Roadmap

Relevant Literature

League Publications

Related Articles and Survey Papers

1. G. A. Zachiotis, G. Andrikopoulos, R. Gornez, K. Nakamura, and G. Nikolakopoulos, "A Survey on the Application Trends of Home Service Robotics," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), pp. 1999-2006, 2018.
   • Discusses different application areas for service robots. Lists some relevant challenges at the end (reliability, security, ethics, acceptability)
2. M. Basiri, E. Piazza, M. Matteucci, and P. Lima, "Benchmarking Functionalities of Domestic Service Robots Through Scientific Competitions," KI-Künstliche Intelligenz, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 357-367, 2019.
   • Presents the evaluation approach used in the European Robotics League, which is split between functionality benchmarks (controlled tests of individual functionalities, such as object detection) and task benchmarks (directly comparable to our @Home tasks)
3. I. Lee, "Service Robots: A Systematic Literature Review", Electronics, vol. 10, no. 21, e2658, 2021.
   • Discusses some important challenges for service robots in general, in particular ethics, privacy, safety and security (similar to Zachiotis et al.)
4. H. Li, S. Milani, V. Krishnamoorthy, M. Lewis, and K. Sycara, "Perceptions of Domestic Robots' Normative Behavior Across Cultures," in Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp. 345-351, Jan. 2019.
   • Investigates the importance of a domestic robot's adaptation based on context and cultural norms
5. S. Srivastava et al., "BEHAVIOR: Benchmark for Everyday Household Activities in Virtual, Interactive, and Ecological Environments," in Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021.

Essential Domestic Robot Functionalities