Affiliation:
DirectorATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories
Kyoto, Japan
Title:
Human-Robot “Harmonious” Interaction in Human Populated Environments
Abstract:
This talk will introduce advanced robotic services in human populated environments. They among pedestrians may often attract crowds of people around the environment, and consequentially become a bothersome entity causing congestion in narrow spaces. In order to tackle the problems including ethical, legal, and social (ELSI) issues, three models of pedestrian flow, pedestrian interaction, and walking discomfort are developed. The robot allows distribute flyers to pedestrians which allows to anticipate potential persons to receive the flyers among people, appropriately plan their motions using the models and successfully distribute them while keeping the harmonious relationship between humans and robots.
Biography:
Norihiro Hagita received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University in 1976, 1978, and 1986. In 1978, he joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (Now NTT). He was a visiting researcher in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley in 1989-90. He is currently Board Director of ATR and ATR Fellow, director of Social Media Research Laboratory Group and Intelligent Robotics and Communication laboratories. He is a chairman of ATR Creative. He is also visiting professors of Nara Institute of Science and Technology(NAIST), Osaka University and Kobe University. His major interest is cloud networked robotics, human-robot interaction, ambient intelligence, pattern recognition and learning, and data-mining technology. He made robotic field experimentations on shop guidance, shopping support, touring support for elderly and disables in urban environments, i.e. shopping malls, stations, science museum, schools, etc. He has served as one of vice chairmen in i-RooBO Network Forum in Japan in order to promote the R&D&I(innovation) on robots and robotic services. He is also serving as the research supervisor on intelligent information processing systems creating co-experience knowledge and wisdom with human-machine harmonious collaboration in Japan Science and Technology agency (JST).