TAG project

　In the present robot industry, not only robots for industrial purpose but also those for serving in the human living environment are being eagerly sought for. The current robot control based on artificial intelligence and image processing technologies cannot support the robot works in the actual environment, because of difficulty in fully recognizing diverse objects placed in the living environment.
　We have proposed a distributed knowledge robot control scheme in which every object is posted with an IC tag containing the manufacturer’s network address and the knowledge information required for a robot to handle the object concerned. The scheme allows the robot to recognize objects more easily and the manufacturers to have burden of robotic programming reduced. We have successfully demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed scheme by using available IC tag, image processing and robot control technologies.

Kazuo Tanie (AIST)
Shigeoki Hirai (AIST)
Kohtaro Ohba (AIST)
Nak Young Chong (JAIST)
Kim, Bong Keun (AIST)
Hiroshi Hongu　　(Unv. of Tsukuba)
Kenichi Ohara　　(Shibaura Institute of technology)
Manabu Miyazaki (Shibaura Institute of technology)
Koji Takemura　 (Unv. of Tsukuba)
Ayako Kinoshita　(Kanagawa University）

N. Y. Chong and K. Tanie, "Object Directive Manipulation Through RFID," Proc. Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, and Systems, Gyeongju, Korea, Oct. 22-25, 2003.
N. Y. Chong, H. Hongu, K. Ohba, S. Hirai, and K. Tanie, "Knowledge Distributed Robot Control Framework," Proc. Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, and Systems, Gyeongju, Korea, Oct. 22-25, 2003.
N. Y. Chong, H. Hongu, and K. Tanie, "Object Localization in Omniscient Spaces," Proc. Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics, Coimbra, Portugal, Jun. 30-Jul. 3, 2003.
N. Y. Chong and K. Tanie, "Dependable Manipulation Based on RFID," Proc. International Symposium on Robotics and Automation, Toluca, Mexico, Sep. 1-4, 2002.