AutoRef MSD 2020

Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 Background

2. System Architecture

2.1 Systems Thinking

3. Implementation

3.1 First section name

4. Conclusions & Recommendations

Note: Team-specific pages (such as this one) are for explaining a team's contribution to the overall AutoRef project. Team-specific pages from MSD 2020 onwards do not describe the technical details of the AutoRef system. If you are documenting AutoRef items as a member of MSD 2020 or any other future project, please add details to the general AutoRef page and/or the respective system architecture or implementation pages.

See AutoRef for an overview of the autonomous referee system, including past work and current system architecture and implementation.

AutoRef MSD 2020 (formally AutoRef PDEng MSD 2020 or simply MSD 2020) was a continuation of the development of an autonomous referee for RoboCop Middle Size League during February and March 2021. It was completed by the 2020–2022 cohort of Mechatronic System Design (MSD) PDEng trainees at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e).

Background

The MSD 2020 team

Objectives and scope

• Overhauled the wiki for AutoRef

System architecture

See AutoRef system architecture for full technical details.

Contributions to AutoRef's system architecture in AutoRef MSD 2020 primarily focused on specifying the functions of the autonomous referee for RoboCop Middle Size League as derived from the MSL rulebook (v21.4).

In short, this functional specification is a breakdown of MSL rule (or law) into robot skills through robot tasks: tasks are statements describing what the AutoRef must do to enforce the rules, written in plain language as to fully explain referee actions without describing the means by which to achieve them; skills are fundamental abilities which are needed to accomplish a specific task.

Before reaching functional specification, MSD 2020 applied a systems thinking approach to AutoRef. The team also recommends future work.

Functional decomposition

The intent, approach, and realization of the functional specification...

Implementation

See AutoRef implementation for full technical details.

Contributions to AutoRef's implementation in AutoRef MSD 2020 primarily involved detecting ball-to-player distance violations.

Team

The contributions towards AutoRef explained on this page were completed by the 2020–2022 cohort of Mechatronic System Design (MSD) PDEng trainees at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) — namely:

• Anand Vazhayil Surendran
• Aneesh Ashok Kumar
• Gijs Linskens
• Haoyu Zhu
• Ivan Kolodko
• Lars Maxfield
• Mahmoud Abdelhady
• Maryam Mashayekhi