The Carologistics Approach to Cope with the Increased Complexity and New Challenges of the RoboCup Logistics League 2015

The RoboCup Logistics League RCLL has seen major rule changes increasing the complexity, e.g. by raising the number of product variants from 3 to almost 250, and introducing new challenges like the handling of physical processing machines. We describe various aspects of our system that allowed to improve the performance in 2015 and our efforts to advance the league as a whole.

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