RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook
Oct 2024 – Jan 2026
13 Months active
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Leroy Rügemer
PROFILE
Leroy Rügemer
Lars Ruegamer developed and maintained the RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook repository, delivering a series of rulebook and documentation updates that streamlined competition structure and improved evaluation reliability. He consolidated and refactored LaTeX and Markdown documentation, enhanced CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and Docker, and introduced robust changelog and release management practices. By refining task definitions, scoring logic, and rule clarity, Lars reduced maintenance overhead and improved onboarding for new teams. His work included architectural changes such as league unification and competition flow simplification, demonstrating depth in configuration management and technical writing while ensuring the rulebook remained clear, reproducible, and release-ready.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
94%Features
Repository Contributions
68Total
Bugs
2
Commits
68
Features
30
Lines of code
4,244
Activity Months13
Your Network
7 peopleSame Organization
@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de1
Work History
January 2026
15 Commits • 5 Features
Jan 1, 2026Concise monthly summary for 2026-01 focusing on RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook contributions and overall impact for performance reviews.
15 Commits • 5 Features
Jan 1, 2026Concise monthly summary for 2026-01 focusing on RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook contributions and overall impact for performance reviews.
January 2026
December 2025
9 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 monthly summary for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook focusing on delivering a polished 2026.1 RuleBook, expanding task coverage, and tightening rule enforcement. Work emphasizes business value through clearer guidance, improved scoring fairness, and scalable documentation for the upcoming season.
December 2025
9 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2025December 2025 monthly summary for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook focusing on delivering a polished 2026.1 RuleBook, expanding task coverage, and tightening rule enforcement. Work emphasizes business value through clearer guidance, improved scoring fairness, and scalable documentation for the upcoming season.
November 2025
4 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-11 (RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook): Delivered two high-impact rulebook updates and strengthened documentation and change-management, enabling clearer guidelines and faster onboarding for participants and contributors. Key features delivered: - Pick and Place Challenge: Introduced the Pick and Place Challenge task in the Rulebook with updated scoring criteria and task descriptions for kitchen manipulation. This clarifies evaluation and supports consistent testing across teams. Commits: aaffa0499afd2232b37f0c1e8501dbc414d13e44 (update changelog); 15d258da9c3b2ba9441f868a9e4871d844e8721b (pick place changes). - Rulebook Updates: Human Robot Interaction Challenge and Restart Rule: Renamed Receptionist to Human Robot Interaction Challenge, updated interaction procedures, and added a restart rule to allow continuing after a restart without requeuing. This improves reliability and reduces downtime during events. Commits: a3d7ba6ba6a2b5229c6dad2c770a3927dfb84c2a (update changelog); 77b80da4fa66ff44c18843bac4aea88128c552bf (add missing changelog entry for new restart rulings). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Clearer, more actionable rules reduce ambiguity for participants and evaluators, accelerating integration and testing workflows. - Restart-capable rules minimize interruption risk, improving event throughput and participant experience. - Documentation and changelog hygiene improved, enabling better traceability, audits, and onboarding for new contributors. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Version control and traceability (commit-level documentation and changelog management). - Requirements gathering and translation into concrete rule updates (domain-specific coaching for kitchen manipulation and human-robot interaction sequences). - Documentation discipline, cross-repo coordination, and adherence to release-notes practices for maintainability.
4 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2025Monthly summary for 2025-11 (RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook): Delivered two high-impact rulebook updates and strengthened documentation and change-management, enabling clearer guidelines and faster onboarding for participants and contributors. Key features delivered: - Pick and Place Challenge: Introduced the Pick and Place Challenge task in the Rulebook with updated scoring criteria and task descriptions for kitchen manipulation. This clarifies evaluation and supports consistent testing across teams. Commits: aaffa0499afd2232b37f0c1e8501dbc414d13e44 (update changelog); 15d258da9c3b2ba9441f868a9e4871d844e8721b (pick place changes). - Rulebook Updates: Human Robot Interaction Challenge and Restart Rule: Renamed Receptionist to Human Robot Interaction Challenge, updated interaction procedures, and added a restart rule to allow continuing after a restart without requeuing. This improves reliability and reduces downtime during events. Commits: a3d7ba6ba6a2b5229c6dad2c770a3927dfb84c2a (update changelog); 77b80da4fa66ff44c18843bac4aea88128c552bf (add missing changelog entry for new restart rulings). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Clearer, more actionable rules reduce ambiguity for participants and evaluators, accelerating integration and testing workflows. - Restart-capable rules minimize interruption risk, improving event throughput and participant experience. - Documentation and changelog hygiene improved, enabling better traceability, audits, and onboarding for new contributors. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Version control and traceability (commit-level documentation and changelog management). - Requirements gathering and translation into concrete rule updates (domain-specific coaching for kitchen manipulation and human-robot interaction sequences). - Documentation discipline, cross-repo coordination, and adherence to release-notes practices for maintainability.
