Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories

Dr. Sato received RT Middleware Contest 2011 Award!

irc — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:07:01 +0000

Dr. Sato received RT Middleware Contest 2011, 「Incentive and Best Support Award」!

This award is given to the research project that collected the most comments from users and that actively supported in RT Middleware Contest.

Content: Introduces Robotic Interaction Service (RoIS) framework which is in the process of standadization at Object Management Group (OGM) as a common interface between Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) functions and service applications.

IRC researchers received 2011 Science Agora Award!

irc — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:59:31 +0000

Dr. Kanda, Dr. Shiomi and Dr. Brscic received 2011 Science Agora Award!

This award is given to the research group that creates to share the fun of science to public.

Content: Aim to realize the environment with robots in daily life,

sensors that can detect human locations and positions are located in the booth,

robots will approach and greet people with accord to the accumulated information

that are collected by the sensors.

「Open House 2011」on Nov. 11th,12th

irc — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 07:37:15 +0000

「Open House 2011」on Nov.11th, 12th

「Open House 2011」 was held on November 11th and 12th. Research activities and achievements including life support robots were presented to the public.

MyNavi news

http://news.mynavi.jp/articles/2011/11/22/atr2011/index.html

Accident prevention by improving driving skill with sensors!

irc — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:31:24 +0000

Unless the number of traffic accident is reduced, it is difficult to cut down on traffic accident fatalities. Wide usage of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) would be effective on preventing accidents. However, more accidents would be prevented if driver’s skill improves. This is what ATR, Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories, Dr. Noma (Senior researcher) and Dr. Tada (Researcher) is working on. To enhance driver’s awareness of safe driving, by use of electronics, driver’s skill is quantitatively assessed and those results are fed back to the driver. Driver’s behavior when driving normally is quantified. The driver’s behavior includes the angle of driver’s neck and time required when checking both sides, the speed of making a turn and timing of pressing the accelerator/brake pedal. By quantifying the behavior, it is possible to find the driver’s habits and clarify the difference from the ideal way of driving. The aim is to reduce the chance of accidents by making drivers realize the results of objective assessment. This measurement system “Objet” is commercially available and jointly-developed in 2008 by ATR and Yamashiro driving school based on basic research conducted by ATR. With a view to expand application of Objet system, ATR held a symposium on October 28th, 2008. Now, ATR is seeking a way to increase usage of this system by ordinary drivers.

Nikkei Tec-on!

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20110920/198429/?P=1

Dr. Miyashita received Best Paper Award Finalist!

irc — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:00:37 +0000

Dr. Miyashita and his colleagues received the best paper award finalist in 2010 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII2010).

Authors: T. Inamura, T. Shibata, H. Sena, T. Hashimoto, N. Kawai, T. Miyashita, Y. Sakurai, M. Shimizu, M. Otake, K. Hosoda, S. Umeda, K. Inui and Y. Yoshikawa

Titile: Simulator Platform that Enables Social Interaction Simulation -SIGVerse: SocioIntelliGenesis Simulator-

-Ubiquitous Network Robot- Business Seminar

irc — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:36:12 +0000

Date

November 8th, 2010 10：00-16：45

Venue

Osaka Umeda Sky Building, Tower West 3F Stera Hall

Introduction to current trend of ubiquitous network services and technologies related life support includes remote medical care and remote medical surgery, etc.

Mr. Cooney received NTF Award Finalist!

irc — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:41:16 +0000

NTF Award Finalist for Entertainment Robots and Systems, IROS 2010

Mr. Martin D. Cooney received 「NTF Award Finalist」 at IROS 2010.

Paper：Martin D. Cooney, Christian Becker-Asano, Takayuki Kanda, Aris Alissandrakis, Hiroshi Ishiguro

Full-body Gesture Recognition Using Inertial Sensors for Playful Interaction with Small Humanoid Robot

Dr. Yonezawa received Best Paper Award!

irc — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 01:34:31 +0000

Best Paper Award at The 4th ACM International Workshop 2010

Dr. Yonezawa received 「Best Paper Award」 at The 4th ACM International Workshop on Context-Awareness for Self-Managing Systems 2010.

Paper：Tomoko Yonezawa, Hirotake Yamazoe, Yoichi Koyama, Shinji Abe, Kenji Mase

Conversational Attitude-aware Behavioral Design for Robot Assistant Combined with Video Communication

Gaze and Utterance Detection

Ms. Nakagawa received Paper Award!

irc — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:21:00 +0000

Paper Award at FIT 2010

Ms. Kayako Nakagawa received 「Paper Award」 at FIT(Forum on Information Technology) 2010.

Paper：Kayako Nakagawa, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Reo Matsumura, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Norihiro Hagita

Persuasive Effects of Robots’ Personality

Dr. Noma received Best Paper Award!

irc — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:00:19 +0000

Best Paper Award at Conference of The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, 2009

Dr. Noma received 「Best Paper Award」 at Conference of The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, 2009.

Paper：Fabrication and Characterization of Tactile Array Sensor with Inclined Si Piezoresistive Cantilever.