24.6.2010
In
the @Home League final, Dynamaid recognized an object showing gesture
and the object shown to her. She also went to the fridge, opened the
fridge door, and grasped a can of beer. Afterwards, she closed the
fridge again and delivered the drink. Finally, our robot went to a
shelf to get some snack. [Video]
In the final ranking, the Japanese team Er@ser
was still ahead of NimbRo. NimbRo
won the second place in the @Home League.
23.6.2010
Dynamaid did very well
in the Shopping
Mall test. This test was conducted in a real toy store. Our robot
learned a map of the environment, remembered the location of multiple
objects and then went to collect a requested object. [Video]
In the
Enhanced-Who-is-Who test, our robot learned the appearance and the
names of three persons. One of these persons was recognized later when
ordering drinks. In the Demo Challenge, Dynamaid successfully
recognized pointing gestures, recognized objects shown to her, and
picked-up objects from the floor that she deposited in a thresh bin.
After completing all Stage II, tests NimbRo had the second most points
in the overall ranking, next only to to the Japanese team Er@sers.
22.6.2010
Dynamaid
performed very well in the Open Challenge.
She recognized gestures, got something to eat and to drink for a guest
and picked-up an object from the floor. After Stage I, NimbRo is second
in the overall ranking, next only to team Er@sers from Japan. In the
General-Purpose-Service-Robot
test, Dynamaid recognized complex commands and asked
for clarification in underspecified commands.
21.6.2010
Dynamaid did
the FollowMe test perfectly. During the test, she successfully
recognized stop gestures. After the GoGetIt test, NimbRo still has the
highest total number of points.
20.6.2010
Our team participates at the RoboCup
2010
competition in Singapore in the @Home League with the
robot Dynamaid. In the first test,
Dynamaid registered herself successfully for the competition while the
team poster was presented. NimbRo reached the highest number of points
for this test.
5.5.2010
Our robot Dynamaid
participated in the ICRA
Mobile
Manipulation Challenge.
It fetched an object requested by the user by means of a pointing
gesture.
The user could also request a drink by showing it to the
robot.
Finally, Dynamaid collected an object from the table and moved
it towards a trash bin.
18.4.2010
Our robots Robotinho and
Dynamaid participated at German Open
2010.
Robotinho performed the registration. Dynamaid detected and
reconized all pesons in the Who-is-Who test and interpreted pointing
gestures correctly in the Open Challenge. Robotinho and
Dynamaid cooperated in the Demo Challenge.
In the final, Robotinho greeted a guest and guided
him to a table.
There, the guest could select something to eat using a pointing
gesture.
Also, the guest ordered a drink by showing it to Dynamaid. Overall, our
team reached the second place in the @Home league.
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.
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
Universität Bonn, Institute for Computer Science, Departments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI
