Development of human-symbiotic robot "EMIEW"

Accession number;05A0961258
Title;Development of human-symbiotic robot "EMIEW"
Author; HOSODA YUJI (Hitachi, Ltd., Mech. Eng. Res. Lab.) HORIUCHI TOSHIHIKO (Hitachi, Ltd., Mech. Eng. Res. Lab.) EGAWA SAKU (Hitachi, Ltd., Mech. Eng. Res. Lab.) TAMAMOTO JUN'ICHI (Hitachi, Ltd., Mech. Eng. Res. Lab.) TOGAMI MASAHITO (Hitachi Chuoken)
Journal Title;Nippon Kikai Gakkai Robotikusu, Mekatoronikusu Koenkai Koen Ronbunshu (CD-ROM)
Journal Code:L0318B
ISSN:
VOL.2005;NO.;PAGE.ALL-N-007(2005)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.2, REF.3
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;We are developing robots supporting people in daily life, that is, human-symbiotic robots. This kind of robots is required to have the following features: coexistence with people, user friendly and capability for supporting people. As a step to the final goal, we developed an autonomous mobile robot featuring as follows: (1) this robot has the collision avoidance capability for moving safely through complex environments. (2) the robot makes use of a self-balancing two-wheel mobile system as well as a body side swing mechanism to shift center of gravity. This allows the robot to move nimbly as fast as six kilometers per hour. (3) the robot can interact with people naturally without special tools by means of distant-talking speech recognition technology and high quality speech synthesis technology. (author abst.)