November 2025
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook: Key feature delivered: Rulebook simplification removing Stage system and QR codes; standardizes competition flow into daily tasks followed by a final round; ensures all teams participate in the same set of tasks. Commits: Remove stages (#990); update changelog.
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2025October 2025 monthly summary for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook: Key feature delivered: Rulebook simplification removing Stage system and QR codes; standardizes competition flow into daily tasks followed by a final round; ensures all teams participate in the same set of tasks. Commits: Remove stages (#990); update changelog.
September 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025In Sep 2025, delivered a key architectural and process standardization for RoboCup@Home via unification to the Open Platform League (OPL), removing DSPL from the RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook repository. This change unifies participation requirements, simplifies onboarding, and lays groundwork for cross-team interoperability. All updates were propagated across rulebooks and configuration files, enabling consistent governance and faster iteration on future features.
1 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025In Sep 2025, delivered a key architectural and process standardization for RoboCup@Home via unification to the Open Platform League (OPL), removing DSPL from the RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook repository. This change unifies participation requirements, simplifies onboarding, and lays groundwork for cross-team interoperability. All updates were propagated across rulebooks and configuration files, enabling consistent governance and faster iteration on future features.
September 2025
July 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook. Focused on delivering rulebook quality improvements and feature adjustments to support RoboCup @Home 2026 draft and the 2025 release, with focused build-system and documentation cleanup to improve clarity, maintainability, and release readiness. Key fixes and simplifications implemented to enhance reliability and reduce rule complexity.
July 2025
5 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook. Focused on delivering rulebook quality improvements and feature adjustments to support RoboCup @Home 2026 draft and the 2025 release, with focused build-system and documentation cleanup to improve clarity, maintainability, and release readiness. Key fixes and simplifications implemented to enhance reliability and reduce rule complexity.
May 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 - RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook: Refined cabinet interaction scoring for the Storing Groceries task, improving action budgeting and task feedback by adjusting penalties for cabinet doors. Fixed DEM penalties for cabinet doors to ensure consistent scoring. These changes strengthen task reliability, developer velocity, and alignment with competition criteria.
1 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 - RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook: Refined cabinet interaction scoring for the Storing Groceries task, improving action budgeting and task feedback by adjusting penalties for cabinet doors. Fixed DEM penalties for cabinet doors to ensure consistent scoring. These changes strengthen task reliability, developer velocity, and alignment with competition criteria.
May 2025
April 2025
9 Commits • 4 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 (2025-04) monthly delivery focusing on finalizing the RoboCup@Home RuleBook updates and release readiness. Key features include (1) Finals rules overhaul with restart score retention and a framework for custom tasks scoring (TC approval), (2) comprehensive scoring rule updates across tasks, including differentiated cabinet-door scoring, clarified EGPSR penalty order, and new one-time bonuses for autonomous manipulation with refined penalties, (3) furniture definitions clarified to specify chest-of-drawers and high cabinets with doors for clearer environments, and (4) end-to-end release preparation for 2025.1 with updated changelog/README to FINAL and finalized LaTeX, plus release-page details.
April 2025
9 Commits • 4 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 (2025-04) monthly delivery focusing on finalizing the RoboCup@Home RuleBook updates and release readiness. Key features include (1) Finals rules overhaul with restart score retention and a framework for custom tasks scoring (TC approval), (2) comprehensive scoring rule updates across tasks, including differentiated cabinet-door scoring, clarified EGPSR penalty order, and new one-time bonuses for autonomous manipulation with refined penalties, (3) furniture definitions clarified to specify chest-of-drawers and high cabinets with doors for clearer environments, and (4) end-to-end release preparation for 2025.1 with updated changelog/README to FINAL and finalized LaTeX, plus release-page details.
