{"title":"Assistive robotic arm autonomously bringing a cup to the mouth by face recognition","authors":"Hideyuki Tanaka, Y. Sumi, Y. Matsumoto","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679633","url":null,"abstract":"We developed an assistive-robotic-arm system which autonomously grasps a cup and brings it to the user's mouth. It was developed as a prototype of meal-assistance robot. We utilized two heterogeneous eye-in-hand cameras. One is the front-camera capturing objects, and the other is the side-camera capturing the user's face. The latter keeps an occlusion-free view even during the object bringing. We implemented a face recognition function which robustly identifies the user's face while predicting the face position. The arm is controlled by visual servoing technique. We verified the basic performance of the system through preliminary tests. The arm was able to execute the task, controlling the arm according to the position of the object and the user's face. We demonstrated the basic possibility for the meal-assistance robot.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123209066","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":"Intelligent surveillance and security robot systems","authors":"Kyunghoon Kim, Soonil Bae, Kwan-Yong Huh","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679624","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new security solution that integrates vision, intelligent algorithm and robot technology. The solution can be applied to guarding large facilities, critical infrastructures and national borders. While conventional security solutions rely on human operator's vigilance on the images provided by cameras, the proposed solution uses machine intelligence to compensate for human factors and robots to provide immediate counter response. The system is currently deployed at Korea National Oil Corporation's Seosan oil reserve facility. Overall structure of the system and description of each component are presented.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116141369","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":"Path reconstruction method for sampling based planners","authors":"Byungjae Park, Jinwoo Choi, W. Chung","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679628","url":null,"abstract":"A path reconstruction method for sampling based planners is proposed in this paper. The proposed method improves the quality of the initially planned path. The node update and Dijkstra's graph search algorithm are used in the iterative process of the proposed method. The proposed method improves the safety and efficiency of the initially planned path simultaneously, and can be applied to any kinds of sampling based planners if the planned path represented by a simple path graph. Quantitative analyses of simulation results were done to verify the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123601946","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":"Robotic gripper driven by flexible microactuator based on an innovative technique","authors":"G. Udupa, Pramod Sreedharan, K. Aditya","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5680040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5680040","url":null,"abstract":"In the area of Robotics, the gripper plays a very important role as it is required to hold and place the object at the desired location. The requirements of gripper in terms of load capacity, and flexibility to adapt to the form of the object with tactile sensing capability which suit the strength of the object are necessary. Extensive research work is under way in the design of soft gripper or dexterous hand. An exhaustive survey of all such grippers conveys the idea of higher and higher sophistication with innumerable components and elaborate controls with programmable ability has been the outcome of research. Flexible micro actuators (FMA) proposed by earlier researchers are having two or more internal chambers and the internal pressure of each are controlled independently through flexible tubes which are connected to pressure control valves. The proposed actuator has a single internal chamber and is simple, compact and easy to manufacture. In this paper, a flexible microactuator (FMA) driven by a pneumatic/ hydraulic system with single internal chamber has been developed for robotic soft gripper. By proper selection and manufacturing of the asymmetric tube flexible actuator with reinforcement, a versatile dexterous hand can be fabricated which is suited for dynamic application closely approximating to the human hand. The present work has paved the way for extensive research on this innovative technique as it holds out the true potential for innumerable and very interesting application in various areas such as micro robots, pipeline inspection robots, underwater robots and walking robots‥","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116594571","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":"Simultaneous localization and mapping using a short-range passive RFID reader with sparse tags in large environments","authors":"Jiun-Fu Chen, C. Wang","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5680012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5680012","url":null,"abstract":"The radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been studied and used to solve the localization and mapping problems in which most of studies use long-range active or passive RFID systems with multiple readers and dense tags. In this paper, we propose to use a short-range passive RFID reader to accomplish extended Kalman filter (EKF) based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) with sparse tags in large indoor environments. We demonstrate that it is feasible to accomplish SLAM with sufficient accuracy using only odometry and short-range RFID data. The simulation and experimental results demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed system.