TC Meeting January 13, 2022

RoboCup Minutes
#1

TC Meeting January 13, 2022

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

Updates

  • GermanOpen
    Is this going to happen?

  • Patrick Göttsch from SPL (HULKS & TC) is writing a proposal to the Trustees to be allowed to use the RoboCup name

  • January Newsletter

    • Reminder for rule discussion period, voting period
    • Reminder special offer
    • Reminder RCF-funded projects
    • “Reminder” for the LOC survey
    • Safe the date for the pre-event in the end of January

  • RCF-Funded-Projects

    • Deadline January 30th
    • GameController with SLP: We are working on a proposal, additional people are welcome
    • Visual refereeing system
    • Would be good to coordinate with the hardware requests with the dataset project at least [Jasper and Jacky]
    • Humanoid Winter School (but may not happen due to Covid, virtual format would not require RCF funding)

  • Junior/Major Bridging event

    • Will be discussed in a separate meeting
    • What is the goal of the meeting tomorrow? – gather requirements and ideas
    • It needs to be in line with the overall bridging idea

  • Virtual Season

    • The first two game days have been played successfully, although streaming was a little difficult for the second one
    • We made updates to the virtual environment to introduce domain randomization in the last game

  • RoboCup 2022 organization

    • Report from the LOC meeting

    • Presentation of LOC

    • Survey to be sent to teams (15-31 January 2022) Participation Survey for RoboCup 2022, Bangkok, Thailand

      • To be sent out to the team leaders of the qualified teams

    • Pre-RoboCup-Event 27/28/29 12 pm - 3 pm CET (probably), there are no details when we will present

    • We are supposed to do a 1 hour presentation about the league and our rules

      • Stackeholders / audience will be (officials, teams, and general public all to participate)

    • We have “the same amount of space as in previous years”

    • We should get in touch with our LOC as early as possible [Alessandra]

      • Communicate number of fields required, justified by number of teams

    • RoboCup Pre-Event

      • What do we need to prepare?
        • Some presentation (with videos!) plus some Q&A time, including rule changes
        • Who will attend? Jasper partially, Alessandra mostly, Jacky maybe, Maike and Reinaldo can’t
        • Jasper and Alessandra will prepare it

    • Status of the submissions

      • KidSize: 15 submissions
      • AdultSize: 4 submissions
      • Reviews & qualification status
        • 2 reviews (from one reviewer) are still missing - I think we can still go ahead
      • We need meta-reviewers who carefully read the reviews, make sure they are appropriate and summarize the most important points for teams to fix.
        • Alessandra and Jasper volunteer

  • Rule Updates & Timeline

    • The discussion period started as planned on Dec 23rd - so far, not many discussions are going on
    • “Merge” of the physical and virtual rule book is still an ongoing topic
      • Maike identified the most controversial points for the voting, but the two still need to be compiled into a single rule book
      • Who feels responsible for compiling the final voting options and making the wording proposals as pull requests to the rule git? [Azer] (Deadline 2nd Febraury)
      • Who feels responsible setting up the voting system for Feb? [Azer] (Deadline 2nd Febraury)