Workshop at RSS'08 (Zurich, Switzerland, June 28, 2008).
Organizers
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Motivation
As the complexity of current robotic and embodied intelligent systems grows, it is more and more necessary to define proper experimental approaches and benchmarking procedures. On the one hand, reliable benchmarks are called for in order to allow the comparison of the many research results in robotics research, so that their industrial application is eventually possible. On the other hand, if robotics aims to be regarded as serious science, replication of experiments deserves consciencious attention; it is necessary to be able to verify if and by which measure new procedures and algorithms proposed in research papers constitute a real advancement and can be used in new applications.
This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum on these topics and to identify guidelines for the future. It will consist of invited and regular presentations with a significant amount of additional time for discussions. It is envisioned to be useful for anyone with an interest in quantitative performance evaluation of robots and/or robot algorithms. Some controversial issues will be discussed such as: measuring autonomy or information metrics of intelligent systems, or the concept itself of replicability or benchmarking of research results in robotics.
Program
Angel P. del Pobil
The Jacobs Map Analysis Toolkit
Ioana Varsadan Andreas Birk Max Pingsthorn Soren Schwertfeger Kaustubh Pathak
Jacobs University
RobotStadium: Online Humanoid Robot Soccer Simulation Competition
Olivier Michel
Cyberbotics ltd
Can We Benchmark The Influence of Information-Processing Architectures on Intelligent Systems?
Nick Hawes Jeremy Wyatt
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
15:00
Coffee Break
The RAWSEEDS Proposal for Representation-Independent Benchmarking of SLAM
Giulio Fontana Matteo Matteucci Domenico G. Sorrenti
Politecnico di Milano and University of Milano Bicocca
Daniele Calisi Luca Iocchi Daniele Nardi
Department of Computer and Systems Science
"Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy
16:10
Performance metric for vision based robot localization
Emanuele Frontoni Andrea Ascani Adriano Mancini Primo Zingaretti
Univerità Politecnica delle Marche
The Euron GEM Review guidelines
Fabio Bonsignorio John Hallam Angel P. del Pobil
16:50
Open discussion
