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We just completed the first test-match. It was pretty much of a desaster. But nothing really serious. Let me explain: To see the robots need color-tables so that they know which color is which. The ball for example is orange. But orange looks differently with different lightning conditions. So we have to tell the robot exactly what he is supposed to recognize as orange.

When we did that we were a bit hasty so that our robots saw red as orange. The bad thing is our robots are red. This ended up in our robots chasing each other, so it looked kind of embarassing. But as I said this is not too serious since color tables can be adjusted. The behaviour of the robots was (other than them chasing each other) as expected. We are looking forward to the next test match.

A few word on Osaka. They have the rainy season here right now which means if it's not raining the humidity of 90% kills you. Plus it's super-hot. The air-conditioning in the Osaka INTEX on the other hand must be set to 10 degrees or something. At least I'm freezing like hell.

I'll write more details later tonight,
Matthias

BTW: Osaka is GMT+9