TC Meeting Nov 19th 2019

RoboCup Minutes
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Attending: Tony, Reinaldo, Maike, Ludovic
Missing: Reinhard, Jacky, Soroush
Note taker: Maike

Updates

  • Website:
    • no content updates, it still frequently crashes and the file upload seems broken again
    • Important: Header picture needs to be changed
    • communication channels should be added to the website, too
  • Submission System
    • Opening postponed due to some technical issues, but that will not change the submission deadline
    • For the software description, we will go for simple textboxes of fixed length as a summary (1000 characters in length) and the possibility to attach a PDF with a longer description
    • Content
      • Walking
      • Vision
      • Localization
      • Team Communication
      • Behavior
      • Contributions to the RoboCup community, e.g: Software releases, Provision of league infrastructure or data sets
      • Paper publications (with possibility upload bibtex)
  • Local Organization
    • Updates on number of fields?
      • There was one outdoor field planned, but this has not been discussed with the league, so we cannot do that
    • All TC members should raise concerns with the current proposal by the LOC, so Soroush can gather and forward them
    • Deadline to announce major changes in requirements is Nov 30th!!!
      • Maike makes a list of the equipment again
  • Trustee approval on HOC and HRD
    • We made the updates as discussed and Ludovic sent it to the Trustees
    • Trustees are discussing it online now
  • Rule voting
    • We moved to LimeSurvey to have it accessible from all countries
    • Ongoing, some teams already participated (3 finished, one almost)
    • Maike sends a reminder at 25th
  • Roadmap
    • Who can do the easy updates to bring it up to date post 2019 competition? --> To be discussed on the mailing list

Reviewing

  • Two TC reviews per submission + two team reviews
  • One PC overseeing the submissions
  • Who is PC for KidSize and AdultSize?
    • AdultSize: Reinaldo, Tony
    • KidSize: Maike, Jacky?

Humanoid Open Competition

  • What is the research contribution of the league?
  • who are we addressing?
  • Currently there are two main proposals (Drop-In vs Dribble & Kick)
  • Necessary additions to the rules still need to be made
  • Voting within the TC:
    • Starting from scratch building the rule book OR starting from 2015 rules (or even earlier) and removing rules
    • Drop-In competition VS Dribble & Kick VS 1 vs 1 regular
  • It looks fairly unreasonable from today’s standpoint to get everything ready by 2020 (the four TC members in the call agreed)

Humanoid Research Demonstration

  • Call for participation needs to be extended and added to the website as a draft
  • Advertise it more in the CfP why this is an interesting demonstration league to enter
  • Add to the internal spreadsheet who to personally contact about it
    • We need to make sure people aren’t approached twice, so this sheet will be shared with the Trustees, too

HSC: Call for Participation

  • Second call for participation needs to be send out (Maike can do that when announcing the submission system is open)
  • Third CfP November 29th

SPL vs KidSize game

  • Maybe during a local competition first

Open Discord Call

  • Proposal: 11 to 12:30 on 26th of November

Next meeting

  • Within the first two weeks of December