We are excited to announce the 3rd AI Olympics with RealAIGym, a competition focused on advancing artificial intelligence and robotics, taking place at ICRA 2025 in Atlanta, USA. We invite motivated students and researchers in AI, machine learning, reinforcement learning, optimal control, and related areas to participate in this unique challenge.
Visit our website https://ai-olympics.dfki-bremen.de for more details.
The AI Olympics focuses on advancing the field of agile real-robot control by providing a set of standard dynamic tasks on classical underactuated robotic platforms, such as the Acrobot and Pendubot. Participants will first work in simulation, and the top 4 teams will be selected to carry out experiments on the real robots. The challenge aims to improve the athletic intelligence of robots, stimulate algorithmic advancements, and facilitate reproducibility in robotics and reinforcement learning communities. Participants will compete on the RealAIGym leaderboards https://dfki-ric-underactuated-lab.github.io/real_ai_gym_leaderboard/.
At ICRA 2025, the focus of the challenge will be to develop a global policy that can solve the swing up problem from any configuration in the state space, thus improving the controllers in the 3rd edition of this challenge. This will be tested by randomly disturbing the system with very large (compared to IROS 2024) external disturbances while it performs the swingup task.
To express your interest and receive email updates about the challenge, click here: [Expression of Interest for Participation] (https://forms.gle/5mFy64TR9rUvD4RC6).
Key Dates:
- Competition Announcement: 6 January
- Simulation Stage: 15. January – 15. March 2025
- Hardware Stage: 01. April – 30. April 2025
- Meeting at ICRA 2025: 19 – 23 May 2025
Prizes:
The competition winners will have the opportunity to win prizes worth $2500 combined!