{"title":"ASD Perception Simulator: Extension and Bridging to Daily Support","authors":"Guillermo Enriquez, Y. Nagai","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708893","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Perception Simulators have been developed in order to model these perceptions and analyze them in a quantitative way. We propose to further enhance that progress by producing a new unified simulator, building on and extending previous versions, which will run on mobile devices. Using this app version, we intend to broaden the experimental data pool of previous studies and develop a better model for environmental triggers and core functionality of applications for proactive support to those who wish to understand potential triggers in their living and working environments.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"584 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123134678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flexible Sliding-teeth-array Mechanism for Hollow Joint Module with Smooth Outline","authors":"Fumiya Nakano, Ryuma Niiyama, S. Yamanaka","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708806","url":null,"abstract":"This study proposes a flex-hollow mechanism that maintains a smooth silhouette while it stretches and bends. In general, robots with moving mechanisms are either of a combination of rigid parts or a mechanism covered with passively deforming soft material. Thus, it is challenging to make robots inherently flexible and smooth. The key feature of our mechanism is an array of longitudinally extending teeth that bend by sliding along each other. This array also functions as a structural load-bearing exterior. Our smooth, hollow sliding-teeth-array is a simple active module that can contain other robot components. In this paper, we first provide an overview of this mechanism and a simple theoretical model. Then, we display the physical characteristics of the model utilizing a 3D printed prototype composed of flexible parts.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116794340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Case Study on a Grasping Strategy of a Cylindrical Part along Inner Sides of a Parts Tray Using a Parallel Stick Fingered Hand","authors":"Yuka Kanaya, Hiroki Dobashi","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708849","url":null,"abstract":"In jig-less robotic assembly tasks, parts are assumed to be supplied on a parts tray. If the parts are in contact with the inner side(s) of the tray, it is difficult to grasp the parts with a versatile robotic hand due to the interference between the fingers of the hand and the inner side(s) of the tray. As a case study, in this paper, we address this issue for a cylindrical part, which is often handled in actual assembly tasks, and propose a grasping strategy of the part utilizing pushing operation with a versatile robotic hand with three parallel stick fingers. In the proposed strategy, the part is moved to a position where it is easy to grasp by pushing operation, and then grasped robustly against the variation in the part position based on the permissible initial pose error region of the part. We verify the feasibility of the strategy through experiments.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122294243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sonic communication using multiple bands with electrostatic drivers","authors":"T. Nakagawa, Toshio Fukuda","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708799","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes sonic communication using an electrostatic driver. The electrostatic driver is capable of transmitting and receiving audible and inaudible sounds. This allows sonic communication between robots and humans or between robots using a single sensor. We designed an electrostatic driver, and measured and evaluated its directivity, frequency characteristics, and transmission/reception characteristics between the same device.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117004342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Yamaguchi, Kouta Aiuchi, Norio Morita, J. Miyashita, Mitsutaka Moriya, Kouki Maeda, N. Uchiyama
{"title":"Calibration of Robotic Woodworking Machinery Using a Motion Capture System*","authors":"N. Yamaguchi, Kouta Aiuchi, Norio Morita, J. Miyashita, Mitsutaka Moriya, Kouki Maeda, N. Uchiyama","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708733","url":null,"abstract":"An industrial robotic manipulator is typically employed for object transportation and welding, which does not generate high contact force in industrial applications. Miyagawa Koki Co., Ltd., Japan applied a robotic manipulator to woodworking machinery because of less contact force in machining. However, machining errors may occur due to intrinsic dimensional errors in a robotic manipulator itself and its installation. Because woodworking does not require as much accuracy as metal machining, this study focuses on using a motion capture system for calibration, which is relatively inexpensive and enables to measure multiple positions simultaneously by using markers. This paper presents a model-based approach to calibration of woodworking machinery by measuring configuration errors at the tool-tip by using a motion capture system. The effectiveness of the proposed system is demonstrated experimentally.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123986987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hitoshi Teshima, Naoki Wake, Diego Thomas, Yuta Nakashima, David Baumert, Hiroshi Kawasaki, K. Ikeuchi
{"title":"Integration of Gesture Generation System Using Gesture Library with DIY Robot Design Kit","authors":"Hitoshi Teshima, Naoki Wake, Diego Thomas, Yuta Nakashima, David Baumert, Hiroshi Kawasaki, K. Ikeuchi","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708837","url":null,"abstract":"Conversational agents are expected to improve the quality of communication by adding gestures to the speech, and are considered to be a promising tool. Recent data-driven methods are capable of attaching gestures to arbitrary speech, but the output is still not in line with human intuition. Therefore, we propose a gesture transformation system that utilizes gesture types as intermediate information, based on the theory of psycholinguistics. We employ the gesture-first principle to create gesture clusters based on gesture similarities among imagistic gestures, one type of gesture to represent image-like motions, which are considered to represent important concepts in conversations. Since this system explicitly takes into account the gesture types recognized by a deep neural network (DNN) and the semantics of the sentence to select gestures, it is expected to output gestures that are more in line with human intuition than existing end-to-end systems that do not place these intermediate states. We prepared a DIY robot kit consisting of cheap parts so that conversational agents at home become available to ordinary users, and implemented the proposed gesture generation system on this robot. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the conversational agent, we evaluated user impression when using various media for conversation and confirmed the advantage of using our agent.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"4 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123679747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatsuhiro Wakayama, G. A. G. Ricardez, Lotfi El Hafi, J. Takamatsu
