Intelligent Service Robotics

In this research, we propose an innovative robotic platform for clinical tests suitable for small- or medium-sized laboratories using small-sized multiple mobile robots and a robotic arm. The robotic platform, called “BioRobot Platform,” allows us …

A tethered viewpoint in an operator interface visualizes remote situations according to a robot’s heading direction. The tethered view, adhering to the line-of-sight requirement, results lower visual momentum when visualizing dense environments …

In social environments, humans mostly stay in social interactive groups with their daily activities. A mobile service robot must be aware of not only human individuals but also social interactive groups, and then behave safely and socially …

Humanoid robots introduce instabilities during biped march that complicate the process of estimating their position and orientation along time. Tracking humanoid robots may be useful not only in typical applications such as navigation, but in …

Many planar 2-DOF translational parallel robots which were invented for the simple industrial tasks are easy to suffer the problem of the poor intrinsic stiffness along the normal direction to the plane of motion. To solve this problem, the …