[robocup-humanoid] Referee program question

[Oskar von Stryk]

Hi Keith,

Yes, the link you found is for the prototype version of a
game controller/referee box for joint use
in the humanoid league and the standard platform league.

It has not been announced yet on the mailing list
as a few points (including fine testing and documentation) are missing.
Two volunteers are working on it and it can hopefully
be released in a few days.

Best regards,
Oskar

On Wed, 20 May 2009, Keith Sullivan wrote:

> While working on the game controller/referee box, a team member has a
> few questions.  Any guidance would be appreciated.  
> 
> The 2009 Rules have the following statement:
> 
> "In 2009 a prototype of a game controller/referee box will be 
> introduced. It will use UDP to broadcast information to the robots like 
> elapsed time, current score, game state (ready, set, playing, finished) 
> and the robot-specific penalized state. The source code will be open. 
> The use of the referee box is voluntarily in 2009 and may become 
> mandatory in later years."
> 
> I presume this is referring to the code located here:
>         http://sourceforge.net/projects/robocupgc/
> 
> ... unfortunately this code has no documentation at all.  No protocols 
> are specified as to how to connect to the referee; only a demo client. 
> However in addition to listening for referee calls, the demo client also
> repeatedly broadcasts robot 'hearbeat' information over UDP every half 
> second.  Is this heartbeat broadcast necessary or even permitted?  Who 
> is the intended receiver of the heartbeat information
> 
> And importantly, is there *any* formal protocol available?
> 
> 
> 
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