9 accepted papers
In this paper, we propose a system that supports operators who provide services to customers using teleoperated robots. We observed that unprofessional or lazy operators of teleoperated robots are a risk for businesses as they are likely to speak in ways that are inappropriate for customer services.…
During a conversation, the meaning of an utterance may drastically change depending on the attitude of the speaker. For example, offensive words may be used “seriously” to threaten or “jokingly” to tease. However, robots do not have yet the capacity to understand such nuance. Therefore, we have deve
This paper presents a robot behavioral model designed to support children during self-study. In particular, we want to investigate how a robot could increase the time children keep concentration. The behavioral model was developed by observing children during self-study and by collecting information…
This paper presents a model of navigational habituation for human passengers riding an autonomous robotic wheelchair. We present an example on how robot technology is utilized to understand human behavior which is useful to build human-like navigation models. The work consists of three parts, data c…
In order to solve the problems of current hearing aid devices, we make use of environment sensor network, and propose a hearing support system, where individual target and anti-target sound sources in the environment can be selected, and spatial information of the target sound sources is reconstruct…
This paper presents a method for representing acoustic information with point clouds by tying it to geometrical features. The motivation is to create a representation of this information that is well suited for mobile robotic applications. In particular, the proposed approach is designed to take adv…
This work proposes a Human-Comfortable Path Planner (HCoPP) system for autonomous passenger vehicles. The aim is to create a path planner that improves the feeling of comfort of the passenger, this topic is different from collision free planning and it has not received much attention. For this purpo…
This work presents a human-robot cooperative approach for infrastructure inspection. The goal is to create a robot that assists the human inspector during hammer sounding inspections. Hammer sounding is a frequently used inspection technique that detects invisible defects under the surface of concre…
We developed a system for detecting the speech activity intervals of multiple speakers by combining multiple microphone arrays and human tracking technologies. We also proposed a method for estimating the face orientation of the detected speakers. The developed system was evaluated in two steps: ind…