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Team ORIon�Information Slides

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Team ORIon

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Vision Statement

  • We are the Oxford Robotics Institute’s official student robotics competition team.�
  • Our aim is to develop robust and intelligent autonomous behaviours, which use experience to learn and refine a growing set of robot skills, and demonstrate them on the Toyota Human Support Robot (HSR) at international robotics competitions and public science outreach events.�
  • Focus: develop AI and robotics technology to enable service robots to interact and collaborate with humans to complete useful everyday tasks in typical household settings.

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Who are we?

  • Students from the University of Oxford, primarily ORI
  • Relatively new team (since 2018)
  • Consists of volunteers:
    • DPhils - core team
    • Undergraduates - sub-team members
    • PIs & PDRAs - support & expertise
    • ORI Project Management & Admin
  • Secondary to our core research
  • But we apply ideas from it

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What do we do?

  • Competitions
  • Demonstrations at science outreach events
  • HSR Robot
  • Sub-teams

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Competitions - WRS 2018 - Tokyo

  • Debut competition
  • Only 3 weeks of prep
  • “Fetch-me” task

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Competitions - RoboCup@Home 2019 - Sydney

  • We took part in the DSPL League
  • Came 6/10 (not bad for our first attempt)
  • “Take out the garbage” task - success!

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Public Outreach

Keble Building Opening

Goodwood Festival of Speed

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HSR Robot (“Bam Bam”)

  • Voice + mic
  • RGB-D
  • Stereo Camera
  • Wide Camera
  • 2D LIDAR
  • IMU
  • Bumper
  • Holonomic Base
  • Gripper Arm w camera

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ORI Support Staff

Dr Lars Kunze

Principal Investigator, Cognitive Robotics Group

Dr Ioannis Havoutis

Principal Investigator, Dynamic Robot Systems Group

Gemma Clarke

Senior Research Manager

Dr Nick Hawes

Principal Investigator, Goal-Oriented Long-Lived Systems (GOALS) Lab

Dr Bruno Lacerda

Senior Researcher, Goal-Oriented Long-Lived Systems (GOALS) Lab

Acacia Nockolds

Project Administrator

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How to Get Involved

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Upcoming Competitions & Outreach

  • RoboCup@Home 2023
    • Bordeaux, France
  • Goodwood Festival of Speed 2023

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Weekly Workshops

  • Training
    • All new starters
      • Training event in MT wk 4
      • Resources to learn Python (beginner & OOP) & ROS
    • Sub-team specific
      • OpenCV, PyTorch, Google Speech API

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Upcoming Events

  • Social Events
    • Pizza funding!
    • Board games night in MT wk 5
    • Future:
      • Coffee / drinks catch-ups
      • Hackathons
      • ...

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How do I join?

  • Joining is easy!
  • Interested in a sub-team?
    • Talk with a sub-team leader
  • Not sure where to start?
    • Come to a fortnightly team meeting
    • Talk with the team leader Samuel

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How do we work?

  • Fortnightly team meetings on Google Meet
  • Work within sub-team to develop functionality
  • Slack for discussions
  • Team ORIon GitHub space

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Get in touch

Email: orion-enquiries@oxfordrobotics.institute or samuel.sze@oxfordrobotics.institute

Website: https://ori.ox.ac.uk/student-teams/team-orion

Twitter: @TeamORIon7 (currently inactive)

ORI Slack: orion-general, orion-perception, orion-manipulation, …

Mailing List: coming soon!

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Thank you!