{"title":"Seamless positioning system using GPS and beacons for community service robot","authors":"Satoru Miki, T. Nishioka, N. Matsuhira","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382671","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382671","url":null,"abstract":"Japan has been a super-aged society in the recent years; thus, there is a need for mobility support for elderly people with difficulty in moving and walking. We aim to provide a mobility support using a mobile robot considering movement from a facility to home through indoor and outdoor environments. A seamless positioning system is necessary for realizing such a community. This study proposes a seamless positioning system that can obtain position data of both indoor and outdoor environments. We develop a system combining ultrasonic beacons and a global positioning system receiver to obtain the seamless location position. We install the proposed system and verify the positioning system by a basic experiment.","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125556951","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":"A Simulation-Based Approach for Improving the Performance of a Manufacturing System","authors":"M. Azarian, Hao Yu, W. Solvang","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382722","url":null,"abstract":"The latest and innovative manufacturing paradigms, i.e., flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS), etc., have provided opportunities to achieve an efficient and effective manufacturing process. However, due to the inherent stochasticity of customer demands as well as other influencing factors, factories are still facing dynamic and complex challenges related to their production management. Among which, machine failure is one of the most significant problems. Therefore, this research investigates a novel solution through incorporating the concept of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) into a manufacturing process, where reconfigurable machines are used to compensate for the production loss of a dedicated production line due to machine failure. A simulation-based approach is developed with the help of FlexSim in order to examine two general configurations with respect to three key performance indicators (KPIs). The results illustrate, by properly adopting the concept and technologies of I4.0, the performance of a manufacturing process can be improved to better react to unexpected events in production. From both technical and operational perspectives, several recommendations for further development are given in this paper.","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129180627","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}
H. Tsuji, Raita Katayama, Hikaru Nagano, Y. Tazaki, Y. Yokokohji
{"title":"Primary-view-consistent Operation Method of Master Controller in Multiple Screen Teleoperation System","authors":"H. Tsuji, Raita Katayama, Hikaru Nagano, Y. Tazaki, Y. Yokokohji","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382611","url":null,"abstract":"In teleoperation systems, the reference frame and the posture of the master controller should be consistent to those of the follower arm in the remote environment; otherwise the operator will be forced to perform mental rotation which is a burden for him/her. Such consistencies become more important in the case of multiple screen teleoperation systems, where the operator can change the primary view, for example, among overhead view, side view, and hand camera view, depending on the situation.In this paper, we propose a unified method of master controller that is consistent to the primary view in multiple screen teleoperation systems. We first propose a method for constraining the posture of the master controller during indexing operation in the master-follower mode so that posture consistency can be preserved even when master-follower connection is disengaged. This constraining method will also be applied when the operator changes primary view so that the master controller will be constrained to the posture with respect to a new reference frame. We also propose to assign an appropriate control mode (either position mode or velocity (joy-stick) mode) depending on the selected primary view, where control modes for translational motion and rotational motion are considered separately. We have verified the effectiveness of the proposed method by experiments.","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129594182","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":"From shm to digital twins - Can technology help fix our aging infrastructure? [Plenary talk]","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/ieeeconf49454.2021.9382759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ieeeconf49454.2021.9382759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115410482","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":"Workshop on Future Convinience Store Challenge","authors":"K. Wada, M. Niitsuma, Sousuke Nakamura, K. Ohara","doi":"10.1109/ieeeconf49454.2021.9382487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ieeeconf49454.2021.9382487","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"141 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131502367","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":"High-speed Servosphere","authors":"Y. Iwatani","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382634","url":null,"abstract":"Servo-spheres are robotized observation systems that produce unbounded fields for behavior observation of wandering animals. Each Servo-sphere is a vision-based control system that mainly consists of a camera, a sphere, and motorized omniwheels. As an approach to achieving high observation performance of Servo-spheres, this paper first proposes a fast control technique under installation of a high-speed camera. No special devices other than a high-speed camera are required. The proposed technique improves the time resolution without changes in the spatial resolution. This paper also investigates performance of a Servo-sphere with changes in the camera frame rate and the control gains. It is demonstrated that the regulation errors are significantly improved by the proposed technique at the high frame rate with high gain feedback. High gain feedback at the normal frame rate sometimes produces undesired oscillations, and it does not decrease regulation errors. The results imply that the high-speed Servo-sphere improves observation performance, while normal Servo-spheres might lead to an erroneous conclusion on animal