6.7.2009
Our robots Robotinho and Dynamaid participated for the first time at
the RoboCup@Home international competitions.
They reached the
highest score in the Introduce test. Dynamaid successfully performed
the Follow-me and the Who-is-Who test. Both robots reached the second
highest score in the Open Challenge, where Robotinho gave a home tour
to a guest while Dynamaid delivered a drink.
In Stage II, Dynamaid did the Walk&Talk test, the Supermarket test and the Party-bot test very well. Both robots were used in the Demo Challenge. After Stage II, our team had the second most points, almost on par with the leading team.
In the final, Dynamaid detected persons and delivered drinks to them.
Overall, our
team reached the third place in the @Home competition. We won also the innovation award for
"Innovative robot body design, Empathic behaviors, and Robot-Robot
Cooperation".
The Video is also available in WMV-Format.
NimbRo participated for the first time in the @Home league at RoboCup German Open 2009 during Hannover Fair.
In Stage I, we used
Robotinho for the introduce task. It explained itself and Dynamaid and
interacted with a human in a natural way. For the follow me task, we
used Dynamaid. She was able to quickly follow an unknown human though
the arena, outside, and back into the arena. She also could be
controlled by voice commands. Dynamaid also did the fetch and carry
task very well. She took spoken orders from the human user and
delivered reliably the requested object.
In Stage II, Dynamaid did
the walk and talk task perfectly. A human showed her places in the
apartment that she could visit afterwards as requested by spoken
commands. In the demo challenge, the users could order different drinks
that she fetched quickly and reliably from different places in the
apartment.
In the final, Robotinho
gave a tour though the apartment
while Dynamaid fetched a drink for a guest [video].
Overall, the NimbRo@Home
team reached the second place, only a few points
behind
b-it-bots.
Our
team NimbRo is new to the @Home league.
However, since 2004, NimbRo competes with great success in the Humanoid
league.
Our KidSize robots reached all humanoid
soccer finals played so far and won the 2007 and 2008 soccer
tournaments.
Our TeenSize robots also
performed very well. They won the penalty kick competitions in 2005 and
2007.
Sven Behnke, Jörg Stückler, and Michael Schreiber
NimbRo @Home
2009 Team Description
Address:
Prof. Dr.
Sven Behnke
Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Institut
für Informatik VI
Römerstr. 164
53117 Bonn
Tel:
+49 (0) 228 73-4422
Fax:
+49 (0) 228 73-4425
Email: behnke _at_ cs.uni-bonn.de
Office: N911