Activity

• Organization

  Leader     : Norihito HAGITA (ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communicaton Laboratories) Director
  Sub Leader : Miwako DOI      (TOSHIBA Corporate R&D Center Human Centric Laboratory) Executive Advisory Engineer
               Keiji YAMADA    (NEC R&D Media and Information Research Laboratories) Director
               Tomohiro KURODA (Kyoto University Hospital) Lecturer
  

• Working Groups and their targets
  • Open Platform Working Group (Chairman: DOI)
    • Carrying out of the first networked robot interconnection experiment in the world in the state-of-the-art ubiquitous/sensor network environment. The research and development of the elemental and/or surrounding technologies of the networked robot such as the sensor network technology, the robot cooperation technology, the QoS technology, the security technology, etc through the experiments.
    • Publicity of activity results.
  • Life-supporting and communication robot Working Group (Chairman: YAMADA)
    • Research and development, demonstration experiment and development of diverse applications for life supporting communication robots.
  • Skill Transfer Robot Working Group (Chairman: KURODA, Vice Chairman: SUZUKI)
    • Realization of the skill transfer robots that are able to impart and reproduce skills beyond the time and space barriers through information networks.
    • Standardization of robot communications through research and development of the applicaton interface needed for the realization of skill education.
    • Creation and assessment of future application scenarios with the skill transfer robots.

• Action Plan
  It aims at improving the international competitiveness of Japan by promoting research and development and carrying out demonstration experimentexamining experiments for the networked robots that fuse the ubiquitous network and the robots as well as by creating Japanese original technologies and guiding international standardization activities.
  • Carrying out of the first networked robot interconnection experiment in the world in the state-of-the-art ubiquitous/sensor network environment. The research and development of the elemental and/or surrounding technologies of the networked robot such as the sensor network technology, the robot cooperation technology, the QoS technology, the security technology, etc through the experiments.
  • Research and development for symbiotic communication robots with general dwellers.
  • Research and development of the skill transfer robots that are able to impart and reproduce skills beyond the time and space barriers through information networks.

• Related Information
  • Member's List (in Japanaese)
  • Symposium 2005 on Keihanna Info-Communication Open Laboratory  (2005.11.14) (in Japanaese)
    • Articles of Open Platform Working Group (in Japanaese)
    • Articles of Lifestyle Supported Communication Working Group (in Japanaese)
    • Articles of Skill Transmission Type Robot Working Group (in Japanaese)

Meeting

• The 2nd Meeting for Networked Robot Subcommittee (2005.4.4)
  • Program (in Japanaese)
  • Outline of agenda (in Japanaese)
  • Activity report and plan from Subcommittee (in Japanaese)
  • Activity report and plan from Working Groups (in Japanaese)
• The 1st Meeting for Networked Robot Subcommittee (2004.10.28)
  • Action Policy of Networked Robot Subcommittee (in Japanaese)
  • Action Policy of Working Groups (in Japanaese)

Information

• Demonstration Experiments of Networked Robots (driving on a public street) and Memorial Symposium (2005.11.24)

Links

• NICT Keihanna Info-Communication Open Laboratory
• KEIHANNA Human Info-Communication Research Center
• National Institute of Information and Communications Technology