Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
The University of Tokyo has a series of lectures for junior students at the Department of Mechano-informatics, in which they make experiments at one of the laboratories before they start research for graduation. During the winter term in 2015, our laboratory gave a seminar entitled “Semi-autonomous software programming for life-sized humanoid robots and challenge for a harvesting robot competition.” In this seminar, the students learned the basic software's development approach, image processing and motion planning method for robots, using a life-sized humanoid robot platform for education and research. They developed the software for agricultural tasks, and participated in the 2nd Tomato Robot Competition to evaluate their system. This paper reports the contents of the seminar, the software developed by the students, and the results and the discussions of the evaluation at the robot competition.
