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DAY 2: EXPERTS WORKSHOP Active and Healthy Ageing: Research and Innovation Responses

from Europe and Japan

“Success Stories in ICT/Information Society Research for Active and Healthy Ageing”

Ubiquitous Network Robots for Life Support

October 10, 2012

Dr. Takahiro Miyashita

Group Leader, Dept. of Network Robots ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Labs

[email protected] This research is supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.


OUTLINE

1.  Robotic Services

2.  Ubiquitous Network Robots (UNR) for Life Support

3.  UNR Platform and its Standardization

4.  Conclusion


1. Robotic Services


Community building support

Touring support

Shopping support

Health care

Active hearing

Robotic Services for Active & Healthy Ageing


However, Stand-alone robotic services are not enough for continuously and seamlessly supporting daily activity.


Real World in Social Interaction with or via Robots (2002)

Noisy, Noisy, Noisy, Noisy


Networked Robots in School (2002)

wireless tag

Antenna


Structuring Environmental Information on Human Trajectories and Behaviors (UbiComp 2008)

T. Kanda et al., “Who will be the customer?: A social robot that anticipates people’s behavior from their trajectories,” Proc. of UbiComp 2008, pp.380-389, 2008.


T. Kanda et al., “Abstracting People’s Trajectories for Social Robots to Proactively Approach Customers,” IEEE Trans. on Robotics, Vol.25, No.6, pp.1382-1396, 2009.

Ambient Intelligence Map Anticipation of People’s Trajectories and Behaviors


Robots in Smartphone (2010)

  CG character agent

  He can move and talk in a display with same commands for robots in real world.


Three Types of Robots with UNR Platform

Virtual-type

Visible-type

Unconscious-type

Ubiquitous Network Robot(UNR) Platform

ICT Infrastructure (Cloud and Ubiquitous Computing & Wireless

Communication, )

User Interface easy-to-use & inevitable utility in daily use Price: Reasonable

iPhone, iPad, DS-3D,

Location Precision: 3m 5cm accuracy Price gradually decreasing

RF-ID, Camera, LRF,

User Interface: Broaden to Elderly Price competitive to bike or vehicle, (or hobby)

Physical Robot, Geminoid, WheelChair


2. Ubiquitous Network Robots

(UNR) for Life Support


UNR Research Project (Supported by MIC)

Period June, 2009 to March, 2013

BudgetATR, Toshiba, NTT, Hitachi, and NEC

-  Create core technologies allowing network robot services across multiple areas for elderly and disables (challenged) which are hardly realized by single robots. -  Propose the common platform, called the Ubiquitous Network

Robot PlatForm (UNR-PF), which provides the common functionalities on the services of human-robot interaction.

Purpose

Partners34M US$


One location to

Multi-location

Tele-operated Communication

-R Collaboration

and Coordination

Human-Robot Interaction

Ubiquitous Network

Robots Platform

Ubiquitous Network Robots for Life Support

2004-2009


Shopping Support for Elderly Customer (2009)

Entrance of Super Market

Teleoperator

HomeShopping Area


Networked Robots help elderly customers in a supermarket (December, 2009) http://networked-robots.cs.umn.edu/node/84


Shopping Support with UNR over three area Area Home

Area Entrance of a Supermarket

Area Shopping Area

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Networked Robots help elderly customers in a supermarket (December, 2009)

Comments from Elderly Customer Participant


Shopping support service for elderly wheelchair users


Shopping support service for elderly wheelchair users (March, 2011) http://networked-robots.cs.umn.edu/


3. UNR Platform

and its Standardization


Conventional Style of Service Application Programming

face recognition

wheel control

robot 1

find face

guest name face position

move to the position

RFID tag Detection

leg control

robot 2

find tag

tag ID tag position

walk to the position

Service App. 2Service App. 1

Implementation layer (hardware layer)

Implementation-dependent functions called from service applications and their return values

Application program and robot implementation are tightly coupled


Proposed Service Application Programming Style

HRI Engine 1

face recognition

wheel control

Service App. X

robot 1

Who is there?

person ID position

approach the person

RFID tag Detection

leg control

robot 2

HRI Engine 2

Service App. X

Who is there?

person ID position

approach the person

Standard Interfaces

and Framework

compatible

Standard APIs enhance the reusability of application programs

Implementations are invisible from outside

Implementation-independent functions and their return values in common message type


Proposed Service Application Programming Style

HRI Engine 1

face recognition

wheel control

Service App. X

robot 1

Who is there?

person ID position

approach the person

RFID tag Detection

leg control

robot 2

HRI Engine 2

Service App. X

Who is there?

person ID position

approach the person

Standard Interfaces

and Framework

compatible

Standard APIs enhance the reusability of application programs

Implementations are invisible from outside

Implementation-independent functions and their return values in common message type

UNR-PF Layer Service Apps.

Robotic Compos.


Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform

 separates the developments of robots and robotic service applications.

  connects various service applications to appropriate robots in a variety of places.

  permits service applications to share their own data between each other.

  UNR-PF alpha (test release) is available.

K. Kamei et al., “Cloud Networked Robotics,” in IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 28-34, May 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2012.6201213

http://www.irc.atr.jp/std/UNR-Platform.html


Implementation Model of UNR Platform

Local Platform （Location A）

Local Platform （Location B）

Service Registry

Resource Management

User Registry

Map Registry

Robotic Service Management (Global (multi-area) Integration)

Service Registry (global)

Robot Registry (global)

Network Robot Interface

Component

Robotic Service

Component Component Component Component Component Component

Status: 4W =Who/When/

Where/ What

Command

Platform


Standardizations

Local Platform （Location A）

Local Platform （Location B）

Service Registry

Resource Management

User Registry

Map Registry

Robotic Service Management (Global (multi-area) Integration)

Service Registry (global)

Robot Registry (global)

Network Robot Interface

Component

Robotic Service

Component Component Component Component Component Component

Status: 4W =Who/When/

Where/ What

Command

Platform

NR-PFNR-PFUNR-PF

CityGML

RLS

RoISRoIS


Sensor Network

Indoor Map

Standardization Map

ISO/TC 211ISO/TC 184

ITU-T SG16

OGC

OMGIEEE

IEC/TC 61

Network

Industrial Robots

Service Robots

Multimedia

Electrical Appliances

Device

GIS

Sensor Network

Distributed

System Service Robots


Sensor Network

Indoor Map

Standardization Map

GeoSMS

Safety Life Cycle

Network Robot Platform

Map data Glossary/ontology

Industry Safety

Care Safety

Vocabulary

Safety of households

Personal Care

Robotic Localization

Service RLS

Robotic Interaction Service RoIS

Robotics components

RTC

ISO/TC 211ISO/TC 184

ITU-T SG16

OGC

OMG

IEEE

IEC/TC 61

IndoorGMLCityGML

ISO191XX series

GML

ORiN

DDC4RTC

Network

Industrial Robots

Service Robots

Multimedia

Electrical Appliances

Device

GIS

Sensor Network

Distributed

System

Service Robots


•  Scientific and Technological Challenges•  System Reliability and Standardization •  Insurance and legal issues •  Collaboration with local administrations •  Design service & Evaluation tests•  User Acceptance •  End-User Analysis & Education •  Cross fertilization: academics and industry •  Cost Performance

Future work for Creating Robotic Services Market


  The concept of “Ubiquitous Network Robot” and some of robotic service applications based on UNR were introduced.

  The UNR is one of key concepts for supporting “Active and Healthy Ageing.”

  Let’s collaborate with not only robots but also us (!) to develop the robotic services!

Conclusion

Thank you for your kind attention.This research is supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

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