RoboCup 2014 - homer@UniKoblenz (Germany)

Abstract

This paper describes the robot hardware and software used by team homer- @UniKoblenz of the University of Koblenz and Landau, Germany, for the participation at the RoboCup@Home 2014 in Joao Pessoa. A special focus is put on novel scientific achievements and newly developed features with respect to last year's competition. For the improvement of human-robot interaction we developed a generic face model that is synchronized to speech and can show seven different face expressions. This robot face is available as a ROS-node for other teams. Some of the novelties of this year is a new robotic platform and a complete change to ROS that now replaces our previously used software architecture. Further, our object recognition algorithm was published a ROS package.