Completed Projects

"Robbie 22" continues the work of "Robbie 20" and aims towards a participation in the RoboCup German Open 2014, Magdeburg. The project is lead by Viktor Seib.

The project will compete with team homer@UniKoblenz and the autonomous service robot Lisa in RoboCup@Home.

Latest information and impressions are available on the page of the practical course.

RoboCup German Open 2014 (Magdeburg)

• Finalist (5th place) in the @Home overall ranking

"Robbie 20" aims towards a participation in the RoboCup German Open 2013, Magdeburg and in the RoboCup World Championships 2013, Eindhoven. The project is lead by Viktor Seib.

The project will compete with team homer@UniKoblenz and the autonomous service robot Lisa in RoboCup@Home.

Latest information and impressions are available on the page of the practical course.

RoboCup World Championship 2013 (Eindhoven)

• Finalist (5th place) in the @Home overall ranking
  

RoboCup German Open 2013 (Magdeburg)

• 3rd place in @Home overall ranking

"Robbie 18" continues the work of "Robbie 16", aiming towards a participation in the RoboCup German Open 2012, Magdeburg and in the RoboCup World Championships 2012, Mexico-City. The project is lead by Viktor Seib.

The project will compete with team homer@UniKoblenz and the autonomous service robot Lisa in RoboCup@Home. The focus will lie on the improvement of Lisa's people awareness and user interaction as well as a participation in the "General Purpose Robot" test.

Latest information and impressions are available on the page of the practical course.

RoboCup World Championship 2012 (Mexico-City)

• Finalist (5th place) in the @Home overall ranking
• Winner of the Technical Challenge Award in the @Home-League
  

RoboCup German Open 2012 (Magdeburg)

• Finalist (4th place) in @Home overall ranking

"Robbie 16" continues the work of "Robbie 14", aiming towards a participation in the RoboCup German Open 2011, Magdeburg and in the RoboCup World Championships 2011, Istanbul. The project is lead by Marcel Häselich and is divided into two separate teams:

• Team resko@UniKoblenz,  led by Dagmar Lang, will compete in RoboCupRescue with our autonomous Rescue robot Robbie. This year's focus will be on 3D mapping and senor fusion.
• Team homer@UniKoblenz, led by Susanne Thierfelder, will compete in RoboCup@Home with the autonomous service robot Lisa. The focus will lie on the improvement of Lisa's user interaction and general functionality as well as a participation in the "General Purpose Robot" test.
  The team is supported by Dominik Grüntjens from the Working Group Müller.

Latest information and impressions are available on the page of the practical course.

The project will again compete in the RoboCup Rescue Interleague Mapping Challenge.

RoboCup World Championship 2011 (Istanbul)

• Participant in Stage 2 in the @Home-League
• Participant in the Best-in-Class Autonomy Finals in the Rescue-League
  

RoboCup German Open 2011 (Magdeburg)

• German Champion in Rescue Autonomy (5th time)!
• 4th Place in Rescue overall ranking
• Finalist in @Home overall ranking

Within the practical course "Robbie 15" an improved concept over the designs from "Robbie 13" is being developed. The robot will once again participate in the Sick Robot Day 2010 autonomous robotics competition on the 2nd of October 2010 with the goal of defending last year's title.

Once again, the main objective is to find and recognize signs with the numbers 0 to 9 on them while avoiding collisions with obstacles and other robots.

SICK robot day 2010 (Waldkirch/Freiburg)

• 2nd Place

Within the practical course "Robbie 14" the household- and rescue robots from "Robbie 12" were evolved.

To service robot "Lisa" a gripper arm and a Time-of-Flight cam

era were integrated, for grabbing objects from tables and recognizing gestures. For rescue robot "Robbie" a new sensor turret was evolved, which could record thermal images on several  heights simultaniously.

Latest information and impressions are available on the page of the practical course.

RoboCup World Championship 2010 (Singapur)

• RoboCup@Home Innovation Award
• 4th Place in @Home overall ranking
• 1st Place in Interleague Mapping Challenge

RoboCup German Open 2010 (Magdeburg)

• German Champion in Rescue Autonomy (4th time)!
• 3rd Place in Rescue overall ranking
• 3rd Place in @Home overall ranking

Within the practical course Robbie 13 a new robot was developed, based on the well known Pioneer3-AT platform, which was used in previous projects. The robot participated at Sick Robot Day on the 3rd of October 2009, which is hosted by Sick AG, where it had to compete autonomously against a second robot in an arena.

Main objective was to recognize as fast as possible the numbers '0' to '9' (which where placed on signboards) and drive towards them in correct order. 12 Teams of several universities and research facilities participated at the race.

Robbie 12 is an advancement of the service- and rescue robot Robbie X.

The biggest superficial change is the new structure for the RoboCup@Home Roboter, realised in collaboration with Handwerkskammer Koblenz (HWK). Besides, it has got a better mapping software and a new thermal camera for the rescue robot.

Blog and photos of RoboCup German Open (20. to 24.4.2009) and World Championship in Graz (29.6. to 5.7.2009).

Robbie X

Robbie X is based on the project Robbie 8 and enhances its functionalities for participation at the RoboCup@Home-League. Those are: object recognition, natural language interaction and person tracking. Besides, Robbies skills were extended for Rescue-League: Construction of maps and autonomous navigation had been optimized.
2008 was the first time, where two teams participated with Robbie X at RoboCup in the leagues Rescue and @Home.

In fall 2007 Robbie9 participated at "SICK robot-day" in Waldkirch near Freiburg.

In this Tournament, a robot has to drive through an open compound 100 meters long, strictly autonomous and as fast as possible.

Robbie 7/8

Objective of the projects "Robbie 7" and "Robbie 8" was the participation at RoboCup German Open 2007 in Hannover, particularly at the RoboCup Rescue-League. At this point, Robbie first moved entirely autonomous through the simulated scenario of a collapsed house. By doing that, it mapped the environment and traced autonomously victims with a self developed thermal camera.

In the year of 2006 Robbie participated the first time at the international RoboCup Worldchampionships in Bremen. At this point the robot was steered manually through a flat surface arena and an operator was needed for the victim-recognition based on camera images.
Robbie 6: Projectsite(german)

Robbie 5

In the previous years Robbie only interacted indoors. In the project "Robbie 5" it learned moving around on campus. The robot could been sent to any place, where it had to localize a bucket for transport to its destination.
Robbie 5: Projectsite(german)

Robbie 4 was an active Soccerplayer. For being able to do that, it localised a reddish ball in its environment and kicked the ball into a goal.

Robbie 1, 2 and 3 was a mobile robot equipped with color-cameras and a microphone. It gave reception to visitors of the Institute of Computational Visualistics, asked about the name of an associate of the Institute and led the visitor to the associates office.