Latest Updates
The time has finally arrived for ARIAC 2019 to get underway. This year’s competition scenario is based on the setup of ARIAC 2017 with one small caveat. ARIAC 2019 will have 2 robots for the first time in ARIAC's history. These two robots will be on a single rail. If you'd like to get an early start check out the setup for ARIAC 2017, it will be very similar to 2019. The competition will be run this year using Ubuntu Bionic, ROS Melodic, and Gazebo version 9.
$17,500 of prize money is now available to the top 3 finishers in the 2019 ARIAC competition
Competition Overview
Due to the tremendous success of the first two years of the Agile Robotics for Industrial Automation Competition (ARIAC), NIST and Open Robotics are happy to announce that ARIAC will be held again in 2019. The Qualifier is expected to begin in the April 2019 timeframe while the final competition is expected to be held in May 2019.
ARIAC is a simulation-based competition designed to promote agility in industrial robot systems by utilizing the latest advances in artificial intelligence and robot planning. The goal is to enable industrial robots on the shop floors to be more productive, more autonomous, and more responsive to the needs of shop floor workers. Because the competition will be held virtually, there is no need to travel to compete. The competition will use the Gazebo simulation tool.
Year 1 of the competition focused on pick-and-place kit assembly operations. Year 2 focused on order fulfillment with a greater emphasis on perception. Year 3 returns to the kits of Year 1, but with the addition of a second robot on the rail.
While autonomously completing order fulfillment tasks, teams will be presented with various agility challenges based on input from industry representatives. In Year 1 & 2, these challenges included failing suction grippers, notification of faulty parts, and reception of high-priority orders that would prompt teams to decide whether or not to reuse existing in-progress orders. Year 3 will include these challenges along with others.
Winners this year will be determined through automated metrics as well as a panel of three judges comprised of representatives from Amazon, Open Robotics, and NIST. We are in the final stages of making this a prize competition, with first place receiving $10K, second place receiving $5K and third place receiving $2.5K. There will also be travel support for a representative from the winning teams to present at an upcoming workshop.
For more details please go to: https://bitbucket.org/osrf/ariac/wiki/2019/Home.md