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On RoboCup@ Home—past, present and future of a scientific competition for service robots

RoboCup@Home is an application-oriented league within the annual RoboCup events. It focuses on domestic service robots and mobile manipulators interacting with human users. Participating robots need to solve tasks ranging from following and guiding human users to delivering objects, e.g., in a supermarket. In this paper, we present the @Home league and how it evolved over the last seven years since its existence. We place particular emphasis on how we evaluate the teams' performances over the years and how we use the obtained statistics to drive the development of the league. This process is shown in detail on two examples-following human guides, and finding and manipulating objects. Finally, we will outline possible future directions and developments.

Increasing Flexibility of Mobile Manipulation and Intuitive Human-Robot Interaction in RoboCup@Home

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014

In this paper, we describe system and approaches of our team NimbRo@Home that won the RoboCup@Home competition 2013. We designed a multi-purpose gripper for grasping typical household objects in pick-and-place tasks and also for using tools. The tools are complementarily equipped with special handles that establish form closure with the gripper, which resists wrenches in any direction. We demonstrate tool use for opening a bottle and grasping sausages with a pair of tongs in a barbecue scenario. We also devised efficient deformable registration methods for the transfer of manipulation skills between objects of the same kind but with differing shape. Finally, we enhance human-robot interaction with a remote user interface for handheld PCs that enables a user to control capabilities of the robot. These capabilities have been demonstrated in the open challenges of the competition. We also explain our approaches to the predefined tests of the competition, and report on the performance of our robots at RoboCup 2013.

NimbRo@Home: Winning Team of the RoboCup@Home Competition 2012

In this paper we describe details of our winning team Nimb-Ro@Home at the RoboCup@Home competition 2012. This year we improved the gripper design of our robots and further advanced mobile manipulation capabilities such as object perception and manipulation planning. For human-robot interaction, we propose to complement faceto-face communication between user and robot with a remote user interface for handheld PCs. We report on the use of our approaches and the performance of our robots at RoboCup 2012.

NimbRo@Home: Winning Team of the RoboCup@Home Competition 2012.

In this paper we describe details of our winning team Nimb-Ro@Home at the RoboCup@Home competition 2012. This year we improved the gripper design of our robots and further advanced mobile manipulation capabilities such as object perception and manipulation planning. For human-robot interaction, we propose to complement faceto-face communication between user and robot with a remote user interface for handheld PCs. We report on the use of our approaches and the performance of our robots at RoboCup 2012.

Competing in the robocup rescue robot league

2010

RoboCup Rescue is an international competition in which robots compete to find disaster victims in a simulated earthquake environment. It features both a Rescue Simulation League (RSL) which is entirely computer simulated, and a Rescue Robot League (RRL) with real robots and a test arena. This paper will describe the experience gained sending an undergraduate team to compete in the Rescue Robot League at the RoboCup German Open in 2008 and 2009. The design of the test arena and the rules of the competition will be outlined; as will the approaches taken by different teams; and the competition results.

Benchmarking Intelligent Service Robots through Scientific Competitions: The RoboCup@ Home Approach

The dynamical and uncertain environments of domestic service robots, which include humans, require rethinking of the benchmarking principles for testing these robots. Since 2006 RoboCup@Home has used statistical procedures to track and steer the progress of domestic service robots. This paper explains the procedures and shows outcomes of these international benchmarking efforts. Although aspects such as shopping in a supermarket receive a fair amount of attention in the robotics community, the authors believe that a recently implemented test is the most important outcome of RoboCup@Home, namely the benchmarking of robot cognition.

RoboCup@Home: Demonstrating Everyday Manipulation Skills in RoboCup@Home

IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2000

The RoboCup@Home league is a benchmark for domestic service robot systems. It evaluates approaches to mobile manipulation and human-robot interaction by testing integrated systems. In this article, we detail the contributions of our team NimbRo, with which we won the RoboCup@Home competition in 2011. We demonstrated novel capabilities in the league such as real-time tabletop segmentation, flexible grasp planning, and real-time tracking of objects. We also describe our approach to human-robot cooperative manipulation using compliant control. We report on the use of our approaches and the performance of our robots at RoboCup 2011.

Robocup 2004 competitions and symposium: A small kick for robots, a giant score for science

AI Magazine, 2005

RoboCup is an international initiative with the main goals of fostering research and education in artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as of promoting science and technology to world citizens. The idea behind RoboCup is to provide a standard problem for which a wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined, as well as being used for project-oriented education, and to organize annual events open to the general public, at which different solutions to the problem are compared. The eighth annual RoboCup-- ...

RoboCup X: A Proposal for a New League Where RoboCup Goes Real World

2005

To put more emphasis on real-world problems, the authors propose to extend the RoboCup competitions. In order to foster progress in the desired abilities the authors propose to expand the existing challenges by a set of simple tests. The passing of the entire set should lead to robots that are capable of working both autonomously and in cooperation with humans in different realistic scenarios. Robots from all RoboCup leagues but also from outside of RoboCup should be allowed to participate. The new league especially aims at fostering the development of practical solutions and applications for supporting humans in everyday life.