RoboCup 2019: Rule Changes (June 2019)
Hi teams, this year's RoboCup will be played with an entirely new set of rules. We've got some very valuable feedback from you that we incorporate to make the RoboCup games as enjoyable as possible for everyone. We're aware that there's only 3 weeks left until the RoboCup begins, so we try to keep the impact on strategies to a minimum. The most significant change is about the pushing rule. There were two offenses that count as pushing: 1. pushing a defender inside its own defense area 2. pushing any robot for more than 0.2 meters While the AutoRefs are capable of detecting the first one reliably, there have been a lot of false positives regarding the second offense. Additionally, 0.2 meters are quite a lot and some unsporting actions…