Autonomous Mobile Robots in Human Living Space

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Yoko Sasaki

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

Autonomous mobile robot demonstration at G-Space Expo & AIST Open-house

G-Space Expo Web Site

Geo-Space Expo / AIST Open House

Our robots will be exhibited at Geo-Space Expo (at Hamamatsusho-Kan) on Nov. 7(Tue.) and 8(Wed.), and at AIST Open House (AIST Tokyo Waterfront). You can try riding on the robot at the open-house event. Please come and visit us.

4 Oct. 2023.

Autonomous delivery robot demonstration at Kashiwa-no-ha

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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. Twitter

31 May. 2023.

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 2023 are Oct./26(Thu),27(Fri), Nov./30(Thu),Dec./1(Fri), 21(Thu),22(Fri). event page (In Japanese).

4 Oct. 2023.

Our latest work

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.

Real-Robot Friendly Passing Motion Planner for Autonomous Navigation in Crowds

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Journal publication on Transactions on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (TMLAI), January 2022.

Pixelwise Dynamic Convolution Neural Network for LiDAR Depth Data Interpolation

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Journal publication on IEEE Sensors Journal, December 2021.

Action Node Graph: Graph Design for Mobile Robot Route Planning in Cities

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Presented in IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII2021), January 2021.

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Ongoing projects

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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