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Apr, 2015

What kind of floor am I standing on? Floor surface identification by a small humanoid robot through full-body motions

ADVANCED ROBOTICS
  • Reo Matsumura
  • ,
  • Masahiro Shiomi
  • ,
  • Takahiro Miyashita
  • ,
  • Hiroshi Ishiguro
  • ,
  • Norihiro Hagita

Volume
29
Number
7
First page
469
Last page
480
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1080/01691864.2014.996601
Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

This study addresses a floor identification method for small humanoid robots that work in such daily environments as homes. The fundamental difficulty lays in a method to understand the physical properties of floors. To achieve floor identification with small humanoid robots, we used inertial sensors that can be easily installed on such robots, and dynamically selected a full-body motion that physically senses floors to achieve accurate floor identification. We collected a training data-set over 10 different kinds of common floors in home environments. We achieved 85.7% precision with our proposed method. We also demonstrate that our robot could appropriately change its locomotion behaviours depending on the floor identification results.

Link information
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01691864.2014.996601
DBLP
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/journals/ar/MatsumuraSMIH15
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000353511200003&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/journals/ar/ar29.html#journals/ar/MatsumuraSMIH15
ID information
  • DOI : 10.1080/01691864.2014.996601
  • ISSN : 0169-1864
  • eISSN : 1568-5535
  • DBLP ID : journals/ar/MatsumuraSMIH15
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000353511200003

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