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Social Standard Platform of the RoboCup @Home League
Description
As the 2017 RoboCup@Home phrases:the Social Standard Platform League (SSPL) takes robots away from the traditional passive servant role, for now the robot is the one who will actively look for interaction. From a party waiter in a home envi-ronment to a hostess in a museum or shopping mall, in SSPL look for the next user who may require its services. Hence, this league focuses on Human-Robot Interaction, Natural Language Processing, People Detection and Recognition, Reactive Behaviors, and Safe Outdoor Navigation and Mapping.The robot to be used in the Social Standard Platform League is the Pepper, which we have access to with our contacts in the Netherlands (ING, Interactive Robotics, ReadyForRobots).
The University of Amsterdam has experience in both the perception side and the interaction side of this challenge. The UvA@Home team has been one of the twelve teams qualified to purchase on a Pepper robot for the SSPL competition, based on this proposal, which gives some ideas about our plans. The UvA@Home team has been one of the seven teams which participated at the first SSPL competition in Nagoya 2017. Details about their approach can be found in the UvA@Home Team Description paper 2017.
More details can be found at the UvA @ Home team website, including the qualification Team Description Paper and qualification video.
Publications
- Jonathan Mieloo, Teleoperation of Semi-Humanoid Robots using Virtual Reality, Bachelor thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2023.
- Jonathan Gerbscheid, People detection on the Pepper robot using Convolutional Neural Networks and 3D blob detection, Bachelor thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, July 2017.
- Tirza Soute, Discovering Available Drinks through Natural, Robot-Led, Human-Robot Interaction between a Waiter and a Bartender, Bachelor thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, July 2017.
- Arnoud Visser, "A New RoboCup@Home Challenge", Benelux A.I. Newsletter. 31(1), p. 3-6, Summer 2017.
- Jonathan Gerbscheid, Thomas Groot, Joram Wessels, Rijnder Wever and Wijnand Van Woerkom,"Personalized news conversations with the Softbank Pepper", project report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, March 30, 2017.
- Caitlin Lagrand, Michiel van der Meer and Arnoud Visser, "The Roasted Tomato Challenge for a Humanoid Robot", IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Bragança Portugal, May 4-6, 2016, pp. 341-346.
Labbooks
- Bas Terwijn, Porting Theresa and Monarch modules to Pepper, 2017.
- Jonathan Gerbscheid, 'Following People by Social Cloning', 2017
- Tirza Soute, 'Natural Language Processing at a Cocktail Party', 2017
- Arnoud Visser Labbook 2017.