这期专题关注家用与教育娱乐机器人,名字很长,我们姑且统称为个人机器人,因为这类机器人是与我们个人打交道的,如果你喜欢,就可以买一个。当然,目前谈到买,好像还比较遥远,人们通常能看到机器人的地方,都是科技馆、展览馆,商场里基本上...这期专题关注家用与教育娱乐机器人,名字很长,我们姑且统称为个人机器人,因为这类机器人是与我们个人打交道的,如果你喜欢,就可以买一个。当然,目前谈到买,好像还比较遥远,人们通常能看到机器人的地方,都是科技馆、展览馆,商场里基本上还找不到。北京的一些高档家居用品商店开始出现有清洁机器人销售,这是一道曙光。微软公司创始人比尔.盖茨发表年初在《Scientific American》发表一篇文章。这篇文章的标题是"A robot in every home",即家家都有机器人。盖茨有此预言的根据是,今天的机器人产品市场与20世纪70年代中期的个人计算机产业(当时应该还不能称之为一个产业)有着惊人的相似。今天机器人市场的现状——"若干开创性的新技术为这个产业的崛起奠定了基础;几家口碑颇佳的企业提供了极为专业的商品;一大批新公司迅速壮大,致力于制造新式玩具、为发烧友提供配件,还出售其他各种有趣的利基产品。然而,它也是一个高度分散、各自为政的行业,几乎没有统一的标准或平台。这个行业的开发项目复杂、进展缓慢,可投入实际应用的成果寥若晨星。"——与20世纪70年代中期的个人计算机市场完全一样,那个年代的大型计算机体型臃肿、造价高昂、技术独立,通常是在大型公司、政府部门和其他各种机构中使用,今天在工业领域使用的林林总总机器人恰恰也是这种情形。如今,计算机已走进千家万户,盖茨成为家喻户晓的世界超级富豪。回顾计算机行业20年的发展,浪淘风流,最大赢家是微软和英特尔,一家做标准软件平台接口,一家做标准硬件CPU。我们不禁深思,个人计算机成就了微软和英特尔,个人机器人将会成就谁?展开更多
This study seeks to establish techniques of architecture planning for living robots and human together. This experiment is elemental step to search relations between a small mobile robot and human. This experiment is ...This study seeks to establish techniques of architecture planning for living robots and human together. This experiment is elemental step to search relations between a small mobile robot and human. This experiment is ＂How can a small mobile robot approach to individuals distances of foreigners （non-Japanese） up to the point where foreigners （non-Japanese） do not feel like approaching any more＂. It focuses on a small mobile robot and identifies distances at which the robot can approach to individuals, particularly adult foreign male. This paper clarifies how the individual distances change by the robot＇s speed and angle of approach varies.展开更多
For a domestic personal robot, personalized services are as important as predesigned tasks, because the robot needs to adjust the home state based on the operator's habits. An operator's habits are composed of...For a domestic personal robot, personalized services are as important as predesigned tasks, because the robot needs to adjust the home state based on the operator's habits. An operator's habits are composed of cues, behaviors, and rewards. This article introduces behavioral footprints to describe the operator's behaviors in a house, and applies the inverse reinforcement learning technique to extract the operator's habits, represented by a reward function. We implemented the proposed approach with a mobile robot on indoor temperature adjustment, and compared this approach with a baseline method that recorded all the cues and behaviors of the operator. The result shows that the proposed approach allows the robot to reveal the operator's habits accurately and adjust the environment state accordingly.展开更多
In this paper, the authors present a basic study of the planning techniques for human-robot living spaces. Taking into account the previous studies, the authors clarify at what distances adult males feel comfortable w...In this paper, the authors present a basic study of the planning techniques for human-robot living spaces. Taking into account the previous studies, the authors clarify at what distances adult males feel comfortable with a small mobile robot. The authors investigated the impact of differences in position in a personal distance of the robot. The authors make the robot to move towards the subjects at different speeds and from five different angles （0°, 45°, 90°, 135° and 180°） while they were crouching, sitting on the floor and supine. In this experiment, about setting up a small mobile robot, the authors explained the robot does not have a support function for the people watching. A questionnaire survey was also conducted before and after the experiments. The result is that differences were out to personal distance with the robot due to the difference in position. The research finds that personal distance also becomes small position changes, sight line becomes lower. In addition, individual distance is increased when the slow speed as well as the paper before.展开更多
