How is disqualification defined?

[yannbouteiller]

Hello,

I am having a hard time understanding the new rule for disqualification. For what I understood so far, the leading drone (closest to the next gate center) would disqualify the other drone if he got within the collision radius, but this seems not to be the case in the released binary. I need this information for my reward function to work accordingly.

[ironclownfish]

You are correct. A collision with another drone should be disqualifying for the following drone.
Would you mind telling us about the situation you encountered, and sending us the log file? (Located in Saved/Logs/RaceLogs)
It's worth noting that the collision "radius" is not much bigger than the drone itself. It has to more or less be a true collision.

[yannbouteiller]

Well, for instance I leave drone2 at a fixed position and use the keyboard to make drone1 fly into drone2 from behind, then drone2 gets disqualified.
Or I get drone1 to simply go right until it collides into drone2, then drone1 gets disqualified although it is closer to the gate center.
Or I get drone1 to go between the gate and drone2, and then to collide in front of drone2, then drone1 gets disqualified instead of drone2 and so on. it feels like the roles are inverted.

I am sending you example logs by email. By the way how do we disable these logs, please? They are an issue for training when we need to run as many simulations as possible.

(edit: actually it is not just inverted, the collision detection sometimes behaves as expected)

[yannbouteiller]

Disqualification doesn't work accordingly with the guidelines when one drone has crossed more gates than another either. I have just tested crashing a drone that had crossed 2 gates into a drone that had crossed 1 gate, and the drone that had crossed 2 gates got disqualified.

[madratman]

please try with new release. should be fixed

[madratman]

Please let us know / reopen if this is still an issue @yannbouteiller

[yannbouteiller]

Hello, I don't think I can reopen this issue, but it is not fixed. I don't understand how the leading drone is really defined for disqualification but it is definitely not the closest to the next gate center nor the drone that crossed the highest number of gates right now.

I need this information because I don't use logs since it is too slow and not convenient for very long trainings so I compute this by hand.

Actually, I think the software lacks an API function that returns race information such as who is leading/disqualified and the last crossed gate for each drone. For now I computed all this by hand and it is a little bit cumbersome.