[robocup-rescue-s] Rescue Simulation outlook

Hi Rescuers!

I think the fact is the rescue simulation will be vanished in
the near future. Believe it or not, the current simulators are too far
from the reality. Just as an example consider Misc simulator. I have
selected it because it has the main effect on a simulation. The concepts such as
HP, damage or buriedness do not have any justification. I don't want
to list all of these problems because in my opinion these are not the
causes, these are the effects. We should have some plans in the rescue
simulation for promoting this league. The rescue simulation does not
need the new protocols or new kernel, it needs some new and better
simulators, some simulators which resembles the real world not the
fantastic and imaginary one (Consider the 3D soccer simulation).

Please consider the aim of the rescue simulation, to help the people
in a disaster environment. Can anybody say firmly we can achieve this
with this system? What are our priorities in the rescue simulation?
I think we need a good plan for rescue simulation. But the current
habit in the rescue simulation shows that each year before the Robocup
competitions some very quick and abrupt changes are made into the
system. We can observe it in this year even. I don't know why we should have a
buggy and not-completed Kernel in the competitions also why the teams
should be a test bed for the new kernel? It
has so many revealed bugs which mean, it still has some unrevealed
ones. I urge everybody to think about this sentence: Shouldn't we have
a plan for developing and promoting the rescue simulation step by
step, just like 3D Soccer simulation? And how we can reach to this
plan?
Suppose all of the KNOWN bugs fixed before the competitions what
happen if a new bug discover during the competitions. Doesn't it
question the whole purpose of rescue simulation. We should be clear
the purpose of simulation this year.

Finally remember that it is not the responsibility of TCs to keep
alive this league we have responsibilities too.

-- 
Mohammad Tavakoli Ghinani
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