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

Oskar von Stryk stryk at sim.tu-darmstadt.de
Thu Jan 17 16:48:38 EST 2008


On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Thomas Röfer wrote:

> > If the obstacle challenge should become more difficult we should
> > rather reduce the minimum distance between poles in KidSize from 50 to
> > 45cm
> > but not increase the number of poles.
> 
> Some thoughts about that:
> 
> 1. We can reduce the number of poles by defining that the robots always have
> to pass between two poles. So if the poles would be crowded in the middle of
> the field, teams were not allowed to go around the cluster on the left or on
> the right.

Walking around all poles to the goal has already been excluded 
in the rules for 2007. See 19.1.:
"The robot must reach the goal, enter in it,
by crossing at least once the line between two obstacles and by avoiding 
touching all obstacles."


> 2. A fixed minimum distance between poles favors teams with small robots. A
> robot with a height of 60 cm can have a diameter of 33 cm (0.55 * h). That's
> only 6 cm to each side if the gaps are 45 cm. Obviously teams are not forced

Larger robots can walk faster with larger steps than smaller robots.

> to build thick robots, but it also has not been a goal of the league to
> build thin ones. Maybe the minimum distance between the poles should relate
> to the diameter of the robot (minimum cylinder).

Robot specific distances make not much sense.

I suggest to keep it in the suggested way because it is not easier
than the obstacle challenge in 2007 where only a fraction
of the teams could manage it.

With best regards,
Oskar


More information about the robocup-humanoid mailing list