At RobotX Interactive in Singapore we announced the results of the VRX Challenge and showed a number of highlight videos. That presentation is available here.
The following table includes the overall VRX Challenge ranking for each team. The "Total" is the sum of the rank scores for each task.
Team
Affiliation
Total
Ranking
NIROM
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
12.5
1
gt-marine-robotics
Georgia Institute of Technology
14
2
usyd_robotx
University of Sydney
19
3
bumblebee
National University of Singapore
20.5
4
uf
University of Florida's Machine Intelligence Laboratory
25
5
tang
National Taiwan University
42
6
australis2
Flinders University
45
6
McGill
McGill University
48
6
owltonomous
Florida Atlantic University
51
6
Team_Kanaloa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
53
6
Erau_Minion*
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Ranking by Task
The following table includes the rank score for each of the six VRX tasks. The rank score is for each task is derived from the task score as described in the VRX Competition and Task Descriptions document.
Team
Station keeping
Wayfinding
Perception
Nav challenge
Dock
Scan and dock
bumblebee
5
3
3
5
1.5
3
uf
1
6
4
4
5
5
usyd_robotx
3
4
5
2
3
2
australis2
6
7
7
8.5
8
8.5
gt-marine-robotics
4
2
2
1
4
1
NIROM
2
1
1
3
1.5
4
tang
8
8
6
6
8
6
McGill
9
5
9
8.5
8
8.5
owltonomous
7
10
9
8.5
8
8.5
Team_Kanaloa
10
9
9
8.5
8
8.5
Erau_Minion*
--
--
--
--
--
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Scoring by Task
The table below reports the overall score for each team on each of the six VRX 2019 tasks. Each task score represents the summary of task performance over six trial runs for each task. The details of how each task is scored are available in the VRX Competition and Task Descriptions document.
Team
Station keeping
Wayfinding
Perception
Nav challenge
Dock
Scan and dock
bumblebee
0.90
0.41
2.67
920.61
60
80
uf
0.11
16.20
2.72
798.22
30
30
usyd_robotx
0.19
5.14
6.47
591.59
50
100
australis2
1.01
34.28
8.42
1080
0
0
gt-marine-robotics
0.44
0.10
2.48
319.91
40
140
NIROM
0.16
0
0.78
684.76
60
70
tang
5.15
46.47
7.95
983.36
0
20
McGill
9.38
11.51
10
1080
0
0
owltonomous
2.11
95.46
10
1080
0
0
Team_Kanaloa
13.32
95.20
10
1080
0
0
Erau_Minion*
17.97
65.88
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Individual Task Scores
The scores for each of six runs for each of the six tasks are reported below.
Station keeping
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
bumblebee
0.78
0.59
1.45
0.79
0.59
1.20
uf
0.02
0.04
0.35
0.04
0.10
0.11
usyd_robotx
0.08
0.08
0.57
0.02
0.22
0.15
australis2
0.03
0.10
5.63
0.05
0.15
0.09
gt-marine-robotics
0.67
0.37
0.82
0.04
0.33
0.39
NIROM
0.01
0.01
0.87
0.01
0.01
0.03
tang
6.16
1.22
6.69
6.11
5.57
5.16
McGill
3.25
10.19
9.64
11.61
11.30
10.28
owltonomous
1.89
2.80
3.46
0.83
2.74
0.96
Team_Kanaloa
7.77
34.02
13.03
3.46
8.12
13.52
Erau_Minion*
10.58
25.36
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Wayfinding
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
bumblebee
0.70
0.32
0.30
0.63
0.29
0.21
uf
0.22
5.95
31.47
0.22
0.09
59.25
usyd_robotx
0.04
23.73
6.92
0.04
0.05
0.04
australis2
0.31
13.54
134.39
0.03
8.57
48.82
gt-marine-robotics
0.06
0.14
0.08
0.03
0.16
0.15
NIROM
0
0
0.01
0
0
0
tang
10.73
31.49
168.34
13.82
17.16
37.28
McGill
0.18
17.24
27.93
0.82
0.54
22.32
owltonomous
39.50
73.12
172.01
43.71
99.82
144.58
Team_Kanaloa
39.30
73.17
171.03
43.57
99.79
144.35
Erau_Minion*
34.17
97.60
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Perception
