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アカイ ナオキ
赤井 直紀
AKAI Naoki
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未来社会創造機構 モビリティ社会研究所 社会的価値研究部門 特任准教授
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学位 1

  1. 博士(工学) ( 2016年3月   宇都宮大学 ) 

研究分野 1

  1. 情報通信 / ロボティクス、知能機械システム  / ロボティクス,知能システム

現在の研究課題とSDGs 1

  1. ロボットの知能化に関する研究

委員歴 2

  1. 機械学会技術委員会名  

    2018年4月 - 2020年3月   

  2. つくばチャレンジ実行委員会  

    2016年4月 - 現在   

受賞 3

  1. 名古屋大学COI産学官イノベーション賞

    2022年2月   名古屋大学COI  

  2. 赤崎賞

  3. 名古屋大学COI産学官イノベーション賞

 

論文 98

  1. Reliable Monte Carlo localization for mobile robots

    Akai, N

    JOURNAL OF FIELD ROBOTICS   40 巻 ( 3 ) 頁: 595 - 613   2023年5月

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    出版者・発行元:Journal of Field Robotics  

    Reliability is a key factor for realizing safety guarantee of fully autonomous robot systems. In this paper, we focus on reliability in mobile robot localization. Monte Carlo localization (MCL) is widely used for mobile robot localization. However, it is still difficult to guarantee its safety because there are no methods determining reliability for MCL estimate. This paper presents a novel localization framework that enables robust localization, reliability estimation, and quick relocalization, simultaneously. The presented method can be implemented using a similar estimation manner to that of MCL. The method can increase localization robustness to environment changes by estimating known and unknown obstacles while performing localization; however, localization failure of course occurs by unanticipated errors. The method also includes a reliability estimation function that enables a robot to know whether localization has failed. Additionally, the method can seamlessly integrate a global localization method via importance sampling. Consequently, quick relocalization from a failure state can be realized while mitigating noisy influence of global localization. We conduct three types of experiments using wheeled mobile robots equipped with a two-dimensional LiDAR. Results show that reliable MCL that performs robust localization, self-failure detection, and quick failure recovery can be realized.

    DOI: 10.1002/rob.22149

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  2. Experimental Study on Low-Speed Control for Motorcycles Using SPACAR Model and Gain-Scheduling Control

    Hara, S; Tsuchiya, M; Kimura, T; Akai, N

    JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY   18 巻 ( 3 ) 頁: 2221 - 2230   2023年5月

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    出版者・発行元:Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology  

    Recently, many studies have presented on realizing novel mobility technologies with consideration for aging society. The aim of these studies is to establish autonomous driving technology (ADT). The objects of ADT are mainly four-wheel motor vehicles. On the other hand, ADT for motorcycles has not been fully addressed yet. Motorcycles have straight-line stability in the state of high-speed driving. However, their stability tends to diminish when being driven at extremely low speed. This study addresses how a motorcycle should be stabilized under low-speed driving. From the viewpoint of actual use, including high-speed driving, major structural changes should be avoided. In order to obtain a linearized motorcycle model without skidding, a model based on SPACAR, a finite element method computation program, is introduced. Furthermore, velocity-dependent gain-scheduling control is applied to utilize the feedback control gains obtained by the linearized model with respect to velocity. Following the deceleration simulation success in the authors’ previous paper, we mainly verify the experimental investigation of the above model and control system design. The gain-scheduling method is improved from that in the previous simulation study. The experimental responses show stable driving at 1.5 km/h.

    DOI: 10.1007/s42835-023-01410-5

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  3. 《第48回》自己位置推定の「できない」を「できる」に変え新たな価値を創る

    赤井 直紀

    計測と制御   62 巻 ( 1 ) 頁: 2 - 3   2023年1月

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:公益社団法人 計測自動制御学会  

    DOI: 10.11499/sicejl.62.2

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  4. Obstacle Avoidance with Zigzag Tentacles for Multirotor UAVs

    Arashi, K; Akai, N; Kane, S; Hara, S

    2023 IEEE/SICE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SYSTEM INTEGRATION, SII     2023年

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    出版者・発行元:2023 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2023  

    In this paper, we present an extended tentacle-based obstacle avoidance method for multirotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Our objective is to achieve a rapid and safe autonomous flight in narrow and complex spaces. Traditional tentacle-based obstacle avoidance methods generate only simple-shape candidate paths. Consequently, paths that bypass obstacles cannot be found and the moving speed of a UAV is needed to be decreased when navigating narrow spaces because the tentacles cannot be sufficiently extended. In the presented method, zigzag tentacles are generated. A UAV can fly through narrow spaces without decreasing its speed because the zigzag tentacles can find bypass paths. We conducted experiments with simulated and actual multirotor UAVs. The results show that the presented method achieved a rapid and safe autonomous flight in both experiments. In addition, we compare the presented method with the dynamic window approach which is a traditional tentacle-based method. This comparison shows the effectiveness of the zigzag tentacles, i.e., the presented method can achieve autonomous flight whereas the traditional method causes the UAV to become stuck.

    DOI: 10.1109/SII55687.2023.10039215

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  5. SLAMER: Simultaneous Localization and Map-Assisted Environment Recognition

    Akai, N

    2023 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION, ICRA   2023-May 巻   頁: 6203 - 6209   2023年

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    出版者・発行元:Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation  

    This paper presents a simultaneous localization and map-assisted environment recognition (SLAMER) method. Mobile robots usually have an environment map and environment information can be assigned to the map. Important information such as no entry zone can be predicted from the map if localization has succeeded. However, this prediction is failed when localization does not work. Uncertainty of pose estimate must be considered for robust-map-based environ-mental object prediction. Robots also have external sensors and can recognize environmental object; however, sensor-based recognition of course contain uncertainty. SLAMER fuses map-based prediction and sensor-based recognition while coping with these uncertainties and achieves accurate localization and environment recognition. In this paper, we demonstrate LiDAR-based implementation of SLAMER in two cases. In the first case, we use the SemanticKITTI dataset and show that SLAMER achieves accurate estimate more than traditional methods. In the second case, we use an indoor mobile robot and show that unmeasurable environmental objects such as open doors and no entry lines can be recognized.

    DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160639

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  6. 自己位置推定における確率的なセマンティクスの活用

    赤井 直紀

    システム/制御/情報   66 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 115 - 120   2022年4月

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 システム制御情報学会  

    DOI: 10.11509/isciesci.66.4_115

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  7. Yorkie drives supercompetition by non-autonomous induction of autophagy via <i>bantam</i> microRNA in <i>Drosophila</i>

    Nagata, R; Akai, N; Kondo, S; Saito, K; Ohsawa, S; Igaki, T

    CURRENT BIOLOGY   32 巻 ( 5 ) 頁: 1064 - +   2022年3月

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    記述言語:英語   出版者・発行元:Current Biology  

    Mutations in the tumor-suppressor Hippo pathway lead to activation of the transcriptional coactivator Yorkie (Yki), which enhances cell proliferation autonomously and causes cell death non-autonomously. While Yki-induced cell proliferation has extensively been studied, the mechanism by which Yki causes cell death in nearby wild-type cells, a phenomenon called supercompetition, and its role in tumorigenesis remained unknown. Here, we show that Yki-induced supercompetition is essential for tumorigenesis and is driven by non-autonomous induction of autophagy. Clones of cells mutant for a Hippo pathway component fat activate Yki and cause autonomous tumorigenesis and non-autonomous cell death in Drosophila eye-antennal discs. Through a genetic screen in Drosophila, we find that mutations in autophagy-related genes or NF-κB genes in surrounding wild-type cells block both fat-induced tumorigenesis and supercompetition. Mechanistically, fat mutant cells upregulate Yki-target microRNA bantam, which elevates protein synthesis levels via activation of TOR signaling. This induces elevation of autophagy in neighboring wild-type cells, which leads to downregulation of IκB Cactus and thus causes NF-κB-mediated induction of the cell death gene hid. Crucially, upregulation of bantam is sufficient to make cells to be supercompetitors and downregulation of endogenous bantam is sufficient for cells to become losers of cell competition. Our data indicate that cells with elevated Yki-bantam signaling cause tumorigenesis by non-autonomous induction of autophagy that kills neighboring wild-type cells.

    DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.016

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  8. 触手を模した経路選択およびバックステッピングMPCを用いたクワッドコプタのための障害物回避の実装

    嵐 和也, 赤井 直紀, 安井 浩毅, サリュー カン, 原 進

    ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演概要集   2022 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 2A2-L05   2022年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2022.2a2-l05

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  9. 低速降下物体の空中回収を実現する実機システムの検討とシミュレーション

    平原 史章, 平井 瑞生, 原 進, 赤井 直紀

    ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演概要集   2022 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 1P1-G05   2022年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2022.1p1-g05

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  10. 信頼可能な自己位置推定実現のためのアプローチ

    赤井 直紀

    自動制御連合講演会講演論文集   65 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 1483 - 1484   2022年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:自動制御連合講演会  

    DOI: 10.11511/jacc.65.0_1483

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  11. 最適化に基づく単眼自己位置推定のベイズフィルタによる融合とそれに基づくクアッドコプタの自律ナビゲーション

    赤井 直紀, 嵐 和也, 安井 浩毅, サリュー カン, 椿野 大輔, 原 進

    日本ロボット学会誌   40 巻 ( 5 ) 頁: 437 - 440   2022年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本ロボット学会  

    DOI: 10.7210/jrsj.40.437

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  12. 自己位置推定におけるセマンティクスの確率的利用

    赤井 直紀, 平山 高嗣, 村瀬 洋

    ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演概要集   2022 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 2P1-H02   2022年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2022.2p1-h02

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  13. 自己位置推定高性能化のためのベイズフィルタの活用

    赤井 直紀

    日本ロボット学会誌   40 巻 ( 10 ) 頁: 879 - 882   2022年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本ロボット学会  

    DOI: 10.7210/jrsj.40.879

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  14. 自動運転技術入門

    赤井 直紀

    日本ロボット学会誌   39 巻 ( 6 ) 頁: 526 - 526   2021年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本ロボット学会  

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    DOI: 10.7210/jrsj.39.526

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  15. Monte Carlo Dropoutを適用したEnd-to-End自己位置推定とMCLの融合

    赤井 直紀, 平山 高嗣, 村瀬 洋

    ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演概要集   2021 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 1A1-G03   2021年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2021.1a1-g03

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  16. つくばチャレンジ2020におけるオンライン活動

    原 祥尭, 岡田 佳都, 赤井 直紀, 横塚 将志, 冨沢 哲雄, 伊達 央, 黒田 洋司, 坪内 孝司

    ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演概要集   2021 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 1P1-L15   2021年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2021.1p1-l15

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  17. 振動系をオペレータの意図入力機構として活用する運動系のパワーアシスト制御の実現

    廣川 翔也, 原 進, 西田 龍我, 奥田 裕之, 赤井 直紀, 永塚 満, 鈴木 達也

    「運動と振動の制御」シンポジウム講演論文集   2021.17 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: B20   2021年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmemovic.2021.17.b20

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  18. 3D Monte Carlo Localization with Efficient Distance Field Representation for Automated Driving in Dynamic Environments

    Akai Naoki, Hirayama Takatsugu, Murase Hiroshi

    2020 IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV)     頁: 1859 - 1866   2020年

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  19. Modeling Eye-Gaze Behavior of Electric Wheelchair Drivers via Inverse Reinforcement Learning

    Maekawa Yamato, Akai Naoki, Hirayama Takatsugu, Morales Luis Yoichi, Deguchi Daisuke, Kawanishi Yasutomo, Ide Ichiro, Murase Hiroshi

    2020 IEEE 23RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC)     2020年

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  20. Automatic Interaction Detection Between Vehicles and Vulnerable Road Users During Turning at an Intersection

    Cheng Hao, Akai Naoki, Hirayama Takatsugu, Shinmura Fumito, Murase Hiroshi, Liu Hailong

    2020 IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV)     頁: 912 - 918   2020年

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  21. Hybrid Localization using Model- and Learning-Based Methods: Fusion of Monte Carlo and E2E Localizations via Importance Sampling

    Akai Naoki, Hirayama Takatsugu, Murase Hiroshi

    2020 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION (ICRA)     頁: 6469 - 6475   2020年

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  22. 幾何地図上での観測物体の有無を考慮した自己位置推定

    赤井 直紀, モラレス ルイス 洋一, 平山 高嗣, 村瀬 洋

    計測自動制御学会論文集   55 巻 ( 11 ) 頁: 745 - 753   2019年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:公益社団法人 計測自動制御学会  

    DOI: 10.9746/sicetr.55.745

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  23. LiDARを用いた自車両位置認識結果の信頼度推定 査読有り

    赤井 直紀, モラレス ルイス 洋一, 平山 高嗣, 村瀬 洋

    自動車技術会論文集   50 巻 ( 2 ) 頁: 609 - 615   2019年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:公益社団法人 自動車技術会  

    自車両位置認識は自動運転における基幹技術であり,位置認識の失敗は自動運転自体の失敗へ直結する危険がある.しかし,その認識結果の正誤を保証する術はない.本稿では,位置認識の正誤を学習した学習機の出力を新たな観測変数として利用し,ロバストに位置認識結果の正誤(信頼度)を推定するモデルを提案・検証する.

    DOI: 10.11351/jsaeronbun.50.609

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  24. INS とマルチレイヤー LiDAR を用いた自動運転車両のための高精度自己位置推定

    赤井 直紀, 竹内 栄二朗, 山口 拓真, モラレス ルイス 洋一, 吉原 佑器, 奥田 裕之, 鈴木 達也, 二宮 芳樹

    自動車技術会論文集   49 巻 ( 3 ) 頁: 675 - 681   2018年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:公益社団法人 自動車技術会  

    自動運転を行うためには,走行すべき経路との相対位置関係や,注視すべき物体の情報を得ることが有用であり,そのためにも,自己位置推定は重要な技術である.本稿では,デッドレコニングとマルチレイヤーLIDARによる位置推定結果を融合することで,一般道における高精度位置推定,および自動運転を達成したので報告する.

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  25. 残留磁場を用いた自己位置推定法に基づくループ検知法

    赤井 直紀, 尾崎 功一

    日本ロボット学会誌   34 巻 ( 6 ) 頁: 397 - 403   2016年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本ロボット学会  

    DOI: 10.7210/jrsj.34.397

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  26. 車両歩行者間のインタラクション行動のモデル化のための2段階入出力隠れマルコフモデル

    新村 文郷, 赤井 直紀, 平山 高嗣, 劉 海龍, 川西 康友, 出口 大輔, 村瀬 洋

    情報処理学会論文誌   63 巻 ( 8 ) 頁: 1371 - 1382   2022年8月

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:[出版社不明]  

    自動車と歩行者が交差するシーンに着目し,車両歩行者間のインタラクティブな行動をモデル化するための2段階入出力隠れマルコフモデル(TS-IOHMM)を提案する.従来の入出力隠れマルコフモデルは,相手の行動に依存して自己の意図と行動が決定される過程をモデル化した.提案するTS-IOHMMは,相手の行動の影響に加え,自己の行動もまた相手の意図に影響を与える点を考慮したモデルで,これまで注目されなかった意図と行動の変化にある法則性(ルール)の獲得を目指したモデルである.検証用に設定したルールに従って意図や行動が変化するシミュレーションデータを作成し,それを用いて提案モデルがどのようなルールを獲得できるか検証する実験を行った.その結果から,提案モデルがシミュレーションと同等の意図や行動を出力する行動ルールを獲得できたことを確認した.
    This paper presents the Two-Stage Input-Output Hidden Markov Model (TS-IOHMM) which is a modeling method for interactive behavior between a car and a pedestrian focusing on the scene where the car and the pedestrian intersect. The conventional Input-Ouput Hidden Markov Model (IOHMM) models the process that the driver's intention and behavior are determined depending on the behavior of the pedestrian. The proposed TS-IOHMM is a model that considers not only the influence of the pedestrian's behavior, but also that the driver's behavior affects the pedestrian intention. In this paper, we aim to acquire a rule in the change of the driver's intentions and behaviors by the proposed model. We generated simulation data in which the driver's intentions and behaviors change according to a certain rule, and conducted experiments to evaluate that the proposed model was able to correctly provide intentions and behaviors equivalent to those according to the rule.

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  27. Mobile Robot Localization Considering Uncertainty of Depth Regression From Camera Images 査読有り

    Akai, N

    IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS   7 巻 ( 2 ) 頁: 1431 - 1438   2022年4月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters  

    This letter presents a mobile robot localization method that uses depth regression from camera images. In this work, we use convolutional neural networks to regress the depth from the camera images. However, the depth regression results contain uncertainty, which must be resolved to stably perform localization with the depth regression results. This letter proposes a novel probabilistic model that enables the handling of the uncertainty of the depth regression results while localizing the robot pose. By handling the uncertainty, inaccurate depth regression results can be ignored, and localization robustness can be increased. We compare the proposed method with two traditional methods used in particle-filter-based localization that do not handle depth regression uncertainty. Comparison experiments are performed using two types of datasets: a manually created dataset using only a visual inertial odometry sensor, and the KITTI odometry dataset. Results show that the proposed method can track the robot pose even though the depth regression results are inaccurate and can increase localization accuracy without increasing memory and computational costs.

    DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3140062

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  28. Navigation Style Classification Using Persistent Homology

    Akai, N; Matsubayashi, S; Miwa, K; Hirayama, T; Murase, H

    2022 IEEE/SICE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SYSTEM INTEGRATION (SII 2022)     頁: 161 - 164   2022年

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    Recently, many researchers in the mobile robot field study how to realize socially-aware navigation in human-robot coexisting spaces. However, we have fundamental questions: how can be the socially-aware behavior defined and classified? Our work aims to provide the answers and is divided into two major studies; defining the socially-aware behavior in terms of the traffic psychology and extracting specific patterns to understand the behavior. For the first study, we designed simulation experiments based on the traffic psychology. In the experiments, participants operated an ego-agent to a destination with three different instructions; cooperative, urgent, and non-urgent. We also analyzed differences of the navigation styles and found that the statistical trend of the ego-motion is different in each style. However, it is difficult to find specific patterns in relation between the ego-motion and surrounding situations. This paper focuses on the second study and presents a classification method of the navigation styles using persistent homology (PH). We consider that implicit patterns could be extracted from surrounding situations by PH because it could enable to find specific patterns from data even when they seem to be distributed randomly. Results show the possibility that the PH-based method could acquire effective information for the classification.

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    その他リンク: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sii/sii2022.html#AkaiMMHM22

  29. Bayesian Filtering Fusion of Optimization-Based Monocular Visual Localization and Autonomous Quadcopter Navigation

    Akai, N; Yasui, K; Arashi, K; Saliou, K; Tsubakino, D; Hara, S

    2022 IEEE/SICE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SYSTEM INTEGRATION (SII 2022)     頁: 754 - 759   2022年

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    Visual localization is typically implemented using optimization algorithms. Because the optimization minimizes a cost function, their estimate is sensitive to noises, and estimated trajectory is usually jerk. The estimate can be fused with other estimates using Bayesian filter (BF) and smooth trajectory can be obtained; however, the optimization-based localization does not estimate uncertainty. In this study, we present an uncertainty estimation method for the optimization-based localization using Hessian matrix. The Hessian matrix is used in Newton method to calculate the increment. The increment is obtained by multiplying the inverse of Hessian and the gradient of the cost function. We consider that the inverse of Hessian could be used to indicate variability of the optimized states, and determine the uncertainty. We determine normal distribution over the estimate by the optimization-based localization and its uncertainty, that is, covariance, is determined using Hessian. In the experiment, we validate the uncertainty estimation method under different measurement conditions, and the effectiveness of the fusion using BF. Results show that the uncertainty can be appropriately estimated according to the conditions, and smooth trajectory can be estimated while maintaining the tracking accuracy to the visual localization result. Furthermore, we conduct autonomous flight navigation experiment with a quadcopter based on the presented localization, and its navigation is successfully performed. The software used in this work is publicly available.

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  30. Detection of Localization Failures Using Markov Random Fields With Fully Connected Latent Variables for Safe LiDAR-Based Automated Driving

    Akai, N; Akagi, Y; Hirayama, T; Morikawa, T; Murase, H

    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS   23 巻 ( 10 ) 頁: 1 - 13   2022年

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    Most of the recent automated driving systems assume the accurate functioning of localization. Unanticipated errors cause localization failures and result in failures in automated driving. An exact localization failure detection is necessary to ensure safety in automated driving; however, detection of the localization failures is challenging because sensor measurement is assumed to be independent of each other in the localization process. Owing to the assumption, the entire relation of the sensor measurement is ignored. Consequently, it is difficult to recognize the misalignment between the sensor measurement and the map when partial sensor measurement overlaps with the map. This paper proposes a method for the detection of localization failures using Markov random fields with fully connected latent variables. The full connection enables to take the entire relation into account and contributes to the exact misalignment recognition. Additionally, this paper presents localization failure probability calculation and efficient distance field representation methods. We evaluate the proposed method using two types of datasets. The first dataset is the SemanticKITTI dataset, whereby four methods are compared with the proposed method. The comparison results reveal that the proposed method achieves the most accurate failure detection. The second dataset is created based on log data acquired from the demonstrations that we conducted in Japanese public roads. The dataset includes several localization failure scenes. We apply the failure detection methods to the dataset and confirm that the proposed method achieves exact and immediate failure detection.

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  31. Low-Speed Control Experiment of Motorcycles Using SPACAR Model 査読有り

    Hara, S; Tsuchiya, M; Kimura, T; Akai, N

    IEEJ TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING   17 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 617 - 619   2021年12月

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    The main stream of development of autonomous driving technology (ADT) is for four-wheel motor vehicles. ADT for motorcycles has received scant attention. The motorcycle stability tends to diminish when being driven at extremely low speed. This study addresses how a motorcycle should be stabilized under low-speed driving. To obtain a linearized motorcycle model without skidding, we introduce a model based on SPACAR, a finite element method computation program. Moreover, velocity-dependent gain-scheduling linear quadratic regulator (LQR) is applied. The experimental results demonstrate stabilized driving responses at 1.5 km/h, which is slower than a person's typical walking speed. © 2021 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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  32. Experimental stability analysis of neural networks in classification problems with confidence sets for persistence diagrams 査読有り 国際誌

    Akai, N; Hirayama, T; Murase, H

    NEURAL NETWORKS   143 巻   頁: 42 - 51   2021年

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    We investigate classification performance of neural networks (NNs) based on topological insight in an attempt to guarantee stability of their inference. NNs which can accurately classify a dataset map it into a hidden space while disentangling intertwined data. NNs sometimes acquire forcible mapping to disentangle the data, and this forcible mapping generates outliers. The mapping around the outliers is unstable because the outputs change drastically. Hence, we define stable NNs to mean that they do not generate outliers. To investigate the possibility of the existence of outliers, we use persistent homology and a method to estimate the confidence set for persistence diagrams. The combined use enables us to test whether the focused geometry is topologically simple, that is, no outliers. In this work, we use the MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets and investigate the relationship between the classification performance and the topological characteristics with several NNs. Investigation results with the MNIST dataset show that the test accuracy of all the networks is superior, exceeding 98%, even though the transformed dataset is not topologically simple. Results with the CIFAR-10 dataset also show that the possibility of the existence of outliers is shown in the mapping by the accurate convolutional NNs. Therefore, we conclude that the presented investigation is necessary to guarantee that the NNs, in particular deep NNs, do not acquire unstable mapping for forcible classification.

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  33. Persistent Homology in LiDAR-Based Ego-Vehicle Localization 査読有り

    Akai, N; Hirayama, T; Murase, H

    2021 32ND IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV)   2021-July 巻   頁: 889 - 896   2021年

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    Recently, various applications leveraging topological data analysis, in particular, persistent homology (PH), have been presented in many fields since PH provides a novel point cloud analysis method. In this work, we apply PH to LiDAR-based ego-vehicle localization applications. PH can extract translation and rotation invariant features from a point cloud. These features do not maintain local information of the point cloud, such as the edges and lines; however, they can abstract the global structure of the point cloud. A persistence image (PI) vectorizes the features and allows us to obtain fixed-size vectors despite the sizes of the source point clouds being different. Additionally, the size of the PI is not large even though the source point cloud is extremely big. We consider that these advantages are effective to loop closure detection, place categorization, and end-to-end global localization applications. Results reveal that it is difficult to improve the localization accuracy by simply applying PH owing to the basic concept of the topology that does not focus on exact shapes of the geometry. Therefore, we discuss how the advantages of PH can be utilized for the localization.

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  34. Modeling Eye-Gaze Behavior of Electric Wheelchair Drivers via Inverse Reinforcement Learning 査読有り

    Maekawa Y., Akai N., Hirayama T., Morales L.Y., Deguchi D., Kawanishi Y., Ide I., Murase H.

