J-055

Human-robot collaboration in the smart office environment

Authors: Fumio Mizoguchi, Hironori Hiraishi and Hiroyuki Nishiyama
Affiliation: Faculty of Sci. and Tech. Science University of Tokyo

Abstract
This paper describes human-robot collaboration in the smart office environment, where some cameras and infrared sensors are embedded to support our activities and several manipulators and mobile robots deliver documents and printed-out papers to a worker's room. Such environment is realized by software components including device controller, multiagent programming, a robot access server on the web, and a remote control browser. These components integrate various office devices and sensors, and a user can control the robots through a cellular phone and a browser.

Hiraishi Hironori
Information Media Center in Science Univ. of Tokyo
Noda, Chiba, 278-8510, Japan
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