b-it-bots@Home

The b-it-bots@Home team was formed in 2008, when it participated in the RoboCup@Home league for the first time with the robot Johnny. In 2009, the team won both the German Open and the RoboCup World Championship with Johnny. Johnny was replaced by Jenny, a Care-O-bot 3, in 2011, which was used by the team since 2016. In 2018, the team acquired Lucy, a Toyota HSR, and started participating in the RoboCup@Home Domestic Standard Platform League. Lucy has been used by the team ever since.

Open source contributions

• Actively maintained software (main repository): https://github.com/b-it-bots/mas_domestic_robotics
• Perception utilities: https://github.com/b-it-bots/mas_perception_libs
• Utilities for working with datasets and deep learning-based models: https://github.com/b-it-bots/dataset_interface
• Package for managing interactions with a robot's knowledge base: https://github.com/b-it-bots/mas_knowledge_base
• Package for working with dynamic motion primitives: https://github.com/b-it-bots/ros_dmp

Resources

• Research profile in the Toyota HSR EU community: https://humansupportrobot.org/community/hochschule-bonn-rhein-sieg-autonomous-systems-group-institute-for-artificial-intelligence-and-autonomous-systems-a2s/

Competition rankings

Lucy (2018-)

• ERL Smart City 2023, Milton Keynes, UK
  • Joint best team
  • 1st place: Through the Door challenge
  • 1st place: Socially Acceptable Item Delivery challenge
• Joint 2nd place: ICRA 2023 METRICS HEART-MET Physically Assistive Robot Challenge, London, UK
• METRICS HEART-MET Field Campaign 2022, Nottingham, UK
  • 1st place: Person Detection challenge
  • 1st place: Action Recognition challenge
  • 1st place: Gesture Recognition challenge
• 5th place: RoboCup World Championship (Domestic Standard Platform League) 2021, Online
• 1st place: Episode 10 Open the Door, SciRoc 2019, Milton Keynes, UK
• Best team in the Domestic Standard Platform League and 4th place overall: RoboCup German Open 2019, Magdeburg, Germany
• 7th place: RoboCup German Open 2018, Magdeburg, Germany

Jenny (2011-2016)

• 9th place: RoboCup World Championship 2016, Leipzig, Germany
• 2nd place: RoCKIn 2014 – Speech Understanding Functionality Benchmark, Toulouse, France
• 2nd place: GermanOpen 2012 in Magdeburg, Germany
• 3rd place: World Championship 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey
• 3rd place: GermanOpen 2011 in Magdeburg, Germany

 Johnny (2008 – 2010)

• 3rd place: World Championship 2010 in Singapore
• 1st place: GermanOpen 2010 in Magdeburg, Germany
• 1st place: World Championship 2009 in Graz, Austria
• 1st place: GermanOpen 2009 in Hannover, Germany
• 2nd place: World Championship 2008 in Suzhou, China
• 2nd place: GermanOpen 2008 in Hannover, Germany

Team members

• Hamsa Datta Perur
• Manish Saini
• Melvin Paul Jacob
• Nada Aweaa
• Zain Ul Haq
• Dr. Alex Mitrevski

Former members

• Adzen Bierbrauer
• Ahmed Faisal Abdelrahman
• Alan Preciado
• Alexander Hagg
• Alexander Moriarty
• Alexey Ozhigov
• Anand Ajmera
• Anargh Viswanath
• Dr. Anastassia Küstenmacher
• Argentina Ortega
• Chaitanya Bhogeshrao Hebbal
• Christian Müller
• Daniel Vazquez
• Dirk Holz
• Divin Devaiah Arun
• Elizaveta Shpieva
• Erick Romero Kramer
• Frederik Hegger
• Gabriela Cortés
• Geovanny Giorganna
• Henrik Schnor
• Iman Awaad
• Iryna Ivanovska
• Ishan Chakravorty
• Ivan Vishniakou
• Jan Paulus
• Jenny
• Johnny Jackanapes
• Jose Antonio Alvarez Ruiz
• Jose Manuel Sanchez Loza
• Luis Octavio Arriaga Camargo
• Maximilian Schöbel
• Michael Habeth
• Michael Reckhaus
• Minh Nguyen
• Munaib Al-Helali
• Niranjan Deshpande
• Patrick Nagel
• Prof. Dr. Gerhard K. Kraetzschmar
• Prof. Dr. Nico Hochgeschwender
• Prof. Dr. Paul G. Plöger
• Ragith Kutty
• Rhama Dwipurta
• Roberto Cai Wu
• Roberto Mendieta
• Rohan Haseloff
• Ronny Hartanto
• Sabeeh Ul Hassan Saad
• Sai Kiran Kannaiah
• Samuel Parra Gonzalez
• Santosh Thoduka
• Saugata Biswas
• Sushant Chavan
• Thomas Breuer
• Zha Jin