Research and development of service robots by competition activities

Abstract

In real world applications of home service robots, they are required to be able to perform housekeeping or other tasks. “RoboCup@Home” is a competition for benchmarking home service robots. It includes tests to service robots for real world implementation. These tests require the combination of intelligent functions such as object detection and voice recognition. We have developed a home service robot “Exi@” and evaluated its performance by participating in RoboCup@Home. This paper describes real world implementation of robots and RoboCup@Home. The functions embedded in Exi@ and a task “Restaurant” are also explained.