Hideaki Takeda's Publication
- H. Takeda, A. Ueno, M. Saji, T. Nakano and
K. Miyamoto: A Robot Recognizing
Everyday Objects -- Towards Robot as Autonomous Knowledge Media --, in
Proceedings of IEEE/RSJ International Conference of Intelligent Robots
and Systems (IROS2000), pp. 1107–1112 (2000).
In this paper, we discuss roles of robots as autonomous knowledge
media and show our prototyping system of an office work assistant robot based
on this approach. We are surrounded by a huge amount of artifacts and
information that is making difficult for human to deal with. Robots can help
people by gathering and arranging information intelligently instead of people
themselves. Our prototyping system called Kappa III is an office work
assistant robot that can tell people location of daily goods in office. It
firstly looks around to capture images of desks in order to remember what and
where such goods. Then it can identify them by cutting them out from the
background and categorizing them by color, shape,and figure. People can ask
it to take goods in office by either specifying names or features such as
color. We also realized discovery of objects three-dimensionally by comparing
captured scenes with expected ones.Keywords: office robot, knowledge media,
object recognition, intelligent environment
Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics)