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PalmTop Humanoid
Category:PortableRobot PortableRobot TOP

Research Abstract

In daily life, we often get into a situation where we must watch something in a long. If robots monitor and report such situations in our place, we make things far easier. However, all robots cannot support in a wide environment such as daily life because all robots support area is limited. It is important to design a portable situation reporting system to cover a wider workspace.

We developed the portable humanoid "ChibiKaz". The humanoids is constructed in the robot system based on device-distributed approach. Therefore, the robot can trigger the attachment mechanism. The portable humanoids have hands for grasping objects and legs for moving and can be carried very easily. for easily installed ability and mobility for move to checking points in situation reporting behavior.

We constituted the portable situation reporting system by the small humanoid that we can carry anywhere and anytime. The robot can check human life circumstances and reports the necessary event in information getting by watching circumstances. We evaluated the reconfigurable system not to re-write programs and judged the effectiveness of the system by the experiments, such as (A)the robot completion carrier,(B)the robot timekeeper, (C)the detection of open and close,(D)the measure of the water in pot, (E)the visiting report,(F)the watch passage.

Palmtop Humanoid ChibiKaz on Rope PalmTop Humanoid
for wakeup for cupnoodle Reporting by measuring time
use adxl measure water Reporting by sensor information
comig passing Reporting by visual processing information
References
  • Kei Okada, Akira Fuyuno, Takeshi Morishita, Takashi Ogura, Yasumoto Ohkubo, Yasuyuki Kino, Masayuki Inaba, Hirochika Inoue : "Device Distributed Approach to Extensible Robot System using Intelligent Device Unit with Super-micro Processor", Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp 208-216, 2004.
  • Yasumoto Ohkubo, Kei Okada, Takeshi Morishita, Masayuki Inaba, Hirochika Inoue : "Portable Situation-Reporting System by a Palmtop Humanoid Robot for Daily Life", Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp 3553-3558, 2004.
  • Yasumoto Ohkubo, Kei Okada, Takeshi Morishita, Masayuki Inaba, Hirochika Inoue : "Portable Situation-Reporting System by a Palmtop Humanoid Robot for Daily Life", 2004 JSME Conference On Robotics And Mechatronics, pp 2P1-H-70, 2004 (in Japanese).