[robocup-humanoid] Wireless communication

Jacky Baltes jacky at cs.umanitoba.ca
Sat May 17 20:11:59 EDT 2008


Hi Oscar,

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Oskar von Stryk <stryk at sim.tu-darmstadt.de>
wrote:

> Hello Hamid,
>
>  Maybe no more, because we have decided to make the robot shorter. However
>> it is not stated clearly in the rules whether "standing upright" means that
>> the robot should be measured as normally standing or stretched to its
>> maximum height?
>>
>
> If your question refers to Section 4.1.1 of the rule book
> where posture of the robot to determine H_top and H_com is described
> as "standing upright" then it means standing in upright posture like a
> human.
>
> This means that the knee joints are streched out and not bended.
> But the robot does not need to try to stretch _maximally_ in height,
> e.g. by performing difficult balancing on toes.
>
> It is the posture I would expect if you ask a human "would you please stand
> upright that we can measure your height (H_top)?".
>

No.

The definition of upright posture has always been "the posture of your robot
during its normal walking gait" to determine the centre of mass.

CU,
   Jacky


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