RoboCup@Home Education Online Challenge 2020
SAFETY FIRST
All the proposed activities must be performed in compliance with local regulations and safety procedures, specially those related to COVID-19 limitations. Students are invited to work and interact remotely with organizers of the challenge and among themselves. We hope everyone can continue RoboCup development and challenges while keeping safe and healthy at home.
RoboCup@Home Education Online Challenge 2020
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Despite the postponement of the RoboCup 2020 event, our committee is taking extra efforts to plan new forms of activities to keep our community together while upholding our educational mission. In order to continue promoting learning at home amid the current global pandemic situation, we propose to initiate a new RoboCup@Home Education online event that includes a series of robot building short courses for beginners via online classroom, technical video challenge and live streaming of remote participation online challenge. We hope everyone can continue RoboCup development and challenges while keeping safe and healthy at home.
With that, we are proud to announce the RoboCup@Home Education Online Challenge 2020!
Event Details
Organized by
RoboCup@Home Education OC
Jeffrey Too Chuan Tan
Luca Iocchi
Amy Eguchi
Kanjanapan Sukvichai
Yoshinobu Hagiwara
Sponsors and Technical Partners
SoftBank Robotics
MathWorks
Jupiter Robot
Date
Online Classroom: April 16 ~ May 21, 2020
Technical Video Challenge: June 10, 2020
Online Challenge: (RoboCup week)
Final Open Platform - June 27, 2020
Final Standard Platform - June 28, 2020
Awards Ceremony: June 28, 2020
Categories
Open Platform (OP) [Custom Build Robots]
Open category
Junior category
Standard Platform (SP) [Pepper Robot]
Open category
Junior category
Rules
RoboCup@Home Education Challenge 2020 Rules
Rules 2020 | @Home 2019 Rulebook
*** The purpose of the Education Challenge is to open participation for everyone, especially novice and non-expert participants with no past experience. Although we don’t conduct the qualification procedure this time, we will comply with the Eligibility and Qualification policy in the Rules 2020 in the reviews of the challenges. ***
Venue
Online
Competition Awards
Open Platform
(Sponsored by MathWorks and Jupiter Robot)
Open Category
Gold Award, Silver Award, Bronze Award
Junior Category
Gold Award, Silver Award, Bronze Award
Standard Platform
(Sponsored by SoftBank Robotics)
Pepper 2.9 - Junior Category
Best Performance Award
Pepper 2.5 - Open Category
Best Performance Award
Pepper 2.5 - Junior Category
Gold Award, Silver Award, Bronze Award
*** Thank you our sponsors for the awards! ***
People's Choice Awards
Apart from all the competition awards that are based on technical assessments, we are proposing two new People's Choice Awards in the Online Challenge 2020 in order to involve the general public's opinion towards our development.
Open Platform: People's Choice Award
Standard Platform: People's Choice Award
One core criterion of service robot development is the acceptance and usability by the general public, because ultimately most of the service robots are supposed to service the public. By leverage the event online platforms and online community this time, the People's Choice Awards are selected based on:
Total number of "Likes", "Comments" and "Shares" of team Technical Videos (until June 26, 2020 23:59 GMT+8)
Number of votes via the Finals Polling (June 27 ~ 28, 2020)
Register to attend Finals (Open for Public)
Teams with the highest total of all the above numbers will be the winner of the People's Choice Awards. However, certain counts may be voided if an abuse case arises. *Important* The organizing committee reserves the right on the final decision of the award winners with no objection accepted.
