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Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition
Latest Updates
24 January 2023
ARIAC 2023 Beta Release
Hello potential ARIAC Competitors!
The beta release of the ARIAC 2023 competition is now up at https://github.com/usnistgov/ariac
If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.
20 January 2023
ARIAC 2023 Schedule
An update on the schedule for ARIAC 2023
Our original plan of having the Beta Release of the Software and Documentation for today has to be pushed back to Monday, so the schedule is as follows:
| Date | Milestone |
|---|---|
| Monday, 23 January 2023 | "Beta" Software and Documentation Release |
| Friday, 24 February 2023 |
"Competition" (1.0) Software and Documentation Release |
| Friday, 24 March 2023 | Docker Instructions for Competitors |
| Monday, 10 April 2023 | Qualifier Smoke Test Begins |
| Monday, 17 April 2023 | Qualifiers Begin |
| Friday, 28 April 2023 | Qualifiers Submission Deadline |
| Mon, 1 May - Fri, 5 May 2023 | Qualifiers Evaluation Week |
| Monday, 15 May 2023 | Finals Smoke Test Begins |
| Monday, 22 May 2023 | Finals Begin |
| Friday, 26 May 2023 | Finals Submission Deadline |
| Tuesday, 30 May 2023 | Finals Evaluation |
We apologize for the delay, but look forward to seeing your work and helping us find and fix any bugs starting next week!
If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.
13 January 2023
ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon Success and Recordings available
Thank you to all who took the time to attend the ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon and helped make it a success!
We have the whole thing recorded and the presentations available if there are folks who are interested in seeing it who weren't able to attend in real-time.
If you would like access to the Google Drive with these files, please send an email to anthony.downs [at] nist.govtitle="Send email to anthony.downs [at] nist.gov" with the email that you want the Google Drive folder shared with.
If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.
09 January 2023
ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon
We are happy to announce the date for the ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon and some initial information about the competition for 2023:
Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
Time: 11:30 am - 1:30 pm Eastern US Time (1630-1830 UTC)
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19 December 2022
ARIAC 2023 Announcement
We are happy to announce the date for the ARIAC 2023 Launch Telecon and some initial information about the competition for 2023:
Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
Time: TBA
Come join us in January for a rundown of new details and changes for ARIAC 2023
If you would like to register to make sure you hear the latest information about ARIAC 2023 as we announce it, please sign up at https://bit.ly/ariac2023.
02 November 2022
ARIAC 2022 Workshop
We are happy to announce the date and a preliminary Agenda for the ARIAC 2022 Workshop:
Date: Monday, 07 November 2022
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm (Eastern US Time) 1600 - 1900 UTC
| Time | Speaker | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 - 11:05 | Anthony Downs | Introduction & Agenda |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Craig Schlenoff / Anthony Downs | NIST / ARIAC Overview |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Zeid Kootbally | ARIAC Environment |
| 11:35 - 11:45 | Anthony Downs & Angelo Ferrando | ARIAC Metrics |
| 11:45 - 11:50 | Coffee / Bio Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Team UTA RVL | Team UTA RVL Approach |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | Team Runaround | Team Runaround Approach |
| 12:20 - 12:30 | Team FER | Team FER Approach |
| 12:30 - 12:35 | Coffee / Bio Break | |
| 12:35 - 12:55 | Daniel Spencer | IEEE Standards Group Work - Robot Agility Matrix |
| 12:55 - 13:15 | Justin Kinney | Industry Representative - ROS-I |
| 13:15 - 13:35 | Addisu Taddese | Industry Representative - Open Source Robots - Gazebo |
| 13:35 - 14:00 | NIST | Open Discussion, Lessons Learned, & the Future of ARIAC |
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07 July 2022
ARIAC 2022 Results
We are happy to announce the results of the 2022 ARIAC Competition:
- Team Reaper, Peng Zeng, Guangxi Wan, Tong Zhang, Haoran Liu, Yongchao Feng, Yunpeng He, Qingwei Dong, Xiaoting Dong, Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, NCS Lab, Intelligent Manufacturing System Group (1st Place)
- Team Sirius, (2nd Place, $10,000 prize)
- Team UTA Robotic Vision Lab, Minh Tram and William Beksi, University of Texas at Arlington, http://rvl.uta.edu (3rd Place, $5,000 prize)
- Team Runaround Robotics, Pramuditha Aravinda and Nishantha Randunu, https://www.runaroundrobotics.com (4th Place, $2,500 prize)
- Team Italian Job, Gerardo Puga, Ekumen, https://www.ekumenlabs.com/ (5th Place)
- Team FER (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 2022 Competition.
20 March 2022
The ARIAC 2022 Software has been released!
The ARIAC Software is releasing tonight! Visit https://github.com/usnistgov/ariac for all the details and to be able to download the software and start building your competitors!
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
15 March 2022
The ARIAC 2022 Software will release this weekend
Hello ARIAC 2022 Folks!
We apologize for the delay in releasing the software for this year’s competition. We have been working to squash some bugs in the updated assembly task, and have been trying to get those worked out so that everything is working for all of you to build your competitors. However, we have been running into a number of issues that have made this take longer than expected.
The software will be released this weekend (although it may not be 100% finalized in regards to assembly) so that all of you can start your work on this year’s competition. Thank you all for your patience as we have been getting this ready for you all!
When the release happens this weekend, we will send an update through our website (https://nist.gov/ariac), as well as an email to the ARIAC 2022 list and update the github site (https://github.com/usnistgov/ariac)
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
09 February 2022
The ARIAC 2022 Launch Telecon Recordings and Presentation Available
Thank you to all who were able to make it out to the Launch Telecon last week. We had over 30 participants throughout the session.
We were able to record the presentations and have the slides from Zeid's talk on the ARAC 2022 Environment. If you would like access to the google folder where they are located, please send an email to: anthony.downs [at] nist.gov
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
24 January 2022
The ARIAC 2022 Launch Telecon Agenda!
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 are as follows:
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 11:30 AM | (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) | 2 hrs
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The Agenda will cover Background on NIST and the ARIAC Competition, Changes for this year's Competition, a Demonstration of the Environment, Where to Find the Latest ARIAC Info, and time for Q&A.
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
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
| 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 |
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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
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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)
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