2008 Volume 44 Issue 12 Pages 996-1005
The Coordination Program of Science and Technology Projects of the Council for Science and Technology Policy is promoting“next-generation robots”. For efficient research and development of robots, common robot platform technology is to be established as a matter of urgency. In this paper, we clarify the common platform technology, survey the status of the technology and introduce our activities for prompting the technology. Information structured environments and a robot world simulator are our ongoing projects within the framework of the Common Platform Technology for Next Generation Robots. We present the status of the projects.