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130260450","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":"The study of robot platform for orchestrating and reusing services","authors":"Hyun Chul, Jung. Hyung Ryul, Kim. Daniel Stonier","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679989","url":null,"abstract":"Unlike their industrial counterparts, service robots are required to operate under conditions that require a very different approach to development. While industrial robots are required to work in structured environments on very specific tasks, service robots often have to operate in semi or fully unstructured environments working on a variety of tasks to provide usually a wide range of services. Subsequently, the service robot development approach must be considerably different. Our goal is to provide a service oriented development platform that can be orchestrated easily the user or platform developer and also reused from robot to robot with a minimum of porting. This service-oriented robot platform presented here is called ROCOS, implementations of which have been evaluated on the commercial robots iRobiQ and Cafero.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130285887","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}
F. Matsuno, T. Kamegawa, N. Sato, M. Hatayama, H. Mizumoto, S. Oh-hara, Y. Uo, K. Shima
{"title":"Rescue robot systems - development of high-functionality multiple robot system and robust/scalable information infrastructure -","authors":"F. Matsuno, T. Kamegawa, N. Sato, M. Hatayama, H. Mizumoto, S. Oh-hara, Y. Uo, K. Shima","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679618","url":null,"abstract":"We have constructed a new system for searching the inside of damaged buildings by grouped robots. Especially, we developed a new wireless ad-hoc network system called ‘Robohoc network’ system. It is necessary to communicate information such as commands to robots and sensor data to an operator including video images stably with considering not to break down all network performance. In this paper, an outline of each constructed element and an example of methodology how to integrate each element such as robots, network, user interface and data server are shown.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117028525","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":"Kinematics-based collision-free motion planning for autonomous mobile robot in dynamic environment","authors":"R. Luo, Shih C. Wu, Chun C. Lai, Jeng-Han Li","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679625","url":null,"abstract":"In indoor environment, often time there always exist moving objects such as people or other service robots. For indoor service robot, they may follow a priori to patrol or help people to delivery so that it is fundamental and essential to achieve the destination without collision. In this paper, we aim at developing the collision-free algorithm by using kinematics-based method. Based on the model developed, we propose the collision-free conditions to find out proper via-postures. While the conditions are satisfied, the relative distance between the robot and the moving obstacle will be guaranteed, the collision vanishes and via-postures are derived from the condition as well. To enhance robot collision avoidance behavior, we make efforts on the following requirements: (1) smooth collision-free paths (2) situation-dependant path selection mechanism (3) redirection to the priori to conduct the tasks continuously. The justifications and approaches used for all the requirements are stated and discussed. Simulations and experimental results are made to demonstrate the feasibility and applicability of the method.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115799815","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}
J. Youn, Jaewoo Choi, Kyeongsun Kim, C. G. Kim, Mun-Taek Choi, Munsang Kim
{"title":"Application of English CALL system in the robot MERO","authors":"J. Youn, Jaewoo Choi, Kyeongsun Kim, C. G. Kim, Mun-Taek Choi, Munsang Kim","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5679630","url":null,"abstract":"We have developed the English educational robot system with the robot MERO of KIST and the English CALL system of HCILAB. This system expresses natural emotions about the result of learners' pronunciations and these expressions lead interests of learner. The English educational MERO robot system was verified the educational effects in a pilot project of after-school classes.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126352451","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":"Ryodoraku design and analysis of the facial mechanism on the humanoid robot","authors":"Ching-Kuo Wang, Han-Pang Huang, Wei-Fu Hwang","doi":"10.1109/ARSO.2010.5680020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO.2010.5680020","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is dedicated to self-handcraft an inexpensive, however, anthropomorphic head skull on the viewpoint of ryodoraku craftsmanship instead of the traditionally engineering viewpoint. Generally speaking, Artificial emotions can be categorized into three stages. i.e., the preliminary abstraction, secondary expressionism, and advanced anthropomorphism. The formers developed head mechanisms using the RC-servomotor and single-chip controllers on the viewpoint of engineering. However, it is noticed that these approaches are inevitably neglected delicate emotional features, which may result in dynamically obscure and lacking of the passionate scenario. In fact, delicate variations of the facial emotions can dramatically spiritualize the humanoid robot with passionate scenarios. Modulized analysis of the facial mechanism is also proposed to simplify the mechatronic design of each artificial module on the robot head. Finally, the ryodoraku simulations with PTZ(pen-tilt-zoom) dynamics are carefully examined and successfully demonstrated the advantages of the proposed innovation.","PeriodicalId":164753,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124173377","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}