[simspark-devel] New User Manual and Wiki

[Stefan G. <gla...@gm...>]

Hallo all,

I'm currently updating the descriptions in the wiki according to the new 
release. I was able to look up / get most of the information I was 
looking for, but two questions are still not clear to me, which I now 
want to ask you in this mail.

First of all, I wanted to ask for the unit transmitted by the 
accelerometer. I wanted to document that it now provides RAW-data, but 
it's unclear to me, what's the real meaning of that. Can someone give me 
a pointer on that?

The socond problem I'm unclear about is the description of the field 
lines. I visualized the field lines to get some idea, where they are 
located and why the agent sees so much of them. Then I realized that the 
middle circle is modelled with 10 small field lines. If the complete 
circle is seen (what is often the case for most of the robots during a 
game), this results in 20 coordinates located around a relatively small 
spot in a very simple arrangment, also supported by the middle line. I 
wonder about the purpose of putting in this kind of modelling of the 
middle circle. 20 coordinates is a lot of traffic - in fact close to 50% 
of the currently visible field lines are needed to model the middle 
circle. I'm also not sure how realistic this is compared to a real 
scenario... but I have no experience with that. But since I expect the 
vision-errors to be applied separately on each coordinate, it should be 
absolutely no problem to do e.g. a camera calibration within a few cycles.
Overall I struggle a bit with giving a clear decription to the field 
lines. The normal lines don't need a special description, but if the 
middle circle stays this way, I have to add some special description to 
the arrangement of these lines.

Best regards,
Stefan