[robocup-rescue-s] Discussion Session Tomorrow after uploads

From: Sarvapali Ramchurn <sdr_at_ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 22:33:45 +0100

Dear all,

As you may remember, the TC/OC, Exec will be meeting with the
participants tomorrow at the competition venue. We endeavour to use all
the time we'll have tomorrow after the uploads for the finals in order
to have constructive discussions on how to improve the competition (such
as suggestions made by various people made on this list). Please be at
the competition venue around 10am so that we can start as soon as
possible.

In particular, we expect the following to happen:
1. Agree on a draft constitution for the TC/OC that will define the
roles/duties of and rules that regiment the TC/OC.

2. Discuss improvements to the simulator that will be made for next
year's competition. In particular, we will be discussing suggestions on
how to improve maps/scenarios and the possible rethink of the game
itself. The basic game has stayed the same for years, and it is high
time that the community reacts to this and brings in new ideas that will
help this league progress. In particular, we need to think of ways to
tackle other forms of disasters/emergency management problems (e.g.
floods/snow disasters/terrorist attacks).

3. Discussion on how to manage the software repository. Those interested
in contributing to the base code should send us their contact details
and specify the part of the code base they wish to
manage/maintain/debug/review. We are keen on getting more code
review/documentation done this year. This is probably the most important
part that we need to work on.

4. Agree on possible interactions between organisers of various
robocuprescue competitions across the world. In particular, we aim to
find ways/procedures that will help improve every competition -e.g. by
providing standard competition tools/scripts/map generators/scenario
makers.

5. Announce the new TC/OC/League chair/local OC.

Finally, we would be grateful if this mailing list is used mainly for
announcements, major bug reports (with their associated trace/example
run), and discussion of constructive ideas.

Complaints about how the competition is run/managed should be emailed to
members of the TC/OC directly. Your comments will be taken up/discussed
and responded publicly if there is a valid issue that significantly
affects the competition/simulator development and the community at
large.

Regards,

Gopal

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 16:37 -0400, Nobel Huang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes, what we need is not the very tools which could generate the
> desired and special maps, and we rather need in the near future is a
> standard evaluate
> method for the various features of a specific map (just as Rujia said).
> The evaluate method should be released by the TC and accepted by each
> participants. Then, when the competition, the TC could show the
> variety of used
> maps according to the evaluate method, and there would be no one to have any
> questions towards the maps.
>
> Regards,
> Nobel Huang
>
> 2007/7/7, Rujia Liu <liurj_at_mails.tsinghua.edu.cn>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I did not feel well yesterday so today I'm late (so missing the photo). I've read the emails about maps carefully and feel that there is a need for a compute-aided map editor (in addition to a pure automatic generator, which is more likely to create maps with unexpected feature) in near future, after the contest.
> >
> > I have some rough ideas about its main funcitonality:
> > 1. a simple scripting language to specify different generating algorithm.
> > 2. a validator to ensure that the maps are correct (like, say, no isolated nodes as in Random-9, or no refuge as in Random-11 etc)
> > 3. an importing tool (like the convertion software from ArcGIS by Mr. Ngo Van Luyen). But since real maps are usually large, special importing options are needed, like importing a small portion, or decrease the resolution of map etc
> > 4. an analyser to show various properties of the map, e.g. the ones from graph theory (connectedness, k-connectednes, diameter, etc), to estimate different aspects of the complexity.
> >
> > I really hope we can have such a tool, which will definitely help the organizers as well as the teams ourselves.
> > I'm willing to contribute to this, so I'd like to hear your comments on this idea, especially Mr. Cameron and IranOpen map designers. Thanks!
> >
> > Yours,
> > Rujia Liu
> > TsinghuAeolus Rescue Simulation Team
> >
> >
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