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MAGIC 2010: Super-smart robots wanted for international challenge

16.1 Team Membership

A team comprises individuals identified to the challenge organisers on the team roster.

There are no limits to the number of individuals that may be listed on the team. However, there are limits to the number of individuals allowed into the designated areas of the challenge. The team roster may be changed, but organisers must be notified in writing that this has occurred.

Each team must designate an individual to serve as a Team Leader. The team leader must be at least 21 years of age and will act as the primary point of contact with challenge organisers during the challenge. The team leader will sign the application, is responsible for providing a Certificate of Team Funding and Support and Site Visit Liability Statement (available from www.dsto.defence.gov.au/MAGIC2010/), and must be present at the Technical Presentation and November/June Site Visits.

The team leader is the only person authorized to directly communicate with the judges and organizers with regards to the selection process, funding, and to discuss judging decisions.

Team leadership may be transferred from the team leader to another eligible individual, although there may only be one team leader at a time. Transfer of leadership occurs when the organisers have received and acknowledged transfer of team leadership in writing.

During the challenge there will be two participating components of the challenge team: an operations team, and a support team. Team leadership and membership of operations and support teams may not be changed (other than in exceptional circumstances) after June 2010. Any such applications must be made in writing, with strong justification, to the challenge organisers.

16.2 Operations Team Membership

The operations team comprises up to 2 individuals identified to the challenge organisers on the team roster. Only these individuals are allowed to enter the designated operator’s zone and/or operate/supervise the multi-UVS cooperative during the challenge. They may not leave the operator’s zone, but are permitted to power up, re-charge or replace energy sources on the UGVs that are in the operator’s zone. Operations team members may also affect minor repairs after permission has been granted by the judges as per normal repair judging procedures.

Each team shall designate an individual to serve as its Operations Team Leader during the actual challenge event. The team leader must be at least 21 years of age and is the only member of the operations team permitted to interact with the judges during the event.

The operations team leader may be the team leader.

16.3 Support Team Membership

The support team comprises up to 3 individuals identified to the challenge organisers on the team roster. Only these individuals are allowed to enter the designated servicing zones during the challenge. They may not leave the designated servicing zones during the challenge, but are permitted to power up, re-charge or replace energy sources on a UGV.

Teams may also affect minor repairs such after permission has been granted by the judges.

Support teams must designate a single individual in each DSZ/DSL to serve as the support team leader to communicate with judges.

16.4 Participation & Sponsorship

Corporations and non-government organisations may participate as teams or as sponsors

Universities, university research centres, colleges of learning, polytechnics, schools, their employees and graduate and undergraduate students may participate in this competition unless they receive direct funding or support through a grant, contract or other transaction for the purposes of participating in or developing equipment for this challenge from national or state governments, government agencies or other state or federal government organisations. This does not prohibit support or funding provided by the organisers of this challenge.

16.5 Team Funding & Support

The cost of developing, fielding, and insuring entered vehicles is the sole responsibility of the individual teams.

Teams must submit formal proposals to receive the $100,000 research awards granted by the organisers during the down selection process. Teams may use additional funds, but must identify the amount and source of this funding during the technical presentations and down selection process.

Each team leader must sign and submit a Certificate of Team Funding and Support which will contain the following certifications (forms are available from this website (www.dsto.defence.gov.au/MAGIC2010/)

• No funding used in the foreground design, development, construction or operation of the systems employed in this challenge has been or will be charged to a grant, contract or other transaction from any national government, either directly through such work or indirectly through government-reimbursable R&D,
  government-funded independent R&D, overhead or general and administrative accounts. This restriction includes funding to pay for labour, travel, equipment leases, or other services that are applied directly to the design, development, construction or operation of the challenge vehicles.
• No portion of the Foreground IP used in the UGV systems (including the GCS) has been paid for or will be paid for, wholly or in part, using direct government funding. This exclusion does not apply to Third Party IP.
• Government-owned equipment or facilities have not been used and will not be used in the design, development or operation of the UGVs unless the equipment or facilities are made available on a cost-reimbursable basis.

This certification does not prohibit:

• The use of government-sponsored information such as GPS signals, cartographic products, or government-developed software routines that are openly available.
• The use of any technologies that are commercially available to all teams.
• The use of facilities, services, equipment or funding supplied to the teams by the organisers of the challenge.
• The use of paid vacation time by government employees and contract employees
  to support a challenge team.

Each team leader must also sign and submit a Site Visit Liability Statement which will contain the following certifications (forms are available on the website):

• The location chosen for the site visit complies with all site visit specifications,
• The team holds harmless and indemnifies the US and Australian Governments and their employees and any MAGIC 2010 contractors for all claims of liability arising from the site visit, and
• The test location, test UGV, and test activities are in accordance with national, state and local laws and regulations.

16.6 Definitions

Government Funding – Government funding refers to compensation in the form of salary or travel expenses and any form of funding, supplies, equipment or reimbursement that is paid for by a national government, direct contractual efforts or through any form of overhead account, independent R&D grant, general and administrative account or other similar means funded by any national or international government entity. Funds received in the form of a grant that originated with a government shall also be considered government funding. Prize money awarded in a government-sponsored, publicly open competition shall not be considered government funding. This definition covers national and international government organisations, whether located in the United States, Australia, or in any other country or territory.

Commercially Available – Commercially available refers to services and materials sold, leased or licensed to the general public.

Openly Available – Openly available refers to refers to services and materials that are available to anyone without charge, such as software that is available for public download or GPS signals.

Intellectual Property - Intellectual Property or IP means all copyright (including moral rights) and all rights in relation to inventions (including patent rights), registered and unregistered trademarks (including service marks), registered and unregistered designs, confidential information (including trade secrets and know-how), and circuit layouts, and any other rights resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary and artistic fields recognised in domestic law anywhere in the world.

Foreground IP – Foreground IP means IP which is not Background IP and which is created under or otherwise in connection with this challenge or any approved subcontract, other than Third Party IP.

Third Party IP - Third Party IP means that IP which is owned by a party other than the Commonwealth Government of Australia, the Federal Government of the United States, the Challenge Participants or their approved sub-contractors.

Background IP – Background IP means IP, other than Third Party IP that is in existence at the date of the challenge announcement or is subsequently brought into existence other than as a result of a Team’s participation in this challenge.

Team – A team comprises two parts: a qualified team leader and any other individuals who may have been appropriately designated by the team leader as team members in the application. Team members may contribute their individual labour, individually-owned materials and equipment, and individual funds to a team.

Team Leader – A team leader is an individual identified to the challenge organisers on the team roster responsible for the following: primary point of contact for team communication with challenge organisers, signatory of the Certificate of team funding and Support, signatory of the Site Visit Liability Statement, [contract signature], and who will be present at all site visits.

Team Member – A team member is a team leader or individual who has been identified on the team roster by the team leader as a team member during the submission process.

Team Sponsor – a team sponsor is an organisation that contributes labour, materials, services, facilities, equipment or funds to a team.

** Please note: Neutralise - does not imply weaponise