Successful demonstration by bachelor project SUTURO

Our bachelor project SUTURO is making excellent progress: The project, partly self-organized by 14 Bachelor students, aims at teaching a PR2 robot to tidy up a kitchen. This involves very challenging tasks in robot perception, manipulation and grasping, task-level coordination and knowledge representation to recognize objects, infer where they shall be put, and interact with them in the appropriate way.

In a recent demonstration, the robot was able to identify the objects in front of it, infer if they are food or not, and sort them into the correct box. This demonstration was based on software developed by researchers at the IAI that has successfully been adapted and integrated by the project participants.

CRAM is being used in this project to manage high level planning and execution tasks, and to connect the abstract high level plans to actual robot control mechanisms.