NimbRo @Home 2009 Team Description

This document describes the RoboCup@Home league team NimbRo of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany, for the competition to be held in Graz in July 2009. Our team uses self-constructed humanoid robots for intuitive multimodal communication with humans and for object manipulation. The paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of our robots Robotinho and Dynamaid. It also covers perception and behavior control.

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