RoboCup@home Brazil Open

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RoboCup@Home Brazil Open

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RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots through competitions (RoboCup@Home, RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, RoboCup@Work and RoboCup Junior).

The RoboCup@Home Brazil Open competition aims to develop service and assistive robot technology with high relevance for future personal domestic applications. It is the largest international annual competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots's abilities and performance in a realistic home environment setting. Focus lies on the following domains but is not limited to: Human-Robot-Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Ambient Intelligence, Standardization and System Integration.

This page describes the preregistration and qualification procedure for RoboCup@Home 2024.

The qualification procedure consists of the following steps:

All submissions must be made on the Olimpo website

1. Pre-registration and submission of TDPs
2. Correction and resubmission of TDPs
3. Registration and Payment
4. Poster submission

Important dates:

• 05/08/2024 - Deadline for pre-registration(submission of TDPs)
• 14/08/2024 - Publication of TDP Results
• 23/08/2024 - Deadline for correction and resubmission of TDPs
• 30/08/2024 - Publication of qualified teams
• 30/09/2024 - Deadline for Early Registration and Payment
• 20/10/2024 - Deadline for Regular Registration and Payment
• 11/10/2024 - Deadline for Late Registration and Payment
• 11/10/2024 - Deadline for Poster submitinon

Instructions for the Qualification Material

All teams must submit a TDP (Team Description Paper) to participate in the competition. The TDP is a scientific paper, detailing information on the technical and scientific approach of the team's research. The TDP should describe the ideas implemented by the team. You can describe the entire system or focus on one or two components – we recommend that innovative and important topics or alternative approaches adopted be included in the TDP, as the same problem and topics may interest other teams. It is very important that the explanations are made in a clear and objective manner, assuming that the readers are familiar with topics related to the category (description, rules, etc.). Focus your text on the important topics of your work. It should explain the technical details of how your approach works so that other researchers can replicate your experiments and results. This way, all researchers can benefit from the experiences presented.

The language for the TDP, its graphics, tables, images, and all additional content must be English. Content in other languages must be translated.

Teams that do not submit a TDP or that have their TDP rejected will not be allowed to participate in the event even if they have paid the registration fee. Registration fees will not be refunded.

You may download a template for the TDP from here.

The TDP needs to include the following topics:

• Group's research focus and interests.
• Innovative technology and scientific contribution.
• Please specify when your research is being used by other teams or research groups.
• Please specify when you are using software from other teams.
• Brief, general description of the system when solving a domestic task (applicability in the real world).
• The impact of your research must be clearly visible.
• Maximum length is 6 pages (including figures and citations).

Additional information about the robot must be sent via form. In this form you will provide the following information:

• Photo of the robot.
• Brief, compact list of the 3rd party robot's software.
• Brief, compact description of the robot's hardware.
• Brief, compact description of all external computing devices, if any.

Copyright note: All TDPs may be made publicly available in the RoboCup@Home Brazil Wiki for further reference. On submitting, teams implicitly grant permission to RoboCup @Home Brazil to copy, distribute, upload, publish, and use the manuscript to promote the event and the league at convenience.

Qualification and evaluation criteria:

• clarity
• completeness
• scientific contributions
• re-usability by the league
• applicability in real world
• Performance in local tournaments and previous competitions
• Novelty of approach (what you do is new for @Home)
• Focus on the scientific contribution and avoid brief descriptions of the overall system.

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With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in ,
The RoboCup@Home Brazil Organizing Committee.

Score

Poster

Stage 1

Stage 2

Final

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Teams

Tasks Info

Arena

Inspection
Navigation and Follow Me	Speech Recognition & Audio Detection	Personal Recognition	Manipulation and Object Recognition
Carry My Luggage	Clean Up	Receptionist	Take Out the Garbage

Objects

Drinks	Cleaning supplies	Pantry items	Fruits	Snacks
Coke	Cloth	ToothPick	Sicilian_Lemon	fillet
Fanta	Soap	Cappuccino	Apple	Onion
Kuat	SteelWool	Gelatin	Kiwi	Pepperoni
Pithula		MilkCream	Lemon	Wafer
Papaya		TomatoSauce
Banana

People Names

	Male	Female
1	James	Mary
2	Michael	Patricia
3	Robert	Jennifer
4	John	Linda
5	David	Elizabeth
6	William	Barbara
7	Richard	Susan
8	Joseph	Jessica
9	Thomas	Karen
10	Christopher	Sarah

