The 2008 ICRA Robot Challenge

Pasadena, CA
May 21st and 22nd, 2008

  Sandbox Results  
  Contingency Results  
  HRI Results  
  Media  
  Press  
  Sponsors  
  Organizers  
 
  ICRA Robot Challenge  
       The first ICRA Robot Challenge was held in conjunction with ICRA 2008 in Pasadena, CA, on the 21st and 22nd of May 2008. Details of the specific events are available on the events page.

Sandbox Results

Each of the teams that competed in the sandbox event successfully completed all tasks that they entered. Instead of making arbitrary rankings, awards were given for technical excellence in the event in which the teams performed well.
Jacobs University
Onto the surface, data collection, map the environment, and back on the lander.
Tohoku University
Onto the surface, data collection, map the environment, and back on the lander.
The University of Kansas
Onto the surface, and map the environment.

Contingency Results

Overall results:
Morpheus (USC/ISI)      First Place
Diamond (MIT/CSAIL)      Second Place
SOSlab (University of Washington)      Third Place

Special awards:

Team Cornell (Cornell University)      Fastest Prototyping Team
Odin (University of Southern Denmark)      Coolest Robot
SOSlab (University of Washington)      Most Innovative Team
Diamond (MIT/CSAIL)      Most Persistent in the Face of Life Threatening Events

Scores:

Name Affiliation   1     2     3     4     5     6     Total  
SOSLab University of Washington 10 3 10 23
Diamond MIT 7 10 10 10 37
Team Cornell Cornell University 5 10 15
ODIN University of Southern Denmark 5 10 15
Morpheus USC/ISI 5 10 10 5 10 40

HRI Results

Results of the HRI Challenge are available on the HRI Challenge web site.

Photographs and Video

Random event pictures and video: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coral-downloads/icra08/

Videos of the sandbox event: http://modlab.seas.upenn.edu/wiki/?n=Main.Movies

Leng-feng's pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/lengfenglee/ICRA08PasadenaCA?authkey=QNL8Ie-GtdM

Tohoku University's pictures and videos: http://www.astro.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/El_Dorado@ICRA2008/.

Press Coverage

Science in Action, BBC World Service Radio: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/science_in_action.shtml (link might be time-sensitive)

Robot Watch (in Japanese): http://robot.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2008/05/30/1085.html

Sponsors

We would like to thank our two gold-level corporate sponsors, Microsoft Research/Microsoft Robotics and Willow Garage. We would also like to thank the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for support through their New Initiatives program.
[Microsoft Research] [Microsoft Robotics] [Willow Garage] [RAS]

Challenge Organizers

Bill Smart
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Washington University in St. Louis
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
United States
Email: wds (at) cse (dot) wustl (dot) edu
          Paul Rybski
Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
United States
Mark Yim
GRASP Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania
3330 Walnut Street
Levine Hall, 4th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States
          Aude Billard
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL)
Station 9--1015 Lausanne
Switzerland