Tech United Eindhoven @ Home 2015 Team Description Paper

This paper provides an overview of the main developments of the Tech United Eindhoven RoboCup@Home team. The main research effort of the past year has focused on developing a global, volumetric, object-oriented world model. This world model should replace all world representations that are commonly present in an architecture, e.g., for navigation and manipulation. As a result, these modules can benefit from the additional knowledge that is present in the world model. This world modeling approach is expected to i) make modules such as navigation more robust since these can benefit from the additional knowledge that is present in the world model and ii) reduce the amount of hardcoded knowledge that is commonly present.