Workshop & Seminar

Community-Centric Autonomous Systems: Human Sensing, Collaborative Robotics, and Mobile Robots

Date: February, 25, 2026

Time: 10:00 - 13:10 

Location: #202, 2nd floor, Bldg. 6, Hino campus, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.  

This workshop introduces community-centric autonomous systems through human sensing, collaborative robotics, and mobile robots—without requiring dedicated robot hardware. Participants (first-year undergraduates, other years, and interested pupils) explore how autonomy can support mobility assistance and community health. Using smartphones as sensor platforms and Google Colab, we demonstrate a simple sensing-to-decision pipeline (data, features, baseline model) and discuss safety, privacy, bias, and trust. Teams then create a short concept canvas for a community scenario and present key design choices in brief pitches and discussion.

10:00 Welcome + Introduction

10:10 Lecture: What “community-centric autonomy” means

10:30 Hands-on #1: Build a tiny activity recognizer

11:00 Lecture: Collaborative robotics for people-facing tasks

11:20 Coffee Break

11:40 Hands-on #2 (teams): Community scenario design sprint

12:10 Lecture: Mobile robots & “human-aware” navigation

12:30 Coffee Break

12:40 Hands-on #3 (Colab): Socially-aware path planning

13:00 Closing discussion & wrap-up

13:10 End