[robocup-small] Assuming we are able to create a team, how to we qualify and register for Robocup 2009?

[Raymond Leon]

Hello,

I went to the robocup2009.org website and looked at the section on
registration it says:

"As introduced in 2008 future registration will be handled by the
RoboCup Federation or by an agency authorized by the Federation. After
the qualified teams have been selected information about the
registration process will be published here."

What are the deadlines for qualification and what is the process? Is
it the same as in previous  years where a team sends its TDP and video
of its robots playing soccer to this mailing list?

Raymond Leon (Toronto)

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>   1. SSL 2009 Rules (Stefan Zickler)
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> From: "Stefan Zickler" <szickler at cs.cmu.edu>
> Subject: [robocup-small] SSL 2009 Rules
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> Hi All,
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> the TC has finished discussing the 2009 rules.
> The new rules and field dimensions are now available on the web:
>
> http://small-size.informatik.uni-bremen.de/rules:main
>
> Here is a summary and explanation of the changes:
>
> 1) Field size
> After the decision of the RoboCup trustees to unify field sizes among
> SSL, SPL, and Humanoids League, all leagues have finally come to an
> agreement on field size. We are adopting the carpet size and field
> boundary location of the humanoid league. Effectively this means that
> the inner playing surface shrinks a very small bit, while the outer
> runoff area grows a lot. All inner field lines (defense, center
> circle, goals...) stay the same. Furthermore, all lines stay at the
> same 1cm width. Since we do not really require a 675mm runoff area,
> the TC has decided to designate the outer 425mm of that area for the
> referees to walk on during games. This should actually be beneficial
> because at past RoboCups it has been quite challenging for referees to
> walk around the field as teams tend to put their cables and equipment
> there. Teams should not need to worry to cover this referee walking
> area with vision systems, as long as their robots are well enough
> controlled not to enter this area accidentally.
>
> 2) Game time
> The game time has been reduced from 15 minutes per half to 10 minutes
> per half. The reasoning is that most RoboCup games tend to either be
> fairly unbalanced where a clear winner is easily determined within 20
> minutes, or that neither of the teams is able to score at all which
> often leads to painfully long games without any activity at all. To
> keep games more interesting, the TC has decided to reduce the game
> time.
>
> 3) Total time allotted for timeouts
> The total time available for timeouts has been reduced from 10 minutes
> to 5 minutes. The main reasoning here is that the public often loses
> interest during long timeout periods. The TC agrees that timeouts
> should be intended for quick fixes and adjustments, not for attempts
> to implement new features (which usually don't succeed during a
> timeout anyhow). The total number of timeouts stays the same however.
>
> 4) Clarification on the term "game stoppage"
> As was brought up during public discussion, there was some ambiguity
> in the rules as to when it is ok to request things from the referee,
> and what exactly defines a "game stoppage". This has now been
> clarified in the rules.
>
> 5) Change of the prohibited area when ball enters play
> In the original 2008 rules, there is a rule prohibiting robots to be
> closer than 700mm to the defending team's goal-mid-point when the ball
> enters play. This rule was changed to 900mm at RoboCup 2008 due to the
> fact that we had a non-circular defense area. For 2009 we have now
> changed this rule to represent the area 200mm away from the defense
> area.
>
> 6) Referees are requested to wear non-marker-like clothes
> A sentence was added to request that referees should not wear clothes
> + shoes which represent marker colors.
>
> 7) Removal of robot height exception for on-robot vision systems
> The robot-height exception in the rules which was intended for local
> on-robot vision has been removed. To the TC's awareness, no team has
> ever made use of this rule, so this should not be a problem.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Stefan (on behalf of the SSL TC)
>
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