Hibikino-Musashi@Home 2022 Team Description Paper

TL;DR

This paper describes the activities, participation history, and technological approaches of the Hibikino-Musashi@Home team in various RoboCup competitions since 2010, highlighting their achievements and team composition.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the team's evolution, participation, and technological strategies in service robotics competitions over more than a decade.

Findings

Won first place at WRC 2018 partner-robot challenge

Participated in multiple RoboCup leagues and competitions

Developed diverse service-robotics technologies

Abstract

Our team, Hibikino-Musashi@Home (HMA), was founded in 2010. It is based in Japan in the Kitakyushu Science and Research Park. Since 2010, we have annually participated in the RoboCup@Home Japan Open competition in the open platform league (OPL).We participated as an open platform league team in the 2017 Nagoya RoboCup competition and as a domestic standard platform league (DSPL) team in the 2017 Nagoya, 2018 Montreal, 2019 Sydney, and 2021 Worldwide RoboCup competitions.We also participated in theWorld Robot Challenge (WRC) 2018 in the service-robotics category of the partner-robot challenge (real space) and won first place. Currently, we have 27 members from nine different laboratories within the Kyushu Institute of Technology and the university of Kitakyushu. In this paper, we introduce the activities that have been performed by our team and the technologies that we use.