[robocup-humanoid] suggestion part 4.5 "Colors and Markers"

[Thomas Röfer]

> Dear Dr.Emanuele Menegatti,
> Dear Organizing and Technical Committees
> 
> I'm Norberto Velazquez from Mexico,
> In our experience in Bremen some robots had red leds that was blinking
> during the games and caused problems in our robot and in others vision
> systems, for that I want suggest add at the rules (part 4.5 "Colors and
> Markers"), that: any LED must not be ON or blinking during the
> competitions!
> I don't know if is to late to add this at the rules but I considered
> important comment

Hi,

I am against this suggestion. LEDs can give important information to the
programmers why the robot is behaving as it is. Other leagues, such as the
Four-Legged League, also have robots with many LEDs and besides that orange
is not allowed, basically any other color is. So why can the teams in the
Four-Legged League deal with the problem but the teams in the Humanoid
League cannot? That would be a step in the wrong direction.

Best regards

Thomas Röfer
(B-Human)

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