Kara@ge++

Kara@ge++ (karaage plus plus)
is organized to participate in the RoboCup @Home.
This team is a part of research projects at NAGAI Lab.
  We love "karaage (deep-fried chicken)" and we use "C++",
that is why the name of our team is Kara@ge++.

The domestic service robots have been extensively studied recently, however no robots come into wide use in real home environments in spite of many efforts by robotic researchers and industry. We have been participating at the RoboCup @Home from 2008 to 2016 (as the core members of team eR@sers) and been trying really hard to make the robots helpful in the real home environment. The lessons learned form the huge experiences of the competitions insist that there are still many issues to be solved concerning the development of domestic service robots. The mission of this team is to develpo technologies for practical domestic service robots!

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Kara@ge++ / eR@sers History

Our team "Kara@ge++" is a spin-off from the team "eR@sers" organized in 2007. Prof.Nagai and Dr.Nakamura are core organizers of the team "eR@sers" and have been playing technical roles in the team. In fact, we provided our research results, thereby eR@sers won 1st place twice (2008, 2010) and 2nd place twice (2009, 2012) in the RoboCup @Home world championship (WC). In 2016, we participated at the WC using the HSR first time and won 4th place and innovation award. In Japan open, we won 1st place 6 times, 2nd place once, and 3rd place twice.
Kara@ge++ / eR@sers chronological table
2007.10：eR@sers was launched
2008.05：We won 1st place in Robocup @Home Japan Open
(It's a very first time we had took part in Robocup)
2008.07：We won 1st place in Robocup @Home WC (China)
2008.10：Live appearance on the NHK news program
2009.05：We won 1st place in Japan Open (2nd consecutive victory)
2009.07：We won 2nd place in Robocup @Home WC (Austria)
2009.11：DiGORO performed a demonstration in International Robot Exhibition
2010.02：DiGORO appeared in the drama
2010.03：Kara@ge++ was launched
2010.05：We won 1st place in Japan Open (3rd consecutive victory)
2010.06：We won 1st place in Robocup @Home WC (Shingapore)
2010.07：DiGORO performed a demonstration in Robot Exhibition
2010.08：DiGORO performed a demonstration in Towada-shi, Aomori
2011.05：We won 1st place in Japan Open (4th consecutive victory)
2011.11：DiGORO performed a demonstration in International Robot Exhibition
2012.03：We appeared in BS Japan "Chikyu★Asuteku"
2012.03：We won 1st place in Japan Open (5th consecutive victory)
2012.03：We won 2nd place in Robocup @Home WC (Mexico)
2013.05：We won 3rd place in Japan Open (It's first time LiPRO had participated)
2014.05：We won 1st place in Japan Open (6th times victory)
2015.05：We won 2nd place in Japan Open
2015.12：Kara@ge++ with RMF won 1st places on two classes, and 2nd place for the overall in Intelligent Home Robotics Challenge 2015
2016.03：We won 3rd place in Japan Open (It's first time HSR had participated)
2016.07：We won 4th place and Innovation Award in Robocup WC (Leipzig)
2017.05：We won 1st place in Japan Open OPL & DSPL

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Members

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Past Members

Name	Years
Kyohei Suzuki	2008〜2009
Shinya Nakamura	2008〜2009
Ryo Mizutani	2008〜2010
El Azhari Mourad	2010〜2011
Takashi Kimura	2010〜2011
Muhammad Fadlil	2010〜2012
Bui Thanh Tung	2010〜2012
Taito Maeda	2011〜2012
Akiko Iwasaki	2011〜2012
Junki Itaya	2010〜2011
Keisuke Ito	2010〜2011
Kyohei Maruyama	2010〜2013
Takaya Araki	2010〜2013
Takuya Osawa	2013〜2014
Naoki Fujioka	2012〜2014
Kenzaburo Kojima	2013〜2014
Yoshiki Ando	2012〜2014
Muhammad Attamimi	2010〜2015
Yusuke Katakami	2014〜2015
Sakuho Otsuka	2014〜2015
Teigei Cho	2014〜2015
Yuji Ando	2013〜2016
Joe Nishihara	2013〜2016
Yachao Pei	2013〜2016
Takahiro Kobori	2014〜2016
Narumitsu Ikeda	2015〜2016
Miyuki Funada	2015〜2016
Kana Ikeda	2016
Masato Minamisaka	2015〜2017
NGUYEN A.TUAN	2016〜2017
Akihito Shimazu	2017
Barry Mamadou Teli	2017
Shunpei Abe	2017
Daichi Horita	2017
Ryo Unemoto	2017〜2019
Ryosuke Yuba	2018〜2019
Kohei Kobayashi	2018〜2019
Yuri Uemura	2018〜2019
zhang xi	2018〜2019
Edward Li	2018〜2019
Chie Hieida	2013,2016〜2019
Tatsuya Aoki	2014〜2019
Kensuke Iwata	2015〜2019
Kazuki Miyazawa	2015〜2019
Tomoaki Nakamura	2007〜2019
Takayuki Nagai	2007〜2019

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