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To break out of a debilitating cycle caused by his deterioration of his ability, a patient participates in rehabilitation programs and actively rehearses his degraded abilities. A Cycling Wheel Chair (CWC) provides a rehabilitation option for preventing one's legs weakening and/or nervous system atrophy. This paper discusses desired functionalities on the CWC for effectively supporting patients becoming...
The authors aim at modeling unknown objects in human life environment using robot technologies. In this paper, the authors propose a method for modeling an unknown object on a desk using vision sensors, a manipulator, and a tactile sensor. The created model of an unknown object consists of the whole images and the 3-D point cloud with the texture. For getting the whole images, the unknown object is...
It is a significant challenge to detect a transparent object using conventional visual sensors. In this paper, we show that the characteristics of transparent objects under different lighting conditions (normal light and laser light) can be exploited for improved detection accuracy. The authors analyzed the object characteristics and found a novel method for transparent object detection. GrabCut[11]...
On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake and tsunami hit eastern Japan, particularly the Tohoku area. Since then, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station has been facing a crisis. To respond to this situation, we began a project to redesign our mobile robots for disaster response missions. A key issue to be addressed was to check the radiation hardness of the electric components of our robot. Initially,...
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