Search results for: Naoyuki Kubota
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Aging society in Japan can be a big serious problem. However, the number of caregivers is currently not enough, and it is not expected to sufficiently increase in future. Elderly care has been shifting from hospital care to community-based care and home care, but this can lead to raise the burden on their family members. Therefore, elderly people should take care of their heath in daily life in order...
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IEEE Systems Journal > 2017 > 11 > 3 > 1269 - 1271
The papers in this special section presents state-of-the-art research in the area of human-level artificial intelligence and robotic systems from a complex systems perspective. These papers aim to explore questions such as: What is a reasonable cognitive framework? How to build an embodied robotics system? How complex is human-level intelligence? What kinds of subsystems must be integrated to achieve...
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It has always been a big issue to provide better service at public area. One of the issues is the indoor positioning service. In this paper, we propose an indoor positioning and monitoring system based on the application of personal smart devices and iBeacon technology. Aiming at high accuracy positioning, we proposed optimal iBeacon nodes placement through the topological maps constructed from growing...
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Fuzzy Markup Language (FML) presented by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) has been an IEEE Standard since May 2016. It is an XML-based language for designer to easily construct the knowledge base and rule base of the developed fuzzy logic system. In this paper, we propose an FML-based linguistic classification agent and apply it to popular Chinese songs' classification in social media...
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Recently, the development and research of robot partners are actively being carried out, and expectation for human-friendly robot partner has been increasing. In the development of a robot, it is necessary to consider development of robots for various needs according to the purpose of usage. Therefore, we propose design templates for easy design of conversation contents. This paper is organized as...
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In this paper, we present a summarization agent based on Fuzzy Markup Language (FML) and its application for meeting schedule data analysis. The knowledge base and rule base of FML are constructed by referring the meeting schedule ontology of Research & Development (R&D) office in National University of Tainan (NUTN) from Jan. 2011 to Jul. 2015. We propose an intelligent agent to retrieve...
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This paper presents a monitoring system with an ultrasensitive vibration sensor to detect heartbeat. The likelihood of fatal accident while bathing in Japan is higher than any other European country. The domestic accidents at bathroom have increased 1.7-fold over the past 10 years. Monitoring systems in a bathroom are therefore needed to prevent accidents that can't be foreseen. In this study, we...
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This paper proposes a weather forecast system which has been implemented into a robot partner in order to support elderly people in their daily life. Using the current weather data, the weather condition, the wind speed and the temperature, the system provides different recommendation to the user by using Fuzzy logic. With the help of the system, the elderly people can organize their daily routine...
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In this paper, we present a robotic prediction agent including a darkforest Go engine, a fuzzy markup language (FML) assessment engine, an FML-based decision support engine, and a robot engine for game of Go application. The knowledge base and rule base of FML assessment engine are constructed by referring the information from the darkforest Go engine located in NUTN and OPU, for example, the number...
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This paper presents a novel combination method for on-line topological map building and dynamic path planning. The proposed method consists of two main components: Bayesian Adaptive Resonance Associative Memory (Bayesian ARAM) and forward-backward propagation path planner. Bayesian ARAM incrementally clusters sensory information and generates topological map. The explored environment is described...
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ROBOMECH Journal > 2017 > 4 > 1 > 1-20
The purpose of this research is the development of a robot partner system based on modular cognitive model for human support. In order to implement information support of daily life to human, smooth human–robot interaction is needed. The interaction with a robot partner requires many elements including verbal communication, non-verbal communication, and embodiment as well. These modular structures...
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Applied Soft Computing > 2017 > 52 > C > 81-92
The worlds population is quickly aging. With an aging society, an increase in patients with brain damage is predicted. In rehabilitation, the analysis of arm motion is vital as various day to day activities relate to arm movements. The therapeutic approach and evaluation method are generally selected by therapists based on his/her experience, which can be an issue for quantitative evaluation in any...
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Pattern recognition algorithms have been applied in the surface electromyography (sEMG) based hand motion recognition for their promising accuracy. Research on proposing new features, improving classifiers and their combinations has been extensively conducted in the past decade. Meanwhile, the feature projection methodology, has been routinely exploited between the phases of feature extraction and...
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With the technology developing, people enjoy much longer life than ever before. On the other hand, it also bring various problems and inconvenience, one of the most serious is the safety of the elderly people who lives alone. In case of preventing this trouble, we proposed the camera surveillance system for dangerous behavior detecting such as fall down detecting. In this paper, we proposed a new...
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Walking motion generator of multi-legged robot is very complicated operation because there are many degrees of freedom required to be considered. Especially in computational intelligence approach, many iterative calculations are required for convergence the result. Furthermore, in case of the change in environment has to recalculate the walking motion again and then increase of the calculation cost...
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This paper described a view about using remote robots in Community-centric Systems. However, the interaction of a complete community is extremely complicated. In this study, we focus on single part of case in the community: In community, people have same hobby are likely to play and discuss together. But people who have uncommon hobbies are difficulty finding a comrade. We suggest to using partner...
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In this paper we continue with previous work by the authors implementing context-aware middleware to accelerate robot learning from demonstration, LfD. Specifically, we apply Fuzzy Q-Learning, FQL, reinforcement learning strategy to enhance the learning experience of the robot. Typically, fuzzy techniques allow the robot to make decisions without the need for an exhaustive map of the world. FQL, approximates...
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This paper presents Bézier curve based passive neural control applied in bio-inspired locomotion in order to decrease the computational cost implemented for 4 legged animal robot which has 3 joints in each leg. Neural oscillator model is applied for generating the walking pattern in bio-inspired locomotion. Bézier curve based optimization represents passive neural control supported by evolutionary...
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This paper describes an air-coupled ultrasound system by using DIO-2000. The system is aimed to use for inner muscle evaluation in rehabilitation process. The system evaluates inner muscle with low constrain than conventional method which measured by using MR image, X-ray CT and contacted ultrasound system. Our air-coupled ultrasound system measures transmitted ultrasound wave with very low power...
