Jo, Minseong (Pusan National University), Song, Dongwoon (Pusan National University), Kang, Taewoong (Pusan National University), Nasrat, Shady (Pusan National University), Kim, Joonyoung (Pusan National University), Ahn, Gijae (Pusan National University), Lee, Seonil (Pusan National University), Park, Yeri (Pusan National University), Yi, Seung-Joon (Pusan National University)

Team Tidyboy-OPL: Task Level Analysis of RoboCup@Home 2025 Home Service Robot Competition

Scheduled for presentation during the Work-In-Progress "Interactive Session II: Work-in-Progress Papers" (FriPS1), Friday, July 17, 2026, 11:00−12:30, Event Hall

2026 23rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), July 15-18, 2026, Osaka, Japan

This information is tentative and subject to change. Compiled on October 15, 2026

Abstract

RoboCup@Home imposes strict time limits, cas cading penalties, and a prohibition on human intervention— conditions under which raw capability matters less than reliability. This work-in-progress paper presents a strategic analysis of our championship-winning RoboCup@Home 2025 Open Platform League (OPL) entry, Anubis. We argue that the decisive factor in our victory was a deliberate variance minimizing deployment strategy: trading bonus opportunities for deterministic inputs, deploying hardware capabilities only when on-site validation permitted, and accepting failure modes outside our reliability envelope rather than attempting risky recovery. We support this claim with three competition case studies and final scoring data.