TC Meeting February 03, 2022

RoboCup Minutes
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TC Meeting February 03, 2022

  • Attending: Maike, Azer, Alessandra, Jasper, Reinhard
  • Missing: Ludovic, Reinaldo, Jacky
  • Note taker:

Updates

  • February Newsletter

    • Reminder for voting period
    • Reminder for the updated application material

  • RCF-Funded-Projects

    • Which projects were actually submitted?
      • GameController with SLP
    • Junior/Major Bridging event
      • Brief summary of last meeting and next steps
      • Protocol was sent around (with additional notes what was not mentioned)
      • reduction of number of teams (2013: 28, 2016: 29, 2019: 24, 2022 19)
      • pandemic
      • problem: no clear path how the bridging event also progresses Humanoid League
      • other problem: new proposal does not incorporate old proposals which had many issues of the new proposal already solved
      • RoboCup does not want another junior league
      • TC generally agrees that a bridging event is good but a specific proposal needs to be specific to be voted on

  • RoboCup 2022 organization

    • Trustee decision
    • Report from the RoboCup Pre-Event
      • Jasper and Alessandra made the presentation

  • Rule Updates

    • Merge between physical and virtual rules
    • Open issues:
      • Major damage to the field
      • Software technical challenge
      • Software and hardware usage of other teams
      • Whistle recognition
      • Throw-in
      • Add a question: “Should any of the rules for the physical competition that are already resembling the FIFA rules be relaxed in favor of being similar to the virtual rules” [yes, no] – the other physical / virtual rules are dependent on this decision being accepted
      • Ready / Set game time
        • option a: keep inconsitency, update rulebook
        • option b: make same and make it not count
        • option c: make same and make it not count
      • ball holding
      • color assignment
      • random decision
        • needs to be specified (Jasper github)
      • all questions mandatory (Adult vs Kid)

  • Website

    • Florian from the Hamburg Bit-Bots volunteered to make the wordpress design of our website a bit more modern (he would make a proposal first)
    • We are happy about Florian’s engagement!

  • Silvia Coradeschi and Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar Awards

    • Suggestions from our league?
    • Deadline is May 1st