FRC Workshop PROGRAM

Chair: Yasunori Takemura (Nishinippon Inst. of Tech.)

13:30 – 13:35 Opening Remarks

Kazuo Ishii (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

13:35 – 14:15 (Invited) AI Robot Competitions vs Motorsport :　Parallels in Driving Technological Innovation
Yukiko Nakagawa (RT Corporation)

14:15 – 14:30     Intent-based Gaze Prediction for Telepresence Robots

Luc Schoot Uiterkamp and Gwenn Englebienne ( Univ. of Twente)

14:30 – 14:45     Interactive Verbal Robot Guidance for Human Indoor Navigation via Hierarchical Scene Graph Landmarks

Koshun Arimura, Yuga Yano and Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

14:45 – 15:00 Seamless Task Replanning via Intuitive and Simple User Feedback for Human-Robot Interaction Tasks

Ryo Terashima, Yuga Yano, Koshun Arimura and Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

15:00 – 15:15 Towards Realizing an Environment Where Humans, Plants, and Robots Coexist under the Concept of Biophilic Design

Akinobu Mizutani, Keitaro Ito, Tomomi Sudo, Naoto Ishizuka, Hirofumi Tanaka, Yuichiro Tanaka and Hakaru Tamukoh (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 15:50 (Invited) Force controlled working machine at construction sites

Hisashi Sugiura (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)

15:50 – 16:20 (Invited) Artificial Vision: How Can Computer Provide Useful Vision with the Brain? 

Prof. Tetsuya Yagi (Osaka Univ./ Fukui Univ. of Tech. / Ritsumeikan Univ. )

16:20 – 16:35 Untethered Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Using Wide-area Underwater Radio Communication

Yuya Nishida1, Hyoga Yamamoto1, Kazuo Ishii1, Tamaki Ura2, Takashi Obara2, Taku Sudo2, Hisashi Sugiura1, Kazuhiro Eguchi1, Daisuke Nakayama1 and Yuki Fukumoto1

(1 Kyushu Inst. of Tech., 2  Deep-Ridge-Tech Inc.)

16:35 – 16:50 Evaluating Human Acceptance of Robots Through Comparison with Pets in Shared Environments

Moeko Tominaga1, Takuya Fujinaga2, Daigo Katayama3, Yoshiki Tanaka4 and Kazuo Ishii5

(1 Nishinippon Inst. of Tech., 2 Osaka Metropolitan Univ., 3 Kobe City College of Technology, 4 National Institute of Tech, Kitakyushu College, 5 Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

16:50 – 17:05 Fostering Junior Student Learning through the Tomato Robot Competition

Yasunori Takemura1, Takashi Sonoda1, Atsushi Sanada1, Moeko Tominaga1, Ayumu Tominaga2, Yoshiki Tanaka2 and Kazuo Ishii3

(1 Nishinippon Inst. of Tech., 2 National Institute of Tech, Kitakyushu College, 3 Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

17:00 – 17:05 Closing Remarks

Yasunori Takemura (Nishinippon Inst. of Tech.)