When: Friday, May 02, 4:30 p.m.

Where: McConomy Auditorium University Center

Yoshiaki Sakagami, Chief Engineer, Sensory and Behavior Research Group, Honda Research and Development, Ltd.

Special Presentation: In Conjunction with the campus visit of ASIMO and RoboCup

Abstract:
ASIMO will be a useful robot for any situation in ordinary environments in human society. In the future, we hope ASIMO will be used within every household by every member of the family.

I will examine the intelligence of ASIMO. The robot is able to interact through human friendly vision and auditory techniques. Its humanoid shape makes it easier for people to identify with ASIMO, as compared to other types of robots such as wheel-based robots. ASIMO's size is also suited to the human life scale.

I will explain the structure of the robot system for intelligence, and examine the integrated subsystems on its body and their new functions. I will describe its gesture recognition system, and human interaction and task performance. I will also examine the external, online database system that can be accessed using the internet to retrieve desired information, the management system for receptionist work, and offer various functionality demonstrations. Finally, I will introduce the latest work with ASIMO in our car dealer shop and others exhibitions.

Speaker Bio
Yoshiaki Sakagami graduated from the Department of Mathematical Science at the Tokyo Denki University. He joined the Bullet Train (Shinkansen) development project, developed the electric information management system, the recovery system from earthquake damages, the electric equipment management system, the optimization of power supply system and other systems for the railroad (1-Dimension system). He joined Honda in 1986, where he developed a navigation system and an autonomous car that was controlled by image processing to extract the road area and its lane. His project realized full automatic driving on the highway in 1991. (2-Dimension system).

After this project, Sakagami researched intelligence for autonomous machine like robots, driver support systems and human walking assist systems. He is interested in the architecture of robot planning, vision, human robot interaction, and network robotics. Sakagami is the Project Leader of intelligent ASIMO. (3-Dimension system) and is the Chief Engineer of the Honda Wako Research Center, Robotics Laboratory.

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