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Referee's Comments on the Proposal

Classification: Very Good
Budget: 23 000 000 PTE (~ 100 000 USD/EURO)
We suggest that the present proposal is merged with proposal SocRob, since the two projects share the same high level objectives. The merging should consider the following recommendations:

• combine the high level research objectives and conduct the experiments on the existing robotic platforms (both for coordination in RoboCup and for rescue)
• keep the RoboCup activities and the partecipation in RoboCup competitions;
• drop the activities concerning the design of communication protocols for wireless networks and use off-the-shelf solutions;
• reduce the scope of design requirements and architecture specification for the rescue robots, focussing on the existing soccer robots.

In general, this proposal has a good long-range research objective, and has an adequate discussion on related work. It proposes some interesting concepts (such as the distinction between individual navigation and cooperative navigation). However, the proposal should focus on the high-level collaboration of multiple robot systems, which has a significant overlapping with the other proposal. The need to acquire new hardware for setting up the experimental environment leads to the identification of new important problems that add content to the research, but make it questionable the experimentation of coordination among the robots within the project lifetime as well as adquate evaluation criteria for both indoor and outdoor robots.

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SRI/32546/99-00.