possible tasks

The participants shall be working towards an general task, using the functionalities and packages they learn about. The resulting system shall be shown off at the ECMR welcome reception, giving participants that stay on a chance to talk about their achievements and their own research. Hence, the tasks selected should be demo-able in the end.

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The following ones are suggestions only:

• Security Guard: Patrol, spot suspicious changes / activities,
• "Stalker bot": Approach and engage with people, entertain them, identify groups, etc.
• paparazzi: take photos and tweet then
• "Voting Machine": The robots could serve as voting terminals for the papers that go to RAS. The robots could try to understand where the people move around during coffee breaks and then use this knowledge to hunt them for the votes during the last day. As a side effect of the hunt, the robots could make plenty of pictures and tweet them on the conference site. Identity of the voters will be established by means of taking their pics when voting (or we could use circles printed at the back of the name-tags, which is easy to generate).
• "Burglar alarm": Check for 3 known objects whether they are still at their designated location, or have been taken away.
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