5 papers
Team NimbRo's UGV Solution for Autonomous Wall Building and Fire Fighting at MBZIRC 2020
Christian Lenz, Jan Quenzel, Arul Selvam Periyasamy +7
Autonomous robotic systems for various applications including transport, mobile manipulation, and disaster response are becoming more and more complex. Evaluating and analyzing suc…
Autonomous Wall Building with a UGV-UAV Team at MBZIRC 2020
Christian Lenz, Max Schwarz, Andre Rochow +4
Constructing large structures with robots is a challenging task with many potential applications that requires mobile manipulation capabilities. We present two systems for autonomo…
Detection and Tracking of Small Objects in Sparse 3D Laser Range Data
Jan Razlaw, Jan Quenzel, Sven Behnke
Detection and tracking of dynamic objects is a key feature for autonomous behavior in a continuously changing environment. With the increasing popularity and capability of micro ae…
NimbRo Rescue: Solving Disaster-Response Tasks through Mobile Manipulation Robot Momaro
Max Schwarz, Tobias Rodehutskors, David Droeschel +10
Robots that solve complex tasks in environments too dangerous for humans to enter are desperately needed, e.g. for search and rescue applications. We describe our mobile manipulati…
Team NimbRo at MBZIRC 2017: Autonomous Valve Stem Turning using a Wrench
Max Schwarz, David Droeschel, Christian Lenz +7
The Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC) 2017 has defined ambitious new benchmarks to advance the state-of-the-art in autonomous operation of ground-based an…