TC Meeting Sep 17th 2019

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


Updating names for competition

  • Humanoid Soccer Competition (Kid and Adult)
  • Humanoid Open Competition (Kid and Adult)
  • Humanoid Open Demonstration

Website

  • The upload size and links on humanoid.robocup.org are fixed
  • The old URL now redirects to the new website
  • There are still some changes necessary to bring it up to date (multiple outdated pages)
    • Making updates easiter: creating only one point of entry that needs to be changed
    • Maike will merge the events page with the main pages of the year
  • Website header image -> more tricky to update than initially though because of the aspect of the image
    • Image size needs to be 1600 × 230 pixels
    • Reinhard tries to create a new one

Call for Participation

  • Maike prepared a draft on the website
    • Humanoid Open Competition and Humanoid Open Demonstration is not ready yet
      • Open Humanoid League will have two sub-leagues, KidSize and AdultSize but they may be merged based on how many applicants we have
      • Reinhard prepares a draft for both over the weekend
  • Special Offers and team waivers
    • They have been sent to people who offered it last year, but no open call for special offers. Now it’s too late to send it around.
  • Link toward latest rule version?
    • We upload a revised version of the rules already when the CfP is sent out - those would only include the rule changes that were already agreed on (nobody opposed)
    • Ludovic will put a summary in the CfP
  • Are semi-finalists of previous year directly included to division A?
    • No, everyone is distributed into league A and B based on the initial round of Drop-In games

Sending e-mail to the league with some updates

  • Announce that meeting minutes will be published in the forum
  • Discord channel opening (TODO by Ludovic)
  • Including teams in the review process
  • Timeline regarding rule update and voting process
  • Meeting minutes from last RoboCup (TODO Maike)
  • Open Humanoid League and Open Humanoid Demonstration
  • League Development projects - call for contributions

Rules

  • The introduction of a fair-play rule was mentioned by Peter Stone, it is unclear how it could apply to our league
  • Who will take in charge the update of the rule - preparing the rule book, preparing the voting documents (Ludovic, Reinaldo, Reinhard?)

Registration fees

  • Humanoid Open Competition
    • Same as Humanoid Soccer Competition
    • In the first year since this is a new competition, we request that the fee is waived for everyone
  • Humanoid Open Demonstration: proposal to submit to RCF
    • Already registered in any league: No payment required (registration is done independent from the official system)
    • Not registered in any league: Teams fee is waived and they have to register individuals (and pay for them)

Release of a dataset

  • RCF requests that all leagues come up with a procedure to provide datasets after competitions.
  • How to distribute responsibilities:
    • It should be joint effort associated with league development projects
    • We include a CfP in the email asking teams who are interested to join in the project

League development projects

  • Communication protocol -> Coordinator: Ludovic
    • Should be non-funded and start quickly, before call for league development project
    • Concerns expressed toward Mitecom -> changing for a more flexible protocol?
  • Network communication: filter/log/synchronize -> Coordinator: ???
  • Monitor bandwidth of teams and messages
    • Which data can be transmitted and when?
    • Preventing litigious situation with obviously no intent to disrupt the game (cf Adult-Size final 2019)
    • Allow accuracy on clock sync for robots (e.g. chrony -> ~ms sync)
      • Important for the league metrics of the robot (sync between external video and internal video)
  • Filming all games + making streaming easier -> Coordinator: Maike
    • Cheap setup possible with Rasp4 + webcam
    • Possible to have a joint project RoboCup Wide
  • “Dataset” Project -> Coordinator: Ludovic
    • Collecting communication of all teams and referees
    • Comparing perception of robots with ground truth
    • Extracting high-level metrics (distance traveled etc…)
  • Extend the ‘submission’ website to include schedule/results of the competition -> Coordinator: Gregoire?!
    • Allow teams to add publications as well

The next meeting will be held end of September/beginning of October