DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Spring Robot Rules

Mon Feb 18 17:32:01 CST 2008

All events are judged by distance from the terminal point to the  
origin.  This seems very appropriate for the first two events and  
reasonably appropriate for the latter two.  But it seems there could  
be other methods to declare a winner that exercise different  
abilities.  Was there any discussion about using other metrics to  
declare the winner?

I've been wondering about the future of the SHARP Dry Run,  if it  
morphs into a contest with judges and winners... how to incorporate  
different metrics for judgement: accuracy, speed, elegance, etc.   
Accuracy and speed are measurable and a formula could be made that  
would remove decisions from the judges.  Elegance, however, is a  
subjective assessment; hard to judge consistently and fairly.  I  
wonder what other ways there are to judge robot goodness, both  
objective and subjective?

!!Dean

On Feb 13, 2008, at 16:41 , dpa wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> We've been working on a web-page detailing the DPRG OutDoor Robot
> Challenge Rules for the contest this May:
>
> <http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/robots/dprg/outdoor/rules.html>
>
> We'll link these into the DPRG competition webpage after a period for
> input and comments.
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> regards,
> dpa
>
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