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The aim of the Rawseeds Project is to stimulate and support progress in autonomous robotics by providing a comprehensive, high-quality Benchmarking Toolkit.
The absence of standard benchmarks is a widely acknowledged problem in the robotics field, and is doubly harmful to it: firstly, because it prevents recognition of scientific and technical progress, thus discouraging research and development; and secondly, because it prevents new actors (and particularly companies) from entering the robotic sector, as heavy investments are needed to compensate for that absence.
If you want to learn more about why Rawseeds is useful and who can benefit from it, read here.

The Rawseeds Benchmarking Toolkit includes:

Rawseeds’ datasets are sets of time-synced data streams, generated by the sensors aboard a robot platform when it moves through an environment. The datasets are gathered in real-world locations. Here is a description of what a Benchmark Problem or a Benchmark Solution are.

The Rawseeds Benchmarking Toolkit is mainly targeted to the problems of localization, mapping and SLAM (i.e. Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) in robotics; but its use is not limited to them. It will be freely downloadable from this website, as soon as it is completed.
By the way: “Rawseeds” means “Robotics Advancement through Web-publishing of Sensorial and Elaborated Extensive Data Sets”.

You can contribute to Rawseeds! Your own Benchmark Solutions can be sent to us to be published along with ours. In this way you can share your algorithms and demonstrate their performance when applied to a standard benchmark. Here are the details.

If you are interested, browse the website and read the F.A.Q. to learn more. If you want, you can contact us here. Finally, take a look to our Forum. It is the place where Rawseeds users and contributors share their thoughts, discuss, or… have new ideas!

 

Rawseeds is funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme, and its activities are currently under way. Be prepared…