Solving Service Robot Tasks: UT Austin Villa@Home 2019 Team Report
This work addresses the integration of AI technologies for service robots in domestic settings, representing incremental progress in a competitive domain.
The UT Austin Villa 2019 team tackled domestic service robot tasks in the RoboCup@Home competition, achieving a significant step forward in AI-based human-robot interaction by accomplishing a breadth of tasks within a unified system.
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.