Registration

There are two requirements for participation in the Challenge: Registration and Qualification

REGISTRATION

Deadline: Jan 15, 2013

Details
Contact sachinc AT willowgarage.com to specify the intent to participate in the ICRA 2013 mobile manipulation challenge. Please provide the following details:

  1. Full names of all team members with affiliation and research interests
  2. Robot you will be using
  3. Proposed team name
  4. Intent to participate in the Pre-Challenge Workshop at Willow Garage. If you intend to participate in this workshop, please include a separate one-page document with the following information:
    • Your experience level with ROS
      • Beginner – just ran through ROS tutorials
      • Intermediate – Can run the navigation stack or the manipulation stack or object recognition or equivalent tasks (on a robot or in simulation)
      • Expert – Wrote my own components for navigation, perception, or manipulation (on a robot or in simulation)
    • Your programming experience
      • Preferred language (C++, Python, etc.)
      • Experience level with the language on a scale of (1-10)
        • 1 = you can write and run a “Hello world” program
        • 10 = you wrote the reference book on C++
    • Links to any videos of demonstrations that you have done with robots
    • A brief paragraph describing why you would like to participate in the challenge
      • Preference will be given to participants with a demonstrated interest in mobile manipulation research in one of the following ways (a) developed software for some aspect of mobile manipulation, (b) demonstrations with robots (real or simulated) showing off autonomous mobile manipulation capabilities (c) publications in mobile manipulation research (d) pursuing a current project or course of study in mobile manipulation (Senior Design, MS, PhD, etc.) (e) any other tangible demonstration of interest in mobile manipulation. Please mention any such examples of demonstrated interest in your application. Note that this is a pre-challenge workshop – not a ROS or PR2 training workshop.

QUALIFICATION

Deadline: March 15, 2013

Details
Email the organizers a link to a video showing your robot performing part of the task expected for the challenge.