IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2007)

Workshop
Benchmarking in Humanoid Robotics

Thursday, Nov. 29th, Pittsburgh, USA

Benchmarking robotics research and systems is a difficult task. In the past, different competitions and benchmarks have been suggested, e.g. RoboCup Soccer, RoboCup Rescue, DARPA grand challenge etc. Recently, the attention of the robotics community has been increased to the definition of clear and reproducible evaluation performance metrics and benchmarking procedures in terms of methodology and test data sets, which are both representative for the different aspects of a specific robotic task and have the chance to be accepted by a wide community.

This workshop will provide a forum for researchers working in various areas pertaining to humanoid robots to interact and exchange ideas toward the definition of benchmarks in the core humanoid robotics areas.

Topics of Interest:

• Benchmarking Learning for Humanoid robots
• Benchmarking Natural Human-Humanoid Interaction
• Benchmarking Motion Planning
• Benchmarking Object and Action Recognition
• Benchmarking Grasping and Dexterous Manipulation
• Benchmarking Middleware standard
• Benchmarking Humanoid System Integration

Benchmarking in humanoid motion planning
Kensuke Harada, Eiichi Yoshida, and Kazuhito Yokoi
Humanoid Research Group, Intelligent Systems Research
Institute National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Benchmarking Integrative Humanoid Systems
Gordon Cheng, NiCT (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
ATR International, Kyoto, Japan/JST-ICORP, Saitama, Japan

Benchmarking of Dexterous Manipulation and Assembly Tasks
Robert Platt
NASA, USA

Humanoid Robot Benchmarks
Alex Waibel
University of Karlsruhe, Carnegie Mellon University

Discussion

End of workshop