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Dear RoboCup SPL teams</p>
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Dear RoboCup SPL Technical and Organizing Committees</p>
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Team NomadZ would like to announce the code usage of NaoDevils walking engine in accordance with their license releases</p>
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<a href="https://mail.ethz.ch/owa/redir.aspx?C=UJz86tLQhxt1sj8xZBudhJrS1Py_pEHAWrP7i3oID33DrP-QQrvVCA..&URL=https%3a%2f%2fgithub.com%2fNaoDevils%2fCodeRelease%2fblob%2fmaster%2fLicenseBHuman.txt">https://github.com/NaoDevils/CodeRelease/blob/master/LicenseBHuman.txt</a></p>
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for the upcoming RoboCup 2018 in Montreal, Canada.</p>
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With improvements in our behaviour and perception in recent months, we realised that one of the biggest bottlenecks for us is our walking. One of the major shortcomings of this walking engine is the ineffective use of inertial sensor data.</p>
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In order to fulfill the requirement of a fast and stable walking engine we decided to adapt the Nao Devils walking engine. To our knowledge, this walking engine provides the best balance between speed and stability. We have adapted the modules within the DortmundWalkingEngine
and the associated representations, tools and configuration files.</p>
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We have backported the NaoDevils walking engine (based on B-Human code release 2015) such that we can use it with our framework, which is based on the 2013 release of the B-Human framework.</p>
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All other parts are unaffected by this announcement.</p>
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NaoDevils have kindly released their framework, specifically the walking engine found via:</p>
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We like to thank NaoDevils and B-Human for making their frameworks publicly available every year and honor their contributions to robotics research.</p>
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On behalf of the NomadZ team</p>
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Simon Maurer</p>
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D-ITET, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnologie MSc</p>
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Professur Control and Computation</p>
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ETH Zürich, ETL I 23</p>
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Physikstrasse 3, 8092 Zürich</p>
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