Teams that are interested in participating must submit their qualification material before the deadline. The qualification procedure is dependent on the division and league. Please contact the chairs and co-chairs of the event if you have any further questions.

FIRA Sports, FIRA Challenge, and FIRA Air

Qualification consists of two parts: (1) A max. 5 min long video showing the performance of your robot, and (2) a research paper for FIRA World Summit (max. 12 pages in Springer LNCS format).

Videos

Videos must be uploaded to a publicly accessible video sharing site such as YouTube or Vimeo. Post a link into the FIRA official registration website, available in https://firaworldcup.org

Team Description Paper (TDP)

All teams from this year should submit a Team Description Paper (TDP). The TDP is limited to 6 pages maximum and must be submitted in PDF format. This report fully describes the scientific aspects of your robot system and your research interests, includes a summary of previous relevant achievements in research and development as well as publications, and mentions prior performance in FIRA competitions.

The TDP must follow the LNCS format which can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Please pay special attention to the “Author guidelines” that you’ll be able to find there. Teams that do not to follow the LNCS formatting and style guidelines will not be qualified.

FIRA Youth

Teams that are represented by a FIRA Chapter must qualify and register via their FIRA Chapter.

Teams that do not yet have a chapter may contact FIRA HQ directly for qualification. In this case, they should submit a two page write-up in English describing their previous experience in robotics and their motivation for joining the FIRA competition.

In addition, participants that would like to take part in the United Nations Mission must submit a two page write-up in English describing their previous experience in robotics and their motivation for joining the United Nations Mission.

There is a change in youth registration, it used to cover up to 3 events per registration. From 2024, 1 registration covers 1 event only. If you wish to take part in more than 1 event, you need to register for each event.

Mission Impossible consists of three events this year, (1) Mission Impossible_H (Hardware) (2) Mission Impossible_S (Software) (3) Mission Impossible_U (United), and a prize for best team over all three events Mission Impossible Allround.

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