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<b>STRANDS researchers won this year's "Best HRI study" award at the <a href="http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/" target="_blank">HRI conference</a> in Christchurch, NZ. </b><br />
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The paper titled <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2906838" target="_blank">"<i>Lessons Learned from the Deployment of a Long-term Autonomous Robot as Companion in Physical Therapy for Older Adults with Dementia: A Mixed Methods Study</i>"</a>, authored by STRANDS members Denise Hebesberger (STRANDS partner <a href="http://www.altersforschung.ac.at/" target="_blank">AAF</a>), Christian Dondrup (<a href="https://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/wp/" target="_blank">UOL</a>) , Tobias Koertner (<a href="http://www.altersforschung.ac.at/" target="_blank">AAF</a>), Christoph Gisinger (<a href="http://www.altersforschung.ac.at/" target="_blank">AAF</a>), and Juergen Pripfl (<a href="http://www.altersforschung.ac.at/" target="_blank">AAF</a>) presents findings from the long-term deployment of a STRANDS robot in the Austrian Care Home "<a href="https://www.hausderbarmherzigkeit.at/en/home/" target="_blank">Haus der Barmherzigkeit</a>" during the second year of the project. It focused on the analysis of one of the robot's tasks, namely the so-called "walking group", an implementation of occupational therapy developed in collaboration with the therapists on site.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.4px;"><i>The eldercare sector is a promising deployment area for robotics where robots can support staff and help to bridge the predicted staff-shortage. A requirement analysis showed that one field of robot deployment could be supporting physical therapy of older adults with advanced dementia. To explore this possibility, a long-term autonomous robot was deployed as a walking group assistant at a care site for the first time. The robot accompanied two weekly walking groups for a month, offering visual and acoustic stimulation. Therapists' experience, the robot's influence on the dynamic of the group and the therapists' estimation of the robot's utility were assessed by a mixed methods design consisting of observations, interviews and rating scales. Findings suggest that a robot has the potential to enhance motivation, group coherence and also mood within the walking group. Furthermore, older adults show curiosity and openness towards the robot. However, robustness and reliability of the system must be high, otherwise technical problems quickly turn the robot from a useful assistant into a source of additional workload and exhaustion for therapists.</i></span></blockquote>
<br />Marc Hanheidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127335808334511816noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643928935942354730.post-84466121936187062722015-09-10T08:49:00.000-07:002015-09-10T08:49:20.416-07:00STRANDS Summer School on Long-term Autonomy for Mobile RobotsFrom 27th August to 31st August 2015, the <a href="http://www.strands-project.eu/" target="_blank">STRANDS project</a> organised the first "Summer School on Long-term Autonomy for Mobile Robots" (LAMoR) at the <a href="http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/" target="_blank">University of Lincoln, UK</a>; co-located with the <a href="https://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/ecmr15/" target="_blank">European Conference on Mobile Robots</a>. 25 participants from all over Europe, selected from 49 applications following a rigorous review process, enjoyed exciting days of engaging research talks by STRANDS academics, robot hacking, networking among peers, and shared hands-on experience from the STRANDS robot practitioners. The summer school addressed a variety of topics, covering most of the research areas of STRANDS, such as<br />
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The school was composed of morning research presentations, followed by hands-on programming tutorials and exercises. Participants were then working in teams with one of four STRANDS robots each, made available for the summer school by the project consortium. Participants used the <a href="https://github.com/strands-project-releases/strands-releases/wiki#using-the-strands-repository" target="_blank">released software packages</a> of the STRANDS project to implement four new robotic systems that were all successfully demonstrated and autonomously operating at the <a href="https://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/ecmr-usb/media/social.html" target="_blank">Welcome Reception of ECMR</a> to more than 70 international researchers attending the conference. Applications developed on the robots by the participants ranged from robots that approached people to cheer them up telling jokes and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23lamor15%20%40lindastrands" target="_blank">tweeting</a> their photo, an <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oVf-PUtmlP-mReKgKXK8104VHcu188AbBc7N7wpZhKs/pub?start=false&loop=true&delayms=3000" target="_blank">emotional robot</a> that visitors could punish or pet, up to a robot that could re-identify participants by analysing their conference badges using computer vision techniques.<br />
