Tetsushi IKEDA
top page profile research projects publicationsMobile robots with behavior for enhancing the comfort of surrounding pedestrians
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Mobile robots have been introduced into our daily life environment to support our activities. Robots that move in such an environment must not only avoid collisions, but must also behave in a way that people around them find comfortable. We are studying mobile robots that signal and present information to their surroundings and robots that understand the emotions of pedestrians around them.
Robot uses face orientation to communicate future movement to surrounding pedestrians
| When we smoothly pass each other in a hallway, we send various cues to the other person using facial expressions, eye contact, and slight body movements. We evaluated a mobile robot that moves its head when it passes a pedestrian to communicate its awareness of the pedestrian and its future movement. |
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Shohei Yamashita, Tetsushi Ikeda, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Satoshi Iwaki, Evaluation of Robots that Signals a Pedestrian Using Face Orientation Based on Moving Trajectory Analysis, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 1163-1170, 2019. [LINK]
Mobile robot that behaves based on estimated impressions of surrounding pedestrians
| When we walk, we adjust our behavior to make sure we are not disturbing others around us. We aim to build mobile robots that adjust their behavior by estimating subjective impressions, such as the ease of walking, of surrounding people. |
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Junta Kajiura, Tetsushi Ikeda, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Mobile robot that estimates the subjective impression of pedestrians and passes by them, Proc. RoboMech 2023 (in Japanese).
Last modified: 2023-5-25 ikeda