2025.1

Rulebook 2025

• Discontinue Social Standard Platform League.
• New tasks: Give Me A Hand and revamped Finals.
• Extended and updated tasks: Storing Groceries, Clean the Table, Receptionist, EGPSR.
• Removed: Serve Breakfast and Stickler
• Rule changes: Robot restarts allowed; mounted microphones now permitted (DSPL).

Changelog

• #946, #947: Various small scoring changes.
  • Receptionist: : Test time now starts only after the first person enters the arena or two minutes after the start signal, allowing up to two extra minutes to open the door for the first guest.
• #943: New HRI task Give Me A Hand replacing Stickler. See the pull request for full details.
• #938: Expanded problem set for EGPSR.
  • Increased the number of generated problems to boost audience engagement.
  • Repeatedly solving the same category now awards fewer points.
  • Setup generator moved to RoboCupAtHome/CommandGenerator.
• #928: New Finals format introduced. Check out the pull request for the rationale.
  • Finals are now task-like instead of a presentation.
  • Based on EGPSR, with the addition of opening and closing doors (arena, cabinet, and dishwasher).
• #921: New Robot restart procedure during challenges.
  • Teams may request one restart per attempt, subject to a 30-second penalty.
  • Restart requires the team to leave the arena, requeue, and restart within their remaining time.
• #935: Add additional tasks to storing groceries.
  • Use of both cabinet doors required.
  • Add refilling storage containers (pouring).
  • Add grasping from the shopping bag.
  • Increase time limit to 7 minutes.
• #936: Extend Clean the Table.
  • Put drink items into trash.
  • Wipe the table under drinks.
  • Miscellaneous scoring changes.
• #933: Remove Serve Breakfast task to optimize Stage 1 schedule.
• #920: DSPL: Mounted microphones now permitted on the HSR robot.
• #922: Removed bonus for perceived social intelligence, as the evaluation was impractical at RoboCup.
• #917: Reverted the split between Rulebook and Organization document.
• #887: Discontinued the Social Standard Platform League.
  • Low participation levels.
  • Former SSPL teams may now join the Open Platform League (OPL) and modify their robots.
• #903: Rename Carry My Luggage to Help Me Carry.
• #908: Remove the possibility of doing other tasks during the GPSR slot.

2024.2

Updated release based on German Open feedback.
For changes see:

• #862: Storing Groceries
• #863: Receptionist
• #864: Carry my Luggage
• #865: GPSR
• #866: Restaurant
• #867: Stickler for the Rules
• #868 EGPSR
• #869: Serve Breakfast
• #870: Scoresheet cleanup

2024.1

Rulebook [2024.1]

• split document into Rulebook and Organization document (PR)
  • RoboCup@Home Rulebook: Rules and Regulations for the competition.
  • RoboCup@Home Organization document: Rules and Regulations on the organization of the competition
• New Command Generator for GPSR
• updated Task: EGPSR (PR)
  • Robot has to restore the default arena state and requests
• add a social survey in restaurant and receptionist tasks (PR)
• requesting Deus Ex Machina assistance now requires the robot to show its perception (PR)
• small scoring items for attempting tasks, and more consistent scoring between tests (PR)

2023.2

Bordeaux, France 2023

2023.1

Draft