Training Support Method by Self-Coaching with Humanoid Robot

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26560339
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Developmental mechanisms and the body works
• Research Institution: Nagaoka National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Toyama Shigehiro 長岡工業高等専門学校, 電子制御工学科, 教授 (60342507)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): YASAKA TAKESHI 新潟大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70191096)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: スポーツ科学 / 運動指導 / ヒューマノイドロボット / セルフコーチング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study presents a new sports training support method by self-coaching with humanoid robot, and finds new possibilities of human robot interaction for sports training. The term “self-coaching” means that target player can coach himself or herself by modifying motion of the humanoid robot, which represents the target player’s movement, for an ideal movement as a reference. As a result, the target player is expected to get deep recognition of the ideal movement and to acquire the skill swiftly. The forearm pass of volleyball, which is one of difficult sports skills to acquire, is selected as target skill of this study. An experimental result shows that the proposed self-coaching approach seems to have significant effectiveness to recognize the skill.

Free Research Field

制御工学、メカトロニクス