    2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, ITSC 2020     頁: 1 - 7   2020年9月

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    It is intuitively obvious that eye-gaze behaviors of experienced drivers are different from those of novice drivers. However, it is not easy to understand the difference in their behavior quantitatively. In this work, we present an explainable eye-gaze behavior modeling method for electric wheelchair drivers based on Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL). We first create feature maps that represent risk factors during driving. These feature maps are able to represent not only to what but also from where drivers pay attention. IRL uses the feature maps to learn the reward representing the eyegaze behaviors and allows us to see important features via the automatic acquisition of the reward. Through analysis of the learned model, we show quantitative evidence that eye-gaze behaviors of experienced drivers are better-balanced by paying attention to multiple risks.

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  35. Extracting Human-Like Driving Behaviors From Expert Driver Data Using Deep Learning 査読有り

    Sama, K; Morales, Y; Liu, HL; Akai, N; Carballo, A; Takeuchi, E; Takeda, K

    IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY   69 巻 ( 9 ) 頁: 9315 - 9329   2020年9月

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    This paper introduces a method to extract driving behaviors from a human expert driver which are applied to an autonomous agent to reproduce proactive driving behaviors. Deep learning techniques were used to extract latent features from the collected data. Extracted features were clustered into behaviors and used to create velocity profiles allowing an autonomous driving agent could drive in a human-like manner. By using proactive driving behaviors, the agent could limit potential sources of discomfort such as jerk and uncomfortable velocities. Additionally, we proposed a method to compare trajectories where not only the geometric similarity is considered, but also velocity, acceleration and jerk. Experimental results in a simulator implemented in ROS show that the autonomous agent built with the driving behaviors was capable of driving similarly to expert human drivers.

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  36. Semantic Localization Considering Uncertainty of Object Recognition 査読有り

    Akai, N; Hirayama, T; Murase, H

    IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS   5 巻 ( 3 ) 頁: 4384 - 4391   2020年7月

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    Semantics can be leveraged in ego-vehicle localization to improve robustness and accuracy because objects with the same labels can be correctly matched with each other. Object recognition has significantly improved owing to advances in machine learning algorithms. However, perfect object recognition is still challenging in real environments. Hence, the uncertainty of object recognition must be considered in localization. This letter proposes a novel localization method that integrates a supervised object recognition method, which predicts probabilistic distributions over object classes for individual sensor measurements, into the Bayesian network for localization. The proposed method uses the estimated probabilities and Dirichlet distribution to calculate the likelihood for estimating an ego-vehicle pose. Consequently, the uncertainty can be handled in localization. We present an implementation example of the proposed method using a particle filter and deep-neural-network-based point cloud semantic segmentation and evaluate it by simulation and the SemanticKITTI dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed method can accurately generate likelihood distribution even when object recognition accuracy is degraded, and its estimation accuracy is the highest compared to that of two conventional methods.

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  37. Hybrid Localization using Model- and Learning-Based Methods: Fusion of Monte Carlo and E2E Localizations via Importance Sampling 査読有り

    Akai N., Hirayama T., Murase H.

    Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation     頁: 6469 - 6475   2020年5月

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    This paper proposes a hybrid localization method that fuses Monte Carlo localization (MCL) and convolutional neural network (CNN)-based end-to-end (E2E) localization. MCL is based on particle filter and requires proposal distributions to sample the particles. The proposal distribution is generally predicted using a motion model. However, because the motion model cannot handle unanticipated errors, the predicted distribution is sometimes inaccurate. The use of other ideal proposal distributions, such as the measurement model, can improve robustness against such unanticipated errors. This technique is called importance sampling (IS). However, it is difficult to sample the particles from such ideal distributions because they are not represented in the closed form. Recent works have proved that CNNs with dropout layers represent the posterior distributions over their outputs conditioned on the inputs and the CNN predictions are equivalent to sampling the outputs from the posterior. Therefore, the proposed method utilizes a CNN to sample the particles and fuses them with MCL via IS. Consequently, the advantages of both MCL and E2E localization can be simultaneously leveraged while preventing their disadvantages. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can smoothly estimate the robot pose, similar to the model-based method, and quickly re-localize it from the failures, similar to the learning-based method.

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  38. 3D Monte Carlo Localization with Efficient Distance Field Representation for Automated Driving in Dynamic Environments 査読有り

    Akai N., Hirayama T., Murase H.

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings     頁: 1859 - 1866   2020年

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    This paper presents a LiDAR-based 3D Monte Carlo localization (MCL) with an efficient distance field (DF) representation method. To implement 3D MCL, high computing capacity is required because the likelihood of many pose candidates, i.e., particles, must be calculated in real time by comparing sensor measurements and a map. Additionally, a large-scale map is needed for allocation to embedded computers since autonomous vehicles are required to navigate wide areas. These make it difficult for 3D MCL implementation. This paper first presents an efficient DF representation method while considering the 3D LiDAR-based localization characteristics. Because each DF voxel has the closest distance from occupied voxels, swift comparison of the sensor measurements and map can be achieved. Consequently, 3D MCL using the likelihood field model (LFM) can be executed in real time. Furthermore, this paper presents a method for improving the localization robustness to environmental changes without increasing memory and computational cost from that of the LFM-based MCL. Through experiments using the SemanticKITTI dataset, we show that the presented method can efficiently and robustly work in dynamic environments.

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  39. Automatic Interaction Detection between Vehicles and Vulnerable Road Users during Turning at an Intersection 査読有り 国際共著

    Cheng H., Liu H., Shinmura F., Akai N., Murase H., Hirayama T.

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings     頁: 912 - 918   2020年

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    Interaction detection between vehicles and vulnerable road users (e.g. pedestrians and cyclists) is important for e.g. safety control and autonomous driving. However, there are many challenges for automatically detecting interactions, such as the ambiguity of defining when interaction is required in dynamic traffic activities among different road users and the lack of labeled data for training a machine learning detector. To overcome the challenges, we introduce a way to define whether or not interaction is required in various traffic scenes and create a large real-world dataset from a very challenging intersection. A sequence-to-sequence method that uses the object information and motion information of the traffic scenes extracted by a state-of-the-art object detector and from optical flow, respectively, is proposed for automatic interaction detection. The proposed method generates a probability of interaction at each short interval (< 0.1 s) that represents the changing of interaction along a sequence. We obtain a baseline model that differentiates no interaction from interaction on the basis of the location and road user type from the detected object information. Compared with the baseline model, the empirical results of the proposed method demonstrate very accurate predictions for vehicle turning sequences with varying length.

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  40. An Analysis of How Driver Experience Affects Eye-Gaze Behavior for Robotic Wheelchair Operation 査読有り

    Maekawa, Y; Akai, N; Hirayama, T; Morales, LY; Deguchi, D; Kawanishi, Y; Ide, I; Murase, H

    2019 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW)     頁: 4443 - 4451   2019年10月

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    Drivers obtain information on surrounding environment using their eyesights. Experienced eye-gaze behavior is needed when driving at places where multiple risks exist to prepare for and avoid them. In this work, we analyze the change in eye-gaze behavior in such situations while a driver gains experience on the operation of a robotic wheelchair. Accurate distance information in the traffic environment is important to analyze the eye-gaze behavior. However, almost all previous works analyze eye-gaze behavior in a 2D environment, so they could not obtain accurate distance information. For this reason, we analyze eye-gaze behavior in 3D space. Concretely, we developed a novel eye-gaze behavior analysis platform based on a robotic wheelchair and estimated the driver's attention in 3D space. We try to analyze the eye-gaze behavior considering a useful field-of-view in 3D space based on the distance information instead of only the fixation point to investigate the objects that a driver implicitly pays attention to and from where s/he focuses on them. Results show that novice drivers pay attention to a single risk at a time. In contrast, they pay more attention to multiple risks simultaneously as they gain experience. Additionally, we discuss what features are effective to model the eye-gaze behavior based on the results.

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  41. Misalignment Recognition Using Markov Random Fields With Fully Connected Latent Variables for Detecting Localization Failures 査読有り

    Akai, N; Morales, LY; Hirayam, T; Murase, H

    IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS   4 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 3955 - 3962   2019年10月

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  42. Safety Criteria Analysis for Negotiating Blind Corners in Personal Mobility Vehicles Based on Driver's Attention Simulation on 3D Map 査読有り

    Akai N., Hirayama T., Morales L.Y., Murase H.

