Two weeks after coming back from RoboCup 2011, finally I could manage to write a bit about Rescue Robot League.
This year, the league had two major absents: Adam, the league chair who has been organizing the league since its beginning and the team Pelican United, the best organized and very well known Japanese team with an exceptional track in USAR robotics.
In comparison with Singapore, the teams mostly had a good progress in autonomy. Two teams (MRL from Iran and CASualty from Australia) brought more than one autonomous robot in their missions and German teams – which have always been frontier in robot autonomy – demonstrated their recent works in 3D mapping. One team (Hector Darmstadt) successfully migrated to ROS and several other teams had started to do. In contrast with autonomy, I didn’t see anything new in robot mobility or mobile manipulation – maybe due to the absence of the Japanese teams, Pelican United and SHINOBI.
My own team, AriAnA, had really bad chance in Turkey. Unfortunately our luggage got stuck in Turkish custom due to a dull mistake in Iranian custom – they had forgotten to include the packing list which we had provided. Finally we had to prepare a list of every single device in each box to get them from Turkish custom. Unfortunately we received the luggage within the preliminary round and we had to set up the robot while other teams were competing.
As the winner of Best in Class Autonomy award in Iran-Open 2011, we were very optimistic to get a good result in RoboCup as well. We’d built a new high mobility platform (DELTA) as a part of our recently funded project, AMIR (Advanced Mobility Intelligent Robot) to pass yellow and orange arenas. We had also developed a multi modal navigation algorithm after Iran-Open competitions to cover drawbacks of both wall-following and traditional frontier based exploration algorithms. Unfortunately we couldn’t evaluate our new approach in Turkey though the robot was perfect in action. Maybe we should try our chance somewhere else!
At the end, I was selected as a member of Organizing Committee of Rescue Robot League in RoboCup 2012 Mexico. This was the only good news we brought from Turkey.
This year, the league had two major absents: Adam, the league chair who has been organizing the league since its beginning and the team Pelican United, the best organized and very well known Japanese team with an exceptional track in USAR robotics.
In comparison with Singapore, the teams mostly had a good progress in autonomy. Two teams (MRL from Iran and CASualty from Australia) brought more than one autonomous robot in their missions and German teams – which have always been frontier in robot autonomy – demonstrated their recent works in 3D mapping. One team (Hector Darmstadt) successfully migrated to ROS and several other teams had started to do. In contrast with autonomy, I didn’t see anything new in robot mobility or mobile manipulation – maybe due to the absence of the Japanese teams, Pelican United and SHINOBI.
My own team, AriAnA, had really bad chance in Turkey. Unfortunately our luggage got stuck in Turkish custom due to a dull mistake in Iranian custom – they had forgotten to include the packing list which we had provided. Finally we had to prepare a list of every single device in each box to get them from Turkish custom. Unfortunately we received the luggage within the preliminary round and we had to set up the robot while other teams were competing.
As the winner of Best in Class Autonomy award in Iran-Open 2011, we were very optimistic to get a good result in RoboCup as well. We’d built a new high mobility platform (DELTA) as a part of our recently funded project, AMIR (Advanced Mobility Intelligent Robot) to pass yellow and orange arenas. We had also developed a multi modal navigation algorithm after Iran-Open competitions to cover drawbacks of both wall-following and traditional frontier based exploration algorithms. Unfortunately we couldn’t evaluate our new approach in Turkey though the robot was perfect in action. Maybe we should try our chance somewhere else!
At the end, I was selected as a member of Organizing Committee of Rescue Robot League in RoboCup 2012 Mexico. This was the only good news we brought from Turkey.