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All the materials of the summer school are made publicly available on the project's GitHub repository, including the <a href="https://github.com/strands-project/lamor15/wiki#programme" target="_blank">lecture slides and tutorials</a>. These tutorials serve as an excellent starting point for anybody who is keen to use the software developed (usually <a href="http://wiki.ros.org/indigo" target="_blank">ROS</a> components) by the STRANDS project, which is all easily accessible, released as <a href="https://github.com/strands-project-releases/strands-releases/wiki#using-the-strands-repository" target="_blank">Ubuntu binary packages</a> for installation within minutes. The consortium is very proud that 25 excellent early-career researchers were able to develop their own robotic systems with the software and tutorials provided in just four days of programming - from concept all the way to a robustly working system. </div>
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A lot of this excitement is shared by the participants, indicated in their shared their experience on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LAMoR15" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and in their feedback: </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">...The fact that we could use the robots for the summer school was really awesome, thanks for setting up the software so everything ran more-or-less seamlessly...</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">... I just had a life time experience and great motivations for my future study and work...</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">...I greatly enjoyed the course and feel I have taken a great deal away from it and grown as a researcher as a result...</span> </blockquote>
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The consortium says thank you to all the extremely motivated researchers that made this event a great success.</div>
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Marc Hanheidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127335808334511816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643928935942354730.post-33040237515779982852015-01-16T07:40:00.001-08:002015-01-16T07:45:33.867-08:00AAAI video competition entryThe video about our STRANDS research on long-term robot localisation is an accepted entry to the <a href="http://www.aaaivideos.org/" target="_blank">AAAI 2015 video competition</a>. Have a look and give your "thumb up" on youtube:<br />
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The associated research paper is available <a href="http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/14423/" target="_blank">here</a>.Marc Hanheidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127335808334511816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643928935942354730.post-44016326794719700552014-10-09T03:26:00.003-07:002014-10-09T03:26:44.576-07:00Henry nominated for robot of the year<span id="goog_913958354"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_913958355"></span><div class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">
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<br />Marc Hanheidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127335808334511816noreply@blogger.com0Royal Air Force Scampton, Scampton, Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN1 2ST, UK53.3061099 -0.5513889999999719353.268157900000006 -0.63206999999997193 53.3440619 -0.47070799999997193tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643928935942354730.post-52948165082212191492014-06-04T14:01:00.001-07:002014-06-04T14:01:22.806-07:00Robot Linda will mingle with visitors at the Natural History Museum<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #51555c; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Members of the public will have the opportunity to meet Linda the robot at a week-long celebration of university research at the Natural History Museum in London.</div>
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Linda is one of six robots involved the STRANDS project. Linda, who is based at the University of Lincoln, UK, will be mingling with visitors to the Museum from <b>9th to 13th June</b> in the ‘Robots on Patrol’ exhibit.</div>
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The event is part of Universities Week 2014 which aims to increase public awareness of the wide and varied role of the UK’s universities. It will be an opportunity for the research team to showcase the robot and the latest development in STRANDS. Members of the STRANDS team from the Universities of Lincoln and Birmingham will be on hand throughout the week to explain Linda’s capabilities.</div>
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Dr Marc Hanheide, from the University of Lincoln, said: “The aim is to show members of the public how this sort of technology could help us in our everyday lives, assisting humans in basic activities allowing them to concentrate on more important aspects of their work."</div>
