[robocup-small] IMPORTANT: Technical Specifications for RoboCup 2010

[Stefan Zickler]

Hi All,

Following are several important technical specifications for RoboCup 2010:

1) Referee Cable
There will be no serial referee cables at RoboCup 2010. All referee
commands will be sent via Ethernet.

2) SSL-Vision: Frame Rate
We are planning to let SSL-Vision run at approximately 60Hz. Teams are
expected to be able to adjust to different frame rates of SSL-Vision,
if necessary.

3) SSL-Vision: Multiple Ball Detection (*IMPORTANT*)

SSL-Vision will be configured to detect and report multiple balls.
In other words, the setting "...Global/Ball Detection/Max Ball Count"
in SSL-Vision's configuration will be set to a value greater than 1
(we are currently planning on setting it to 10). Therefore, all teams
must ensure that they can handle vision packets containing multiple
balls.

This multi-ball configuration allows all teams to implement their own
ball trackers, if desired. Alternatively, your team can simply use the
first ball reported in the packet (they are sorted by their confidence
values, largest first), and ignore the rest, thus effectively
achieving the old single-ball detection behavior.

Thanks!
Stefan