TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a mobile robot moving on a handrail - Control for preceding a person keeping a distance
AU - Fujiwara, Yuma
AU - Hiroi, Yutaka
AU - Tanaka, Yuki
AU - Ito, Akinori
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/20
Y1 - 2015/11/20
N2 - In this paper, we propose a unique robot that moves on a handrail installed at corridors of buildings like hospitals. The robot guides the guests of the building. Because it moves on the handrail along the corridor, it naturally moves along the corridor without conflicting other people and needs less cost for estimating its position compared with human-sized mobile robots. We propose a method to control this robot so that it precedes a few steps before the person to be guided. We examine two methods: one is a method to keep a fixed distance from the person, and the other one is a method where the robot keeps moving slowly even when the robot and the person is distant. From the experiment, the latter method was more efficient than the former method.
AB - In this paper, we propose a unique robot that moves on a handrail installed at corridors of buildings like hospitals. The robot guides the guests of the building. Because it moves on the handrail along the corridor, it naturally moves along the corridor without conflicting other people and needs less cost for estimating its position compared with human-sized mobile robots. We propose a method to control this robot so that it precedes a few steps before the person to be guided. We examine two methods: one is a method to keep a fixed distance from the person, and the other one is a method where the robot keeps moving slowly even when the robot and the person is distant. From the experiment, the latter method was more efficient than the former method.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333579
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2015.7333579
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84954040434
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 413
EP - 418
BT - RO-MAN 2015 - 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Symposium Digest
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2015
Y2 - 31 August 2015 through 4 September 2015
ER -