Finalists
Open Platform
< Open Category >
OPO-01 UTAR (Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman) | Malaysia
OPO-02 Children_Day (Shandong University) | China
OPO-03 Jiaxing Technician (Jiaxing Technician Institute) | China
OPO-04 Ri-one (Ritsumeikan University) | Japan
OPO-05 Sapienza Team (La Sapienza University of Rome) | Italy
OPO-06 LASR (University of Leeds) | United Kingdom
OPO-07 UBC Open Robotics (The University of British Columbia) | Canada
< Junior Category >
OPJ-01 Bishop's Knights (The Bishop's School) | United States
OPJ-02 Azure (Xi'an Gaoxin No.1 High School) | China
OPJ-03 Incredibots (The High School Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University) | China
OPJ-04 The Grey Area (Macau Puiching Middle School) | Macau
OPJ-05 Beijing National Day School (Beijing National Day School) | China
OPJ-06 New-E 404 (Liceo Scientifico Statale Enrico Fermi Padova) | Italy
OPJ-07 Zhejiang Science (Zhejiang Science and Technology Engineering School) | China
Standard Platform
< Pepper 2.9 - Junior Category >
SAJ-01 Bishop's Knights Standard Platform (The Bishop’s School) | United States
SAJ-02 Elephant Team (Liceo Scientifico Aristotele) | Italy
< Pepper 2.5 - Open Category >
SPO-01 RoboBreizh (Lab-STICC, ENIB) | France
SPO-02 Layout Group (Jinling Institute of Technology) | China
< Pepper 2.5 - Junior Category >
SPJ-01 Dream Team (Jinqing High School) | China
SPJ-02 Pingyang Pepper (Pingyang Experimental Middle School) | China
SPJ-03 Okurim (High School Affiliated to Zhejiang Normal University) | China
SPJ-04 Micro agent service (Hangzhou Changhe High School) | China
SPJ-05 Team LuoBoke (Wenzhou No.14 Middle School) | China
SPJ-06 FantasyIT_Papper (Hangzhou Changhe High School) | China
** The team numbers are not related to team performance. **
Results
Open Platform
<< OPEN PLATFORM - Junior Category >>
= Gold Award =
OPJ-04 The Grey Area
Macau Puiching Middle School | Macau
= Silver Award =
OPJ-06 New-E 404
Liceo Scientifico Statale Enrico Fermi Padua | Italy
= Bronze Award =
OPJ-03 Incredibots
The High School Affiliated to Xi'an Jiaotong University | China
<< OPEN PLATFORM - Open Category >>
= Gold Award =
OPO-06 LASR
University of Leeds | United Kingdom
= Silver Award =
OPO-07 UBC Open Robotics
The University of British Columbia | Canada
= Bronze Award =
OPO-04 Ri-one
Ritsumeikan University | Japan
Standard Platform
<< STANDARD PLATFORM - Pepper 2.5 Junior Category >>
= Gold Award =
SPJ-06 FantasyIT_Papper
Hangzhou Changhe High School | China
= Silver Award =
SPJ-02 Pingyang Pepper
Pingyang Experimental Middle School | China
= Bronze Award =
SPJ-04 Micro agent service
Hangzhou Changhe High School | China
<< STANDARD PLATFORM - Pepper 2.5 Open Category >>
= Best Performance Award =
SPO-01 RoboBreizh
Lab-STICC, ENIB | France
<< STANDARD PLATFORM - Pepper 2.9 Junior Category >>
= Best Performance Award =
SAJ-01 Bishop's Knights Standard Platform
The Bishop’s School | United States
= Special Recognition Award for Family Team =
SAJ-02 Elephant Team
Liceo Scientifico Aristotele | Italy
= Open Platform People's Choice Award =
OPO-07 UBC Open Robotics
The University of British Columbia | Canada
YouTube: https://youtu.be/WxB84C5YoP0
Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Nf4y117Ko/
= Standard Platform People's Choice Award =
SPO-02 Layout Group
Jinling Institute of Technology | China
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ukcFgRtcEmA
Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ei4y1x7aJ/
Open Platform Final Team Results
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Standard Platform Final Team Results
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Jury Members
Luca Iocchi | Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) [Chief of Jury (Open Category)]
Amy Eguchi | University of California, San Diego (USA) [Chief of Jury (Junior Category)]
Hiroyuki Okada| Tamagawa University (Japan)
Luis Contreras | Tamagawa University (Japan)
Jonatan Gines | Rey Juan Carlos University (Spain)
Clarisse Le Guyader | SoftBank Robotics Europe (France)
Emile Kroeger | SoftBank Robotics Europe (France)
Yi Fu | SoftBank Robotics China (China)
Lucia Liu | Jupiter Robot (China)
Yoshinobu Hagiwara |Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
Marco Negrete | National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)
Schedule
Online Challenge 2020 Finals
Final: Open Platform (14 teams)
Date: June 27, 2020 (Sat)
Time:
7pm - 10pm Asia (GMT+8)
7am - 10am Americas (GMT-4)
1pm - 4pm Europe (GMT+2)
