UChile HomeBreakers 2010 Team Description Paper

Abstract

Abstract. The UChile HomeBreakers team has a strong interest in participating in the RoboCup 2007 @Home League competition. As a team with an interesting expertise in robot vision, object recognition, and human-robot interaction, we believe that we can provide interesting features to the league, such as: general-purpose object recognition, face analysis tools, human-robot interfaces, and robust self-localization. To participate in the RoboCup 2007 competitions we have designed and built a robot platform, whose main characteristics are: open architecture (based on a Tablet PC), capability of expressing emotions (robot head with 5 DOF, 14 red-green-blue LEDs, 2 loudspeakers), large sensing capabilities (2 CCD cameras, 16 IR, 16 ultrasound, 16 bumpers, 1 microphone), locomotion and manipulation skills (differential drive, 3 DOF arm, pan-tilt head), and Internet connectivity (802.11bg). 1