[4eyes] Lab talk and visitor on Friday, 2:30pm

[Matthew Turk]

It looks like we'll schedule the regular lab meetings for Tuesdays at 3:00pm
this quarter. So no regular meeting this week. However, I have a visitor on
Friday who will give an informal lab talk on his research in human-robot
interaction, and I hope many of you can make it. The info is below.

 

Thanks,

            Matthew

 

 

2:30pm Friday

MAT conference room

 

Mohd Razali

PhD student, Saitama University, Japan

(Advisor: Yoshinori Kuno)

 

Title: Towards Smart and Autonomous Wheelchair Systems in Human-Shared
Environments

 

Wheelchairs are normally used in an environment occupied with humans such as
care center, hospital, convenient store, etc. For an autonomous wheelchair
to co-exist and be socially acceptable in such atmosphere, it must be
capable to sense humans and subsequently plan actions that comply to both
parties by respecting certain social rules of encounters; such stay away
from human's frontal space, prevent violating human's personal space and
maintaining path if human give a way.  In other word, rather than focusing
on conventional obstacle avoidance and goal seeking behavior, wheelchair
should consider whether motion it takes (even though collision free) is a
socially acceptable and does not bringing an awkward situation to the
humans. Researches in this field are normally known as social navigation
planning, which is part of Human Robot Interaction (HRI) area in non-verbal
and non-cognitive case. 

 

In this research, the focus is on developing autonomous wheelchair system
that capable to navigate smoothly among multiple humans by considering
human's state for generating motion commands. The research objectives are
divided into three main components which are identifying and simulating
rules that should be obeyed by the wheelchair, developing sensing system for
detecting, tracking and acquiring human's information (head pose and body
orientation), and developing navigation schemes that safe, natural and
socially acceptable for handling multiple persons in real world
environments.

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