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
bumblebee
0.15
2.64
4.45
0.14
2.61
6.05
uf
3.39
1.33
4.78
0.06
2.55
4.19
usyd_robotx
4.67
5.00
6.71
7.33
7.00
8.12
australis2
10.00
6.26
8.83
6.68
8.75
10.00
gt-marine-robotics
0.07
1.36
5.93
0.07
2.55
4.91
NIROM
0.14
0.14
2.01
0.01
0.15
2.12
tang
10.00
8.00
7.65
7.33
8.00
6.71
McGill
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
owltonomous
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
Team_Kanaloa
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
Erau_Minion*
--
--
--
--
--
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Navigation challenge
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
bumblebee
55.52
166.67
240.00
51.75
166.67
240.00
uf
53.97
51.17
240.00
46.41
166.67
240.00
usyd_robotx
23.99
31.46
240.00
24.10
32.04
240.00
australis2
133.33
166.67
240.00
133.33
166.67
240.00
gt-marine-robotics
14.26
15.57
22.33
13.02
14.73
240.00
NIROM
33.50
166.67
59.22
18.70
166.67
240.00
tang
133.33
166.67
240.00
36.69
166.67
240.00
McGill
133.33
166.67
240.00
133.33
166.67
240.00
owltonomous
133.33
166.67
240.00
133.33
166.67
240.00
Team_Kanaloa
133.33
166.67
240.00
133.33
166.67
240.00
Erau_Minion*
--
--
--
--
--
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Dock
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
bumblebee
0
0
20
20
20
0
uf
0
20
0
10
0
0
usyd_robotx
0
20
10
20
0
0
australis2
0
0
0
0
0
0
gt-marine-robotics
20
0
20
0
0
0
NIROM
20
20
0
20
0
0
tang
0
0
0
0
0
0
McGill
0
0
0
0
0
0
owltonomous
0
0
0
0
0
0
Team_Kanaloa
0
0
0
0
0
0
Erau_Minion*
--
--
--
--
--
--
Scan and dock
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
bumblebee
30
10
0
20
10
10
uf
10
10
0
0
0
10
usyd_robotx
30
20
10
30
10
0
australis2
0
0
0
0
0
0
gt-marine-robotics
30
30
30
10
30
10
NIROM
30
0
30
10
0
0
tang
10
0
0
0
0
10
McGill
0
0
0
0
0
0
owltonomous
0
0
0
0
0
0
Team_Kanaloa
0
0
0
0
0
0
Erau_Minion*
--
--
--
--
--
--
(*) Team Erau_Minion has been evaluated for scoring purposes but not for ranking purposes.
Logs
All logs are available. See this tutorial for instructions.
Summary of submission configurations
The following table summarizes the propulsion and sensor configurations used by the VRX teams.
All logs are available. See this tutorial for instructions.
Scoring Summary
Team
Station keeping
Wayfinding
Perception
Nav challenge
Dock
Scan and dock
mcgill_robotics
86.96
79.87
0
0
0
0
bumblebee
7.92
14.42
108.78
0
0
0
gt-marine-robotics
9.44
79.79
89.36
571.71
0
10.00
NIROM
7.35
0.05
57.18
218.58
0
30.00
Team_Kanaloa
--
--
--
--
--
--
owltonomous
75.62
79.87
0
0
0
0
Erau_Minion
--
--
--
--
--
--
australis2
20.10
79.79
0
0
0
0
usyd_robotx
22.57
16.94
1753.87
0
0
0
auviitk
--
--
--
--
--
--
uf
18.76
5.22
0
0
0
0
tang
86.84
17.81
0
0
0
0
Ranks Summary
Team
Station keeping
Wayfinding
Perception
Nav challenge
Dock
Scan and dock
mcgill_robotics
9
9
5
3
1
3
bumblebee
2
3
2
3
1
3
gt-marine-robotics
3
7
3
1
1
2
NIROM
1
1
4
2
1
1
Team_Kanaloa
--
--
--
--
--
--
owltonomous
7
8
5
3
1
3
Erau_Minion
--
--
--
--
--
--
australis2
5
6
5
3
1
3
usyd_robotx
6
4
1
3
1
3
auviitk
--
--
--
--
--
--
uf
4
2
5
3
1
3
tang
8
5
5
3
1
3
Ranking
Team
Total
Ranking
NIROM
10
1
bumblebee
14
2
gt-marine-robotics
17
3
usyd_robotx
18
4
UF
18
5
australis2
23
6
tang
25
7
owltonomous
27
8
mcgill_robotics
30
9
auviitk
--
-
Erau_Minion
--
-
Team_Kanaloa
--
-
Station keeping
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
mcgill_robotics
10.36
26.53
24.89
211.00
107.90
141.06
bumblebee
0.39
2.53
9.64
19.56
6.12
9.30
gt-marine-robotics
0.92
0.27
1.82
43.65
4.41
5.59
NIROM
0.22
