Rawseeds

Part 1: project profile

Project name

RAWSEEDS, or Robotics Advancement through Web-publishing of Sensorial and Elaborated Extensive Data Sets.

Project short description

Project RAWSEEDS has the aim of gathering and publishing on the web:

• high-quality data sets, obtained by exploring indoor and outdoor environments with suitably equipped mobile robots;
• problems (called Benchmark Problems or BPs) defined on the above datasets, each of them including a description of the methodology to use when evaluating a solution for it;
• algorithms (called Benchmark Solutions or BSs) that solve the BPs, along with their output when applied to the associated problems and with the results of the evaluation of such output using the criteria defined in the BP.

RAWSEEDS' BPs and BSs are mainly focused towards the problems of localization, mapping and SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) in robotics. As a whole, they are called Rawseeds' Benchmarking Toolkit because they can be used to assess and compare algorithms. By the way, RAWSEEDS means Robotics Advancement through Web-publishing of Sensorial and Elaborated Extensive Data Sets.

Dates

Start date: 2006/01/11

End date: 2009/30/04

Internet site(s)

You can learn more (and download everything that RAWSEEDS produced) from the official website of the project, here: http://www.rawseeds.org. Through the website you can also upload your own Benchmark Solutions.

People involved

Project head

prof. M. Matteucci - matteucc (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it

Other Politecnico di Milano people

ing. G. Fontana - fontana (at) elet (dot) polimi (dot) it

Students

no students are currently involved.

External personnel:

[TODO: mettere altri partner]

Laboratory work and risk analysis

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Laboratory work for this project will be mainly performed at AIRLab/Lambrate. It will include significant amounts of mechanical work as well as of electrical and electronic activity. Potentially risky activities are the following:

• Use of mechanical tools. Standard safety measures described in Safety norms will be followed.
• Use of soldering iron. Standard safety measures described in Safety norms will be followed.
• Use of high-voltage circuits. Special gloves and a current limiter will be used.
• Transportation of heavy loads (e.g. robot parts). Standard safety measures described in Safety norms will be followed.
• Robot testing. Standard safety measures described in Safety norms will be followed.
• Death ray testing: on the robot will be mounted professor Azzoide's death ray projector. When testing it on live animals (e.g. pigeons, pigs, camels) we will make sure that people stand clear of the test area.

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