Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
In recent years, in Japan, the birthrate is decreasing and aging of the population are increasing. So mobility support for elderly people who have difficulty in walking are required. We aim to the mobility support using a mobile robot and considered a real-life moving from a facility to home through indoor and outdoor environments. Robot needs to get its own position whether indoors or indoors. In this study, we propose positioning system that can use both indoor and outdoor environment. We combine ultrasonic beacon and GPS receiver to get position. And switching sensor indoor to outdoor, we got the seamless location. Installing the proposed system on a mobile robot, we evaluated the position information.
