Autonomous Mobile Robots in Human Living Space

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last updated 2025.10.12

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Yoko Sasaki

Chief Senior Researcher

AIRC, AIST

Yoko Sasaki is a senior researcher at Artificial Intelligent Research Center (AIRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan.

Interests

  • Autonomous Mobile Robot
  • Human Activity Sensing
  • Signal Processing

Awards

  • PeerJ award (RiTA2022)
  • JSAI Incentive Award (2021)
  • The best paper award (IEEE IRIS2017)
  • The best paper award (2016 Robotics Symposia)
  • Research Encouragement Prize (from JSME, 2013)

Education

  •    Tokyo University of Science

  •    Tokyo University of Science

  •    Tokyo University of Science

News

Public Participation Experiment with Autonomous Mobile Robots

Project page

Aomi Mobility Challenge

To accelerate the adoption of autonomous mobile robots, we are conducting a public field experiment in Aomi, Tokyo. From October 2025 to March 2026, a fleet of 16 autonomous robots is being deployed for real-world testing. (Project page).

12 Oct. 2025.

Can the autonomous robot going through crowds!?

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Demonstration Experiment in Miraikan

We have demonstration experiment of our autonomous mobile robot "Peacock" at Miraikan. The schedule for the latter half of 2025 are Oct./24(Fri)--26(Sun), Nov./6(Thu), 7(Fri), Dec/4(Thu),5(Fri). event page (In Japanese).

12 Oct. 2025.

Autonomous delivery robot demonstration at Kashiwa-no-ha

Blog

Delivery Robot Demonstration Experiment

It is a preliminary demonstration of future autonomous delivery services. Four robots ran autonomously within a 1.5 km radius around the station in response to dispatch instructions from the FMS. X

31 May. 2023.

Our latest work

The 100 Mouse System: A Scalable Multi-Robot Testbed with State Management User Interface

To be released

Journal publication on Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics (JRM), December 2025.

Swarm Active Audition with Robots and Drones: Real-World Performance Validation

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Presented in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2025), October 2025.

Socially-Aware Mobile Robot Navigation: Pedestrian Behavior Modeling and Adaptive Motion Planning

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Presented in IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN2025), August 2025.

Spatiotemporal Navigation Based on Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Dense Crowds

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Presented in The 10th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications (RiTA2022), December 2022.

Probabilistic Semantic Occupancy Grid Mapping Considering the Uncertainty of Semantic Segmentation with IPM

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Presented in IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM2022), July, 2022.

Semi-Automatic Town-Scale 3D Mapping Using Building Information From Publicly Available Maps

Data Publication

Published in IEEE Access Vol.10, February, 2022.

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Ongoing projects

F-REI "SAAS-RD : Swarm Active Audition System with Robots and Drones"
NEDO "SocialTwin : Improved Performance through Data Cycling for Autonomous Mobile Robots"
JST Moonshot Goal3 "New Life Spheres Opened up by AI Robots" (Link)
NEDO "Research and development on human-centric AI technologies embedded in the real world"

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Welcome New Members

I'm finding a Post-doc and students to work with us!
Please feel free to contact me by e-mail.
Internship (from undergraduate students)
Research Assistant (for graduate students)
Post-doc, Technical staff
Joint research with companies
Research collaboration with universities and research institutions

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Other activities

Deputy Director of AL lab
Adviser of robotpaper.challenge
Adviser of TEPIA

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