Enquiry about Evaluation period rules and return to take off zone

[allenthreee]

Hi, I have two questions to ask here:

1. As the evaluation in last year competition mentioned PD_i refers to best two runs from the period before deadline. No teams required inclusion of more than two runs from this period.

It said best 2 runs, but no team is required inclusion of more than two runs. So is it the only two runs that counts? And the organizers will test the code submit by the teams once a week, is that right? Or a team will have more than 2 chances to test their code during the evaluation epriod?

2. As mentioned in the rulebook, the UAV will need to return to the take-off zone and hover after complete the inspection. Do we need to publish any topic to tell that the UAV turned into hover mode or we just let the UAV hover there and monitor this by our eyeballs?

Thank you in advance for your reply

[allenthreee]

PS. I remember I've saw the arena size one month ago(on github page or rulebook), but I could not find it anymore. Will the arena size change or could you tell me where to find it?
Thanks a lot.

[fpetric]

Last year we had the evaluation more frequently before the final deadline + five times after deadline. From the period before the deadline, we would use 2 best runs along these five final runs to make the list of 5 best runs that were averaged for a final score. "No teams needed more than two runs" means that there were no cases in which teams had more than two runs before the deadline that were better than the five final runs, as in, no teams were affected by us only counting two best runs from the period before the deadline.

Regarding the return to the takeoff spot, no need to publish anything, we will detect the return externally.

Arena size for the simulation stage will not change, it will be the same as the current size (20m, 50m, 15m). Arena for the finals will for sure be smaller than that :D

[allenthreee]

Thanks for the swift reply :)
some more questions:

1. Is there a test schedule?
2. How do we submit our code? in a docker image with your test envronment or via github (only the solution code)

thanks a lot