Generating Robot's Attendance Actions by Estimating Person's Awareness to the Environment

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25280093
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent robotics
• Research Institution: Toyohashi University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Miura Jun 豊橋技術科学大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (90219585)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SATAKE JUNJI 豊橋技術科学大学, 大学院工学研究科, 助教 (60392726) ; OISHI SHUJI 豊橋技術科学大学, 大学院工学研究科, 助教 (30759618)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 付き添いロボット / アウェアネス / 移動ロボット / 人物検出・識別 / 人物行動推定 / ロボットの行動生成 / 見守りロボット

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There is an increasing demand for personal service robots such as attendant robots that support people in their daily life. Aiming at realizing such an attendant robot, we developed the following methods: (1) detecting and tracking people in a variety of poses and discriminating a specific person to whom services are provided; (2) estimating a person's awareness to the environment from his/her actions with estimation of face poses; (3) generating appropriate attendance actions and switching them depending on a person's intention and/or state. We implemented and tested these methods using a real robot to show their effectiveness.

Free Research Field

知能ロボット