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As service robotics research advances rapidly, availability of objective, reproducible test specifications and evaluation criteria and also of benchmarking is more and more felt to be desirable in the community. As a first step towards benchmarking, in this paper we propose a formalization of tests - exemplified for domestic grasp&place tasks. The underlying philosophy of our approach is to confront the robot system in a black-box manner with requirements of a “rational customer”, and characterize the performance of the system in an objective way by the outcomes of a test-suite tailored to this scenario. A formalized single test description consists of a clear and reproducible specification of the robot’s task and the full context on the one hand, and a number of figures which objectively characterize the test result on the other hand. We illustrate this methodology for the domestic assistance scenario.
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Iossifidis, I., Lawitzky, G., Knoop, S., Zöllner, R. Towards Benchmarking of Domestic Robotic Assistants. In: Prassler, E., et al. Advances in Human-Robot Interaction. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31509-4_33
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