文摘这期专题关注家用与教育娱乐机器人,名字很长,我们姑且统称为个人机器人,因为这类机器人是与我们个人打交道的,如果你喜欢,就可以买一个。当然,目前谈到买,好像还比较遥远,人们通常能看到机器人的地方,都是科技馆、展览馆,商场里基本上还找不到。北京的一些高档家居用品商店开始出现有清洁机器人销售,这是一道曙光。微软公司创始人比尔.盖茨发表年初在《Scientific American》发表一篇文章。这篇文章的标题是"A robot in every home",即家家都有机器人。盖茨有此预言的根据是,今天的机器人产品市场与20世纪70年代中期的个人计算机产业(当时应该还不能称之为一个产业)有着惊人的相似。今天机器人市场的现状——"若干开创性的新技术为这个产业的崛起奠定了基础;几家口碑颇佳的企业提供了极为专业的商品;一大批新公司迅速壮大,致力于制造新式玩具、为发烧友提供配件,还出售其他各种有趣的利基产品。然而,它也是一个高度分散、各自为政的行业,几乎没有统一的标准或平台。这个行业的开发项目复杂、进展缓慢,可投入实际应用的成果寥若晨星。"——与20世纪70年代中期的个人计算机市场完全一样,那个年代的大型计算机体型臃肿、造价高昂、技术独立,通常是在大型公司、政府部门和其他各种机构中使用,今天在工业领域使用的林林总总机器人恰恰也是这种情形。如今,计算机已走进千家万户,盖茨成为家喻户晓的世界超级富豪。回顾计算机行业20年的发展,浪淘风流,最大赢家是微软和英特尔,一家做标准软件平台接口,一家做标准硬件CPU。我们不禁深思,个人计算机成就了微软和英特尔,个人机器人将会成就谁?
文摘This study seeks to establish techniques of architecture planning for living robots and human together. This experiment is elemental step to search relations between a small mobile robot and human. This experiment is ＂How can a small mobile robot approach to individuals distances of foreigners （non-Japanese） up to the point where foreigners （non-Japanese） do not feel like approaching any more＂. It focuses on a small mobile robot and identifies distances at which the robot can approach to individuals, particularly adult foreign male. This paper clarifies how the individual distances change by the robot＇s speed and angle of approach varies.
基金supported in part by Hong Kong RGC GRC (CUHK14205914 and CUHK415512)
文摘For a domestic personal robot, personalized services are as important as predesigned tasks, because the robot needs to adjust the home state based on the operator's habits. An operator's habits are composed of cues, behaviors, and rewards. This article introduces behavioral footprints to describe the operator's behaviors in a house, and applies the inverse reinforcement learning technique to extract the operator's habits, represented by a reward function. We implemented the proposed approach with a mobile robot on indoor temperature adjustment, and compared this approach with a baseline method that recorded all the cues and behaviors of the operator. The result shows that the proposed approach allows the robot to reveal the operator's habits accurately and adjust the environment state accordingly.
文摘In this paper, the authors present a basic study of the planning techniques for human-robot living spaces. Taking into account the previous studies, the authors clarify at what distances adult males feel comfortable with a small mobile robot. The authors investigated the impact of differences in position in a personal distance of the robot. The authors make the robot to move towards the subjects at different speeds and from five different angles （0°, 45°, 90°, 135° and 180°） while they were crouching, sitting on the floor and supine. In this experiment, about setting up a small mobile robot, the authors explained the robot does not have a support function for the people watching. A questionnaire survey was also conducted before and after the experiments. The result is that differences were out to personal distance with the robot due to the difference in position. The research finds that personal distance also becomes small position changes, sight line becomes lower. In addition, individual distance is increased when the slow speed as well as the paper before.
