| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Research Abstract |
We developed a new people tracking system which consists of simple devices such as a laser range finder and omni-directional camera attached to a pole. By just placing the several sensor poles to the environment, we could track the location and orientation of multiple persons accurately and robustly. In our experiment our system successfully tracks people in a sensing area continuously even when they are occluded sometime. We apply this system to our museum guide robot and robotic wheelchair. Because our system can track not only the position of people but also the body orientation and the gaze direction in a large environment, our robots can provide appropriate services to users by considering the behaviors of the users in detail.
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