[robocup-small] Automatic referee assisting system

[Christopher Head]

One concern I would have with speech recognition is that there are
often multiple games running at the same time on adjacent fields. It
would be bad if the autoref for one field stopped the game because the
referee on a different field said “stop”. Human referee box operators
come from the same team as the main referee, normally, so they are
fairly familiar with the person’s voice.

Chris

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:36:38 +0100
Nicolai Ommer <nicolai.ommer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> as Angelo suggested I will herewith start a new thread about the
> automatic referee.
> Last year, we developed on the autonomous referee from Ulfert, adding
> some rule changes, displaying a list of rule breaks and added lots of
> documentation.
> We also created a project site with information and instructions:
> http://code.google.com/p/ssl-autonomous-refbox/
> If you like, you can use the PPA for Ubuntu for easy and fast install
> to try out the software :)
> 
> Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to develop the software
> further. At least, not without help. The software has a great base,
> but now it has to be made productive for a real match.
> I think, most of the points that were mentioned by Yonghai can
> already be checked by the software.
> 
> However, we should also think about how the software can help the
> referee best.
> Here are some considerations:
> 
>  * Run the software in background and let it be watched by an
> assistant referee?
>  * go further by actively sending a STOP signal if a rule break was
> detected?
> 
> The idea of a speech recognition sounds good. This would cut off the
> delay between main referee and assistant referee. The assistant
> referee could then maybe concentrate on the automatic referee.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nicolai