4.3.2015
The article by Jörg Stückler, Max Schwarz, Mark Schadler, Angeliki
Topalidou-Kyniazopoulou, and Sven Behnke:
NimbRo Explorer: Semi-Autonomous Exploration and Mobile
Manipulation in Rough Terrain
has been accepted for the Journal of Field Robotics. It appeared in
vol. 33(4):411-430, Wiley, 2016.
8.12.2014
Our Team NimbRo Explorer is
supported by the German Aerospace Center to participate at the
DLR SpaceBot Cup 2015.
Further information is available here.
18.3.2014
Max Schwarz and Sven Behnke:
Local Navigation in Rough Terrain using Omnidirectional
Height
In Proceedings of Joint 45th International Symposium on Robotics (ISR)
and 8th German Conference on Robotics (ROBOTIK),
Munich, June 2014.
10.3.2014
Mark Schadler, Jörg Stückler, and Sven Behnke:
Rough Terrain 3D Mapping and Navigation using a Continuously
Rotating 2D Laser Scanner
German Journal on Artificial Intelligence (KI) 28(2):93-99,
Springer, 2014.
18.12.2013
Video of our Explorer robot demonstrating exploration and mobile manipulation at the DLR SpaceBot Cup.
22.11.2013
Map of the SpaceBot Cup arena created from 3D laser scans taken after the end of the competition.
20.11.2013
An informative article on the competition by dw.de: Weltraum-Roboter im Wettstreit
13.11.2013
Press release of University of Bonn on the results of our team: Roboter demonstrieren mobile Manipulation
12.11.2013
In the afternoon, all teams had the opportunity to simultanously operate their robots in the arena. Our Explorer robot demonstrated autonomous grasping and storage of the battery pack and autonomous removal of the battery pack from its holder. It also removed the cup from the holder and placed it on the scale. The jury decided to award no trophies to any of the teams. No competition scores have been communicated to the teams so far.
11.11.2013
Our Explorer robot had its run in the unknown arena today. It created a 3D map of the terrain and navigated to one of the objects that where placed in the arena. It grasped this water-filled cup autonomously and placed it in the holding mechanism without spilling any water. After the official run ended, the robot navitated to the other side of the arena and climbed a hill.
10.11.2013
We tested in a small area outside the arena. We also tested the ground station and the network provided by DLR.
9.11.2013
First evening in the SuperCross hall, Rheinbreitbach.
The arena contains a variety of surfaces and obstacles.
7.11.2013
University of Bonn released
information for the media.
6.11.2013
A first photo of our Explorer robot.
30.10.2013
DLR published a video introducing our team.
26.10.2013
The paper Mark Schadler, Jörg Stückler and Sven Behnke:
Multi-Resolution Surfel Mapping and Real-Time Pose Tracking using
a Continuously Rotating 2D Laser Scanner
has been presented at the 11th IEEE International Symposium on
Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Linköping, Sweden,
October 2013.
2.10.2013
A camera team visited our lab to produce a short movie about our team for DLR.
26.9.2013
We finished sucessfully the test of the network emulator.
12.7.2013
Representatives of DLR visited our lab to inform themselves about the progress of our preparations.
15.3.2013
The official Kickoff for the
DLR SpaceBot Cup
took place in Berlin.
Our team Nimbro Centauro is one of
ten qualified teams
who receive support from BMWi.
The tasks in this challenge comprise autonomous exploration and mobile
manipulation in rough terrain.
Universität Bonn, Institute for Computer Science, Departments: I, II, III, IV, V, VI; Team NimbRo; Robotics in Bonn