    2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2019     頁: 2367 - 2374   2019年10月

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    In this study, we attempt to establish the numerical safety criteria for negotiating blind corners in personal mobility vehicles (PMVs). Safety should be the most important consideration in designing autonomous PMVs. However, determining the suitable trade-off between safety and speed is a weighty concern because speed is significantly compromised when performing overly safe navigation. We analyze the driving behavior of a robotic PMV operated by a human driver. The robotic PMV can measure the driver's gaze, and allows us to recognize both the pose of the PMV and the driver's visual attention on a 3D map. As a result, the occluded areas for the driver can be estimated. Then, potential colliding hazard obstacles (PCHOs) are simulated based on the occlusion. PCHOs refer to occluded obstacles that the driver encounters suddenly with which he cannot avoid collision. The participants of our experiments were one skillful and three non-skilled ones. Experimental results demonstrate that similar PCHOs are observed even when the driving styles of the participants are different. Additionally, the existence of a boundary that distinguishes expected and unexpected obstacles is indicated by investigating the parameters of the PCHOs. Finally, we conclude that the boundary could be utilized as a numerical criterion for ensuring safety while negotiating blind corners.

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  43. Driving behavior modeling based on hidden markov models with driver's eye-gaze measurement and ego-vehicle localization 査読有り

    Akai N., Hirayama T., Morales L.Y., Akagi Y., Liu H., Murase H.

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings   2019-June 巻   頁: 949 - 956   2019年6月

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    This paper presents a comparison of driving behavior modeling methods based on hidden Markov models (HMMs) with driver's eye-gaze measurement and ego-vehicle localization. Original HMMs are sometimes insufficient to model real-world scenarios. To overcome these limitations, extended HMMs have been proposed, e.g., autoregressive input-output HMMs (AIOHMMs). This paper first details AIOHMMs and presents ways to use them for driving behavior modeling. We compare the performance for behavior modeling and maneuver discrimination for six types of HMMs. The driving data for this work was gathered in our university campus with a car-like vehicle. Experimental results suggest that the hidden states can properly represent the average of the driving actions when the driving behaviors are accurately modeled by the HMMs. It is also suggested that surrounding and past information can be used to flexibly model the relationship between driving actions and related information.

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  44. Learning How to Drive in Blind Intersections from Human Data 査読有り

    Sama, K; Morales, Y; Akai, N; Takeuchi, E; Takeda, K

    2018 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC)     頁: 317 - 324   2019年1月

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    In this paper we present a method to learn how to drive in different types of blind intersections using expert driving data. We cluster different intersections based on the velocity of how drivers approach them, and train a linear SVM classifier for each class of intersection. Through clustering we found that there were three different classes of intersections in typical residential areas in Japan. We used inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) to build a driving model for each type of intersection. The models were trained from 308 trajectories traversed by 5 different drivers. The models and policies were implemented and evaluated in a ROS simulator where the agent is provided a global path, and upon it reaching an intersection, it selects the appropriate trained policy. By doing this, the simulated autonomous vehicle can perform proactive safe driving behaviors when approaching blind intersections.

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  45. Driving Behavior Modeling Based on Hidden Markov Models with Driver's Eye-Gaze Measurement and Ego-Vehicle Localization 査読有り

    Akai Naoki, Hirayama Takatsugu, Morales Luis Yoichi, Akagi Yasuhiro, Liu Hailong, Murase Hiroshi

    2019 30TH IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV19)     頁: 949 - 956   2019年

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  46. Safety Criteria Analysis for Negotiating Blind Corners in Personal Mobility Vehicles Based on Driver's Attention Simulation on 3D Map

    Akai Naoki, Hirayama Takatsugu, Morales Luis Yoichi, Murase Hiroshi

    2019 IEEE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS CONFERENCE (ITSC)     頁: 2367 - 2374   2019年

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  47. Mobile Robot Localization Considering Class of Sensor Observations

    Akai N., Morales L.Y., Murase H.

    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems     頁: 3159 - 3166   2018年12月

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    Localization robustness against environment dynamics is significant for robots to achieve autonomous navigation in unmodified environments. A basic method of improving the robustness of a robot is considering the sensor observations obtained from mapped obstacles and using them for localizing the robot's pose. This study proposes an observation model that considers the class of sensor observations, where 'class' categorizes the sensor observations as those obtained from mapped and unmapped obstacles. In the proposed approach, the robot's pose and the class are estimated simultaneously. As a result, the robot's pose can be localized using the sensor observations obtained only from mapped obstacles. First, we evaluated the performance of the proposed approach using simulations. Further, we tested the proposed approach in a real-world mobile robot navigation competition, called 'Tsukuba Challenge,' held in Japan. The robustness and effectiveness of the proposed approach against environment dynamics were verified from the experimental results.

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  48. Personal Mobility Vehicle Autonomous Navigation Through Pedestrian Flow: A Data Driven Approach for Parameter Extraction

    Morales Y., Akai N., Murase H.

    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems     頁: 3438 - 3444   2018年12月

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    In this paper we present a data driven approach for safe and smooth autonomous navigation of a personal mobility vehicle (PMV) when facing moving obstacles such as people and bicycles in public pedestrian paths. In a period of three months, data from five different persons driving the robotic PMV in an outdoor environment while facing pedestrians were collected. 2465 clean tracks around the vehicle together with PMVs trajectories were collected. We performed an analysis of the parameters involved for human-driven smooth navigation. Relevant parameters regarding PMV-Human interaction included distance to moving objects, passing side and velocities. Moreover, data suggests the existence of a social navigational distance for the PWv. For autonomous navigation we implemented a Frenet planner to achieve safe and smooth navigation for the passenger and pedestrians around. Experimental results in real pedestrian paths show that the PMV is capable of smoothly following its path while facing pedestrians and bicycles.

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  49. A Slope-robust Cascaded Ground Segmentation in 3D Point Cloud for Autonomous Vehicles

    Narksri P., Takeuchi E., Ninomiya Y., Morales Y., Akai N., Kawaguchi N.

    IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC   2018-November 巻   頁: 497 - 504   2018年12月

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    In this paper, a slope-robust cascaded ground segmentation in 3D point cloud for autonomous vehicles is presented. In many challenging terrains encountered by autonomous vehicles where the ground does not have a simple planar shape such as sloped roads, many existing ground segmentation algorithms fail. The proposed algorithm aims to correctly segment ground points in scans where these challenging terrains are present. The proposed method consists of two main steps. First, filtering the majority of non-ground points using the geometry of the sensor and the distance between consecutive rings in the scan. In the second step, multi-region RANSAC plane fitting is used to separate remaining non-ground points from ground points in the scan. The 3D data was taken and partially labeled for quantitative evaluation. The experimental results were outstanding as the proposed algorithm could segment the ground correctly in various challenging terrains. The proposed algorithm could correctly segment ground points in the scan even in sloped terrains and achieved higher accuracy than other algorithms used in the evaluation.

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  50. Driving Feature Extraction and Behavior Classification Using an Autoencoder to Reproduce the Velocity Styles of Experts

    Sama K., Morales Y., Akai N., Liu H., Takeuchi E., Takeda K.

    IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC   2018-November 巻   頁: 1337 - 1343   2018年12月

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    In this paper we present a work on encoding, clustering and modeling expert driver behaviors to be reproduced by an autonomous driving car agent. We collected speed, brake, steering wheel and acceleration data from an expert driving in typical Japanese suburban areas. We grouped together consecutive data in a sliding window as the input to a fully connected deep autoencoder for dimension reduction. We then clustered the encoded driving data into 9 different behaviors. For each behavior class, we modeled the speed using a fit of same clustered data and tested the models in a ROS car simulator. Results show that the models created from the clusters could represent different driving behaviors on various roads. Experimental simulations show that the proposed approach can reproduce speed behavior comparable to that of the expert drivers even in new environments.

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  51. Toward Localization-Based Automated Driving in Highly Dynamic Environments: Comparison and Discussion of Observation Models

    Akai N., Morales L., Hirayama T., Murase H.

    IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC   2018-November 巻   頁: 2215 - 2222   2018年12月

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    To robustly localize the pose of an ego vehicle within a dynamic environment, it is important to model the sensor measurements precisely, including changes in the environment. This study describes the observation models developed for localization performed in highly dynamic environments, and presents the results of comparing these models. In this study, four observation models, including our previously proposed model, were compared by conducting a simulation. The models had different ways of coping with changes in the environment, and produced different results. Moreover, the comparison results revealed that each model had its own advantages and disadvantages. Finally, we demonstrated that our previously proposed model can achieve satisfactory performance in terms of computation complexity and estimation accuracy.

