RoboCup@Home Education 2020 Best Performance: RoboBreizh, a modular approach

Antoine Dizet (1, 2) , Cédric Le Bono (2, 3) , Amélie Legeleux (4, 2) , Maëlic Neau (1, 5) , Cédric Buche (6)

1 ENIB - École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest
2 Lab-STICC_RAMBO - Equipe Robot interaction, Ambient system, Machine learning, Behaviour, Optimization
3 IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique
4 UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud
5 Lab-STICC_COMMEDIA - Equipe COgnition, Models and Machines for Engaging Digital Interactive Applications
6 CROSSING - FrenCh austRalian labOratory for humanS/autonomouS agents teamING

Every year, the Robocup@Home competition challenges teams and robots' abilities. In 2020, the RoboCup@Home Education challenge was organized online, altering the usual competition rules. In this paper, we present the latest developments that lead the RoboBreizh team to win the contest. These developments include several modules linked to each other allowing the Pepper robot to understand, act and adapt itself to a local environment. Up-to-date available technologies have been used for navigation and dialogue. First contribution includes combining object detection and pose estimation techniques to detect user's intention. Second contribution involves using Learning by Demonstrations to easily learn new movements that improve the Pepper robot's skills. This proposal won the best performance award of the 2020 RoboCup@Home Education challenge.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Antoine Dizet, Cédric Le Bono, Amélie Legeleux, Maëlic Neau, Cédric Buche. RoboCup@Home Education 2020 Best Performance: RoboBreizh, a modular approach. 2021. ⟨hal-03281124⟩