Final: Standard Platform (10 teams)
Date: June 28, 2020 (Sun)
Time:
7pm - 9pm Asia (GMT+8)
7am - 9am Americas (GMT-4)
1pm - 3pm Europe (GMT+2)
Awards Ceremony
Open Platform and Standard Platform
Date: June 28, 2020 (Sun)
Time:
9pm - 11pm Asia (GMT+8)
9am - 11am Americas (GMT-4)
3pm - 5pm Europe (GMT+2)
Day 1 June 27, 2020 (Sat) Open Platform Final Schedule
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Day 2 June 28, 2020 (Sun) Standard Platform Final Schedule
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Online Classroom
Open Platform Online Classroom [English]
Every Thursday 10:00~ (GMT+8) | Apr 16 ~ May 21, 2020
Standard Platform Pepper 2.9 Online Classroom [English]
Every Thursday 19:00~ (GMT+8) | Apr 16 ~ May 21, 2020
Open Platform Online Classroom [Chinese]
Every Wednesday 19:00~ (GMT+8) | Apr 22 ~ May 20, 2020
Standard Platform Pepper 2.5 Online Classroom [Chinese]
Every Tuesday 19:00~ (GMT+8) | Apr 28 ~ May 26, 2020
OP & SP Online Support Session [Italian]
Every Monday 18:00~ (GMT+2) | Apr 27 ~ May 25, 2020
SP Pepper 2.9 Online Support Session [English]
Every Monday 14:30~ (GMT+2) | May 4 ~ May 25, 2020
Robot Development Support
Team development: May 21 ~ June 1, 2020
Submission of review materials: June 1, 2020
Robot and video support: June 1 ~ June 10, 2020
Technical Video Challenge
Submission: June 10, 2020
Review: June 10 ~ 15, 2020
Online Challenge (Finals)
Date: RoboCup week (June 25 ~ 28, 2020)
Setup days: June 25 ~ 26, 2020
Finals and Awards Ceremony (online): June 27 ~ 28, 2020
How to Participate
Step 1 - Entry Application and Online Classroom
Fill in and submit the online entry form below (one per team). Try the backup form if you are not able to access the first one. If you still have any difficulty submitting online, please contact oc@robocupathomeedu.org.
Online Entry Form: https://forms.gle/UBREeC1xTCVQ9wr78
Online Entry Form (backup): https://www.wjx.cn/jq/72082120.aspx
Attend the online classroom especially for beginners to learn how to develop for the online challenge at home. If you couldn't attend the classes or the class timing is not suitable for your region, there are also recorded videos and class notes posted after each class. Make full use of the materials to learn robot development at home.
Online Challenge 2020 Online Classroom: https://www.robocupathomeedu.org/learn/online-classroom/online-challenge-2020
Step 1.5 - Robot Development Support (Optional)
*For teams who do not have / not able to access own robot*
Learn robot development from the online classroom and support materials. Develop robot with simple hardware and simulator at home.
Produce videos and documentation to prove robot development.
Submit source code and all supporting materials for review.
If selected, our robot sponsors (SoftBank Robotics and Jupiter Robot) will support robot executions and video recordings.
Step 2 - Technical Video Challenge
Develop your robot and produce a technical video showing your best robot performance. You can develop your robot based on the following themes (either one):
Solving the competition tasks in the Rules 2020.
Open scenario based on the Finals in the Rules 2020.
Robot applications to address the current COVID-19 pandemic situation (based on Finals in the Rules 2020).
After submitting the entry application, please prepare the Technical Video Challenge Materials and submit by email to oc@robocupathomeedu.org before the following due date.
Due of Technical Video Challenge Materials Submission: June 10, 2020
Technical Video Challenge Materials
Technical Video: Video showing the best robot performance.
Video Description Paper: Technical description and photo of the robot system and operation in the video.
** Video Description Paper: Free format, maximum A4 size 4 pages.
** Please host the video online and submit only the link.
** The email subject should be: [@HomeEDUOnline2020-Video] (Your Team Name)
** Submit by email to oc@robocupathomeedu.org
Step 3 - Online Challenge (Finals)
The Technical Video Challenge entries will be reviewed to select teams for the final Online Challenge. Selected teams will give presentation and robot demonstration remotely via live streaming for the Online Challenge during the RoboCup week.
Important Dates
Entry Application: April 1 ~ June 10, 2020
Online Classroom: April 16 ~ May 21, 2020
Due of Technical Video Challenge Materials Submission: June 10, 2020
Technical Video Challenge Review: June 10 ~ 15, 2020
Online Challenge: June 24 ~ 28, 2020
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