1967/Dec. Born in Japan.
1990 Graduated from Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo: Bachelor's Degree.
1990- Research Scientist, Interactive Interface Systems Section, Intelligent Systems Division, Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), AIST, MITI.
2004-2005 Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI): Research and Development Division: Senior Researcher
2008 Graduated from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Doctor's Degree.
Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics 92 159-173 2014年3月
In this paper, we report the impression of our android robot obtained in experiments and reactions of people to the android in demonstrations in medical and nursing fields. Our newly developed android robot Actroid-F is utilized for this research....
Yujin Wakita, Eimei Oyama, Woo Keun Yoon, Hideyuki Tanaka, Yoshio Matsumoto, Arthur Blom, Harry Stuyt
2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2013 1282-1287 2013年1月
The iArm is a service robot arm to help people with upper-limb disability in their daily lives. The iArm has been produced for about 10 years in the Netherlands. The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has developed RA...
2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2012 - Conference Digest 1482-1487 2012年12月
To help the patients who have disabilities for their upper limbs because of muscle dystrophy or cervical spine injuries, we have developed robot arm RAPUDA which can support their daily life action. We have evaluated the user operation of the RAPU...
Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 429 2009年12月
To support disabled persons with less muscle strength like muscular dystrophy patients, a single switch and a scanning menu panel is introduced to input method for the manipulator control. The iArm manipulator and its simulator are connected to ev...
2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2008 1515-1520 2008年12月
We are developing a manipulator system in order to support disabled people with less muscle strength such as muscular dystrophy patients. Such a manipulator should have an easy interface for the users to control it. In this paper, we report on the...
2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2008 294-299 2008年12月
To support disabled people with less muscle strength like muscular dystrophy patients, we are developing simple robot arm systems. In this paper, we report the improvements of the inter-face part of the system. The user can change the buttons' pos...
Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 576-581 2007年12月
This paper presents a simple task instruction scheme for a supporting robot in a daily life environment. It is difficult for a robot to perform an automatic task in the daily life environment because its sensors are not perfect in such an environm...
日本ロボット学会誌 (Journal of Robotics Society of Japan) 84-92 1999年5月 [査読有り]
脇田優仁 他, 「知的モニタリングシステムとその宇宙用遠隔操作ロボットへの適用」 (An Intelligent Monitoring System for Teleoperation ant Its Application to Space Robot)日本ロボット学会誌,(Journal of Robotics Society of Japan) Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 84-92, 1999
Many assistive robots for elderly and disabled people have been developed in the past few decades. However, very few of them became commercially available. The major cause of the problem is that the cost-benefit ratio and the risk-benefit ratio of...
Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 221-227 2012年12月
With the aging population trends in developed countries, there is an increased expectation of the application of assistive robots. A variety of robots have been developed to address this challenge. Although there are many technical problems to be ...
Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 737-742 2010年12月
This paper presents the development of Robot Technology Components (RTCs) using RT-Middleware (RTM) for designing assistive robotic arms and human-machine interfaces (HMIs) that can be used by the disabled. RTM is an open software platform for a c...
Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 749-754 2010年12月
In this paper, a training system designed to familiarize persons who have severe upper limb disabilities with robotic arm operation is described. The system combines a robotic arm simulator with various control interfaces and provides training tas...
Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C 76 1419-1426 2010年1月
This paper presents the development of RT-Components for assistive robotic arm and manmachine interface with RT-Middleware for disabled patients. RT-Middleware is an open software platform for component-oriented robot system development. The RT-Co...
Nihon Kikai Gakkai Ronbunshu, C Hen/Transactions of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Part C 74 346-352 2008年2月
This paper presents a task instruction scheme for a service robot operated in a daily life environment. In this paper, we define the Object Template Model (OTM) that is the list of task models which can be applied to the object category. We also d...
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 305-310 2007年11月
This paper presents a task instruction scheme for a service robot operating in a daily life environment. It is difficult for the robot to execute tasks automatically in the daily life environment, because it should handle various objects and the w...
Robot and Human Communication - Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop 231-236 1999年12月
We have proposed a projection function as a method of information sharing between a person and a coexistent robot. The projection function means that an image of the simulated robot motion is projected in the task environment for cooperation betwe...
Y. Wakita, S. Hirai, T. Hori, R. Takada, M. Kakikura
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 3 1944-1949 1998年12月
We have proposed a projection function as a method of sharing information between a person and a coexistent robot. The projection function means that an image of the simulated robot motion is projected in the task environment for cooperation betwe...
Y. Wakita, S. Hirai, T. Hori, R. Takada, M. Kakikura
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 4 3474-3479 1998年1月
Some kinds of service robots will come to work in human coexisting environments. In that case safety is an important issue. To realize the safety, physical and intelligent augmentations should be introduced to the coexistent robot. Few researches ...
Robot and Human Communication - Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop 136-141 1997年12月
Robotics systems that coexist with humans must function safely and smoothly. The systems must exchange task information with people. We propose a `Projection Function' as the method of information exchange and discuss a delivery by hand as an impo...
Toshio Hori, Shigeoki Hikai, Yujin Wakita, Ryo Takada, Masayoshi Kakikura
Robot and Human Communication - Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop 160-165 1997年12月
This paper proposes a concept of `Active Intelligent Monitoring' which supports human operators in telerobotic tasks and shows a prototype which can actively track a moving object. The concept of `Intelligent Monitoring' has already been reported ...
Y. Wakita, S. Hirai, K. Machida, K. Ogimoto, T. Itoko, P. Backes, S. Peters
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 3 1031-1037 1996年12月
Time delay and limited communication capacity are the primary constraints in super-long distance telerobotic systems such as space telerobotic systems. Intelligent monitoring is efficient for this problem to provide a function which selects import...
Japan-USA international joint research on 'Distributed space Telerobotics' has been undertaken in a scheme of AIST Specific International Joint Research Projects [1]. The space platform assembly experiment with an intelligent telerobotics system w...
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2 104-109 1995年1月
Time delay and limited communication capacity are the primary constraints in super long distance telerobotic systems. Extension of the intelligent monitoring system is discussed from the viewpoint of the temporal domain. Details of an experimental...
1993 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 321-326 1993年12月
Using visual information such as TV monitors is the most important function in telerobotic task execution. We have proposed an intelligent control system for a monitoring camera to achieve telerobotic task execution. In this paper we extend the pr...
