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I have been working on mobile robot navigation for an autonomous service robot project. During the Fall semester, the navigation team was able to successfully enable the robot to navigate the hallways, albeit with quite a bit of last minute hacking. This past semester, I have been continuing work on the navigation system as an independent study research project and I was able to actually achieve robust navigation!
A few weeks ago I had the chance to attend RoboCup 2016 in Leipzig, Germany. RoboCup is sort of like the World Cup, but for robots. Various teams from around the world bring their robots together to compete in robotic soccer as well as all sorts of other events like search and rescue, the Amazon Picking Challenge, industrial logistics, and home service.
There are many different soccer leagues but the one that I was a part of was the Standard Platform League (SPL). This league requires all teams to use only Aldebaran Nao robots and the competition involves programming them to play soccer autonomously.
