Domestic Service Robots in the Real World

Iocchi, Luca; Ruiz‐del‐Solar, Javier; Zant, Tijn van der

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“…22 In particular, the NAO robots from Aldebaran. 23 This definition focuses on RoboCup@Home tasks and is aligned with more general definitions, such as the one given in the Robotics 2020 Strategic Research Agenda: "Cognition is the ability to interpret the task and environment such that tasks can be effectively and efficiently executed even where there exists environmental and/or task uncertainty. The ability to interpret human commands delivered in natural language or gestures.…”

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“…For example, two special issues on Domestic Service Robotics have been organized by the RoboCup@Home league [23,24], where the most innovative research works developed by the @Home teams (but not only) were published. This shows that the development of effective service and domestic robots still requires research to develop robust and effective solutions and to properly integrate them.…”

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RoboCup@Home: Analysis and results of evolving competitions for domestic and service robots

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Ruiz‐del‐Solar

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Artificial Intelligence

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Please cite this article in press as: L. Iocchi et al., ROBOCUP@HOME: Analysis and results of evolving competitions for domestic and service robots, Artificial Intelligence (2015), http://dx. AbstractScientific competitions are becoming more common in many research areas of artificial intelligence and robotics, since they provide a shared testbed for comparing different solutions and enable the exchange of research results. Moreover, they are interesting for general audiences and industries. Currently, many major research areas in artificial intelligence and robotics are organizing multiple-year competitions that are typically associated with scientific conferences.One important aspect of such competitions is that they are organized for many years. This introduces a temporal evolution that is interesting to analyze. However, the problem of evaluating a competition over many years remains unaddressed. We believe that this issue is critical to properly fuel changes over the years and measure the results of these decisions. Therefore, this article focuses on the analysis and the results of evolving competitions.In this article, we present the RoboCup@Home competition, which is the largest worldwide competition for domestic service robots, and evaluate its progress over the past seven years. We show how the definition of a proper scoring system allows for desired functionalities to be related to tasks and how the resulting analysis fuels subsequent changes to achieve general and robust solutions implemented by the teams. Our results show not only the steadily increasing complexity of the tasks that RoboCup@Home robots can solve but also the increased performance for all of the functionalities addressed in the competition.We believe that the methodology used in RoboCup@Home for evaluating competition advances and for stimulating changes can be applied and extended to other robotic competitions as well as to multi-year research projects involving Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.

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RoboCup@Home: Analysis and results of evolving competitions for domestic and service robots

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et al. 2015

Artificial Intelligence

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“…The home environment is defined as any place where people reside in their everyday lives, including living rooms, kitchens and gardens (Iocchi, Ruiz-del-Solar, & van der Zant, 2012). Although social robots are also expected to appear in other contexts, such as health care and education, these contexts are beyond the scope of this dissertation.…”

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Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

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“…The development and application of domestic service robots are growing rapidly. Whereas basic household robots are already common practice [1], the study of General Purpose Domestic Service Robots (GPSR) able to do complex tasks is increasing [2], [3]. Due to the dynamic environment around GPSRs, they need to efficiently handle noise and uncertainty [4].…”

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Handling Unforeseen Failures Using Argumentation-Based Learning

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2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)

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General Purpose Service Robots operate in different environments of a dynamic nature. Even the robot's programmer cannot predict what kind of failure conditions a robot may confront in its lifetime. Therefore, general purpose service robots need to efficiently handle unforeseen failure conditions. This requires the capability of handling unforeseen failures while the robot is performing a task. Existing research typically offers special-purpose solutions depending on what has been foreseen at the design time. In this research, we propose a general purpose argumentation-based architecture which is able to autonomously recover from unforeseen failures. We compare the proposed method with existing incremental online learning methods in the literature. The results show that the proposed argumentation-based learning approach is capable of learning complex scenarios faster with a lower number of observations. Moreover, the final precision of the proposed method is higher than other methods.

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Domestic Service Robots in the Real World

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Cited by 13 publications

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RoboCup@Home: Analysis and results of evolving competitions for domestic and service robots

RoboCup@Home: Analysis and results of evolving competitions for domestic and service robots

Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

Handling Unforeseen Failures Using Argumentation-Based Learning

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