{"title":"6D-Pose Estimation for Manipulation in Retail Robotics using the Inference-embedded OAK-D Camera","authors":"Tatsuhiro Wakayama, G. A. G. Ricardez, Lotfi El Hafi, J. Takamatsu","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708910","url":null,"abstract":"The socio-economic need for service robots has become more evident during the ongoing pandemic. To boost their deployment, robots need to improve their manipulation capabilities, which includes solving one of the biggest challenges: determine the position and orientation of the target objects. While conventional approaches use markers which require constant maintenance, deep-learning-based approaches require a host computer with high specifications. In this paper, we propose a 6D-pose estimation system whose segmentation algorithm is embedded into OAK-D, a camera capable of running neural networks on-board, which reduces the host requirements. Furthermore, we propose a point cloud selection method to increase the accuracy of the 6D-pose estimation. We test our solution in a convenience store setup where we mount the OAK-D camera on a mobile robot developed for straightening and disposing of items, and whose manipulation success depends on 6D-pose estimation. We evaluate the accuracy of our solution by comparing the estimated 6D-pose of eight items to the ground truth. Finally, we discuss technical challenges faced during the integration of the proposed solution into a fully autonomous robot.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116475108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nader N. Nashed, Christine Lahoud, Marie-Hélène Abel
{"title":"Ontology-based teacher-context data integration","authors":"Nader N. Nashed, Christine Lahoud, Marie-Hélène Abel","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708601","url":null,"abstract":"The divergent web-based data sources and the large amount of intentionally or automatically collected data offer a great opportunity to re ne the existing knowledge in various fields, including education. In particular, the wide range of technologies provides a diversity of data such as resources for education, e-learning systems, teacher and learner analytic, educational institutions data, and the surrounding environment data. Educational data integration got the researchers’ attention due to the continuous emergence of new technologies in addition to the data heterogeneity from different sources. This integration process has two main challenges: data discovery by finding relevant datasets and exploitation by measuring the effectiveness of these datasets. Teachers coexist in two main contexts: their living environment and the work/educational environment. Therefore, the multiple teacher’s contexts cannot be represented through single-type datasets. In this paper, we introduce a general approach for data integration of teacher-related educational datasets to provide a rich and linked data for the educational domain. This approach provides the method of mapping the integrated datasets into the teacher-context ontology (TCO); which represents the teacher’s coexistence in multiple contexts.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125654811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of Pneumatic Exercise Device for the Range of Motion in the Ankle Joint","authors":"Hirosuke Okamoto, H. Taniguchi","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708828","url":null,"abstract":"Physiotherapists provide range of motion (ROM) exercise to patients with the aim of preventing contractures and improving ROM limitation. However, it is predicted that the physical and mental burden on physiotherapists will increase due to the increase in the number of patients and the shortage of physiotherapists due to the declining birthrate and aging population in recent years. In that case, the number of patients who can receive sufficient ROM exercise decreases. Then, it develops into problems such as aggravation of contracture and difficulty in activities of daily living. To prevent these problems, many researchers have developed passive ROM exercise devices. Among them, devices using air pressure as a drive source, which are easy to reduce weight and ensure safety, are being actively developed.We have developed a passive ROM exercise device for the ankle joint that uses a pneumatic soft actuator as a drive source. In addition to plantarflexion and dorsiflexion, this device can provide supination and pronation that existing devices cannot provide. In this device, the pneumatic soft actuator directly presses the toes and heels to exercise the ankle joint. Since this actuator has high flexibility, we aim to operate it by adapting to the shape of the foot. In this research, after designing and prototyping the device, we conducted a user test on eight healthy adult males.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132473368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuhei Tsunoda, Hiroyuki Nabae, K. Suzumori, G. Endo
{"title":"Power Consumption Comparison Between Mammal-Type and Reptile-Type Multi-Legged Robots During Static Walking","authors":"Shuhei Tsunoda, Hiroyuki Nabae, K. Suzumori, G. Endo","doi":"10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708790","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708790","url":null,"abstract":"The leg configurations of multi-legged robots are classified into mammal-type and reptile-type. However, few studies have quantitatively compared the two leg configurations. We compared the power consumed during static walking when the parameters of walking, such as body height and foot trajectory, are changed. These parameters were not investigated in previous studies. In addition, we compared the power consumption when the robots walked sideways and diagonally. The analysis results showed that regardless of the direction in which the robot walked, the reptile-type configuration is able to maintain low power consumption over a wide range of foot positions. Furthermore, the reptile-type configuration can reduce the power consumption by lowering the body height, which simultaneously achieves improved stability and a wider range of foot positions. We also found that, by increasing the reduction ratio of the second joint from the body, the reptile-type configuration can reduce the power consumption without significantly reducing the maximum walking speed. These results indicate that the reptile-type configuration is superior to the mammal-type configuration in terms of the power consumption during static walking. The results of this research would be meaningful for applications requiring stable walking even at low speed.","PeriodicalId":135304,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132491695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}