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Robots @Work
Teams from the Intelligent Robotics lab have been participating on several occasions on challenges to demonstrate innovate solutions in a realistic working environment.Lely & Robohouse challenge
In 2022 a Hackaton was organized at European Robotics Forum, including Lely & Robohouse challenge with the title 'Autonomous multi-robot navigation in a barn'. The team from the Universiteit van Amsterdam had to battle against students from RWTH Aachen, Radboud Univeristy and TU Delft.
The UvA team at the European Robotics Forum 2022 hackaton
The university teams had complete the challenge after two training sessions of 4 hours. Their approach is described in two project reports (although they were actually one team):
- Francien Barkhof, Sander van den Bent, Oskar Bosgraaf, Sjoerd Gunneweg, Autonomous multi-robot navigation in a barn challenge, 2nd year project report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2022.
- Derck Prinzhorn, Thijmen Nijdam, Jurgen de Heus, Juell Sprott, European Robotics Forum Hackaton – Lely & Robohouse challenge, 2nd year project report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2022.
Description
The KUKA company has challenged research institutes several times to demonstrate an innovative robotic application or component in the field of mobile manipulation in real operation in a realistic working environment. The Universiteit of Amsterdam has participated in both the 2014 and 2015 challnges. To ensure equal conditions and a fair and direct comparison, the application or component were demonstrated on a KUKA youBot. The KUKA youBot is an open-source software controlled mobile manipulator with an omni-directional base and a five-degree-of-freedom robot arm, which is about to become a reference platform for research and education in mobile manipulation, as it is also used as reference platfom in RoboCup@Work and RoCKIn@Work. The challenge of the @Work competition will be explained at High-Tech systems annual conference.The University of Amsterdam has experience in both the perception side and the cooperation side of this challenge. The UvA@work team has participated in both the RoCKIn Camp in Rome, based on the Team Description Paper 2014 and the RoCKIn Camp in Peccioli, based on the Team Description Paper 2015.
The UvA@Work team at the RoCKIn 2015 Camp.
At the RoCKIn Camp 2014 the UvA@Work team received the Best Practical in Human Robot Interaction award.
The UvA@Work team at the RoCKIn 2014 Camp.
Research Logs
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Publications
- Tessa Bouzidi, Celeste Kettler, Valerie Scholten and Victor Milewski UvA RoCKIn Camp 2015 - Technical Report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, August 2015.
- Sébastien Negrijn UvA @ Work Technical Report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, August 2015.
- Sébastien Negrijn RoCKIn @ Work Visual Servoing - Active vision using template matching on RGB-D sensor images, Bachelor Thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2015.
- Areg Shahbazian Taking up the RoCKIn@Work Object Recognition Challenge With The Bag of Keypoints Approach, Bachelor Thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2015.
- Ruben Seggers People Tracking in Outdoor Environments - Evaluating the Kinect 2 Performance in Different Lighting Conditions, June 2015.
- Freddy de Greef A KUKA youBot simulation in USARSim, June 2015.
- Valerie Scholten, Victor Milewski, Tessa Bouzidi and Celeste Kettler, "Intellent House Builder", Project report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2014. (Portable Document Format ).
- Ysbrand M.A.A. Galama, "Picking a flower with a KUKA youBot - Using A* pathplanning in a 4 DoF configuration-space to evade surrounding obstacles", Bachelor Thesis, Universiteit van Amsterdam, June 2014. (Portable Document Format ).
- Oana Munteanu and Richard Pronk, "Visual Odometry with the Ricoh Theta", Project Report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, February 5, 2014. (Portable Document Format 5.6 Mb).
- Jasper van Enk, "Navigating YouBot through a rose field with A*", Project Report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, August 2013. (Portable Document Format 772 Kb).
- Sébastien Negrijn, Vincent Erich, Martijn Wardenaar and Jelle Koster, "Basic order picking met behulp van de KUKA YouBot", Project Report, Universiteit van Amsterdam, July 2013. (Portable Document Format 240 Kb).