5 accepted papers
As people age, walking can become difficult. This difficulty in walking can lead to further physical decline and eventually result in the need for caregiving. To prevent this, wearable robots supporting walking rehabilitation have been developed. In this study, we aim to develop a modular robot wear…
Technologies for estimating self-position and orientation are important for both humans and robots. These technologies allow robots to perform tasks such as carrying objects and allow people to reach their destinations. Although self-position estimation technologies using GPS and laser rangefinders…
Automatic control of mobile robots and robot arms requires techniques for estimating the position and orientation of objects with high accuracy and robustness. Although methods using markers or machine learning have been developed, general-purpose and highly accurate estimations have not been realiz…
This paper describes the development of a whole-body robotic simulator of an elderly person for evaluating robotics devices for nursing care. To improve the quality of life of the elderly persons, physical assistance such as transfer, movement, and bathroom assistance is important. It is also import…
Visual markers are useful tools that aid autonomous robots in object recognition and pose measurement; however, conventional markers have two fundamental problems in orientation estimation: (1) inaccurate estimation in the frontal direction and (2) pose ambiguity. We previously developed a visual ma…