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Dear Fariborz,<br>
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below you'll find answers to the questions / suggestions you made. Some
issues are not finally resolved yet, but will be in an error-corrected
rulebook version we'll publish this week.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">Robot
Inspection and Poster Session</font></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">What
are exactly the expectations from the robot autonomous registration? Is
it enough the robot move near the table, hand over the registration
form and explains its specifications? Or it should points its part with
its arm while talking, and someone shows slides about the robot
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Basically, what we want is the robots coming to the registration desk,
saying /doing something which makes sense and preferably hand over the
registration form. The details are up to you.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">I
think it is better to add "Use of external devices" statement in the
registration form too. So teams announce it formally in the paper.</font></p>
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We've included that on the registration form.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">Follow
me</font></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">As
this test takes place outside the arena, what happened if some
spectators block the robot? Is it possible to allow the robot do the
test again?</font></p>
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There will be a clear specification on this issue in the respective
tests.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">There
is some comments about gesture commands regulations (sec. 3.6.8). Does
it mean just movement of shoulder and elbow in gesture commands are
permitted? Essentially, what is the reason of this limitation?</font></p>
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You may move both arms and hands. Full-body motions are not considered
gestures.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">Who
is who</font></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">In
searching guests phase, when teams are informed about the room of
persons? Is it possible to know the room before the beginning of the
test? Or it is announced to robot by speech command during the test? It
seems the first assumption is true, because for going to the correct
room no score is considered.</font></p>
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This will be announced several hours before the test.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">In
identifying phase, after robot found the sitting person and went in one
meter distance of him/her, is it possible the robot wants the person to
stand and look at its camera?</font></p>
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No.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">Open
challenge</font></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">In
page 36 line 11 of rulebook, the factor of 20/6 must be changed to
200/6 to have max of 2000 points.</font></p>
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We've corrected that.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">Enhanced
who is who</font></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">Similar
to who is who phase, when and how teams are informed about the location
of objects and room of persons?</font></p>
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See Who's Who.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">Shopping
Mall</font></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">How
long before the beginning of the test, teams are informed about the
location of supermarket? Is it permitted the teams without their robots
visit the location before the test and make sense about height of
shelves and area of supermarket?</font></p>
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The teams are not going to be informed about the location or allowed to
to measurements before the test starts. <br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">For
getting guide phase points, is it enough the robot reaches the
locations or it have to after standing in position says name of the
position? What about navigation phase?</font></p>
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The robot has to reach the locations, that's all.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">General
Purpose Service Robot</font></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">There
was a lot of ambiguities on this test, So nobody could get points from
this section in Iran open. List of tasks was greatest ambiguity. For
example in the rule book is mentioned the tasks are from stages I and
II, but examples of tasks in rulebook is about counting objects or
persons and task of counting did not mention in tests of stage 1 and 2.
I saw new rulebook after Iran open. These examples are removed but I
would like to request from TCs to explicitly announce the list of
tasks, actions and its parameters, but teams also have to consider all
synonyms for the actions by themselves.</font></p>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">There
are some <span style=""> </span>typos in the new rulebook: {line 10 of
page 42, "thee" -> "three"} {line 22 of page 42 "max(Cat. 1)" ->
"max(Cat. 3)"}</font></p>
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We are working hardly on this test. We do not plan to announce all
tasks beforehand. They will be limited to the capabilities found in the
rulebook, and will also stick to the vocabulary used there.<br>
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</span></span></span><span dir="ltr"></span><font face="Calibri">I
have attended in 2 last competitions of @Home league. As far as I know
teams who reach to final section just repeat one of the best done
pervious tests and it is not very nice to see repetitive tasks in this
section. So I would like to suggest to move this complicated test to
final section. I think it makes to have a nice final with better
evaluation of ability of the champion.</font></p>
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This is an interesting idea, however we will not make major changes for
this year.<br>
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Regards,<br>
David<br>
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