Concept and design philosophy of a person-accompanying robot

Hiroshi Mizoguchi; Takaomi Shigehara; Yoshiyasu Goto; Ken-ichi Hidai; Taketoshi Mishima

doi:10.1117/12.335729

8 January 1999 Concept and design philosophy of a person-accompanying robot

Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Takaomi Shigehara, Yoshiyasu Goto, Ken-ichi Hidai, Taketoshi Mishima

Proceedings Volume 3525, Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.335729
Event: Photonics East (ISAM, VVDC, IEMB), 1998, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

This paper proposes a person accompanying robot as a novel human collaborative robot. The person accompanying robot is such legged mobile robot that is possible to follow the person utilizing its vision. towards future aging society, human collaboration and human support are required as novel applications of robots. Such human collaborative robots share the same space with humans. But conventional robots are isolated from humans and lack the capability to observe humans. Study on human observing function of robot is crucial to realize novel robot such as service and pet robot. To collaborate and support humans properly human collaborative robot must have capability to observe and recognize humans. Study on human observing function of robot is crucial to realize novel robot such as service and pet robot. The authors are currently implementing a prototype of the proposed accompanying robot.As a base for the human observing function of the prototype robot, we have realized face tracking utilizing skin color extraction and correlation based tracking. We also develop a method for the robot to pick up human voice clearly and remotely by utilizing microphone arrays. Results of these preliminary study suggest feasibility of the proposed robot.

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Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Takaomi Shigehara, Yoshiyasu Goto, Ken-ichi Hidai, and Taketoshi Mishima "Concept and design philosophy of a person-accompanying robot", Proc. SPIE 3525, Mobile Robots XIII and Intelligent Transportation Systems, (8 January 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.335729

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