RoboCup@Home: Creating and Benchmarking Tomorrows Service Robot Applications

Zant, Tijn van der; Wisspeintner, Thomas

doi:10.5772/5147

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“…Thus, having presented the classical line of reasoning arriving towards the utility of equipping robots with natural language capabilities, and having discussed a space of possibilities regarding role assignment between human and robot, let us now move to the second, more concrete, albeit less general avenue towards justifying conversational robots: namely, specific applications, existing or potential. Such applications, where natural human-robot interaction capabilities with verbal and non-verbal aspects would be desirable, include: flexible manufacturing robots; lab or household robotic assistants [30], [31], [32], [33]; assistive robotics and companions for special groups of people [34]; persuasive robotics (for example, [35]); robotic receptionists [36], robotic educational assistants, robotic wheelchairs [37], companion robots [38], all the way to more exotic domains, such as robotic theatre actors [39], musicians [40], dancers [41] etc.…”

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A review of verbal and non-verbal human–robot interactive communication

Mavridis

2015

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

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In this paper, an overview of human-robot interactive communication is presented, covering verbal as well as non-verbal aspects. Following a historical introduction, and motivation towards fluid human-robot communication, ten desiderata are proposed, which provide an organizational axis both of recent as well as of future research on human-robot communication. Then, the ten desiderata are examined in detail, culminating to a unifying discussion, and a forward-looking conclusion.

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Section: Motivation: Interactive Robots With Natural Language Capmentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of verbal and non-verbal human–robot interactive communication

Mavridis

2015

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

376

135

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“…Benchmarking the advancement based solely in the competition results can be deceiving. Every year rules are tuned, scores are modified, and the difficulty degree is adjusted, 1 The authors belong to several teams who have participated in RoboCup@Home as early as 2007 2 Source: http://youtu.be/I1kN1bAeeB0/ Retrieved: Jan 1st, 2018. making impossible to estimate the overall progress achieved by means of a direct quantitative comparison of the scores. Even more, scores often reflect the subjective criterion of the referee regarding the solution of a task as required by the rules.…”

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RoboCup@Home: Summarizing achievements in over eleven years of competition

Matamoros¹,

Seib²,

Memmesheimer³

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC)

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Scientific competitions are important in robotics because they foster knowledge exchange and allow teams to test their research in unstandardized scenarios and compare result. In the field of service robotics its role becomes crucial. Competitions like RoboCup@Home bring robots to people, a fundamental step to integrate them into society.In this paper we summarize and discuss the differences between the achievements claimed by teams in their team description papers, and the results observed during the competition 1 from a qualitative perspective.We conclude with a set of important challenges to be conquered first in order to take robots to people's homes. We believe that competitions are also an excellent opportunity to collect data of direct and unbiased interactions for further research.

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“…The movement of the robot is controlled by a remote caregiver who can monitor the elderly person using the camera mounted on the robot. The Robocup@Home initiative even proposes and runs competitions concerning the abilities of home service robots [10].…”

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Using an autonomous robot to maintain privacy in assistive environments

Armbrust¹,

Mehdi²,

Reichardt³

et al. 2011

Security Comm Networks

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In our societies, the number of senior citizens living on their own is increasing steadily. The lack of permanent attention results in the late detection of emergency situations. Labour-intensive care is already a high burden for the society, therefore it seems reasonable to promote technology that helps to detect and react in case of emergency situations that elderly people may encounter.In the last decade, assistive environments have been established by integrating surveillance devices into the living environments giving remote operators access to monitor the senior inhabitant at home for detecting emergency situations. However, due to poor privacy in terms of intrusion into the private life of an elderly person, there will be an unfavourably low acceptance of such systems.This paper introduces a two-stage strategy and proposes to replace a possibly large number of humancontrolled monitoring devices by a single autonomous mobile system. The first stage will be performed by the autonomous system to detect an emergency situation. The human operator will be obligatory only at the final stage when the system assumes that an emergency has occurred and the final evaluation of the situation is required. The self-assessment will reduce the human factor related to privacy issues.

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RoboCup@Home: Creating and Benchmarking Tomorrows Service Robot Applications

Cited by 18 publications

References 3 publications

A review of verbal and non-verbal human–robot interactive communication

A review of verbal and non-verbal human–robot interactive communication

RoboCup@Home: Summarizing achievements in over eleven years of competition

Using an autonomous robot to maintain privacy in assistive environments

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