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“It’s not just about providing a care home or security robot. We are trying to enable robots to learn from their long-term experience and their perception of how the environment unfolds in time. It will have many possible applications and taking Linda to the Natural History Museum is a fantastic opportunity for people to see how robots like this will, one day, be able to aid and assist humans in a variety of roles.”</div>
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Marc Hanheidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127335808334511816noreply@blogger.com0Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, Kensington, London SW7 5BD, UK51.496714999999988 -0.1763671999999587646.544378499999986 -10.503515699999959 56.449051499999989 10.150781300000041tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643928935942354730.post-84768941259005106372014-02-26T05:40:00.001-08:002014-02-26T05:40:43.823-08:00AAAI Symposium on Qualitative Representations for RobotsIn March 2014, STRANDS will be helping to run the <a href="http://strands.acin.tuwien.ac.at/qualitative-representations-for-robots.html">AAAI Symposium on Qualitative Representations for Robots</a>. Qualitative representations are at the heart of our vision for long-term autonomy and long-term online learning, and this meeting will bring together experts in this field from across the world to present their latest work and discuss the problems of creating and using qualitative approaches on robots. The symposium will run in parallel, and share sessions, with the symposium on <a href="http://redwood.cs.ttu.edu/~smohan/krr_aaai14/">Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics</a> which will also address many issues relevant to building intelligent, long-running service robots.<br />
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For more information see <a href="http://strands.acin.tuwien.ac.at/qualitative-representations-for-robots.html">the symposium website</a> and <a href="http://www.aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss14.php">AAAI's 2014 Spring Symposia overview page</a>.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047184831319504163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643928935942354730.post-64180141777388136202013-12-20T03:14:00.000-08:002013-12-20T03:14:14.142-08:00Dr Marc Hanheide talks about Linda the robot and STRANDS on SIREN FM radio<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Recently, <a href="http://www.hanheide.net/" target="_blank">Marc Hanheide</a> was interviewed in by <a href="http://www.sirenonline.co.uk/section/shows/andrew-david" target="_blank">Andrew David</a> of <a href="http://www.sirenonline.co.uk/" target="_blank">Siren FM</a>, Lincolnshire's community radio station. He talked about the recent <a href="http://strands.acin.tuwien.ac.at/marathon.html" target="_blank">STRANDS robot marathon</a> and the possible applications of robots that can learn from long-term experience. Find a recording of the interview on the <a href="http://socs.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/siren-fm-dr-marc-hanheide-talks-about-linda-the-robot/" target="_blank">Lincoln School of Computer Science blog</a>.Marc Hanheidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127335808334511816noreply@blogger.com0Lincoln, Lincolnshire LN6 7TS, UK53.2288333 -0.5492365000000063453.2264568 -0.55427900000000629 53.231209799999995 -0.54419400000000639tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643928935942354730.post-57688729791083853782013-12-02T08:53:00.000-08:002014-10-13T05:24:09.007-07:00And the winner is...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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... officially <a href="http://lcas.lincoln.ac.uk/linda/linda.html" target="_blank">Linda</a>, the Lincoln robot. But effectively it is the entire <a href="http://www.strands-project.eu/" target="_blank">STRANDS</a> team, really. Five robots (unfortunately, Rosie of KTH was undergoing repair) competed in our <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RobotMarathon" target="_blank">RobotMarathon</a>, all running more or less the same software (most of it is available open-source on <a href="https://github.com/strands-project/" target="_blank">github</a>). The final score board looked like this:<br />
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Linda came out first in terms of distance travelled. Karl was the robot with the longest uninterrupted time of operation. All robots achieved quite a significant run-time and distance. And this plot only represents the <i>longest</i> runs without any expert intervention required!<br />
But these plots hide some of the complexity and truth. The robots, despite running the same software base, ran in different environments of varying complexity that hold different challenges for our robots. And also their respective longest runs were accomplished with slightly differing software releases and parameterisations adapted to their respective environments. Just to list a few observations:</div>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/BobStrands" target="_blank">Bob</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/KarlTheRobot" target="_blank">Karl</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/Werner_TUW" target="_blank">Werner</a> were running in a semi-public environment, with students being able to interfere with the robot, while Lucie and Linda ran in labs, which were still populated and were not designed for the robot particularly. But <a href="https://twitter.com/LindaStrands" target="_blank">Linda</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/LucieStrands" target="_blank">Lucie</a> didn't have to deal with nasty people messing around with the robot, deliberately trying to make it fail (as it apparently happened for instance with Karl who had his camera being forcefully moved).</li>
