Abstract
We are developing a mobility-support robot "ROPITS" traveling on pedestrian road autonomously to realize a next generation short-distance transportation system in compact-cities. In order to raise the level of autonomous navigating technologies to that of a practical use, we have made various experiments of autonomous running on the public pedestrian road in the Mobility Robot Experiment Special District in Tsukuba-city. We found some places of this district where the position errors increased in localizing by the laser range finder. Therefore, we introduce the localization using a super-side-angle camera to solve the problem. In this paper, we show two important functions for this new method.
