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Next-generation co-worker robot: Understanding of robot movements perceived safe by humans

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17H01804
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Intelligent robotics
Research InstitutionNational Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Principal Investigator

Yamanobe Natsuki  国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 主任研究員 (90455436)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) GOWRISHANK AR.G  国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 客員研究員 (10570244)
吉田 英一  国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 副研究センター長 (30358329)
Venture Gentiane  国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, 情報・人間工学領域, 特定フェロー (30538278)
Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥17,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥7,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Keywords協働ロボット / 行動神経学 / 動作生成 / 動作計画
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we clarified what kind of robot movements a human feels safe and comfortable with, in human-robot co-worker scenarios. We adopted object handover and arm reaching tasks as typical collaboration ones. Human-human and human-robot collaboration experiments were conducted and the relationships between human feelings and robot movements were explored. For object handover, it was found that humans can estimate their partner’s handover behavior very well based on the physical and social characteristics of their own and their partner. Our experiments also confirmed that the perceived uncertainty in the robot movement is the fundamental determinant of human discomfort when a robot is working in the vicinity of humans. These results can contribute to planning robot motions and comfortable collaboration systems.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の成果は、人間と空間を共有して作業を行う協働ロボットの動作生成やシステムデザインに貢献するものである。例えば物の手渡しを行う場合、本研究で示した位置関係や相手の身体的・社会的モデルに基づいたロボット動作を生成することで、相手に違和感を与えない快適な受け渡しを可能とする。また一緒に作業を行う人間から認識される不確定性を低減するロボット動作やシステムの設計を行うことで、より快適な協働作業を実現する。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2021 Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Annual Research Report
  • 2018 Annual Research Report
  • 2017 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] The where of handovers by humans: Effect of partner characteristics, distance and visual feedback2019

    • Author(s)
      Kato Saki、Yamanobe Natsuki、Venture Gentiane、Yoshida Eiichi、Ganesh Gowrishankar
    • Journal Title

      PLOS ONE

      Volume: 14 Issue: 6 Pages: e0217129-e0217129

    • DOI

      10.1371/journal.pone.0217129

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Robot movement uncertainty determines human discomfort in co-worker scenarios2020

    • Author(s)
      Heraiz-Bekkis Daphne、Gowrishankar Ganesh、Yoshida Eiichi、Yamanobe Natsuki
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR 2020)
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Humans Can Predict Where Their Partner Would Make a Handover2018

    • Author(s)
      Saki Kato, Natsuki Yamanobe, Gentiane Venture, Gowrishankar Ganesh
    • Organizer
      The 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, Late-Breaking Reports
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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