February 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025: RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook — Implemented Receptionist Task Scoring and Guest Handling Improvements with refined scoring, clearer guest introductions and descriptions, adjusted penalties, and clarified host presence and guest arrival procedures. Included a minor wording adjustment in the StoringGroceries task setup. Changes were aligned with team decisions from the TC meeting, with two fixups applied to reflect those decisions. These changes enhance scoring reliability, reduce ambiguity in evaluation, and improve onboarding and test reproducibility for the referee/assessor workflow.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025: RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook — Implemented Receptionist Task Scoring and Guest Handling Improvements with refined scoring, clearer guest introductions and descriptions, adjusted penalties, and clarified host presence and guest arrival procedures. Included a minor wording adjustment in the StoringGroceries task setup. Changes were aligned with team decisions from the TC meeting, with two fixups applied to reflect those decisions. These changes enhance scoring reliability, reduce ambiguity in evaluation, and improve onboarding and test reproducibility for the referee/assessor workflow.
February 2025
January 2025
11 Commits • 3 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025: Focused rulebook updates for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook delivering targeted feature removals, task enhancements, and repository hygiene to improve scoring clarity, reduce scope, and stabilize CI/testing. The work emphasizes business value by tightening scope for stage-one scoring, expanding robust task handling, and strengthening documentation and changelog practices.
January 2025
11 Commits • 3 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025: Focused rulebook updates for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook delivering targeted feature removals, task enhancements, and repository hygiene to improve scoring clarity, reduce scope, and stabilize CI/testing. The work emphasizes business value by tightening scope for stage-one scoring, expanding robust task handling, and strengthening documentation and changelog practices.
December 2024
3 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2024Monthly work summary for 2024-12 focusing on RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook repository. Delivered feature-oriented updates to the rulebook with cross-environment build reliability and documentation alignment for Finals.
3 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2024Monthly work summary for 2024-12 focusing on RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook repository. Delivered feature-oriented updates to the rulebook with cross-environment build reliability and documentation alignment for Finals.
December 2024
November 2024
5 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook. Delivered key features: consolidated documentation into the main rulebook with simplified CI/release workflows; removed the social intelligence bonus from rules and updated evaluation materials; enhanced the Storing Groceries task with new scoring criteria and goals. These changes reduce maintenance overhead, improve CI reliability, and strengthen evaluation fairness and reproducibility for upcoming benchmarks.
November 2024
5 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 monthly summary for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook. Delivered key features: consolidated documentation into the main rulebook with simplified CI/release workflows; removed the social intelligence bonus from rules and updated evaluation materials; enhanced the Storing Groceries task with new scoring criteria and goals. These changes reduce maintenance overhead, improve CI reliability, and strengthen evaluation fairness and reproducibility for upcoming benchmarks.
October 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024Monthly Summary — 2024-10 Key accomplishments: - Delivered a Project Structure Refactor for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook to improve organization, clarity, and future maintainability. Refactored file paths and module boundaries to support scalable development. (Commit: a990f1159067921b39d8cd569891a77136cb2755, message: 'cleanup') Bugs fixed: - No major bugs fixed this month. Focused on code quality and structural improvements to reduce risk and simplify maintenance. Impact and value: - Improves maintainability and onboarding, enabling faster feature work and safer future refactors. Establishes a scalable foundation for RuleBook development. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Code refactoring, modularization, and project structure design - Version control discipline with traceability of changes - Clean-code practices and architectural thinking
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024Monthly Summary — 2024-10 Key accomplishments: - Delivered a Project Structure Refactor for RoboCupAtHome/RuleBook to improve organization, clarity, and future maintainability. Refactored file paths and module boundaries to support scalable development. (Commit: a990f1159067921b39d8cd569891a77136cb2755, message: 'cleanup') Bugs fixed: - No major bugs fixed this month. Focused on code quality and structural improvements to reduce risk and simplify maintenance. Impact and value: - Improves maintainability and onboarding, enabling faster feature work and safer future refactors. Establishes a scalable foundation for RuleBook development. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Code refactoring, modularization, and project structure design - Version control discipline with traceability of changes - Clean-code practices and architectural thinking
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness93.8%
Maintainability94.2%
Architecture93.4%
Performance90.8%
AI Usage21.2%
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