This paper presents the b-it-bots RoboCup@Work team and its current hardware and functional architecture for the KUKA youBot robot. We describe the underlying software framework and the developed capabilities required for operating in industrial environments including features such as reliable and precise navigation, flexible manipulation, robust object recognition and task planning. New developments include an approach to grasp vertical objects, placement of objects by considering the empty space on a workstation, and the process of porting our code to ROS2.
@article{arxiv.2312.17643,
title = {b-it-bots RoboCup@Work Team Description Paper 2023},
author = {Kevin Patel and Vamsi Kalagaturu and Vivek Mannava and Ravisankar Selvaraju and Shubham Shinde and Dharmin Bakaraniya and Deebul Nair and Mohammad Wasil and Santosh Thoduka and Iman Awaad and Sven Schneider and Nico Hochgeschwender and Paul G. Plöger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17643},
year = {2024}
}