@article{ JISSI2009AtHome, 
  author    = "Thomas Wisspeintner and Tijn van der Zant and Luca Iocchi and Stefan Schiffer",
  title     = "RoboCup@Home: {S}cientific {C}ompetition and {B}enchmarking for {D}omestic {S}ervice {R}obots",
  journal   = "Interaction Studies. {S}pecial Issue on Robots in the Wild",
  editor    = "Kerstin Dautenhahn and Angelo Cangelosi",
  year      = "2009",
  volume    = "10",
  number    = "3",
  pages     = "392--426",
  doi       = "10.1075/is.10.3.06wis",
  url       = "http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_articles.cgi?bookid=IS%2010%3A3&artid=125131656"
  publisher = "John Benjamins Publishing",
  abstract  = "Being part of the RoboCup initiative, the RoboCup@Home
                  league targets the development and deployment of
                  autonomous service and assistive robot technology
                  being essential for future personal domestic
                  applications.  The domain of domestic service and
                  assistive robotics implicates a wide range of
                  possible problems. The primary reasons for this
                  include the large amount of uncertainty in the
                  dynamic and non-standardized environments of the
                  real world, and the related human
                  interaction. Furthermore, the application
                  orientation requires a large effort towards high
                  level integration combined with a demand for general
                  robustness of the systems. This article details the
                  need for interdisciplinary community effort to
                  iteratively identify related problems, to define
                  benchmarks, to test and, finally, to solve the
                  problems. The concepts and the implementation of the
                  RoboCup@Home initiative as a combination of
                  scientific exchange and competition is presented as
                  an efficient method to accelerate and focus
                  technological and scientific progress in the domain
                  of domestic service robots. Finally, the progress in
                  terms of performance increase in the benchmarks and
                  technological advancements is evaluated and
                  discussed.",
  keywords = "Domestic Service Robotics, Application, Uncertainty, Benchmark, Competition, Human-Robot Interaction, RoboCup@Home",
}