Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition

Share

Latest Updates

14 January 2022

The ARIAC 2022 Launch Telecon is coming soon!

The NIST Team is working on ARIAC 2022 and our Launch Telecon will be taking place on Wednesday 02 February 2022 starting at 11:30 am EST (1630 UTC). Connection details will be emailed out and posted here next week.

The Competition this year will be taking place in a very similar environment as last year, but with some changes. We'll be adding in a human element as well as tweaking some of the sensors. For full details, please make sure to come to the Launch Telecon.

To register and make sure you receive notification for the future details as well as signing up to potentially participate in ARIAC 2022, go to https://bit.ly/ariac2022

01 December 2021

ARIAC 2022 Planning is Under Way!

The registration portal for ARIAC 2022 is open and our planning is fully under way. We'll be announcing the challenges later this month and details for the Launch Telecon will be posted here in January. To register and make sure you receive notification for the future details as well as signing up to potentially participate in ARIAC 2022, go to https://bit.ly/ariac2022

01 NOVEMBER 2021

ARIAC 2021 Workshop Recordings

The recordings and presentations for the ARIAC 2021 Workshop are available upon request. Pease contact Anthony Downs <anthony.downs [at] nist.gov> Subject: ARIAC 2021 Workshop Recordings to get access to the files. Thanks to everyone who was involved!

29 September 2021

ARIAC 2021 Workshop

We are happy to announce the date and a preliminary Agenda for the ARIAC 2021 Workshop:

Date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm (Eastern US Time) 1500 - 1900 UTC

Final Workshop Schedule (All times are Eastern US Time UTC - 4 hours)
Time	Speaker	Presentation
11:00 - 11:05	Anthony Downs	Introduction & Agenda
11:05 - 11:20	Anthony Downs	ARIAC Overview
11:20 - 11:40	Zeid Kootbally	ARIAC Environment
11:40 - 12:00	Anthony Downs & Angelo Ferrando	ARIAC Metrics
12:00 - 12:15	Coffee / Bio Break
12:15 - 12:30	Team Reaper	Team Reaper Approach
12:30 - 12:45	Team Italian Job	Team Italian Job Approach
12:45 - 13:00	Team Boston University	Team Boston University Approach
13:00 - 13:15	Team UTA RVL	Team UTA RVL Approach
13:15 - 13:30	Coffee / Bio Break
13:30 - 13:50	Geza Szabo	IEEE Standards Group Work
13:50 - 14:10	Matthew Robinson	Industry Representative - SwRI / ROS-I
14:10 - 14:30	Louise Poubel	Industry Representative - OSRF Gazebo & Ignition
14:30 - 15:00	NIST	Open Discussion, Lessons Learned, & the Future of ARIAC

This will be an online held through WebEx. The connection details are below.

Join from the meeting link
https://nist-secure.webex.com/nist-secure/j.php?MTID=m8fbdd8e09963f1acb91edbc2ba85bc21

Join by meeting number
Meeting number (access code): 2761 420 5702
Meeting password: bHjSWwh$395

Tap to join from a mobile device (attendees only)
+1-415-527-5035,,27614205702## US Toll
+1-929-251-9612,,27614205702## USA Toll 2

Join by phone
+1-415-527-5035 US Toll
+1-929-251-9612 USA Toll 2
Global call-in numbers

Join from a video system or application
Dial 27614205702 [at] nist-secure.webex.com
You can also dial 207.182.190.20 and enter your meeting number.

15 September 2021

ARIAC 2021 Workshop

We are happy to announce the date and a preliminary Agenda for the ARIAC 2021 Workshop:

Date: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
Time: 11:00 am - 3:00 pm (Eastern US Time) 1500 - 1900 UTC

Preliminary Schedule:
First Session (approximately an hour): Introductions and presentations by the participating teams
Short Break
Second Session (approximately an hour): Presentations from judges and/or representatives from Industry
Short Break
Third Session (approximately an hour): Presentations by the NIST Team and Future of the Competition

This will be an online held through WebEx. The connection details are below.

Join from the meeting link
https://nist-secure.webex.com/nist-secure/j.php?MTID=m8fbdd8e09963f1acb91edbc2ba85bc21

Join by meeting number
Meeting number (access code): 2761 420 5702
Meeting password: bHjSWwh$395

Tap to join from a mobile device (attendees only)
+1-415-527-5035,,27614205702## US Toll
+1-929-251-9612,,27614205702## USA Toll 2

Join by phone
+1-415-527-5035 US Toll
+1-929-251-9612 USA Toll 2
Global call-in numbers

Join from a video system or application
Dial 27614205702 [at] nist-secure.webex.com
You can also dial 207.182.190.20 and enter your meeting number.

07 July 2021

ARIAC 2021 Results

We are happy to announce the results of the 2021 ARIAC Competition:

Team Reaper, Peng Zeng, Guangxi Wan, Qingwei Dong, Tong Zhang, Xiaoting Dong, Yunpeng He, Yongchao Feng, Shenyang Institute of Automation,Chinese Academy of Sciences, NCS Lab, Intelligent Manufacturing System Group (Link coming soon: http://ncs.sia.cn/Article/ShowArticle.asp?ArticleID=219 ) (1st Place)
Team TheItalianJob, Gerardo Puga, Ekumen, https://www.ekumenlabs.com/ (2nd Place)
Team Sirius, (3rd Place, $10,000 prize)
Team Boston University ECE, Matthew Boyd, Tom Panenko, Forest Song, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Boston University Electrical & Computer Engineering Department (4th Place, $5,000 prize)
Team UTA Robotic Vision Lab, Minh Tram and William Beksi, University of Texas at Arlington, http://rvl.uta.edu (5th Place, $2,500 prize)
Team DRC Chargers, Rohith Venkataramanan , Arya Sasikumar, Iniyan Sasikumar, Sasikumar Allidurai, Dublin Robotics Cub www.dublinroboticsclub.com (6th Place)

The scoring was performed based on a combination of performance, efficiency and cost metrics across the trials, in addition to the results from a panel of three Judges.

Congratulations to all the participating teams on their innovative solutions to the problems posed by the ARIAC 2021 Competition.

04 February 2021

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our ARIAC 2021 Launch Telecon!

This Friday (05 February 2021) is the release date for the Software and the Specifications over on https://github.com/usnistgov/ARIAC/tree/ariac2021

As a reminder, any questions can be sent in to ariac [at] nist.gov and if you want to register to be able to compete this year and to receive our emails about the competition, go to bit.ly/ariac2021

We look forward to seeing the interesting solutions that teams come up with for this year's competition!

13 January 2021

ARIAC 2021 is getting closer! See below for details on the Launch Telecon!

This year's competition will be a Prize competition again with the same prize levels as previous years:

1st Place: $10,000
2nd Place: $5,000
3rd Place: $2,500

As the time of the Launch Telecon gets nearer, we will release the Specifications for ARIAC 2021 on the GitHub site for ARIAC, which can be found at https://github.com/usnistgov/ARIAC/tree/master

We will be holding the Launch Telecon on 03 February 2021 at 1:30 pm Eastern Time (US & Canada) (UTC-05:00)

More ways to join:

Join from the meeting link

https://nist-secure.webex.com/nist-secure/j.php?MTID=macb90d46ac4a834f1567def2ff170dd9

Join by meeting number

Meeting number (access code): 199 181 8057

Meeting password: yM8TJuAp@92

Tap to join from a mobile device (attendees only)

+1-415-527-5035,,1991818057## US Toll

+1-929-251-9612,,1991818057## USA Toll 2

Join by phone

+1-415-527-5035 US Toll