Predicting the State of a Person by an Office-Use Autonomous Mobile Robot

Intelligent Data Analysis by a Home-Use Human Monitoring Robot

“…1. They are 7 large robots [5], 10 spy robots [3,6,7], and 5 monitoring robots [4]. The large robot costs about 110,000 JPY with its size 22.5cm × 32.0cm × 22.5cm.…”

“…We explain the monitoring robot [4] in detail. The mounted stereo cameras are used to generate a disparity image for detecting a human and navigating in the office.…”

“…We have tackled, with the platforms in the previous section, several tasks including human detection [7], human detection and avoidance [5], novel object detection [6], human pursuit [3], and human monitoring in an office [4]. For instance, we equipped the spy robot a human detection method using Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) [8] and Support Vector Machines (SVM) [9] in [7].…”

“…The robot is equipped with an SVM classifier trained on a PC from subimages taken by the camera mounted toward the ceiling. Among the tasks, human monitoring [4] seems most promising because it would allow as to develop monitoring robots for aged people at home, which would be a promising consumer electronics product in a rapidly aging country such as Japan. In [4], the monitoring robot tackles a state prediction problem at two different places in our office, one at the side of the desk of the person and the other at the side of another desk in a workshop.…”

“…Our team has developed several dozens of such autonomous mobile robots in recent years and has been working on various applications [3][4][5][6][7]. To establish the new kind of IDA, we need to clarify promising directions and challenging issues in it.…”