Home Assistant Robot AR

There are many tools and appliances within a human's daily life environment that were created with the assumption of human use. One of the desires of a home assistant robot is that it is able to use these objects to perform jobs useful to humans. Our aim is for robots to be able to silently clean within the home. Within daily life, its basic operations would include: 1) carrying tableware placed on a tray, 2) put dishes into a dishwasher, 3) be able to sweep floors. Using these as examples, we developed this single robot that can consecutively implement several tasks, instead of dealing with them separately.

• Papers
  1. Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Ryohei Ueda, Shunichi Nozawa, Mitsuharu Kojima, Kei Okada, Kiyoshi Matsumoto, Masaru Ishikawa, Isao Shimoyama, Masayuki Inaba: Home-Assistant Robot for an Aging Society, Proceedigns of The IEEE, Centennial Year, Special Issue, Quality of Life Technology, Vol.100, No.8, pp.2429--2441, 2012.
  2. Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Ryohei Ueda, ShunichiNozawa, Yuto Mori, Toshiaki Maki, Naotaka Hatao, Kei Okada and Masayuki Inaba: "Tidying and Cleaning Rooms by a Daily Assistive Robot -- An Integrated System for Doing Chores in Real World --," Journal of Behavioral Robotics,　Volume 1, Number 4, 231-239, 2011.
  3. Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Ryohei Ueda, Shunichi Nozawa, Yuto Mori, Toshiaki Maki, Naotaka Hatao, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba: System Integration of a Daily Assistive Robot and Its Application to Tidying and Cleaning Rooms,in Proceedings of The 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,pp.1365--1371, 2010.
  4. Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Masayuki Inaba: A Cloth Detection Method Based on Wrinkle Features for daily Assistive Robots, in IAPR International Conference on Machine Vision and Applications,pp.366--369, 2009.
  5. Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Ryohei Ueda, Shunichi Nozawa, Yuto Mori, Toshiaki Maki, Naotaka Hatao, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba: A Demonstrative Research for Daily Assistive Robots on Tasks of Cleaning and Tidying up Rooms,in First International Symposium on Quality of Life Technology,J, 2009.
  6. Kimitoshi Yamazaki, Ryouhei Ueda, Shunichi Nozawa, Yuto Mori, Toshiaki Maki, Naotaka Hatao, Kei Okada, Masayuki Inaba: A Demonstrative Research for Daily Assistive Robots on Tasks of Cleaning and Tidying up Rooms, in Proceedings of The 14th Robotics Symposia, pp.522--527, 2009.