[robocup-humanoid] Discussion at the Robot Soccer WS at the Humanoids 2007

[N. Michael Mayer]

Dear all,
Last year and this year Emanuele Menegatti, Enrico Pagello, Sven Behnke 
and Changjiu Zhou and others have been organizing a workshop as part of 
the Humanoids conference. This year we used the opportunity to discuss 
the rules for 2008 that happened to be put online just a week before the 
workshop.

Suggestions for changes have been:
Obstacle avoidance:  Since this challenge is much easier than the other 
technical challenges in KidSize it has been suggested to put more 
(around 20) obstacle poles and let the robot walk a longer distance. The 
pole sizes could be adjusted to the size of the marker poles  that is a 
height of 60cm height, and as before 20cm diameter.

TeenSize dribble kick competition should be more similar to the 2-2 
games in KidSize. In particular, it would be good to make a rule that 
when the goalie goes down he has go up after 15 secs. A sketch of 
outline of the dribble kick competition would be helpful.

TeenSize footrace comeptition: instead of walking only one way it would 
be good to change this to walk one way; turn around and walk back.

Best Regards,
Michael