[robocup-small] Schedule for SSL Rules 2008

[Naruse Tadashi]

Hi,

Our opinions.

Field size: We disagree to make the field size large. Frequent field 
size changes delay  the important AI research such as the strategy, 
cooperation between robots. We are in the state of studying AI topics 
much more under the current system condition, I mean, current field 
size,  number of robots and vision. (Also larger field take much costs 
to develop the soccer system.)

Number of robots: Under the current field size condition, we support the 
current number of robots. An alternative is the number of robots that 
satisfies the following condition: the volume of robot times the number 
of robots is constant or less. This means that a current 5 robots team 
and a 10 robots team with a half volume (of current robot) may compete 
each other. This aimes a research of more complicated cooperative play 
(though I'm not sure that the 10 robots team can equally compete with 
the 5 robots team, but this is a challenge.)

Moving to the humanoid robot: In the milestone discussion in Atlanta, 
we, Japanese teams union, proposed a new SSL plan. Using global vision 
and small size humanoid robots, we can compete the soccer games. Small 
size league grows enough to take another challenge. It is  high time to  
change a wheel type  robot to a humanoid robot. We'd like the committe 
to discuss the possibility of this moving.

Regards,
Tadashi Naruse
RoboDragons



> Until September 15th: Community Discussion about Major Changes
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> The SSL community is asked to propose and discuss major rule changes for
> 2008 via the mailing list. In this context, "major" means everything
> that strongly affects the construction of SSL robots or the environment,
> e.g. increase field size, increase number of robots, disallow some kinds
> of ball manipulation devices, ...
> Those who had been at RoboCup 2007, might have read and discussed the 
> possible future options for the SSL which had been presented on a 
> poster. The content of this poster is now available at 
> http://small-size.informatik.uni-bremen.de/sslroadmap and might serve 
> as a base for this discussion.
> We are looking forward to a broad and intensive discussion!
>
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