Hi all,
I have two questions about this year’s league.
Firstly, do we need to use a single robot without significant change in all the tests, like the previous year, or is it allowed to use different robot configurations for different tests, such as mobility and autonomy?
Secondly, does it be confirmed that there is no mobility test for large tracked robots this year?
Best!
Hi Chenghao,
Different robots will be treated as different configurations. So you are welcome to run a mobility and an autonomy robot but you won’t be adding the scores together. Note that “Multiple robot configurations can participate with separate registrations.”.
The test for mobility for large tracked robots this year will be in the context of being able to act as a stable base to support manipulator dexterity, due to the angled beam in the dexterity test apparatus.
Cheers!
Hi,
This year, we cannot do the dexterity challenge, but we can try the inspection and exploration tests. How does that work for the video because the fiture can be placed in a larger area? Do we need more cameras or a moving camera?
I didn’t see a score sheet for these tests. I saw how the scoring works for the inspection but not for the exploration.
For the Exploration, do we have to paint the tube in green/red?
Thank you
Frederick Giard
Team Capra
Montreal, Canada
What about the Autonomous Mobility Tests? As far as I understand the rules (Slide 74-78), we are able to do this task with large autonomous tracked robots. Or is it only intended for legged robots?
Thanks for the great work. We are looking forward to the competition!
Hello
I have one question.
Pipe inside diameter is 50mm in page 62, but inner edge of the largest ring is 55 mm in page 63.
I think it is contradiction to see inner edge of the largest ring.
How should we understand?
The videos are due in 12 days. Unfortunately, the scoring is not published yet.
Due to the Corona restrictions, we need to plan the lab schedule ahead of time.
When can we expect the final rules and scoring to be published?
I think it would be good to have a virtual team leader meeting around one week before the deadline for all teams to ask questions and discuss potential ambiguities.
Thanks for the great work. We are looking forward to the competition!
Hi Kevin,
Yup the autonomous mobility tests can be performed with any vehicle geometry.
Cheers!
Hi Yuto,
I believe that instruction of “the inner edge of the largest ring is 55 mm” is a mistake. It should be the outer edge. The intent is that the inner edge of the pipe is 50 mm, so the pipe overlaps the largest ring.
I have temporarily uploaded a properly sized PDF to https://drive.google.com/file/d/1H10lbGA1GxIOWKTTnN9xgiAdxo-sAWXr/view?usp=sharing in case it’s helpful. I’ll ask to see if we can get this uploaded to the main site soon.
Cheers!
Hi Capra,
Sorry I missed your questions! Here’s my understanding.
1: Please have someone follow your robot with a camera. We are about to publish a document with more details about what is expected in the videos, plus command lines to generate the picture-in-picture using ffmpeg (if you don’t already have suitable software and processes to do it).
2: Score sheets should be coming soon. It will basically be similar to slide 93 but with a box next to each target where you note if the whole ring or a partial ring was observed, and how many Cs were observed, plus housekeeping info (robot/operator details, time, etc.).
3: You don’t need to paint the tubes.
Regarding inspection targets, I’ve temporarily uploaded the sticker files for the inspection “triplets” to https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rHygamraHelZTDCENHQI71J9hbD5zdt4/view?usp=sharing , following that might give you a better idea of how to score. Note that they have a 3 digit code. The first character is U for under, F for forward, O for over. The second number is the level, 0 for on the ground, 2 for level 2 (60 cm, 2 ft), 4 for level 4 (120 cm, 4 ft), 6 for level 6 (180 cm, 6 ft) and 8 for level 8 (240 cm, 8 ft). The final character is A for open, B for in a bucket, C for in a bucket with a lid with a hole in it.
Cheers!
Hello
According to page 43, we need to send link to the video to Google Forms.
Please let me know the URL of the Google Forms.
Hi Yuto Fukao,
Sorry about the delay, I’ve now made (and pinned) a new post with the details. Please ask any further questions on the topic there.
Cheers!