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Communication Robot Group
We are aiming to develop a robot which can interact with people using natural language. In dynamic environment of some people act such as a laboratory in universities. The robot will collect and provide information such as following:
・ When and where the meeting will be held
・ Who has taken away the tools and the books
・ Where he/she went and when he/she will come back

 

Interaction Design Group
We aim at developing confortable interfaces with considering usability and any entertaining factors. Our research topics are, for example, new augmented reality games, communication between people in game, composition assistant system and file recommender system. Right figure shows our concept for AR card game system.

 

Monitoring system group
In an environment where many people go in and out, it is difficult to specify who [bring in/take out] things. If given a movie for one day, user must search a destination scene in many data and miss the scene. Monitoring system group researches system which detects automatically [bring in/take out] events and replies to user’s request for specifying a human who brings in objects or takes out ones.

 

Sign language recognition group
Sign language is a "Visual language" in which a sentence is expressed by facial expression and motion and shape of hands and fingers. The sign language recognition group researches automatic recognition of sign language that helps communications between persons with/without hearing impairment.

 

Autonomous mobile robot group
In domestic environment, a mobile robot should move without collisions with persons and objects. The mobile robot group researches welfare service robot that moves automatically without collisions.

 

Interactive Vision Group
Our research is to use the interaction with a user for recognizing the objects more successfully. For example, we try to take the object that the user pointed out of a refrigerator.

 

Manipulator Group
We control a three-fingers robot hand that consists of nine actuators (motors), and a six-freedom robot arm that consists of six-joint. We research the motion planning for the robot arm’s movements effectively. We recognize the object by touch sensors and cameras to allow the robot hand to grip it by various ways to grasp.

 

Sports vision group
Sports vision group researches a system which judges automatically whether or not swing form is skillful from video about golf and tennis swing form, and advises a point of improvement to a user.

 

Hand Shape Group
手形状計測班では手の画像から手の関節角度を推定し、ジェスチャ認識や感性評価への応用を目指しています。

 

Underwater Vision Group
We control a three-fingers robot hand that consists of nine actuators (motors), and a six-freedom robot arm that consists of six-joint. We research the motion planning for the robot arm’s movements effectively. We recognize the object by touch sensors and cameras to allow the robot hand to grip it by various ways to grasp.