RoboCup 2009 MSL Committees
Executive Committee
Executive Committee members are responsible for the long-term goals of the league and thus have also contact to other leagues as well as to the RoboCup federation. The Executive Committee presents the league and its achievements to the RoboCup federation every year and gets feedback to organize the league. All committee members are also members of the Technical Committee. Executive Committee members are elected by the board of trustees of the RoboCup federation; they serve 3-year terms.
- Fernando Ribeiro, University of Minho (Portugal) (Third year, Second Term)
- Andrea Bonarini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) (First year, Second Term)
- Yasutake Takahashi, Osaka University (Japan) (First year, Second Term)
Technical Committee
The Technical Committee for each league is responsible for planning the technical aspects of the league in short-term to keep in the roadmap of the whole RoboCup in long-term, i.e. the committee defines the rules for the next RoboCup and takes care of the according refereeing. All members are elected by the team leaders of the teams which have participated in the previous competition. In addition, all members of the Executive Committee are members of the Technical Committee.
- Bernardo Cunha, University of Aveiro (Portugal)
- Roel Merry, Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands)
- Yasunori Takemura, Nippon Bunri University (Japan)
- Darwin Lao, The University of Melbourne (Australia)
Organizing Committee
The Organizing Committee of each league is responsible for preparing and organizing the competition. This mainly includes making the schedule, performing the qualification process, and running the competition. The committee members are selected by the Executive Committee of the league and the RoboCup Trustees.
- Roel Merry, Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) (OC chair)
- Asad Norouzi, Mechatronics Research Laboratory, Qazvin Islamic Azad University (Iran)
- Jose Luis Azevedo, University of Aveiro (Portugal)
- Stefan Galler, Graz University of Technology (Austria) (local chair)