Re: Contest version

>>what version of webots will be active in the contest/final. The 
>>physics seems different between v4.27 and 5.01. 

> The contest will move on Webots 5.0.1 (and upcoming versions). The 
> server is already running Webots 5.0.1 since today and it seems to 
me 
> that the physics is the same (we didn't change anything). The hall 
of 
> fame won't change too much. Did you observed some difference ?
> 

At a closer look it turned out that the difference was neglectable :)

>>How noisy is the GPS measurement in the online matches? It's
>>perfectly accurate offline. We've started using it for some things
>>recently, which seem to work fine online as well. The documentation
>>says the the position measurements are noisy online, but I haven't 
>>seem it seeming to affect anything in the online matches.

>Actually, it is not noisy online either. We never implemented this 
>noise
>for contest matches... Shall we do it before the end of the 
>contest ?

We think the GPS should be noisy (in the sense unusable) for a 
number of reasons. First, a GPS is not present on the real robot
(QRIO) and a real robot would probably have to position itself by 
image analysis and sensors anyway given the small size of the robot 
and the tatami. But the most important reason is that we have put 
quite some effort into trying to localize the robot by image 
analysis and if the GPS was allowed that would undo whatever 
tactical advantage we could gain from that effort. Since we have 
been working hard under the rather well founded assumption that the 
GPS was not available online it would not be fair to allow it at 
this moment in the contest.

cheers Robotman










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