Short Description of Project
This project focuses on building an autonomous machine learning and controls architecture for the Turtlebot, in anticipation of the annual, international Robocup Education competition. During our first year of competition in summer 2020, we placed second internationally and won the People’s Choice Award for most popular submission video.
Amount of funding awarded
$4,939.51
Budget Report
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How the program has supported you
The Robocup@Home Education project’s goal is to empower students with the opportunity, the tools, and the knowledge to experience robotics development through our hands-on project. After the Robocup EDU teams’ success in the 2020 competition claiming 2nd place internationally, the team has now focused their attention on the Robocup@Home open platform league. This is to scale up the software to a full sized autonomous at home service robot, while the education competition may be used for younger members in the future. We want to ensure all our members gain real world problem solving skills and the robotics and AI literacy that is essential to relevant careers in the future. The PAF funding was used for purchasing sensors, a processing device, and hosting costs for our team website/online resources.
Outcomes
As a benchmark to evaluate the team’s learning process, we hope to participate in the annual Robocup@Home Education competition in the coming years where the UBC Open Robotics compete against a score of international teams through a series of standardized tasks. These tasks are designed to be representative of common challenges facing domestic robotics such as natural language processing, navigation in a variable environment and carrying household items. The Robocup@Home Education competition is seen as a segway to the Robocup@Home competition as it is typically done by graduate students; It is much more challenging and resource intensive, given that contestants must design their hardware and integrate completely from scratch.
