The RoboCup Org has recently created a new league, which
is still pretty much alpha at this time, to
simulate urban disaster, hereby shifting the
stage of the problem from cooperating soccer robots to "real-life" cooperating agents.
Quoting from http://robomec.cs.kobe-u.ac.jp/roboc up-rescue/:
RoboCup-Rescue Simulation Project is a new practical domain of RoboCup. A generic urban disaster simulation environment is constructed on network computers. Heterogeneous intelligent agents such as fire fighters, commanders, victims, volunteers, etc. conduct search and rescue activities in this virtual disaster world. Various people worldwide participate in this simulator as an entertainment, a training, or an education via the internet. This project contributes not only to enlightenment of citizens but also to accrate damage prediction, decision support in real disaster, systematic real time monitoring of actual damages, and emergence of better disaster prevention strategies. A diverse spectrum of possibilities of this technology will contribute to the creation of the safer social system in the future.
This league is going to be very interesting BTW. And of course, a good
cooperation model developed for the soccer robots
can be exntesible to the Rescue project.
Indeed!!! The overwhelming majority of teams have
some form of Linux distro. Usually, some form of RedHat.
The few teams that do not use Linux, such as Sharif CE or U. Minho, are hardcore DOS fans that
are forced into writing drivers for the wireless network and/or Bt848 frame grabber.
Filipe
(One of the best experiences was doing tcpdump and seeing loads of IP's (from the various robots) using a wireless channel... )
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How can a 5cr1pt k1dd13, with an IQ that large, possibly figure out what the result of `xor ax, ax is?
Past Editions
(with winning Middle-size team)
RoboCup 97: Nagoya : Dreamteam ISI/USC (USA) and
Osaka Trackies (Japan)
RoboCup 98: Paris : CS Freiburg (Germany)
RoboCup 99: Stockholm : Sharif CE (Iran)
EuRoboCup 2000: Amsterdam : Sharif CE (Iran)
Present:
RoboCup 2000: Melbourne : [place your bets..]
Future:
RoboCup 2001: Seattle
RoboCup 2002: Somewhere in Japan [?] (Osaka?)
RoboCup 2003: [?]
RoboCup 2004: Lisbon
Filipe
The few teams that do not use Linux, such as Sharif CE or U. Minho, are hardcore DOS fans that are forced into writing drivers for the wireless network and/or Bt848 frame grabber.
Filipe
(One of the best experiences was doing tcpdump and seeing loads of IP's (from the various robots) using a wireless channel... )