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System design and development are fundamental capabilities for an engineer. The Department of Control Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Nara College, has been offering a course called “Practical System Design,” a unique opportunity for students to experience the entire process of developing an autonomous mobile robot, to fourth-year students for about 20 years. However, in recent...
In an aging society, it is important to closely monitor elderly people, especially those with cognitive disorders, because they can easily fall down and sustain serious injuries. Therefore, the demand of the monitoring system which can detect dangerous situation automatically is increased. In this paper, we propose a low-cost and highly reliable monitoring device which is called the MIMAMORI device...
Improvements in hand pose estimation, made possible by refining the model matching step, is necessary in creating a more natural human-robot interface. Individualizing the 3D hand model of the user can result to a better hand pose estimation. This paper presents a way to accomplish the individualization by estimating the length of the finger links (bones), which is unique for every user. The 3D model...
In this paper, the estimation system of physical constraint conditions is proposed using motion data during walks. Walking motions of subjects who are fixed braces on their bodies were measured by a motion capturing system. We focused on the acceleration data on the body and found which parts in the body are influenced by the physical constraint. The estimation of the physical constraint condition...
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