RoboCup@Home is an international robotics competition based on domestic tasks requiring autonomous capabilities pertaining to a large variety of AI technologies. Research challenges are motivated by these tasks both at the level of individual technologies and the integration of subsystems into a fully functional, robustly autonomous system. We describe the progress made by the UT Austin Villa 2019 RoboCup@Home team which represents a significant step forward in AI-based HRI due to the breadth of tasks accomplished within a unified system. Presented are the competition tasks, component technologies they rely on, our initial approaches both to the components and their integration, and directions for future research.
@article{arxiv.1909.06529,
title = {Solving Service Robot Tasks: UT Austin Villa@Home 2019 Team Report},
author = {Rishi Shah and Yuqian Jiang and Haresh Karnan and Gilberto Briscoe-Martinez and Dominick Mulder and Ryan Gupta and Rachel Schlossman and Marika Murphy and Justin W. Hart and Luis Sentis and Peter Stone},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.06529},
year = {2019}
}