LCASTOR 2023 Team Description Paper

LCASTOR is a new team of the Lincoln Centre for Au tonomous Systems (LCAS) at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom. It comprises academics, researchers and postgraduate students that have developed several solutions for the deployment of social robots in public environments. The main research objectives are focused on the integration between Deep Learning and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) and, in particular, on robot learning, long-term autonomy, and HRI with untrained users. Our main motivations to participate in the RoboCup@Home Open Platform are 1) the adaptation of the solution developed by the research group in National and European projects to the RoboCup@Home tasks, and the dissemination and release of these solutions to the RoboCup@Home community, 2) starting a new robotics competition task force within LCAS to foster the involvement of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the field.