[robocup-small] Shared Radio Protocol Technical Challenge

[Joydeep Biswas]

Dear Teams,

There have been some concerns regarding the safety of the robots during the
Shared Radio Protocol challenge. To alleviate these concerns, the following
amendments have been made:

1. The number of single-robot skills have been increased to allow more skills
to be demonstrated in a safe manner.
2. The points for 2-robot skills have been reduced, to ensure teams are not
unduly pressured into trying them.
3. The radio server team is permitted to terminate the connection at their
discretion to ensure safety of the robots.

All of these updates are reflected on the wiki:
http://robocupssl.cpe.ku.ac.th/robocup2015:technical_challenges

For questions, comments, or concerns, please contact the TC or OC,
rc-ssl-tc at lists.robocup.org, rc-ssl-oc at lists.robocup.org

Regards,
Joydeep


On Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:41:27 -0400
Joydeep Biswas <joydeepb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Dear SSL Teams,
> 
> We would like to announce the Shared Radio Protocol Technical Challenge.
> The goal of this challenge is to demonstrate the ability to control other
> teams’ robots, such that in the future we could potentially have teams with
> heterogeneous robots.
> 
> In a nutshell, the Shared Radio Protocol Challenge defines a robot command
> protocol for the network, which is sent from one team’s AI software to another
> team’s server over the wired network. The server then translates the commands
> into its robots’ radio messages, and transmits them to the robots. Points are
> scored upon successful demonstration of a number of robot abilities.
> 
> For details regarding the challenge, see:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QDcirDOLz50DmMgZ70kzZoSUyMYfqclwPEIHc-vLdpo/pub
> 
> For the protobuf definitions of the Shared Radio Protocol, and some sample
> code of a simple client and server, see:
> https://github.com/RoboCup-SSL/ssl-radio-protocol
> 
> The RoboCup SSL wiki will be updated shortly with this information.
> 
> For questions and comments, please contact the Technical Committee at
> rc-ssl-tc at lists.robocup.org <mailto:rc-ssl-tc at lists.robocup.org>.
> 
> Regards,
> Joydeep Biswas
> 
> On behalf of the RoboCup 2015 SSL Technical and Executive Committees.
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