Contrary to controlled experiments in a laboratory, robotics competitions pose a real challenge to an intelligent autonomous system. To allow a good performance, robotic systems have to be very robust to unforeseen circumstances in a highly constrained time frame. In this paper we present the design, implementation and performance of the robotic system we developed for participation in the SICK robot day 2014, with which we achieved very good results, placing second, with the same maximum score as the first. The task of this competition was to alternately fetch and deliver objects in a simplified warehouse scenario. Participating robots had to be able to carry out different tasks, such as detecting filling and delivery stations, receiving and analysing bar-code labelled objects as well as navigating in an arena among three other robots.
@inproceedings{BuckICAR2015,
title = {Conclusions from an Object-Delivery Robotic Competition: SICK Robot Day 2014},
author = {Buck, Sebastian and Hanten, Richard and Huski\'{c}, Goran and Rauscher, Gerald and
Kloss, Alina and Leininger, Jan and Ruff, Eugen and Widmaier, Felix and Zell, Andreas},
booktitle = {Advanced Robotics (ICAR), The 17th International Conference on},
year = {2015},
address = {Istanbul, TR},
month = {July},
pages = {137-143},
abstract = {Contrary to controlled experiments in a laboratory,
robotics competitions pose a real challenge to an intelligent
autonomous system. To allow a good performance, robotic systems
have to be very robust to unforeseen circumstances in a
highly constrained time frame. In this paper we present the
design, implementation and performance of the robotic system
we developed for participation in the SICK robot day 2014, with
which we achieved very good results, placing second, with the
same maximum score as the first. The task of this competition was
to alternately fetch and deliver objects in a simplified warehouse
scenario. Participating robots had to be able to carry out different
tasks, such as detecting filling and delivery stations, receiving and
analysing bar-code labelled objects as well as navigating in an
arena among three other robots.},
days = {27-31},
pdf = {http://www.cogsys.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/publikationen/2015/BuckICAR2015.pdf},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251446},
doi = {10.1109/ICAR.2015.7251446}
}