[robocup-small] Fwd: [rc-ssl-tc] The announcement of Technical Community candidate and motivation

[Nicolai Ommer]

Dear SSL-teams,

please find below the application for TC for next year from Mahi.

Regards,
Nicolai - TC

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From: mohammad mahdi Rahimi <mohammadmahdi76 at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 6:48 PM
Subject: [rc-ssl-tc] The announcement of Technical Community candidate and
motivation
To: <rc-ssl-tc at lists.robocup.org>, <rc-ssl-oc at lists.robocup.org>


Hello there,


I'm Mohammad Mahdi Rahimi (AKA Mahi) wants to be a candidate for next year
Technical Community, here are a few details about me and my motivations.


I've been participated at Robocup since 2014 and currently leading the
Parsian team, I'm the maintainer of Grsim project from 2016 and very
enthusiastic for any open-source project.


Motivations:


1. I will be TC for next Asia-pacifIran opeIran open competition that both
will hold in Iran and it's good opportunity to test changes and get
feedback as a TC for new rules or details.


2. I believe we can make the league a way more autonomous by having an
open-source official Referee application that also listens to teams
computers for a lot of purpose like:

        a. Request the change of the damaged robot to help auto-interchange
progress

        b. Request for timeouts.

        c. Request to check the vision problem with evidence(positions that
it lost the robot)

        etc.




3. Bold Machine learning and Data Science aspect of the league

As this area of science is growing so fast and analysing a soccer match
contains a lot of aspects, I think we can focus to this kind of problems
and define some technical challenges like the commentary of a game or log
analysing and create a valuable report.


4. One of the major obstacles for teams to work on SSL is the cost of
robots and environment setup, the participation to competitions itself cos
a lot if we expending field and increasing number of cameras and robots we
make it very hard for a team to participate,e. Also, money and large
laboratory space be a great advantage for teams and ileal lead to fade the
scientific part of the league.

Also when the league is expensive, less team can participate and it's going
to be like the middle size league, few teams participate and lack of
innovation. In one hand we need to make more challenges and make league
close to a real soccer game and in the other hand we should keep this
league at a reasonable cost, one of the options is to have join-teams, so
far we should encourage the team to play mix-team challenge and also have
well-defined communication messages. Imagine my good message definition and
methodology we can have an 8vs8 match involve 16 teams, one robot from each
team.


(Last but not least)

5. The scheduling and tournaments methodology: firstly I think dividing
team to two different division with different rules just appreciate the gap
between teams of both division and it makes it harder for division B team
to play with division A in future, simply because they don't have any
experience of the rules that division A's team collected this year. I
believe we should help the team from lower division to get close the team
with higher division, knowledge could be shared by encouraging teams for
better TDPs, presentation and open-source project also we can have some
discussion section beside them, each year on just one specific topic, and
experience could achieve by playing more games so we should make a
scheduling that contains more matches and also keeps the test time long
enough. This obviously means that we need more fields, or we set up some
simulation server for teams that are okay with play friendly match in
simulation, I working on it to run Grsim completely autonomous with help of
auto-refs and improve robot's dribblers for curve kick and auto ball
placement. (As you know we can just put the ball in dedicated point so the
auto ball placement is not that necessary if teams want a faster match)


Thank you In advance. Hope this information clear my motivations and goals.

Best Regards,

Mahi
Parsian Robotics Laboratory
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