[robocup-nao] a few discussion items for Nao

[Humberto Martinez Barbera]

Hi,

El 14/05/2008, a las 18:15, Tucker Balch escribió:
> 4) Regarding the robots -- we (GT and CMU) are having a significant  
> rate
> of failure in the joints.  Are others having the same difficulty?  Are
> others having success in working around this?


We are experiencing a couple of difficulties: the longest operational  
period of our robots has been
four days in a row. Then we have had several joints failures (1  
shoulder, 2 hips) and a non starting
robot. In addition, we cannot simulate naoqui (we do not use Windows  
at all, and so MSRS is not
our best option). We are currently developing in Webots, with its  
several NAO related bugs and
limitations.

I would say thing are not running that smooth, although Aldebaran is  
responding quite well in
replacing/repairing the robots. Although, apart from missing some  
days in the process, it does not
make us quite confident in how a match can be played in a state  
similar to current one.

BTW, regarding NAO RoboCup rules, has anyone thought how we can  
change colors during
matches? it took me quite a lot time to screw back the head of a  
robot: the screws are small
and need a tricky fit of the head and cover parts. I remember someone  
raised this question in
the forum.

Humberto
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Humberto Martinez Barbera
Dept. Ingenieria de la Informacion y las Comunicaciones
Area Ingenieria Telematica    e-mail:    humberto at um.es
Universidad de Murcia        www:     http://ants.dif.um.es/~humberto
30100 Murcia (Spain)        phone:    +34-968-364666


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