1P1-A02 Development of Single-passenger Mobility-Support Robot "ROPITS" : Verification of Autonomous Run Function to Sidewalk Arbitrary Point Specified with Map of Portable Information Terminal(Demonstration experiments of personal mobility robots in Mobility Robot Special Zone of Tsukuba-city)

Abstract

In order to support the short-distance transportation of the elderly or those with walking difficulties in the city, we are developing a single-passenger mobility-support robot "ROPITS", which runs on pedestrian road autonomously. In this paper, we introduce the ability to run the robot to any point specified in the map of the portable information terminal. Since the robot estimates the latitude and longitude of its location with high accuracy, it is capable of traveling to the point specified with a general map. We report the experimental result of the robot running in the Mobility Robot Experiment Special District in Tsukuba-city, where mobility robots can run on the public pedestrian road.