b-it-bots@Work

The b-it-bots RoboCup@Work team at the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg (HBRS) was established in the beginning of 2012. Participation in various international competitions has resulted in several podium positions, most importantly first place at the RoboCup World Championships 2019 in Sydney and 2023 in Bordeaux. The team primarily consists of students in the Master of Autonomous Systems program.

The results of several research and development (R&D) as well as master’s thesis projects have been integrated into a highly-functional robot control software system. Our main research interests include mobile manipulation in industrial settings, omni-directional navigation in unconstrained environments, environment modeling and robot perception in general.

Open source contributions

• Actively maintained software: https://github.com/b-it-bots/mas_industrial_robotics
• 3D CAD models: https://github.com/b-it-bots/technical_drawings

Competition rankings

• 3rd place: RoboCup World Championship 2024, Eindhoven, Netherlands
• 1st place: RoboCup German Open 2024, Kassel, Germany
• 1st place: RoboCup World Championship 2023, Bordeaux, France
• 1st place: Coworker Assembly Test, RoboCup World Championship 2023, Bordeaux, France
• 2nd place: RoboCup World Championship 2021, Online
• 1st place: Episode 7 Shopping Pick and Pack, SciRoc 2019, Milton Keynes, UK
• 1st place: RoboCup World Championship 2019, Sydney, Australia
• 1st place: RoboCup German Open 2019, Magdeburg, Germany
• 1st place: Cluttered Pick Challenge, RoboCup German Open 2019, Magdeburg, Germany
• 2nd place: RoboCup World Championship 2018, Montreal, Canada
• 2nd place: Arbitrary Surface Test, RoboCup World Championship 2018, Montreal, Canada
• 1st place: Line Following Test, RoboCup World Championship 2018, Montreal, Canada
• 2nd place: RoboCup GermanOpen 2018, Magdeburg, Germany
• 1st place: Arbitrary Surface Test and Line Following Test, RoboCup GermanOpen 2018, Magdeburg, Germany
• 1st place: ERL Industrial Robots Season 2017/18 – Functionality Benchmark 2- Manipulation
• 4th place: RoboCup World Championship 2017, Nagoya, Japan
• 2nd place: RoboCup GermanOpen 2017, Magdeburg, Germany
• 1st place: ERL Industrial Robots Season 2016/17 – Navigation Functionality
• 2nd place: RoboCup World Championship 2016, Leipzig, Germany
• 1st place: RoCKIn 2015 – Control Functionality Benchmark, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2nd place: RoCKIn 2015 – Object Perception Functionality Benchmark, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2nd place: RoCKIn 2015 – Object Manipulation Functionality Benchmark, Lisbon, Portugal
• 3rd place: RoboCup World Championship 2015, Hefei, China
• 2nd place: RoboCup GermanOpen 2015, Magdeburg, Germany
• 1st place: RoCKIn 2014, Toulouse, France
• 1st place: RoCKIn 2014 – Object Perception Functionality Benchmark, Toulouse, France
• 2nd place: RoboCup World Championship 2014, João Pessoa, Brazil
• 3rd place: RoboCup GermanOpen 2014, Magdeburg, Germany
• 2nd place: IROS 2012 conference in Vilamoura, Portugal
• 3rd place: RoboCup World Championship 2012 in Mexico City, Mexico

Team members

• Gokul Chenchani
• Kevin Patel
• Ravisankar Selvaraju
• Vivek Mannava
• Vamsi Kalagaturu
• Shubham Shinde
• Mohammad Wasil
• Santosh Thoduka

Former members

• Abhishek Padalkar
• Alexander Moriarty
• Arka Mallick
• Ashok Meenakshi Sundaram
• Bipin Kumar Badri Narayanan
• Boris Ndimubanzi Senga
• Deebul Nair
• Devvrat Arya
• Dharmin Bakaraniya
• Djordje Vukcevic
• Frederik Hegger
• Heruka Andradi
• Ibrahim Shakir Syed
• Iswariya Manivannan
• Iman Awaad
• Jose Carlos Mayoral Banos
• Jose Manuel Sanchez Loza
• Kishan Sawant
• Malika Navaratna
• Mallikarjuna Vayugundla
• Matthew Roscoe
• Matthias Füller
• Michal Stolarz
• Mihir Mehta
• Nirmal Giftsun
• Oscar Lima Carrion
• Padmaja Vivek Kulkarni
• Praveen Ramanujam
• Prof. Dr. Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
• Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender
• Prof. Dr. Paul G. Plöger
• Ramesh Kumar
• Sergey Alexandrov
• Shehzad Ahmed
• Shweta Mahajan
• Sven Schneider
• Torsten Jandt