Good catch. It looks like challenge.gov has the dates the qualifiers will be run, April 15th-19th. The automated evaluation submissions submissions via NFiles were previously due April 12th, but have been extended to April 14th.
Respectfully, Shane, you are not the official word on this. We need to hear from the ARIAC officials. In the Space Robotics Challenge the ROS developers made comments that were later revised by the NASA officials. I have emailed William on this, also.
I have asked the ARIAC folks for the "official’ rules a couple times and they point to the Challenge.gov website. Messages here, like the announcement you point to are not official, especially when it is in the General topic here on Discourse and not the ARIAC topic. We can’t be jumping all over the place looking for the rules and requirements.
Dear ARIAC Teams
We have had a few questions about the dates on the challenge.gov website. April 15th-19th is when the qualifier will be run and scored. The due date that teams need to submit their qualifier code is still 11:59pm PDT, April 14th.
Feel free to give me a call or email if you have any questions
Phone: 301-975-4791
Email: [william.harrison@nist.gov]
The software for competing in ARIAC 2019 ( Version 3.0.3 ) has been released!
Please see the installation page and software updates page for more information. The automated evaluation docker images have been brought up to date with this release.
This release fixes a crash when using laser profilers, and fixes models_to_spawn not working in competition mode.
Other links
- Register to compete: http://bit.ly/ariac2019
- Main NIST ARIAC Website (General information): https://www.nist.gov/ariac
- Competition rules: http://bit.ly/ariac2019rules
- Software documentation: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/ariac/wiki/2019/Home.md
- Support Email: ariac@nist.gov
- Forum for discussion: https://discourse.ros.org/c/ariac-users
The software for competing in ARIAC 2019 ( Version 3.0.4 ) has been released!
Please see the installation page and software updates page for more information. The automated evaluation docker images have been brought up to date with this release.
This fixes a crash at shutdown that corrupted the state.log file. It also makes the score text in performance.log easier to read.
Other links
- Main NIST ARIAC Website (General information): https://www.nist.gov/ariac
- Competition rules: http://bit.ly/ariac2019rules
- Software documentation: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/ariac/wiki/2019/Home.md
- Support Email: ariac@nist.gov
- Forum for discussion: https://discourse.ros.org/c/ariac-users
The software for competing in ARIAC 2019 ( Version 3.0.5 ) has been released!
This release improves the real time factor of the simulation and includes the qualifier part B trial configs.
Please see the installation page and software updates page for more information. The automated evaluation docker images have been brought up to date with this release.
Other links
- Main NIST ARIAC Website (General information): https://www.nist.gov/ariac
- Competition rules: http://bit.ly/ariac2019rules
- Software documentation: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/ariac/wiki/2019/Home.md
- Support Email: ariac@nist.gov
- Forum for discussion: https://discourse.ros.org/c/ariac-users
Documentation for the ARIAC 2019 finals has been released. It describes what to expect during the finals. There are also instructions for how qualified teams can get a pre-finals dry-run to make sure their system works. See the documentation to learn how.
Other links
- Main NIST ARIAC Website (General information): https://www.nist.gov/ariac
- Competition rules: http://bit.ly/ariac2019rules
- Software documentation: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/ariac/wiki/2019/Home.md
- Support Email: ariac@nist.gov
- Forum for discussion: https://discourse.ros.org/c/ariac-users
The software for competing in ARIAC 2019 ( Version 3.0.6 ) has been released!
This release includes the 15 trial configs used in the finals.
Other links
- Main NIST ARIAC Website (General information): https://www.nist.gov/ariac
- Competition rules: http://bit.ly/ariac2019rules
- Software documentation: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/ariac/wiki/2019/Home.md
- Support Email: ariac@nist.gov
- Forum for discussion: https://discourse.ros.org/c/ariac-users