Hi Raquel,
Great, I think I've got myself another nice side project to do :-).
While it's not related to robotics, I have run the Transformation Tools Contents at STAF twice, so I have a little experience with prizes for informal contests :-D. I would suggest having multiple Best X prizes, and then an Overall Winner with the best
combination. Say, Best Performance, Best Process, Best Models, Overall Winner?
(Of course, it depends on the number of participants and what they submit. With fewer participants we might just do 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. Sometimes in TTC we have blank award sheets and we come up with ideas to reward what we especially liked about the various
solutions on the spot.)
I think that if the contest is about Papyrus-RT and not about the rover, we should allow any robot to participate. However, we should probably set a rule that all the smarts must go into the UML-RT model: it wouldn't be fair to have UML-RT just trigger
some predefined routine in the robot.
Kind regards,
Antonio
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Antonio Garcia-Dominguez
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Engineering & Applied Science, Aston University
Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET
Room: MB211Q
From: papyrus-ic-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [papyrus-ic-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Nicolas Hili [hili@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 26 September 2017 18:43
To: papyrus-ic@xxxxxxxxxxx; Raquel Araujo de Oliveira
Subject: Re: [papyrus-ic] 'Escape the maze' Rover Challenge Contest at MODELS'18
Whaou, so many answers, thanks all for your interest and excellent remarks!
Replying to Antonio, Thanks! I think that's a great idea to provide some information about the environment (Maze topology) and the configuration of the Rover, so participants can plan ahead with simulation tools. It will be a great added value if the contest
not only focuses on the modelling and code generation part, but also on simulation steps that can be used for developping without having to run the Rover.
@Grischa, Frederico, and Cortland: thanks a lot for your answer, it would be a pleasure to have you on board. ET-Robocon presented during Cortland's keynote was indeed really inspiring, and I am sure we can benefit from their expertise to organise such events.
That would be great to be in touch with the organizers of ET-Robocon about it, and maybe to see whether they would like to participate.
Questions arise for the organization, model judging, etc.
- Should we judge the quality of models, the completion of the task (be the fastest to find the exit), the toolchain to get the results, all of them?
- Should we organize team/individual prizes, medals, maybe a Rover for the winner?
- Should we only accept the Pololu Rover, or should we also accept custom Rovers? I especially think about the great Mecanum rover of Angelika we had the chance to see during the EclipseCon.
Best,
Nicolas
On 2017-09-26 12:21 PM, Cortland Starrett wrote:
The One Fact team is interested. And we are interested in seeing some information from the MDETools preso applied to the prep for this challenge. During this workshop a contest called ET-Robocon was discussed. ET-Robocon is a UML modeling
robotics challenge in Japan since 2002 that organizes an event involving over 300 teams. Perhaps we can learn some things from them (regarding contest format, model judging, etc).
Cort
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