2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Librarian robot with sleep-wake function
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21500185
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Perception information processing/Intelligent robotics
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
MIKAWA Masahiko 筑波大学, 図書館情報メディア系, 准教授 (40361357)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
TANAKA Kazuyo 筑波大学, 図書館情報メディア系, 教授 (70344207)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 知能ロボット / ユーザインタフェイス / 画像/文章/音声等認識 / 知能情報処理 / 意識モデル |
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| Research Abstract |
This research has developed a librarian robot with sleep and wake functions. This robot is equipped with a laser range finder for predicting library users' behaviors, a microphone for conversation with them and a stereo vision. Lots of processes for these several sensors run in parallel in this system and are controlled by our proposed mathematical Activation-Input-Modulation (AIM) model, that can express consciousness states, such as wake or sleep based on detected by the external sensors. When library users are near the librarian robot, it works as a librarian in a waking state. When there is no user, although the robot in a sleep state looks like sleeping, it processes information stored during the wake state.
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