<li>Our robots had some issues measuring the distance travelled correctly due to a bug in the robot's firmware (<i>never</i> use floats with single precision, lesson learned) . Linda had a solution implemented to overcome this problem, but there is strong evidence that the distance especially of Bob has been significantly underestimated. He might have even outperformed Linda would the Birmingham team have adopted the fix developed by the Lincoln people in due time.</li>
<li>The environments differed significantly in size and structure. Long, straight routes clearly give a higher yield in distance compared to smaller environments that require a lot of turning of the robot. </li>
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Also, the whole software-base that made this achievements possible was developed <i>collaboratively</i>. KTH contributed 3D obstacle avoidance and robust motion planning, Birmingham developed the overall control including recovery behaviours, and Lincoln shared their vision-driven autonomous docking and recharging, to mention just a few contributions. And also the whole STRANDS team engaged in continuous testing and bug fixing over the past few weeks. This clearly shows: The purpose of this competition has never been was to have teams battling with one another (e.g. in contrast to <a href="http://www.robocup.org/" target="_blank">RoboCup</a> competitions), rather the marathon was milestone for our project and a great opportunity to disseminate our research to the general public. So, the real winners are</div>
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<li>Software quality in STRANDS (probably most importantly; all robots ran without memory leaks, software crashes, etc, <i>for days</i>! Only firefox crashed one robot by draining all its available memory.)</li>
<li>The general public who learned about our robot(e.g. through BBC Radio Lincolnshire 27/11/13: <a href="http://t.co/1CWDBGTxRI" style="color: #4183c4; text-decoration: none;">iPlayer</a> or <a href="https://t.co/OUXfeQJKsB" style="color: #4183c4; text-decoration: none;">mp3</a>, and print media like <a href="http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/Linda-Lincoln-robot-competes-European-endurance/story-20171885-detail/story.html" style="color: #4183c4; text-decoration: none;">Lincolnshire Echo 25/11/13 </a>and the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/article-2515500/How-profit-cutting-edge-technology.html" style="color: #4183c4; text-decoration: none;">Daily Mail 30/11/13</a>)</li>
<li>The carpet manufacturers; running robot on the same route for a week causes serious wear and tear...</li>
<li>and <b>Linda</b>, because after all the graph shows she won :-)</li>
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Our marathon system will now serve as a data collection tool, allowing all partners to collect <i>long-term</i> data sets, eventually contributing the overall aim of STRANDS: <i>Robot that learn from and improve through experience</i>.<br />
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Marc Hanheidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12127335808334511816noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1643928935942354730.post-51130258748713001542013-11-28T05:27:00.000-08:002013-11-28T05:27:19.809-08:00The STRANDS Robot Marathon 2013<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">In April 2013, our EU-funded STRANDS project started with the aim to develop autonomous mobile robots which are able to operate for long periods in everyday environments. When complete, these robots will perform intelligent tasks in care and security applications. Before that, we must ensure they can simply just survive without expert help in real world. To challenge ourselves and our robots, we decided to run a </span><b style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">robot marathon</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> during </span><a href="http://www.eu-robotics.net/eurobotics-week/" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #428bca; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;">European Robotics Week 2013</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. This is an endurance competition in which the universities who are participating in the project run their robots for as long as possible, with the aim of them covering as much ground as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">To learn more about the event go to the </span><a href="http://strands-project.eu/marathon.html" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;" target="_blank">STRANDS Robot Marathon page</a><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">. Follow the links at the bottom of the page to see more information about each robot, including live streams from their sensors.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0