The S.M.A.R.T. Team was the winning team of Episode 1 (simulation) at the second edition of the Smart City Robotics Challenge (SciRoc) that took place from the 6th – 10th September 2021 in Bologna, Italy. The team participants included Pi Ko, Muhammad Anas (Nas) Gopee, Yaman Garg, Xinghui Xu, Samuel A. Prieto, Nikolaos Giakoumidis, and Borja García de Soto.
The robot utilizes ROS, and runs in Gazebo. It is able to navigate autonomously throughout the coffee shops, detect and recognize humans and food items, and interact with human customers through speech recognition. The robot uses the latest and most efficient algorithms to perform its tasks, such as PocketSphinx for speech recognition and YOLOv5 for object detection. You can check out the simulation here.
14 teams, from various universities around the world participated in the entire SciRoc competition. Congrats to the winning teams!