NimbRo@Home 2012 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 Mexico City in June 2012. Our team uses self-constructed humanoid robots for mobile manipulation and intuitive multimodal communication with humans. The paper describes the mechanical and electrical design of our robots Cosero and Dynamaid. It also covers perception and behavior control.

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