TC Meeting Feb 12th

RoboCup Minutes
#1

Attending: Reinhard, Reinaldo, Maike (the meeting did not constitute a quorum, so no decisions were taken)
Missing: Ludovic (on strike), Jacky, Soroush, Tony
Note taker: Maike

Updates

  • Website
    • Bold Hearts made videos about the RoboCup in Sydney. They are now linked from the Humanoid Website
    • new videos could be presented a bit more prominently
  • Local Organization
    • Still no confirmation whether we will be having 2 AdultSize fields or not
    • If we only have one field, the maximum number of teams we can qualify in AdultSize is 6 (other teams can then be offered to do Technical Challenges, merge with other teams and be runner-up in case teams drop out)
    • Maike will send another e-mail
    • Opening of the registration still unknown
  • Trustee approval on HOC and HRD
    • Still no news from Oskar
  • Humanoid Research Demonstration
    • On the website the deadline has not been updated to the extended deadline – Reinaldo changed that right away
    • Reinaldo sent the updated CfP to the mailing lists and the trustees
    • Reinaldo will send a final CfP
  • Humanoid Open Competition
    • Reinaldo adds to the website that the HOC is postponed to next year
    • On-site meetings during RoboCup need to be held about this
  • Humanoid Junior-Major demo?
    • No feedback from the Junior Humanoid work group
    • we should arrange meetings during RoboCup about the future of this

Roadmap

  • The discussion period in the forum ended on February 7th - nobody participated
  • The voting on the discussion outcomes was supposed to start in two days
  • Topics for voting:
    • Minimum height for AdultSize
      • 100cm as new lower limit, which means KidSize is up to 100cm
      • 110cm as the middle between 90cm to and 130cm
      • 130cm as it was before, which means KidSize is up to 130cm
    • Moving ball challenge
      • Random position of the goal kicker
      • Position the goal kicker further back
      • Force the pass to be performed by a robot (pushes toward robot cooperation)
      • Add an obstacle between the initial position of the ball and the robot receiving the ball. (pushes toward obstacle avoidance)
      • Keep as is
    • Fair play rule
      • No voting necessary
    • Push Recovery for AdultSize
      • Parkour Challenge
      • Standing up challenge
      • Keep as is
  • This will be confirmed with the TC again
  • Voting period will be postponed accordingly

Protocol Repository

  • NuBots asked for write access on the protocol repository to add a visualization tool they have written for this
  • No objections, writing access will be granted