[robocup-humanoid] One question about the position of Imagesensor.

[Chew Chee Meng]

Dear All

Our team had interpreted the rule 4.3 to be that no camera can be
mounted below the shoulder.  Are we changing the rule now?

Rgds
Chee-Meng
Team ROPE



> -----Original Message-----
> From: robocup-humanoid-bounces at cc.gatech.edu 
> [mailto:robocup-humanoid-bounces at cc.gatech.edu] On Behalf Of 
> Pasan Kulvanit
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:46 AM
> To: Shibatani Naoki
> Cc: robocup-humanoid at cc.gatech.edu
> Subject: Re: [robocup-humanoid] One question about the 
> position of Imagesensor.
> 
> 
> Hello all/Naoki,
> 
> First of all...what a word! Took me several minutes to look 
> it up in the dict.
> 
> BTW, does it means "chest area"? If so then according to the 
> rule, there is nothing to stop u from doing that. I think 
> DD&Hajime uses this config too.
> 
> However, I tend to stand against the idea. This is because 
> humanoid robot means...close to human, and human does not 
> posses a camera at the chest. This is falling along the same 
> line as "should we ban omni vision?"
> 
> Having super-human sensors like omnivision or THORACIC camera 
> =) do help boost robot performance but it is up to the RC 
> committee to judge if this is the way to promote building a 
> robot closer to human way-of-thinking.
> 
> To ban or not to ban is not a question right now. It is a 
> question at the last day of RC2007 where we meet to set the 
> rule for 2008.
> 
> Just a thought from me. And thanks Naoki for raising this 
> question. See you all.
> 
> -Pasan
> Team KMUTT
> 
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Hello, this is Naoki Shibatani (TeamOSAKA).
> > I want to ask one thing.
> >
> > ----The rule 4.3 Sensors---
> >
> > 2. Distance sensors, such as cameras and microphones, may not be 
> > placed in the legs or arms of the robots. They should be 
> placed in the 
> > robot's head.
> >
> > ----------------------------
> >
> > We are planning that the image sensor is placed  in the robot's 
> > thoracic part. Is it acceptable for joining Robocup?
> > (We hope It is OK, because we have already proceeded this plan.)
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Sincerely yours,
> >   Naoki Shibatani (TeamOSAKA)
> >
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