Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Takahiro Oohashi

Nobuo Higaki

Shinichi Matsunaga

Naoaki Sumida

Yoshiaki Sakagami

Naohide Ogawa

Yuichi Yoshida

Sachie Hashimoto

Kazunori Kanai

The control apparatus for a movable robot comprises: environment information acquisition means (such as video cameraand microphone); a current position detecting means (); a map storage (); a control parameter storage () for storing control parameters adjusted to different environments; and control means () for determining a current position of the robot on the map data based on a signal from the current position detecting means, retrieving control parameters suitable for the current position from the parameter storage, and controlling the environment information acquisition means or actuators for moving the robot by using the retrieved control parameters.

Robot device control based on environment and position of a movable robot

A target object detection apparatus for identifying a target object by using at least a camera and a wireless tag provided on the target object which exists outside of the target object detection apparatus, comprising: a target detector for reading a first identification information documented in the wireless tag; an image processor for extracting a first image information of the target object imaged by the camera; a personal identifier for identifying an imaged target object by comparing the first image information extracted by the image processor and a second image information specific to the target object; and an integration processor for determining a third identification information of the target object based on at least a second identification information identified by the personal identifier and the first identification information read by the target detector.

Target object detection apparatus and robot provided with the same

To automate the work of recognizing a guest, check the appointment, notify a host of the arrival of the guest and conduct the guest to a designated place, a robot having a function to autonomously travel is equipped with camera/microphone for recognizing a guest at least according to image information. The system comprises management database adapted to communicate with the robot and equipped with an information database for identifying the recognized guest, and identifies the guest according to the information obtained from the camera/microphone and management database. The robot recognizes the guest from the image thereof, and the recognized guest is identified and verified by comparing the image of the visitor with the information contained in the database so that the robot can automatically conduct the guest to the designated meeting room according to the information of the appointment stored in the database.

Receptionist robot system

An apparatusfor controlling a movable robot recognizes the person to be followed up from an image taken by a camera C by an image processing portion, controls leg portions Rof a movable robot A so as to keep a prescribed interval between the movable robot A and the person by a portionfor detecting an action, and notify the degree of the distance between the movable robot A and the person to the person by a voice from a voice outputting portion

Apparatus, process, and program for controlling movable robot control

A face image acquisition system which has a robot and a motion controller, the robot includes a camera and a arm, the motion controller has a visitor detector, a directive generator, and a face image registration unit, in the motion controller, a directive which controls the motion of the robot is generated by the directive generator and is transmitted to the robot when the visitor is detected by the visitor detector, and the robot offers a handshake to the visitor in compliance with the directive, and the robot acquires the face image of the visitor during the handshake with the visitor, and the acquired face image is stored in the face image registration unit.

Face image acquisition method and face image acquisition system

A face identification apparatus for identifying a face is designed to have a face region expectation measure for expecting his/her face region within the image; a pupil-candidate-point detection measure for converting the face region to an image of a standard size, making it a standard image, and detecting his/her right/left pupil candidate points out of a search region within the standard image; a reference data generation measure for generating a normalization image from the standard image with making it a standard a distance of the right/left pupil candidate points and making reference data for evaluating advisability of the face region from the normalization image; and a face region evaluation measure for obtaining a degree of approximation between the reference data and standard data prepared in advance and evaluating the advisability of the face region.

Face identification apparatus, face identification method, and face identification program

A face identification system includes a face data generator to generate face data of an objective person and a face data register to register the face data to be stored in a temporary face data storage, which stores the face data as reference face data. The system also includes a face identifier to identify the face of the objective person by comparing the face data with the reference face data. The system also includes a robot mechanism to move to plural areas, a data base to store face data of plural persons and a controller to transmit the retrieved face data from the data base as reference face data to the robot. By this system configuration, the face identification can be correctly carried out and improved in its process speed.

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Saitama, Japan

Takahiro Oohashi