Towards Remote Robotic Competitions: An Internet-Connected Task Board and Dashboard
Peter So, Jonas Wittmann, Patrick Ruhkamp, Andriy Sarabakha, Sami, Haddadin

TL;DR
This paper introduces an IoT-enabled, modular task board and web dashboard to facilitate remote robot competitions, enabling performance assessment across global sites and fostering innovation in robotic solutions.
Contribution
It presents a scalable, open-source platform for remote robot competitions, including design, implementation, and validation through international participation and benchmarking.
Findings
Remote competitions can effectively generate innovative robotic solutions.
The platform enables performance measurement across diverse robot platforms.
Open-source tools allow easy reproduction and customization of the system.
Abstract
In this work we present a platform to assess robot platform skills using an internet-of-things (IoT) task board device to aggregate performances across remote sites. We demonstrate a concept for a modular, scale-able device and web dashboard enabling remote competitions as an alternative to in-person robot competitions. We share data from nine robot platforms located across four continents in three manipulation task categories of object localization, object insertion, and component disassembly through an organized international robot competition - the Robothon Grand Challenge. This paper discusses the design of an electronic task board, the strategies implemented by the top-performing teams and compares their results with a benchmark solution to the presented task board. Through this platform, we demonstrate fully remote, online competitions can generate innovative robotic solutions and…
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Taxonomy
TopicsIoT and Edge/Fog Computing · Robotics and Automated Systems · Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