0.42
2.31
24.49
5.56
11.09
Team_Kanaloa
--
--
--
--
--
--
owltonomous
8.96
18.49
30.93
203.64
103.45
88.22
Erau_Minion
--
--
--
--
--
--
australis2
0.14
0.49
7.96
72.46
13.27
26.26
usyd_robotx
0.94
1.05
3.50
76.59
17.30
36.05
auviitk
--
--
--
--
--
--
uf
0.98
1.01
1.26
67.36
13.58
28.38
tang
10.23
26.40
24.59
211.05
107.91
140.85
Wayfinding
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
mcgill_robotics
41.00
75.44
150.27
46.50
82.65
83.35
bumblebee
0.10
21.71
31.54
0.12
15.84
17.19
gt-marine-robotics
40.81
75.25
150.20
46.30
82.86
83.34
NIROM
0
0.03
0.18
0.03
0.03
0.03
Team_Kanaloa
--
--
--
--
--
--
owltonomous
41.00
75.45
150.27
46.50
82.62
83.36
Erau_Minion
--
--
--
--
--
--
australis2
41.14
75.24
150.21
46.53
82.24
83.35
usyd_robotx
0.34
9.88
77.46
0.23
5.47
8.27
auviitk
--
--
--
--
--
--
uf
0.40
0.54
28.62
0.50
0.76
0.52
tang
2.93
27.32
37.38
0.22
17.81
21.20
Perception
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
mcgill_robotics
0
0
0
0
0
0
bumblebee
10.18
12.56
33.19
12.22
16.76
23.87
gt-marine-robotics
0.81
6.59
37.21
0.80
8.77
35.18
NIROM
0.11
0.20
44.93
0.15
4.81
6.98
Team_Kanaloa
--
--
--
--
--
--
owltonomous
0
0
0
0
0
0
Erau_Minion
--
--
--
--
--
--
australis2
0
0
0
0
0
0
usyd_robotx
182.70
349.21
349.13
182.84
516.41
173.58
auviitk
--
--
--
--
--
--
uf
0
0
0
0
0
0
tang
0
0
0
0
0
0
Navigation challenge
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
mcgill_robotics
0
0
0
0
0
0
bumblebee
0
0
0
0
0
0
gt-marine-robotics
0
402.6
0
169.11
0
0
NIROM
108.14
0
0
110.44
0
0
Team_Kanaloa
--
--
--
--
--
--
owltonomous
0
0
0
0
0
0
Erau_Minion
--
--
--
--
--
--
australis2
0
0
0
0
0
0
usyd_robotx
0
0
0
0
0
0
auviitk
--
--
--
--
--
--
uf
0
0
0
0
0
0
tang
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dock
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
mcgill_robotics
0
0
0
0
0
0
bumblebee
0
0
0
0
0
0
gt-marine-robotics
10
10
10
10
10
10
NIROM
0
0
0
0
0
0
Team_Kanaloa
--
--
--
--
--
--
owltonomous
0
0
0
0
0
0
Erau_Minion
--
--
--
--
--
--
australis2
0
0
0
0
0
0
usyd_robotx
0
0
0
0
0
0
auviitk
--
--
--
--
--
--
uf
0
0
0
0
0
0
tang
0
0
0
0
0
0
Scan and dock
Team
Run 0
Run 1
Run 2
Run 3
Run 4
Run 5
mcgill_robotics
0
0
0
0
0
0
bumblebee
0
0
0
0
0
0
gt-marine-robotics
10
0
0
0
0
0
NIROM
10
10
0
10
0
0
Team_Kanaloa
--
--
--
--
--
--
owltonomous
0
0
0
0
0
0
Erau_Minion
--
--
--
--
--
--
australis2
0
0
0
0
0
0
usyd_robotx
0
0
0
0
0
0
auviitk
--
--
--
--
--
--
uf
0
0
0
0
0
0
tang
0
0
0
0
0
0
Configuration Summary
We have been able to run the software for 1w of the 12 submitting teams for Phase 2. Below is a summary of the configurations (propulsion and sensors) being used by the teams.
Team
Thrusters
Cameras
Lidars
Lidar 1
Lidar 2
P3D
mcgill_robotics
2
3
1
16_beam
NA
Y
bumblebee
4
3
2
32_beam
32_beam
Y
gt-marine-robotics
4
1
1
32_beam
NA
Y
NIROM
4
3
2
32_beam
16_beam
Y
Team_Kanaloa
4
2
1
16_beam
NA
Y
owltonomous
2
2
1
32_beam
NA
N
Erau_Minion
2
3
2
32_beam
32_beam
Y
australis2
3
2
1
32_beam
NA
Y
usyd_robotx
3
3
1
16_beam
NA
Y
auviitk
4
2
1
16_beam
NA
Y
uf
4
3
1
16_beam
NA
Y
tang
3
3
1
16_beam
NA
Y
Phase 1: Hello World
For Phase 1 of the VRX challenge teams were tasked with creating a video to demonstrate their ability to setup, provision and run the VRX virtual environment. This first step, "Hello World", showed that teams are well on their way to being able to submit full solutions for the next step, Phase 2: Dress Rehearsal.
Below are links to the 15 videos submitted by student and faculty teams from universities around the world.
We laughed, we cried, it was better than Cats.