behavior.","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"210 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128754943","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":"An Implementation of Linear Temporal Logic for Driving Safety Suitable for the Concept of Local Dynamic Map","authors":"Arvind Kumar, H. Wagatsuma","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382772","url":null,"abstract":"Safely driving on the road is a highly complicated information process for autonomous driving systems, which requires knowledge in the form of the hierarchical structure to bind them together. According to the past works on Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS), the concept of Local Dynamic Map (LDM) is one of the critical technologies. It can coordinate environmental information with different time scales to update by mapping onto a consistent geometric structure in a hierarchy. A possible representation of the LDM concept can be associated with a relational database or semantic web technology such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL). However, moving objects on the road can take infinitely many states. In this study, we propose an integration with Linear Temporal Logic (LTL) to represent events with potential risks to express them on LDM. In the computer experiment, risky situations were examined by using LDM update rules with LTL at turning and roundabout.","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"11 3 Suppl 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123662124","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":"Multiple Objects Detection Using an Airborne Ultrasonic Phased Array with MUSIC Method","authors":"S. Uehara, A. Seino, Takayuki Takahashi","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382720","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382720","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this research is to develop a system that recognizes the surrounding environment by the ultrasonic sensor in high resolution. In this study, the multiple signal classification (MUSIC) method is used to calculate the reflected wave’s direction of arrival. However, the MUSIC method has a limitation of the number of arriving waves. In this research, the phased array transmitter is used to solve this problem. The transmitter emits directed ultrasonic beams to objects. We propose a system consists of an ultrasonic phased array transmitter and microphone array with the MUSIC method. The system is designed in which the number of emitted beams is less than the limit of the number of arriving waves. Finally, the experiment shows the system can localize multiple objects simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114446370","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}
Ryo Yoshino, Toshiaki Takano, Hiroki Tanaka, T. Taniguchi
{"title":"Active Exploration for Unsupervised Object Categorization Based on Multimodal Hierarchical Dirichlet Process","authors":"Ryo Yoshino, Toshiaki Takano, Hiroki Tanaka, T. Taniguchi","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382781","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes an effective active exploration method for multimodal object categorization using a multimodal hierarchical Dirichlet process (MHDP). MHDP is a type of multimodal latent variable models, e.g., multimodal latent Dirichlet allocation and multimodal variational autoencoder, that enables a robot to perform unsupervised multimodal object categorization on the basis of different types of sensor information. The goal of the active exploration is to reduce the number of actions executed to collect multimodal sensor information from a variety of objects to acquire knowledge on object categories. The active exploration method employing the information gain (IG) criterion for MHDP is described by extending the IG-based active perception method. Exploiting the submodular property of IG in MHDP, greedy and lazy greedy algorithms with a certain theoretical guarantee of performance are proposed. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated in a robot experiment. Results show that the proposed active exploration method with the greedy algorithm works well, and it significantly reduces the step for exploration. Further, the performance of the lazy greedy algorithm is found to deteriorate at times, due to the estimation error in the IG, differently from that of active perception.","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"293 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116004510","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":"Diagnosing Deep Self-localization Network for Domain-shift Localization","authors":"Tanaka Kanji","doi":"10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEECONF49454.2021.9382702","url":null,"abstract":"Deep convolutional neural network (DCN) has become a common approach in visual robot self-localization. In a typical self-localization system, a DCN is trained as a visual place classifier from past visual experiences in the target environment. However, its classification performance can be deteriorated when it is tested in a different domain (e.g., times of day, weathers, seasons), due to domain shifts. Therefore, an efficient domain-adaptation (DA) approach to suppress perdomain DA cost would be desired. In this study, we address this issue with a novel “domain-shift localization (DSL)” technique that diagnosis the DCN classifier with the goal of localizing which region of the robot workspace is significantly affected by domain-shifts. In our approach, the DSL task is formulated as a fault-diagnosis (FD) problem, in which the deterioration of DCN-based self-localization for a given query image is viewed as an indicator of domain-shifts at the imaged region. In our contributions, we address the following non-trivial issues: (1) We address a subimage-level fine-grained DSL task given a typical coarse image-level DCN classifier, in which the target DCN system is queried with a region-of-interest (RoI) masked synthesized query image to diagnosis the RoI region; (2) We extend the DSL task to a relevance feedback (RF) framework, to perform a further query and return improved diagnosis results; and (3) We implement the proposed framework on 3D point cloud imagery-based self-localization and experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.","PeriodicalId":395378,"journal":{"name":"2021 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123803380","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}