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Alexander Perzylo

European Robotics Week 2011 (Update)

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Update (Jan 05, 2012):
More than 100 people joined the introduction to RoboEarth and the interactive workshops. They created and detected their first 3D object models using the RoboEarth platform. We want to thank everyone who helped to organize the successfull event as well as all participants who showed their interest.

euRobotics Week

RoboEarth will present itself as part of the European Robotics Week from November 28th - December 4th, 2011.
Therefore the RoboEarth team will set up a live webcast on Friday, December 2nd, 2011, starting from 15.00 (CET).

Dr. Oliver Zweigle is going to present a brief introduction to the concepts of RoboEarth. Subsequently, an interactive workshop will be held. The aim for the workshop is to let anyone interested try out the RoboEarth software to build 3D object models themselves and use them to detect the described objects.

The workshop's prerequisites and details on how to register can be found at webcast. Registration will be open until November 20th, 2011. The webcast itself will also be made available through this website.

Alexander Perzylo

RoboEarth at IROS 2011

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Members of the RoboEarth team contributed seven papers to the IROS'11 conference, which took place in San Francisco (USA) from September 25-30th. In addition, RoboEarth supported a workshop on Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Robots.

During the workshop Jos Elfring gave an introduction to RoboEarth's approach to world modelling. It uses a multiple hypothesis filter (MHF) to keep track of objects over time and introduces techniques to improve the probabilistic models by taking prior knowledge about objects into account, e.g. object dynamics, expected locations, relations between object classes and detector characteristics. For more details on this topic take a look at the corresponding paper, Knowledge-Driven World Modeling.

Other papers presented during the regular paper sessions were:

Alexander Perzylo

RoboEarth at ICRA 2011

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The RoboEarth team made the effort to build a nice demo for ICRA2011. The project's Object Recorder was presented at the RoboEarth booth, showing how to build 3d models of objects and share them through RoboEarth with ease. The demo attracted a lot of interest and feedback, as visitors could use the system themselves in order to build models of arbitrary objects and make them available worldwide in an instant.

A visitor using the object recorder system

For this purpose a low cost sensor was used: the Microsoft Kinect.

Garden gnome and its 3d model

The object under investigation has to be placed on a marker table, that holds the following pattern: marker_template. It is important to print it out the same size (marker edge length of 80.0 mm). This AR markers are used to register the point cloud for the model from different views without any expensive computations. The software used for the demo is part of the RoboEarth open source software initiative and will be released among other software components in July 2011. The shared object models can be downloaded and used by robots and other intelligent systems to recognize objects, they didn't know about before.

Alexander Perzylo

Networking session at ICT 2010

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The 27th of September, RoboEarth joint in a networking session, organized by the CompanionAble project, at the ICT 2010. This session focused on addressing issues of e-Inclusion-Companion-Robotics under the theme of user-led co-design, integration and business models for exploitation of societally embraced Companion Robotics.

Alexander Perzylo

Kick-off meeting

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On January, 11-12, 2010, the project started with a Kick-off meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. All groups gathered for general project presentations, group discussions and a social get-together. The meeting already showed the great enthusiasm with which the project started off.