<14 & 21 March 2024>
ACROBA Taskplanning challenge
BFH – Bern University of Applied Sciences
Biel – SWITZERLAND
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Back to the event
The ACROBA project hosted an exciting hackathon at the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), where students faced the challenge of programming a task planner to clean up the “mess” left by a human operator. Their mission? To use advanced robotics to efficiently sort misplaced sticks and move them to the correct locations.
Using the Planning Domain Definition Language (PDDL) and a solver, the participants instructed the robot to identify and execute the optimal actions, showcasing the impressive capabilities of the ACROBA robotic platform.
Congratulations to the talented winners for their outstanding solutions, and a big thank you to all participants for their creativity and dedication! This event highlights the innovative potential of robotics in solving real-world problems.
Your Challenge
<Objectives>
The goal of the hackathon will be to implement some PDDL planners to resolve the following “color matching problem”:
Initial State :
- some rings of different colors are randomly disposed on the table slots
- some cylinders of the same colors are also randomly fit into some available rings on the table.
Final State :
- all rings which were placed on the table slots should be assembled with a cylinder of the matching color.
<Evaluation criteria>
The team with a planner that achieves the correct assembly of the cylinders in the shortest time wins.
<Prize Pool>
- The winning team of each hackathon will earn a prize (1’500 EUR worth).
A team of experts
Jury members
Pr. Dr. Norman Urs Baier
Bern University of Applied Sciences | BFH
Department of Engineering and Information Technology
Laurent Cavazzana
Scientist
Bern University of Applied Sciences | BFH
Department of Engineering and Information Technology
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