European Robotics League plus Smart Cities Robot Competitions

Project Information

SciRoc

Grant agreement ID: 780086

DOI 10.3030/780086

Project closed

EC signature date 16 October 2017

Start date 1 February 2018

End date 31 July 2022

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 1 997 442,50

EU contribution € 1 997 442,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL
United Kingdom

Deliverables

Documents, reports (12)

Design and specification of the final ERL Smart City Competition

Specification of the final ERL Smart City Competition including promotional video

Final report on the final ERL Smart City Competition

Event report and video material

ERL-IR Rulebook Update (b)

This will include an update/extension of the tasks and functionalities as well as the scoring mechanisms for the competition.

White paper submitted to Journal

White paper on public perceptions and attitudes towards robotics drafted and submitted for publication in academic journal

ERL-SR Rulebook Update (a)

This will include the tasks and functionalities used and the updates of the interface rulebook

Design and specification of the first ERL Smart City Competition

The complete documentation of the competition design and specification, to consist of a written report and video.

ERL-SR Rulebook Update (b)

This will include the tasks and functionalities used and the updates of the interface rulebook.

ERL-IR Rulebook Update (a)

This will include an update/extension of the tasks and functionalities as well as the scoring mechanisms for the competition.

Competition Infrastructure Handbook (a)

To provide specifications of the necessary technical infrastructure for successfully and effectively executing competitions, both in the testbeds used for local tournaments and specifically in the new smart city context. This deliverable precedes the first smart city competition

ERL Emergency Robots Rulebook (a)

Report that will contain the updated rules that will be used for the complete ERL Emergency Robots.

Competition Infrastructure Handbook (b)

To provide specifications of the necessary technical infrastructure for successfully and effectively executing competitions both in the testbeds used for local tournaments and specifically in the new smart city contextThis deliverable precedes the second smart city competition

ERL Emergency Robots Rulebook (b)

Report that will contain the updated rules that will be used for the complete ERL Emergency Robots.

Other (2)

hands-on resources for public engagement events

Materials and resources will be provided for consortium members to represent SciRoc at meetings and conferences.

Create Legal Entity for Sponsorship

Create legal entity for raising and administering funds from sponsorship.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Extended and updated project web pages and associate social media channels

Extend and develop the ERL web pages to describe the Smart City Competition and set up associated social media accounts and channels (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube) to support project dissemination.

Publications

Other (1)

Marine Robotics Competitions: a Survey

Author(s): Fausto Ferreira, Gabriele Ferri
Published in: 2020, Page(s) 169 - 178
Publisher: Current Robotics Reports
DOI: 10.1007/s43154-020-00022-5

Peer reviewed articles (4)

A Methodology to Design and Evaluate HRI Teaming Tasks in Robotic Competitions

Author(s): Andrea Marrella, Lun Wang, Luca Iocchi, Daniele Nardi
Published in: ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, Issue 25739522, 2022, ISSN 2573-9522
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3528415

Functionalities, Benchmarking System and Performance Evaluation for a Domestic Service Robot: People Perception, People Following, and Pick and Placing

Author(s): Meysam Basiri; João Pereira; Rui Bettencourt; Enrico Piazza; Emanuel Fernandes; Carlos Azevedo; Pedro Lima
Published in: Applied Sciences; Volume 12; Issue 10; Pages: 4819, Issue 20763417, 2022, Page(s) 4819, ISSN 2076-3417
Publisher: Applied Sciences
DOI: 10.3390/app12104819

Benchmarking Functionalities of Domestic Service Robots Through Scientific Competitions

Author(s): Meysam Basiri, Enrico Piazza, Matteo Matteucci, Pedro Lima
Published in: KI - Künstliche Intelligenz, Issue 33/4, 2019, Page(s) 357-367, ISSN 0933-1875
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s13218-019-00619-9

Benchmarking robots in smart cities

Author(s): Matthew Studley; Valentina Presutti; Daniele Nardi; Sarah Carter
Published in: XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Issue 15284972, 2022, Page(s) 20 - 25, ISSN 1528-4972
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3522686

Conference proceedings (3)

Fostering marine robotics through competitions: from SAUC-E to ERL Emergency 2018

Author(s): G. Ferri, Fausto Ferreira, V. Djapic
Published in: 2018, ISBN 978-1-5386-4815-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/oceans.2018.8604580

Scoring robotic competitions: Balancing judging promptness and meaningful performance evaluation.

Author(s): Fausto Ferreira, Gabriele Ferri, Yvan Petillot, Xingkun Liu, Marta Palau Franco, Matteo Matteucci, Francisco Javier Pérez Grau and Alan FT Winfield
Published in: 18th IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), 2018, Page(s) 179-185
Publisher: IEEE

Developing a Questionnaire to Evaluate Customers’ Perception in the Smart City Robotic Challenge

Author(s): Lun Wang, Luca Iocchi, Andrea Marrella, Daniele Nardi
Published in: 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2019, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-7281-2622-7
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ro-man46459.2019.8956394

Book chapters (1)

“Fostering marine robotics through competitions: from SAUC-E to ERL Emergency 2018”

Author(s): Ferri, G., Ferreira, F. and Djapic, V.
Published in: OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE, 2018, Page(s) 1-7
Publisher: IEEE