Information Technology and Electronics

Intelligent Systems Research Institute

 There are growing demands for mobile assistance system in outdoor human activities such as transportation of people and goods, heavy physical labor, hazardous work, etc. The Field Robotics Research Group aims at realizing such assistance in outdoor environment through technologies of environment recognition, localization, navigation, human machine interface, ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems), aerial transportation, decentralized cooperation control, mobile communication, dynamic network construction, etc. Current topics of R&D include intelligent personal mobility, automated scooping for wheel loader, mobile inspection robot, advanced vehicle control for ITS, aerial transportation machine, self-reconfigurable robot, flexible personal robot.

Personal Mobility Robots (Robotic Wheelchair and Micro Mobility)

Cooperative Driving of Electric Wheelchairs

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