M. Goseki, Ryohei Egusa, Takayuki Adachi, H. Takemura, H. Mizoguchi, M. Namatame, F. Kusunoki, S. Inagaki
{"title":"Puppet show for entertaining hearing-impaired, together with normal-hearing people — A novel application of human sensing technology to inclusive education","authors":"M. Goseki, Ryohei Egusa, Takayuki Adachi, H. Takemura, H. Mizoguchi, M. Namatame, F. Kusunoki, S. Inagaki","doi":"10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530856","url":null,"abstract":"The authors propose a novel application of human sensing technology to inclusive education. We focus on puppet show to aspire the inclusive education for both the normal hearing and the hearing impaired. Thus, we are developing Puppet Theater system to entertain both hearing impaired and normal hearing. This Puppet Theater system consists of two functions. First, the lines are displayed as letters with voice for complementing information of sound. The system enables the hearing impaired to understand the contents of the puppet show. Second function presents branches of the story to audience for encouraging the audience to understand the content of the story. In this paper, we describe that we develope branches of the story as function to select the branches by body movements for the purpose of additional effect of understanding contents of the story. The body movements are measured and detected by Kinect sensor for Xbox. We anticipate additional benefit of understanding contents of the story because this new function enables the audience to participate in the progression of the puppet show. The authors performed the system to elementary school pupils with hearing impairment and found that the pupils enjoyed it. Effects of the function were investigated with questionnaire.","PeriodicalId":410182,"journal":{"name":"2012 First International Conference on Innovative Engineering Systems","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121221877","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}
S. Cosentino, Y. Sugita, M. Zecca, S. Sessa, Zhuohua Lin, K. Petersen, L. Bartolomeo, H. Ishii, K. Saito, A. Takanishi
{"title":"Musical robots: Towards a natural joint performance","authors":"S. Cosentino, Y. Sugita, M. Zecca, S. Sessa, Zhuohua Lin, K. Petersen, L. Bartolomeo, H. Ishii, K. Saito, A. Takanishi","doi":"10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530838","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the mechanical design system implemented to enable a robot flute player to enhance the expressiveness of its performance, reproducing the different musical articulations with the available features of the instrument. In addition, the robot has been equipped with a Human Gesture Recognition system to recognize the real-time variations in tempo, dynamics, and articulation dictated by the conductor's movements. The possibility for the robot to change its performance parameters according to the conductor directions, thus adding expression to its performance while being synchronized with all the other human musicians, would lead to an improvement in the overall joint musical performance.","PeriodicalId":410182,"journal":{"name":"2012 First International Conference on Innovative Engineering Systems","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125595404","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":"Experimental verification of direct depth computing technique for monocular visual SLAM systems","authors":"M. Hasan, M. Abdellatif","doi":"10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530860","url":null,"abstract":"This paper verifies a recently published method of monocular depth computing in the context of visual SLAM. The closed form depth solution was exploited in the measurement model of a monocular EKF visual SLAM algorithm. SIFT interest points are tracked during camera motion and a suitable feature initialization is presented. The visual SLAM system is verified through experiments on a mobile robot platform and the results are benchmarked to groundtruth.","PeriodicalId":410182,"journal":{"name":"2012 First International Conference on Innovative Engineering Systems","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123734081","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":"Optimization of MnO2/CNW composite electrodes for energy storage application","authors":"S. Hassan, M. Suzuki, S. Mori, A. El‐Moneim","doi":"10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530843","url":null,"abstract":"Nanostructured MnO2 thin films were electrodeposited on carbon nanowalls (CNWs), which were grown first by microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (MPECVD) on three-dimensional nickel foam substrates. The optimization theme for producing composite MnO2/CNW on large area electrodes for electrochemical supercapacitors is presented. The MnO2/CNW nanocomposite electrodes were characterized by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, cyclic voltammetry, galvanostatic charge-discharge, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The control of the growth time of CNW is found to be key point for the optimization of the MnO2 electrodeposition process in view to enhance the supercapacitive behavior of MnO2/CNW nanocomposite electrodes. The capacitive behavior and morphology of MnO2 were strongly affected by the incorporation of CNWs. The MnO2/CNW nanocomposite electrodes showed better rate capability than MnO2 electrode. The MnO2/CNW nanocomposite electrode with CNW deposition time, 18 sec, showed the optimum capacitive behaviour. A specific capacitance of 851 F/g at a current density of 1 mA/cm2, equivalent series resistance of 3.19 Ω, and charge transfer resistance of 1.02 Ω are obtained for MnO2/CNW (18 sec) electrode. This electrode also retained a stable capacitance, as its loss is only 8 % over 2000 cycles by charging and discharging at 3 mA/cm2, indicative of long term electrochemical cycling stability which suggests its possible choice as a promising electrode for supercapacitors.","PeriodicalId":410182,"journal":{"name":"2012 First International Conference on Innovative Engineering Systems","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127018617","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}
Ming Ding, R. Ikeura, T. Mukai, Hiromichi Nagashima, S. Hirano, Kazuya Matsuo, Minghui Sun, Chang-an Jiang, S. Hosoe
{"title":"Comfort estimation during lift-up using nursing-care robot — RIBA","authors":"Ming Ding, R. Ikeura, T. Mukai, Hiromichi Nagashima, S. Hirano, Kazuya Matsuo, Minghui Sun, Chang-an Jiang, S. Hosoe","doi":"10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIES.2012.6530874","url":null,"abstract":"In our research center, we have developed a nursing-care assistant robot - RIBA, which can lift up and transfer person between bed and wheelchair using its two human like arms. In this research, we develop a new method to estimate the comfortable feeling of human, which can help our robot - RIBA to find the best lifting-up motion automatically. By using a lifting-up model and optimizing a weighted evaluation function, we can calculate the lifting forces and the human joint torques during the lift-up. A weighted evaluation is used to reflect the change of comfortable feeling. We also carried out some experiments to check the model and the estimating method. During the lift-up, we measured subjects' EMG signal. And after the lift-up, questionnaires survey is conducted. The change trends between estimated and measured value show the effectiveness of the model and the method quantitatively and qualitatively.","PeriodicalId":410182,"journal":{"name":"2012 First International Conference on Innovative Engineering Systems","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133140013","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}