Winning the RoboCup Logistics League with Fast Navigation, Precise Manipulation, and Robust Goal Reasoning

The RoboCup Logistics League is a robotics competition in a Smart Factory scenario in which a team of robots has to assemble products for dynamically generated orders. In 2019, the Carologistics was able to win the competition with a redesigned manipulation system, improved navigation, and an incremental and distributed goal reasoning system. In this paper, we describe the major components of our approach that enabled us to win the competition, with a particular focus on this year’s changes.

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