[robocup-small] About bigger fields

[Raul Lapeira]

Well, I am not an expert in the f180 league, but as many other spaniards I
think I know a lot about football (which is not necesarily true). :)

I think that if you really want to make matches interesting you need big
fields and small players, one thing I dislike of the f180 league is that you
can not "experience" it, no matter how good the teams are because you have
no time to get excited in the game play, there is no "ow, what a good
3-pass-goal" it is mainly a matter of good shots.

Furthermore with a much bigger field you would promote the use of passing,
because the bateries could not keep up for moving every robot all arround
the field.

And about not being able to build a so large field in your laboratories...
come on, the NASA can not replicate mars just around the corner but they yet
send robots there... I think it is just one more goal to achieve: training
in small fields but playing in big ones.

I know that f180 developers like designing stategic moves in the computer in
a closed and defined way, but if you want to improve AI you must dare to
handle unreliable information, and a big field would provide that scenario.

Only an oppinion of course.

Saludos (regards)

Raul Lapeira Herrero
Project manager
RoboticSpot.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raul Rojas" <rojas at inf.fu-berlin.de>
To: <robocup-small at cc.gatech.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 8:47 PM
Subject: AW: [robocup-small] Re: Looking ahead to RoboCup 2006


> I agree with Oliver in that:
>
> > It seems there are only two possible solutions to
> >this:
>   a) make the field larger
>   b) make the robots slower
> >>>
> >Clearly, a) is the more interesting (and conceptually simpler) solution.
> However, given the
> > constraints of everybody's lab space it seems that b) is preferable.
>
> Before everybody kills me with replies, let me say that I personally think
> that the
> size of the mid-size field is *ideal* for the small-size robots. I also
> think that it
> could be done, but it would require a lot of courage. It would solve the
> energy budget
> problem automatically. So, now kill me with replies.
>
> >> 4) Merge small-size and mid-size
>
> Yes, that is the medium term solution, however the mid-size guys do not
seem
> very interested in going down with the size of their monsters.
>
> Raul Rojas
> FU-Fighters Team
>
>
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