Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : March 08, 2021 - March 09, 2021
Most of the autonomous mobile robots that guide people through facilities and routes do so without considering the condition of the follower. This is one of the dangerous behaviors that a follower performs during guidance. In this paper, we focus on looking away behavior, which is one of the dangerous behaviors that a follower performs during guidance, and aim to develop a safe guidance algorithm that considers the looking away behavior of the follower during guidance. By attaching a depth camera to an autonomous mobile guide robot and acquiring the follower's behavior based on the depth information, we can realize an algorithm to alert the follower of the looking away behavior. In this paper, we measured the looking away behavior of the robot within the range where the neck can be rotated and confirmed that it is difficult to judge the looking away behavior from the posture because the body change is small.