SR Contexts

Context 1

The RoboCup@Home league
The RoboCup@Home league aims to develop robotic service and assistance technology with high relevance for future personal home applications. It is the largest annual international competition for autonomous service robots and is part of the RoboCup initiative. A set of benchmark tests is used to evaluate the robots' abilities and performance in a realistic, non-standard home environment. The focus is on the following domains, but is not limited to: Human-Robot Interaction and Cooperation, Navigation and Mapping in dynamic environments, Computer Vision and Object Recognition under natural light conditions, Object Manipulation, Adaptive Behaviors, Behavior Integration, Environmental Intelligence, Standardization and Systems Integration. It is co-located with the RoboCup symposium.
Who can participate?
Anyone with an independent robot can participate. The @Home league consists of a few tests and an open challenge to demonstrate your robot's skills. To participate in the open challenge it is necessary to participate in at least one test. The competition takes place in a real-world setting.
The competition
The RoboCup@Home competition consists of tests that robots must solve. The tests change over the years to become more advanced and act as a general measure of quality in the desired areas. Performance measurement is based on a score derived from competition rules and assessment by a jury.
Test criteria are listed below:
include human-robot interaction
be socially relevant
be application-directed/oriented
be scientifically challenging
be simple and have self-explanatory rules
be interesting to watch
The scenario
The final setting is the real world itself. To gradually develop possible technologies, a basic home environment is provided as a general setting. In the first years (we started in 2006) it consisted of a living room and a kitchen but soon it also began to involve other areas of daily life, such as a garden/park area, a store, a street or other public places.
Finals
RoboCup@Home ends with the finals where the teams with the highest points can play in the scenario that has been created. Teams are evaluated by a jury made up of roboticists and non-roboticists, such as people from industry, human-machine interaction, industrial design, the public and the press. The classification of the finals determines the winner. In the finals there is less focus on technical issues, as reaching the finals already means that the teams are very good at a technical level.

Context 2

Goiás
Goiás is a Brazilian state located in the Midwest region. Goiás borders the Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The state capital is Goiânia. With 7.2 million inhabitants, Goiás is the most populous state in the Midwest and the 11th most populous in the country. It has the ninth largest economy among Brazilian federative units. In Brazil's geoeconomic division, Goiás belongs to the Centro-Sul (Center-South), being the northernmost state of the southern portion of Brazil. The state has 3.3% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 2.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
The history of Goiás dates back to the beginning of the 18th century, with the arrival of pioneers from São Paulo. The Rio Vermelho region was the first to be occupied, where Vila Boa (later renamed Goiás) was founded. The development and settlement of the state took place, in a more intensified way, starting in the 1930s with the founding of the new capital, Goiânia, and especially with the construction of Brasília in the 1950s.
Goiás is characterized by a landscape of chapadões (plateaus). In the height of the drought season, from June to September, the lack of rain makes the level of the Araguaia River go down and exposes almost 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of beaches. At the Emas National Park in the municipality of Mineiros, it is possible to observe the typical fauna and flora from the region. At the Chapada dos Veadeiros the main attractions are the canyons, valleys, rapids and waterfalls. Other attractions include the historical city of Goiás and the hot springs of Caldas Novas.
History
The first European exploration of this interior part of Brazil was carried out by expeditions from São Paulo in the 17th century. Gold was discovered in the gravel of a tributary of the Araguaia River by the bandeirante Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (the Anhanguera) in 1682. The settlement he founded there, called Santa Anna, became the colonial town of Goiás Velho, the former state capital. In 1744 the large inland area, much of it still unexplored by Europeans, was made a Captaincy General, and in 1822 it became a province of the empire of Brazil. It became a state in 1889. The Brazilian constitution of 1891 specified that the nation's capital should be moved to the Brazilian Highlands (Planalto Central), and in 1956 Goiás was selected as the site for the federal district and capital national, Brasília. The seat of the federal government was officially moved to Brasília in 1960.
Goiânia, the largest city and capital was planned in 1933 to replace the old, inaccessible former state capital of Goiás, 110 kilometres (68 mi) northwest. In 1937 the state government moved there, and in 1942 the official inauguration was held. Goiânia is now one of the fastest-growing cities in Brazil and one of the most livable cities in the country. It stands out as both an industrial center (along with the neighboring towns of Anápolis and Aparecida de Goiânia) and as a cultural center for country culture and music, known as Sertanejo
Due to the relatively large territory of the state, which was over 600,000 square kilometres (230,000 sq mi), communications were obviously very difficult. The northern part of the state began to feel abandoned by the southern government and began a movement for separation. Local political leaders also encouraged the movement. In 1988 the northern half of Goiás became a separate state called Tocantins.
Economy
The service sector is the largest component of GDP at 43.9%, followed by the industrial sector at 35.4%. Agriculture represents 20.7%, of GDP (2004). Goiás exports: soybean 49.2%, meat of cattle 10.5%, gold 9.1%, other meat 7.5%, iron 7.4%, leather 4% (2002).
Goiás is a leader in the country in crop raising. In 2016, Goiás had the 3rd largest cattle herd in Brazil: 22.6 million head of cattle. The number of pigs in Goiás was approximately 2.0 million head in 2015. The State had the 6th largest Brazilian herd, 5% of the national herd. Among the municipalities in Goiás that stood out, Rio Verde had the 3rd largest national population. In 2016, Goiás was the 4th largest milk producer, accounting for 10.1% of the country's milk production. The number of chickens in the State was 64.2 million head in 2015. The production of chicken eggs this year was 188 million dozens. Goiás was the 9th largest producer of eggs, 5% of national production.