Лекция Френка Шнейдера на конференции Skolkovo Robotics 2014

1. Robotic Competitions
Dr. Frank E. Schneider
Dep. Head of FKIE R&D military robotics
Head of the European Robotics Group
Head of the European Robot Trial (ELROB)
Head of the EU FP7 Eurathlon 2013
NATO Chair of the RTG "Standards Promoting Interoperability for Coalition UGVs“
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2. W do we need competitions? - R
hy
eality check!
User “needs” and reality
R&D thinking and reality
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3. International R
obotic Challenges
DARPA
1. Grand Challenge 2004
2. Grand Challenge 2005
3. Urban Challenge 2007
4. Robotics Challenge 2012
UK MoD
1. UK MoD Grand Challenge 2008
AU MoD (US sponsored)
1. Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic
International Challenge (MAGIC 2010)
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4. European Robotic Challenges
ELROB
1., 3., 5., 7., 9. Military European Land Robot Trials 2006-2014
2., 4., 6.
Civil European Land Robot Trials 20072011
EURATHLON (EU/ FP7)
EC
1. European Robotics Athlon 2013(-2015)
There is more: Robotour, Field Robot Event, Robofest, RoboCup Rescue, etc. pp.
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5. European Robotic Challenge - ELROB
ELROB
1., 3., 5., 7., 9. Military European Land Robot Trials 2006-2014
2., 4., 6.
Civil European Land Robot Trials 20072011
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6. W
hat is ELROB? – A Trial!
 Demonstrate and compare the capabilities of unmanned systems in realistic
scenarios and terrains.
 Trials are close to today’s typical deployment scenarios.
 Scenarios are developed in co-operation with/by the users.
 Target audience: emergency services, border patrol, special forces, police, fire
brigades, civil protection agencies and military
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Aims of ELROB
Test and compare available robot platforms and software
 in “true” outdoor / off-road environments
 under difficult constraints
 (bad) weather
 day and night
 mostly no radio/GPS reception
 limited trial time
 introduce standards into the field of competitors
We use the ELROB to guide R&D into the right direction!
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8. European Robotics Athlon
EURATHLON (EU/ FP7)
EC
1. European Robotics Athlon 2013(-2015)
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9. W
hat is Eurathlon? – An attempt!
 Provide real-world robotics challenges that will test the intelligence and autonomy of
outdoor robots in demanding mock disaster-response scenarios.
 2013: Land systems, 2014 Sea systems and 2015 Land/Sea/Air combined
 Additional workshops
 Possible target audience: emergency services, fire brigades, and civil protection
agencies
 Eurathlon is a Coordination and Support action!
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Aims of Eurathlon
 Speed-up the progress towards practical, useable real-world intelligent autonomous
robots, through competitions
 Identify possible benchmarks
 Involve the public (dissemination)
 Generate data-sets
 Look on standards
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11. “European” Challenges (FP7 and H2020)
This is slide is m
eant to be provocative! It is not explicitly refering to E ATH ON!
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 There is a vast number of (uncorrelated) projects
 RockIn
 Eurathlon
 EuRoC
 ICARUS, DARIUS
 ….
 euRobotics AISBL (EURON, EUROP), EUCog, euROBOTICS, ECHORD
 The process of building a consortium and writing a proposal are nebulous
 The overall “goals” seem very vague
 The involvement of real users is often weak
 The involvement of industry gives the impression of (hidden) subvention
 The allowed level of abstraction from the real world is often to large
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12. Lessons (to be) learned?
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Real world oriented competitions
• No serious abstractions from real deployment scenario
1.
Clear and straight rules, no hidden agendas, one addressee
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Reward for the teams
• Prize money
• R&D grants
• Student support
1.
Sponsoring
2.
Standardization
• Hardware & Software
• Common Platforms and Payload-Carriers
• Common Shared Datasets (CSDS)
1.
Stringent involvement of users and industry
2.
Clear way ahead, What will be done with & who will be using the results?
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Questions ?
ELROB
www.elrob.org
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