TY - GEN
T1 - Development of a Teleoperated Play Tag Robot with Semi-Automatic Play
AU - Kasai, Yoshitaka
AU - Hiroi, Yutaka
AU - Miyawaki, Kenzaburo
AU - Ito, Akinori
N1 - Funding Information:
* This research was funded by JSPS Kakenhi JP20K04389. 1 Yoshitaka KASAI is with Graduate School of Robotics and Design, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, 530-8568 Japan (e-mail: m1m21r08@st.oit.ac.jp) 2 Yutaka HIROI is with Faculty of Robotics and Design, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, 530-8568 Japan (Corresponding author to provide phone: +81-6-6147-6512; e-mail: yutaka.hiroi@oit.ac.jp) 3 Kenzaburo MIYAWAKI is with Faculty of Information Sciences and Technology, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, 573-0196 Japan (e-mail: kenzaburo.miyawaki@oit.ac.jp) 4 Akinori ITO is with Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8579 Japan (e-mail: aito@spcom.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp)
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 IEEE.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In this paper, we develop a teleoperated robot that plays tag with a human player. Physical plays such as play tag are important for children's development; however, some children cannot participate in such physical play for physical and mental reasons. The teleoperation of the physical play robot can be a tool to provide such children with a playing experience. To develop such a robot, we need to consider how to operate the robot, considering the ease of operation and safety for both other players and the robot. To achieve both an easy operation and safety, we propose a semi-automatic operation of the robot. In this operation strategy, the operator controls the robot so that the target player comes in front of the robot. Then the robot transits to the autonomous mode, where the robot automatically tracks the target and touches the target player. We conducted the validation experiment, confirming that the semi-automatic control was more straightforward and safer than the full-manual operation.
AB - In this paper, we develop a teleoperated robot that plays tag with a human player. Physical plays such as play tag are important for children's development; however, some children cannot participate in such physical play for physical and mental reasons. The teleoperation of the physical play robot can be a tool to provide such children with a playing experience. To develop such a robot, we need to consider how to operate the robot, considering the ease of operation and safety for both other players and the robot. To achieve both an easy operation and safety, we propose a semi-automatic operation of the robot. In this operation strategy, the operator controls the robot so that the target player comes in front of the robot. Then the robot transits to the autonomous mode, where the robot automatically tracks the target and touches the target player. We conducted the validation experiment, confirming that the semi-automatic control was more straightforward and safer than the full-manual operation.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126240004&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85126240004&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708883
DO - 10.1109/SII52469.2022.9708883
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126240004
T3 - 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2022
SP - 165
EP - 170
BT - 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2022
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2022 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2022
Y2 - 9 January 2022 through 12 January 2022
ER -