dance
  • Ian Maud (Australia), chair
  • Amy Eguchi (US)
  • Eli Kolberg (Israel)
  • Shi Li (China)
  • Martin Bader (Germany)
  • Eduardo Pinto (Portugal)
  • Rescue
  • Ashley Green (UK), chair
  • Damien Kee (Australia)
  • Maverick Luk (China)
  • Katsunori Mizuno (Japan)
  • Kate Sim (UK)
  • Frank de Luca (Canada)
  • Soccer
  • Sebastian Polly (Germany), chair
  • Martin Bader (Germany)
  • Brian Thomas (Australia)
  • Tairo Nomura (Japan)
  • Eduardo Pinto (Portugal)
  • Gio Spina (Canada)

The Advisory Board: (to be announced shortly)

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last updated 09/07/03