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.  

No registration required!

If you’d like to join the workshop, just come directly to the venue on the day.

Don’t forget to bring your own laptop!

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