Skill-based anytime agent architecture for European Robotics Challenges in realistic environments: EuRoC Challenge 2, Stage II - realistic labs

Abstract As demands on pragmatic solutions of robotics technology increase in the manufacturing industry, deep affinities between research experts and industry users are required. The European Robotics Challenges (EuRoC) research project has proposed a scientific competition and matched up research labs with industrial end users to establish challenger teams to develop and test solutions that will be applied in the real context of the industrial end-users. The paper reports the result of TIMAIRIS who is one of 6 challenger teams to advance to the final stage out of 103 teams and technical details used in the Challenge 2 - Shop Floor Logistics and Manipulation. To address the requirements and achieve the objectives of the challenge, a skill-based anytime agent architecture has been developed and extended to make the team focus on the challenging research that addresses real issues in the user environments. Finally, shop floor logistics and manipulation scenarios have been developed and demonstrated in a realistic environment for autonomous packaging.

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