The RoCKIn@Work Challenge

Conference: ISR/Robotik 2014 - 45th International Symposium on Robotics; 8th German Conference on Robotics
06/02/2014 - 06/03/2014 at München, Germany

Proceedings: ISR/Robotik 2014

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Dwiputra, Rhama (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany)
Berghofer, Jakob; Bischoff, Rainer (KUKA Laboratories GmbH, Germany)
Ahmad, Aamir; Lima, Pedro (Lisbon Technical University, Portugal)
Awaad, Iman; Hegger, Frederik; Hochgeschwender, Nico; Kraetzschmar, Gerhard; Schneider, Sven (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Amigoni, Francesco; Bonarini, Andrea; Fontana, Giulio; Matteucci, Matteo; Schiaffonati, Viola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Iocchi, Luca; Nardi, Daniele (Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy)

Abstract:
RoCKIn is a EU-funded project aiming to foster scientific progress and innovation in cognitive systems and robotics through the design and implementation of competitions. An additional objective of RoCKIn is to increase public awareness of the current state-of-the-art in robotics in Europe and to demonstrate the innovation potential of robotics applications for solving societal challenges and improving the competitiveness of Europe in the global markets. In order to achieve these objectives, RoCKIn develops two competitions, one for domestic service robots (RoCKIn@Home) and one for industrial robots in factories (RoCKIn@Work). These competitions are designed around challenges that are based on easy-to-communicate and convincing user stories, which catch the interest of both the general public and the scientific community. The latter is in particular interested in solving open scientific challenges and to thoroughly assess, compare, and evaluate the developed approaches with competing ones. To allow this to happen, the competitions are designed to meet the requirements of benchmarking procedures and good experimental methods. The integration of benchmarking technology with the competition concept is one of the main objectives of RoCKIn.