Murphy, Marika
Solving Service Robot Tasks: UT Austin Villa@Home 2019 Team Report
Shah, Rishi, Jiang, Yuqian, Karnan, Haresh, Briscoe-Martinez, Gilberto, Mulder, Dominick, Gupta, Ryan, Schlossman, Rachel, Murphy, Marika, Hart, Justin W., Sentis, Luis, Stone, Peter
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.