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  52. Towards Predictive Driving through Blind Intersections

    Luis Yoichi Morales, Akai Naoki, Yuki Yoshihara, Hiroshi Murase

    IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC   2018-November 巻   頁: 716 - 722   2018年12月

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    © 2018 IEEE. This paper presents an approach for predictive driving when facing blind intersections based on expert data. Expert drivers anticipate and avoid potential dangerous situations. In most cases these complex behaviors cannot be reproduced by state of the art planning approaches. We present an analysis of expert drivers while passing through blind intersections, we extract useful driving features to model the intersection and propose a cost function based on those features. We use inverse reinforcement learning to extract a feature-based cost function and learn its parameters from driver data. Finally, feature weights are computed based on collected expert driving data (using 211 trajectories). Evaluation was performed in terms of trajectory and speed using modified Hausdorff distance. Experimental results show that the planner is capable of computing trajectories comparable to those ones of the expert drivers when facing blind intersections.

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  53. Simultaneous pose and reliability estimation using convolutional neural network and Rao-Blackwellized particle filter

    Akai, N; Morales, LY; Murase, H

    ADVANCED ROBOTICS   32 巻 ( 17 ) 頁: 930 - 944   2018年9月

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    In this study, we propose a novel localization approach that simultaneously estimates the reliability of estimation results. In the approach, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to make decision whether the localization process has failed or not. We train the CNN using a dataset that includes successful localization results and faults. However, the decision will contain some noise and many misdetection results may occur when the decision made by the CNN is used directly to detect faults. Therefore, we estimate both a robot's pose and reliability of the localization results based on the decision. To simultaneously estimate the robot's pose and reliability, we propose a new graphical model and implement a Rao–Blackwellized particle filter based on the model. We evaluated the proposed approach based on simulations and actual environments, which showed that the reliability estimated by the proposed approach can be used as an exact criterion for detecting localization faults. In addition, we show that the proposed approach can be applied in actual environments even when a dataset created from a simulation is used to train the CNN.

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  54. End-to-End Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation with Model-Based System Support

    Carballo Alexander, Seiya Shunya, Lambert Jacob, Darweesh Hatem, Narksri Patiphon, Morales Luis Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Takeuchi Eijiro, Takeda Kazuya

    JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS   30 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 563 - 583   2018年8月

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  55. Teaching-Playback Navigation Without a Consistent Map

    Akai Naoki, Morales Luis Yoichi, Murase Hiroshi

    JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS   30 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 591 - 597   2018年8月

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  56. Tsukuba Challenge 2017 Dynamic Object Tracks Dataset for Pedestrian Behavior Analysis

    Lambert Jacob, Liang Leslie, Morales Luis Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Carballo Alexander, Takeuchi Eijiro, Narksri Patiphon, Seiya Shunya, Takeda Kazuya

    JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS   30 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 598 - 612   2018年8月

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  57. End-to-end autonomous mobile robot navigation with model-based system support

    Carballo A., Seiya S., Lambert J., Darweesh H., Narksri P., Morales L., Akai N., Takeuchi E., Takeda K.

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   30 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 563 - 583   2018年8月

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    Autonomous mobile robot navigation in real unmodified outdoor areas frequented by people on their business, children playing, fast running bicycles, and even robots, remains a difficult challenge. For eleven years, the Tsukuba Challenge Real World Robot Challenge (RWRC) has brought together robots, researchers, companies, government, and ordinary citizens, under the same outdoor space to push forward the limits of autonomous mobile robots. For the Tsukuba Challenge 2017 participation, our team proposed to study the problem of sensors-to-actuators navigation (also called End-to-End), this is, having the robot to navigate towards the destination on a complex path, not only moving straight but also turning at intersections. End-to-End (E2E) navigation was implemented using a convolutional neural network (CNN): the robot learns how to go straight, turn left, and turn right, using camera images and trajectory data. E2E network training and evaluation was performed at Nagoya University, on similar outdoor conditions to that of Tsukuba Challenge 2017 (TC2017). Even thought E2E was trained on a different environment and conditions, the robot successfully followed the designated trajectory in the TC2017 course. Learning how to follow the road no matter the environment is of the key attributes of E2E based navigation. Our E2E does not perform obstacle avoidance and can be affected by illumination and seasonal changes. Therefore, to improve safety and add fault tolerance measures, we developed an E2E navigation approach with model-based system as backup. The model-based system is based on our open source autonomous vehicle software adapted to use on a mobile robot. In this work we describe our approach, implementation, experiences and main contributions.

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  58. Teaching-playback navigation without a consistent map

    Akai N., Morales L., Murase H.

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   30 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 591 - 597   2018年8月

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    This paper presents a teaching-playback navigation method that does not require a consistent map built using simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Many open source projects related to autonomous navigation including SLAM have been made available recently; however, autonomous mobile robot navigation in large-scale environments is still difficult because it is difficult to build a consistent map. The navigation method presented in this paper uses several partial maps to represent an environment map. In other words, the complex mapping process is not necessary to begin autonomous navigation. In addition, the trajectory that the robot travels in the mapping phase can be directly used as a target path. As a result, teaching-playback autonomous navigation can be achieved without any off-line processes. We tested the navigation method using log data taken in the environment of the Tsukuba Challenge and the testing results show its performance. We provide source code for the navigation method, which includes modules required for autonomous navigation (https://github. com/NaokiAkai/AutoNavi).

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  59. Tsukuba challenge 2017 dynamic object tracks dataset for pedestrian behavior analysis

    Lambert J., Liang L., Morales L., Akai N., Carballo A., Takeuchi E., Narksri P., Seiya S., Takeda K.

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   30 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 598 - 612   2018年8月

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    Navigation in social environments, in the absence of traffic rules, is the difficult task at the core of the annual Tsukuba Challenge. In this context, a better understanding of the soft rules that influence social dynamics is key to improve robot navigation. Prior research attempts to model social behavior through microscopic interactions, but the resulting emergent behavior depends heavily on the initial conditions, in particular the macroscopic setting. As such, data-driven studies of pedestrian behavior in a fixed environment may provide key insight into this macroscopic aspect, but appropriate data is scarcely available. To support this stream of research, we release an open-source dataset of dynamic object trajectories localized in a map of 2017 Tsukuba Challenge environment. A data collection platform equipped with lidar, camera, IMU, and odometry repeatedly navigated the challenge’s course, recording observations of passersby. Using a background map, we localized ourselves in the environment, removed the static background from the point cloud data, clustered the remaining points into dynamic objects and tracked their movements over time. In this work, we present the Tsukuba Challenge Dynamic Object Tracks dataset, which features nearly 10,000 trajectories of pedestrians, cyclists, and other dynamic agents, in particular autonomous robots. We provide a 3D map of the environment used as global frame for all trajectories. For each trajectory, we provide at regular time intervals an estimated position, velocity, heading, and rotational velocity, as well as bounding boxes for the objects and segmented lidar point clouds. As additional contribution, we provide a discussion which focuses on some discernible macroscopic patterns in the data.

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  60. Retrieving a driving model based on clustered intersection data

    Sama K., Morales Y., Akai N., Takeuchi E., Takeda K.

    2018 3rd International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering, ICCRE 2018     頁: 222 - 226   2018年6月

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    In order for autonomous vehicles to learn how to naturally navigate through an intersection, we present a method of learning from expert drivers using inverse reinforcement learning. We cluster different intersections according to how experts drive through them and train a model based on each class of intersection. With these models to choose from, as the agent encounters various situations, it can retrieve the corresponding model and execute the most fit policy. The models were trained from 308 trajectories recorded from 5 different drivers at 3 intersections. These clusters were then used to classify a further 5 more intersections. The approach is evaluated in a simulator where we provide a global path to be followed by the vehicle where at each intersection it drives according to the trained policies.

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  61. Autonomous driving based on accurate localization using multilayer LiDAR and dead reckoning

    Akai N., Morales L., Yamaguchi T., Takeuchi E., Yoshihara Y., Okuda H., Suzuki T., Ninomiya Y.

    IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC   2018-March 巻   頁: 1 - 6   2018年3月

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    In this study, we developed an autonomous driving system for mountainous public roads. Three-dimensional normal distribution transform (NDT) scan matching is employed for localization and a model predictive controller is utilized for vehicle motion control. In order to increase the robustness of the localization method, the estimated poses are computed by an extended Kalman filter using dead reckoning and NDT information. The uncertainty of the pose estimated by NDT is determined by using the Hessian matrix computed in the optimization process for scan matching. We conducted experiments in a public road environment over 20 times and all of the tests were successful. The experimental results confirmed that the autonomous driving system can operate reliably in mountainous public roads. In addition, the evaluation results obtained for the localization method showed that accurate and robust localization can be achieved in mountainous rural environments.

