Adapting a Floor Sensor for Autonomous Robots in a Smart Building

Abstract

We demonstrate a real time recognition of autonomous robots using a floor sensor. In these years, many types of autonomous mobility such as delivery robots and guiding robots are introduced to building facilities. To provide smooth operation of robots in a building, accurate position detection of robots by infrastructural sensors is required. By privacy concerns, there are many situations that camera recognition is not appropriate to install. Therefore, we adapted a flooring pressure sensor system of Fichvita to take positions of robots and people anonymously. This system had a function to recognize human footsteps originally. To enable robot recognition extending the function, we collected trajectory data of robots by the system installed in our building. By improving the software, now it recognizes a guiding robot and a delivery robot in addition to human footsteps in real time.