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

[Sven Behnke]

Dear Oscar,

Oskar von Stryk wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Sven Behnke wrote:
> <...>
>   
>> one way to give the goalie some reaction time would also to count goals 
>> only when the ball has been kicked from the rectangular area between   
>> the center line   and    the line going through the yellow-goal-half 
>> restart markers.
>> This would mean that there is a minimal kicking distance that 
>> corresponds to the kicking distance used for the penalty kicks so far.
>>     
>
>
> In the PK it has already been allowed in recent years that the
> striker robot can dribble the ball towards the penalty area.
>   
No TeenSize robot ever did this, as far as I can remember.
> It is not allowed in the penalty kick that the striker dribbles the ball 
> _inside_ the goal area. 
> It is therefore not possible for the striker to dribble the ball into the 
> goal without kicking it.
>   
My questions to the TC are:
* Should the goalie get some reaction time by requiring a larger minimal 
kicking distance, e.g. the PK distance used so far?
* Should there be a minimal distance between TeenSize robots? Having 
both striker and goalie at the goal area line could be dangerous to the 
robots.

Another important issue for TeenSize Dribble-and-Kick is robot handlers 
on the field.
These make it much more difficult for the goalie to observe the striker.

Best,

Sven.