5 papers
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…
Learning to Improve Capture Steps for Disturbance Rejection in Humanoid Soccer
Marcell Missura, Cedrick Münstermann, Philipp Allgeuer +5
Over the past few years, soccer-playing humanoid robots have advanced significantly. Elementary skills, such as bipedal walking, visual perception, and collision avoidance have mat…
A ROS-based Software Framework for the NimbRo-OP Humanoid Open Platform
Philipp Allgeuer, Max Schwarz, Julio Pastrana +3
Over the past few years, a number of successful humanoid platforms have been developed, including the Nao and the DARwIn-OP, both of which are used by many research groups for the…
Humanoid TeenSize Open Platform NimbRo-OP
Max Schwarz, Julio Pastrana, Philipp Allgeuer +4
In recent years, the introduction of affordable platforms in the KidSize class of the Humanoid League has had a positive impact on the performance of soccer robots. The lack of rea…