Book Extraction for Remote Book Browsing Robot

Tetsuo Tomizawa; Akihisa Ohya; Shin’ichi Yuta

doi:10.20965/jrm.2004.p0264

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JRM Vol.16 No.3 pp. 264-270

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2004.p0264

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Book Extraction for Remote Book Browsing Robot

Tetsuo Tomizawa, Akihisa Ohya, and Shin’ichi Yuta

Intelligent Robot Laboratory, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan

Received:

October 20, 2003

Accepted:

February 10, 2004

Published:

June 20, 2004

Keywords:

remote book browsing, book extraction, object location recognition, mobile manipulator

Abstract

Our purpose is the realization of a system able to access objects at remote sites by integrating Internet technologies and robotic engineering developments such as mobile robots. Concretely, we are developing a system that uses a robot for browsing remote books via the Internet. To extract books, the robot must recognize the book’s pose-feature (position, angle, and thickness). This paper describes the sensor developed for recognizing the position of books and planning book extraction in a general library environment, and reviews experimental results.

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T. Tomizawa, A. Ohya, and S. Yuta, “Book Extraction for Remote Book Browsing Robot,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.16 No.3, pp. 264-270, 2004.

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[11] [11] S. Iida, and S. Yuta, “Control of a Vehicle Subsystem for an Autonomous Mobile Robot with Power Wheeled Steerings,” IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Motion Control, pp.859-866, 1990.