This competition evaluates how well intelligent robots can engage in natural and friendly communication with users and achieve various support behaviors in daily-life environments. The competition is designed based on the SIGVerse simulator, which enables robots to make embodied and social interactions in virtual reality (VR) environments. Competitors submit their software of service robot on AWS (Amazon Web Service). Human test subjects in the real space interacts with a robot in the virtual space to evaluate the interactive support ability. By discussing and examining the fusion and interface between robotics and the metaverse, digital twin, and cyber-physical systems that have been attracting attention in recent years, we believe that this event will provide a valuable opportunity to explore the direction of further development in robotics research.

*** Schedule

YouTube Livestreaming is available. Please click the following task name to watch the YouTube.

24th Oct

9:40 Handyman (first half)

11:10 Handyman (second half)

13:50 Interactive Cleanup (first half)

15:20 Interactive Cleanup (second half)

25th Oct

11:20 Human Navigation (first half)

13:20 Human Navigation (second half)

15:40 Award Ceremony

*** Rulebook (tentaive):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jor8UZXW6xFtBZmMvmZmJlUWtryMW7rQ/view

*** SIGVerse - software platform for the virtual space:

All the tasks in the competition will be performed based on the SIGVerse platform. Please check the details of the SIGVerse system at http://www.sigverse.org/wiki/en/. This is an open-source platform distributed at Github https://github.com/RoboCupatHomeSim including sample programs (template source codes) of each task. Tutorials and installation documents are included in the above Rulebook.

With kind regards, and looking forward to see your team in IROS2022,

Competition Organizer

Tetsunari Inamura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Yoshiaki Mizuchi (Tamagawa Univ., Japan)

Rulebook (Tentative)