Team homer is part of the Active Vision research group (AGAS, http://agas.uni-koblenz.de) at the Institute of Computational Visualistics of the University of Koblenz-Landau. Further robotics projects of AGAS can be found at http://robots.uni-koblenz.de
AGAS offers practical courses for students in which the abilities of the robots are further extended. During these courses the students design, develop, and test new software components and try out new hardware setups. The practical courses are supervised by a research associate. For the latest impressions, take a look at the news section of this website as well as our Instagram account homer_unikoblenz.
Team homer@uniKoblenz
Each year new students participate in the practical courses and are engaged in the development of Lisa and TIAGo.These students form the team homer@UniKoblenz to participate at the RoboCup@Home. “homer” is short for “home robots” and is one of the participating teams that entirely consist of students.
Since our first participation in 2008 at the RoboCup German Open our team was able to qualify for the RoboCup World Championship each year. Since 2008, team homer@UniKoblenz repeatedly ranked among the best teams in the @Home league. In addition, team homer@UniKoblenz has received several special awards. Our achievements of the past years are summarized in the following table:
2019:
1st place at the RoboCup World Championship in Sydney, Australia
3rd place at RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
Best Poster Award at RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
European Robotics League
Best in Consumer Service Robots League
Best in Professional Service Robots League
2018:
3rd place for at Customer Interaction task of the Future Convenience Store Challenge of the World Robot Summit in Tokio, Japan
1st place at the RoboCup World Championship in Montreal, Canada
Best Poster Award OPL at the RoboCup World Championship in Montreal, Canada
1st place at RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
European Robotics League (some of them shared equally with other teams)
Best in TBM1: Getting to know my home
Best in TBM2: Welcoming Visitors
Best in TBM3: Catering for Grannie Annie’s Comfort
Best in TBM5: GPSR
2017:
2nd prize DJI Robomasters Technical Challenge
1st place at the RoboCup World Championship in Nagoya, Japan
Finalist with Maggie in the ICRA DJI Robomasters Mobile Manipulation Challenge 2017, Singapore
1st place at RoboCup German Open, Magdeburg, Germany
European Robotics League
Best in TBM1: Getting to know my home
Best in TBM4: Visit my home (Navigation)
Best in TBM5: GPSR
2016:
Finalist RoboCup@Home in Leipzig, Germany
2nd place at the RoboCup EuropeanOpen in Eindhoven, Netherlands
2015:
1st place at the RoboCup World Championship in Hefei, China
“best speech recognition”-award at the RoboCup World Championship in Hefei, China
“best looking robot”-award at the RoboCup World Championship in Hefei, China
2nd place at the RoboCup GermanOpen
best demonstration at RoCKIn Camp in Peccioli
RoCKIN 2015 Competition:
1st in overall ranking (together with team
SocRob)
Best Team award
1st in Navigation FBM
1st in Getting to Know my Home TBM
2014:
1st place at the RoCKIn Competition in Toulouse
2nd place in the Object Perception Challenge at the RoCKIn Competition in Toulouse
best demonstration at RoCKIn Camp in Rome
Finalist at the RoboCup GermanOpen
no participation at the RoboCup World Championship due to budget issues
2013:
3rd place at the RoboCup GermanOpen
Finalist at the RoboCup World Championship
2012:
Finalist at the RoboCup GermanOpen
Finalist at the RoboCup World Championship
Technical Challenge Award at the RoboCup World Championship
2011:
Finalist at the RoboCup GermanOpen
Stage two participant at the RoboCup World Championship
2010:
3rd place at the RoboCup GermanOpen
Finalist at the RoboCup World Championship
Innovation Award at the RoboCup World Championship
