[robocup-nao] GameController 2016 European Open Edition

[Thomas Röfer]

Hi,

we have uploaded a preliminary version of the GameController 2016, in this case for the European Open. It contains some important changes, one of which requires adapting your code:

1. The return packets sent by the robots now have to be sent on a different UDP port. The file RoboCupGameControlData.h defines it with the symbol GAMECONTROLLER_RETURN_PORT. This allows the TeamCommunicationMonitor to run on the same PC as the GameController itself, without the risk of it stealing the return packets from the GameController.

2. The return packets have to be addressed at the GameController PC. The GameController will reject them if they are broadcasted. Thereby, these packets are not send out to all the other robots anymore, saving some WiFi bandwidth.

3. As a result, the GameController has the new parameter --interface instead of --broadcast, because this allows it to determine whether a packet was broadcasted. --interface expects the name of the network interface that is connected to the field. The first network interface is the default.

4. The GameController now delays the switch from the set state to the playing state by 15 seconds in all games, because all games will be started with a whistle. There is still a bug that counts down the time visible to the robots in the preliminaries, but this will be fixed soon.

Best regards

Thomas
(B-Human)

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Dr. Thomas Röfer
DFKI Bremen
Cyber-Physical Systems
Cartesium 0.55
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