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  62. A Slope-robust Cascaded Ground Segmentation in 3D Point Cloud for Autonomous Vehicles

    Narksri Patiphon, Takeuchi Eijiro, Ninomiya Yoshiki, Morales Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Kawaguchi Nobuo

    2018 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC)     頁: 497 - 504   2018年

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  63. Driving Feature Extraction and Behavior Classification Using an Autoencoder to Reproduce the Velocity Styles of Experts

    Sama Kyle, Morales Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Liu Hailong, Takeuchi Eijiro, Takeda Kazuya

    2018 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC)     頁: 1337 - 1343   2018年

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  64. Mobile Robot Localization Considering Class of Sensor Observations

    Akai Naoki, Morales Luis Yoichi, Murase Hiroshi

    2018 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)     頁: 3159 - 3166   2018年

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  65. Toward Localization-Based Automated Driving in Highly Dynamic Environments: Comparison and Discussion of Observation Models

    Akai Naoki, Morales Luis Yoichi, Hirayama Takatsugu, Murase Hiroshi

    2018 21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC)     頁: 2215 - 2222   2018年

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  66. Retrieving a Driving Model Based on Clustered Intersection Data

    Sama Kyle, Morales Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Takeuchi Eijiro, Takeda Kazuya

    2018 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTROL AND ROBOTICS ENGINEERING (ICCRE)     頁: 222 - 226   2018年

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  67. Personal Mobility Vehicle Autonomous Navigation through Pedestrian Flow: A Data Driven Approach for Parameter Extraction

    Morales Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Murase Hiroshi

    2018 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)     頁: 3438 - 3444   2018年

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  68. Reliability Estimation of Vehicle Localization Result

    Akai, N; Morales, LY; Murase, H

    2018 IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV)     頁: 740 - 747   2018年

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  69. Autonomous predictive driving for blind intersections

    Yoshihara Y., Morales Y., Akai N., Takeuchi E., Ninomiya Y.

    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems   2017-September 巻   頁: 3452 - 3459   2017年12月

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    This paper presents a model for safe driving at blind intersections and its integration to a local planner based on a Frenet frame. The model predicts potential moving obstacles from blind intersections to proactively slow down to avoid potential collisions. The derivation of the model is described and its parameters are detailed. The local planner computes smooth trajectories with smooth velocity profiles so that the vehicle can follow the paths without jerk and sudden accelerations resulting in safe and comfortable navigation. Experimental results in simulation and in the real field with an autonomous car, show that the proposed predictive driving framework can reproduce human expert driver's trajectories and velocities when facing blind intersections.

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  70. Localization based on multiple visual-metric maps

    Sujiwo A., Takeuchi E., Morales L.Y., Akai N., Ninomiya Y., Edahiro M.

    IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems   2017-November 巻   頁: 212 - 219   2017年12月

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    This paper presents a fusion of monocular camera-based metric localization, IMU and odometry in dynamic environments of public roads. We build multiple vision-based maps and use them at the same time in localization phase. For the mapping phase, visual maps are built by employing ORB-SLAM and accurate metric positioning from LiDAR-based NDT scan matching. This external positioning is utilized to correct for scale drift inherent in all vision-based SLAM methods. Next in the localization phase, these embedded positions are used to estimate the vehicle pose in metric global coordinates using solely monocular camera. Furthermore, to increase system robustness we also proposed utilization of multiple maps and sensor fusion with odometry and IMU using particle filter method. Experimental testing were performed through public road environment as far as 170 km at different times of day to evaluate and compare localization results of vision-only, GNSS and sensor fusion methods. The results show that sensor fusion method offers lower average errors than GNSS and better coverage than vision-only one.

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  71. 3D magnetic field mapping in large-scale indoor environment using measurement robot and Gaussian processes

    Akai N., Ozaki K.

    2017 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2017   2017-January 巻   頁: 1 - 7   2017年11月

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    Magnetic fields are used for localization and navigation in the field of robotics. In recent years, because of the spread of mobile devices equipped with magnetic sensors (e.g., smart phones), the use of magnetic fields has been extensive, especially for position tracking of mobile devices. One example application of such tracking is in identifying the position of a person with a mobile device. Development of this application requires a three-dimensional (3D) magnetic map that represents the magnetic distribution of a 3D environment since the device moves around in 3D space. It is, however, difficult to construct a 3D magnetic map of a large-scale environment because measuring the magnetic field is time consuming and expensive. In this paper we propose an efficient method for mapping the 3D magnetic field of a large-scale environment. The method uses a mobile manipulator to measure the 3D magnetic field, enabling 3D magnetic data to be automatically collected. Moreover, the method uses Gaussian processes (GPS) for regression of the magnetic field. In this study, we first evaluate the performance of the GPS and then describe the measurement robot. In an experiment, a 3D magnetic field of an indoor environment is visualized by using this method and the performance of the presented method is demonstrated.

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  72. Open Source Integrated Planner for Autonomous Navigation in Highly Dynamic Environments

    Darweesh Hatem, Takeuchi Eijiro, Takeda Kazuya, Ninomiya Yoshiki, Sujiwo Adi, Morales Luis Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Tomizawa Tetsuo, Kato Shinpei

    JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS   29 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 668 - 684   2017年8月

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  73. Robust and Accurate Monocular Vision-Based Localization in Outdoor Environments of Real-World Robot Challenge

    Sujiwo Adi, Takeuchi Eijiro, Morales Luis Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Darweesh Hatem, Ninomiya Yoshiki, Edahiro Masato

    JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS   29 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 685 - 696   2017年8月

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  74. Open source integrated planner for autonomous navigation in highly dynamic environments

    Darweesh H., Takeuchi E., Takeda K., Ninomiya Y., Sujiwo A., Morales L.Y., Akai N., Tomizawa T., Kato S.

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   29 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 668 - 684   2017年8月

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    Planning is one of the cornerstones of autonomous robot navigation. In this paper we introduce an open source planner called “OpenPlanner” for mobile robot navigation, composed of a global path planner, a behavior state generator and a local planner. Open-Planner requires a map and a goal position to compute a global path and execute it while avoiding obstacles. It can also trigger behaviors, such as stopping at traffic lights. The global planner generates smooth, global paths to be used as a reference, after considering traffic costs annotated in the map. The local planner generates smooth, obstacle-free local trajectories which are used by a trajectory tracker to achieve low level control. The behavior state generator handles situations such as path tracking, object following, obstacle avoidance, emergency stopping, stopping at stop signs and traffic light negotiation. OpenPlanner is evaluated in simulation and field experimentation using a non-holonomic Ackerman steering-based mobile robot. Results from simulation and field experimentation indicate that OpenPlanner can generate global and local paths dynamically, navigate smoothly through a highly dynamic environments and operate reliably in real time. OpenPlanner has been implemented in the Autoware open source autonomous driving framework’s Robot Operating System (ROS).

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  75. Robust and accurate monocular vision-based localization in outdoor environments of real-world robot challenge

    Sujiwo A., Takeuchi E., Morales L.Y., Akai N., Darweesh H., Ninomiya Y., Edahiro M.

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   29 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 685 - 696   2017年8月

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    This paper describes our approach to perform robust monocular camera metric localization in the dynamic environments of Tsukuba Challenge 2016. We address two issues related to vision-based navigation. First, we improved the coverage by building a custom vocabulary out of the scene and improving upon place recognition routine which is key for global localization. Second, we established possibility of lifelong localization by using previous year’s map. Experimental results show that localization coverage was higher than 90% for six different data sets taken in different years, while localization average errors were under 0.2 m. Finally, the average of coverage for data sets tested with maps taken in different years was of 75%.

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  76. Proactive driving modeling in blind intersections based on expert driver data

    Morales Y., Yoshihara Y., Akai N., Takeuchi E., Ninomiya Y.

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings     頁: 901 - 907   2017年7月

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    This paper presents a model for velocity control in blind corners and intersections based on expert driver data. Accurate expert driver data was collected with a car equipped with a 3D LiDAR and high definition maps. A model based on human expert driver data is used to control the velocity of the ego-vehicle when facing blind intersections. The model regulates ego-vehicle velocity based on the visibility of the road at the blind intersection. As the vehicle approximates the intersection and crossing roads are not visible, the vehicle slows down, then as the roads become visible the vehicle accelerates. Experimental results show the performance of the velocity model compared towards 270 trajectories taken from 7 expert drivers towards 6 different intersections without mandatory stops.

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  77. Robust localization using 3D NDT scan matching with experimentally determined uncertainty and road marker matching

    Akai N., Morales L., Takeuchi E., Yoshihara Y., Ninomiya Y.

    IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings     頁: 1356 - 1363   2017年7月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)   出版者・発行元:IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings  

    In this paper, we present a localization approach that is based on a point-cloud matching method (normal distribution transform 'NDT') and road-marker matching based on the light detection and ranging intensity. Point-cloud map-based localization methods enable autonomous vehicles to accurately estimate their own positions. However, accurate localization and 'matching error' estimations cannot be performed when the appearance of the environment changes, and this is common in rural environments. To cope with these inaccuracies, in this work, we propose to estimate the error of NDT scan matching beforehand (off-line). Then, as the vehicle navigates in the environment, the appropriate uncertainty is assigned to the scan matching. 3D NDT scan matching utilizes the uncertainty information that is estimated off-line, and is combined with a road-marker matching approach using a particle-filtering algorithm. As a result, accurate localization can be performed in areas in which 3D NDT failed. In addition, the uncertainty of the localization is reduced. Experimental results show the performance of the proposed method.

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  78. Autonomous Predictive Driving for Blind Intersections

    Yoshihara Yuki, Morales Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Takeuchi Eijiro, Ninomiya Yoshiki

    2017 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)     頁: 3452 - 3459   2017年

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  79. Autonomous Driving Based on Accurate Localization Using Multilayer LiDAR and Dead Reckoning

    Akai Naoki, Morales Luis Yoichi, Yamaguchi Takuma, Takeuchi Eijiro, Yoshihara Yuki, Okuda Hiroyuki, Suzuki Tatsuya, Ninomiya Yoshiki

    2017 IEEE 20TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITSC)     2017年

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  80. 3D Magnetic Field Mapping in Large-Scale Indoor Environment Using Measurement Robot and Gaussian Processes

    Akai Naoki, Ozaki Koichi

    2017 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDOOR POSITIONING AND INDOOR NAVIGATION (IPIN)     2017年

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  81. Localization Based on Multiple Visual-Metric Maps

    Sujiwo Adi, Takeuchi Eijiro, Morales Luis Yoichi, Akai Naoki, Ninomiya Yoshiki, Edahiro Masato

    2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MULTISENSOR FUSION AND INTEGRATION FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS (MFI)     頁: 212 - 219   2017年

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  82. Robust Localization Using 3D NDT Scan Matching with Experimentally Determined Uncertainty and Road Marker Matching

    Akai Naoki, Morales Luis Yoichi, Takeuchi Eijiro, Yoshihara Yuki, Ninomiya Yoshiki

    2017 28TH IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV 2017)     頁: 1356 - 1363   2017年

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  83. Proactive Driving Modeling in Blind Intersections based on Expert Driver Data

    Morales Yoichi, Yoshihara Yuki, Akai Naoki, Takeuchi Eijiro, Ninomiya Yoshiki

    2017 28TH IEEE INTELLIGENT VEHICLES SYMPOSIUM (IV 2017)     頁: 901 - 907   2017年

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  84. Pure Pursuit Revisited: Field Testing of Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Areas

    Ohta, H; Akai, N; Takeuchi, E; Kato, S; Edahiro, M

    PROCEEDINGS OF 2016 IEEE 4TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, AND APPLICATIONS (CPSNA)     頁: 7 - 12   2016年12月

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    In this paper, we aim to explore path following. We implement a path following component by referring to the existing Pure Pursuit algorithm. Using the simulation and field operational test, we identified the problem in the path following component. The main problems identified were with respect to vehicles meandering off the path, turning a corner, and the instability of steering control. Therefore, we apply some modifications to the Pure Pursuit[1] algorithm. We have also conducted the simulation and field operational tests again to evaluate these modifications.

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  85. Development of Autonomous Mobile Robot that Can Navigate in Rainy Situations

    Akai Naoki, Kakigi Yasunari, Yoneyama Shogo, Ozaki Koichi

    JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS AND MECHATRONICS   28 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 441 - 450   2016年8月

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  86. Development of autonomous mobile robot that can navigate in rainy situations

    Akai N., Kakigi Y., Yoneyama S., Ozaki K.

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   28 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 441 - 450   2016年8月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:富士技術出版株式会社  

    The Real World Robot Challenge (RWRC), a technical challenge for mobile outdoor robots, has robots automatically navigate a predetermined path over 1 km with the objective of detecting specific persons. RWRC 2015 was conducted in the rain and every robot could not complete the mission. This was because sensors on the robots detected raindrops and the robots then generated unexpected behavior, indicating the need to study the influence of rain on mobile navigation systems – a study clearly not yet sufficient. We begin by describing our robot’s waterproofing function, followed by investigating the influence of rain on the external sensors commonly used in mobile robot navigation and discuss how the robot navigates autonomous in the rain. We conducted navigation experiments in artificial and actual rainy environments and those results showed that the robot navigates stably in the rain.

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  87. A navigation method based on topological magnetic and geometric maps for outdoor mobile robots

    Naoki Akai, Koichi Ozaki

    2015 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2015     頁: 352 - 357   2016年2月

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    © 2015 IEEE. This paper proposes a novel navigation method based on topological magnetic and geometric maps for outdoor mobile robots. In this method, a state of a robot is represented by a travel distance and a lateral error, which is a distance from the travel path to the robot. In order to estimate the travel distance, a magnetic map which represents a magnetic field of the travel path is used. Since the magnetic field does not depend on moving objects, the travel distance can be robustly estimated against changes in geometric situations. However, deviating from the travel path is a fatal problem since the magnetic map does not record other magnetic fields of the travel path. To compensate this deviation, the lateral error is estimated by using geometric landmarks. Since this estimation is performed after the travel distance estimate, the lateral error can be stably estimated even if many moving objects surround the robot. As a result, the robot exactly navigates the travel path. Simulation and actual experiments are conducted to show the effectiveness and performance of the proposed method.

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  88. Gaussian processes for magnetic map-based localization in large-scale indoor environments

    Naoki Akai, Koichi Ozaki

    IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems   2015-December 巻   頁: 4459 - 4464   2015年12月

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    © 2015 IEEE. The magnetic field that exists in an indoor environment includes rich magnetic fluctuations because buildings contain many magnetized materials (e.g., steel frames). These fluctuations can be used as landmarks, the use of which requires the creation of a magnetic map representing the distribution of the magnetic field. It is, however, difficult to build a large-scale magnetic map because of the narrow measurement range of a magnetic sensor. This paper proposes an efficient method for collecting magnetic data using a mobile robot and a method for building a magnetic map using Gaussian processes. The use of these methods make it possible to build a large-scale magnetic map efficiently. Moreover, this paper presents a particle filter-based localization method based on the magnetic map. The presented system enables a robot to identify its own position in large-scale buildings. Experiments are used to demonstrate the performance and usefulness of the presented system.

    DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2015.7354010

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  89. Color Extraction Using Multiple Photographs taken with Different Exposure Time in RWRC

    Kenji Yamauchi, Naoki Akai, Koichi Ozaki

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   27 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 365 - 373   2015年

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:FUJI TECHNOLOGY PRESS LTD  

    Copyright 2015, Fuji Technology Press , All Rights Reserved. Extracting the color of a target object from images in environments with different illumination conditions, such as outdoors, is difficult because color performance changes easily. The novel color extraction we propose enables the exact color of a target object to be extracted using multiple photographs taken with different exposure times. The object’s color performance transits due to changes in exposure time. This transition is the same as when environmental light sources do not change significantly. In outdoor environment, most situations are regarded as that situation. We first indicate this in an experimental analysis, then detail our proposal. Our method evaluates transition and realizes precise color extraction of target objects in outdoors. We apply this method to an orange cap in the Tsukuba Real-World Robot Challenge. Through experiments, we show that the cap is detected accurately in different environments and discuss the method’s effectiveness and usefulness in the real world.

    DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2015.p0365

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  90. Development of Mobile Robot “SARA” that Completed Mission in Real World Robot Challenge 2014

    Naoki Akai, Kenji Yamauchi, Kazumichi Inoue, Yasunari Kakigi, Yuki Abe, Koichi Ozaki

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   27 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 327 - 336   2015年

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    Copyright 2015, Fuji Technology Press , All Rights Reserved. Held in Japan every year since 2007, the Real World Robot Challenge (RWRC) is a technical challenge for mobile robots. Every robot is given the missions of traveling a long distance and finding specific persons autonomously. The robots must also have an affinity for people and be remotely monitored. In order to complete the missions, we developed a new mobile robot, SARA, which we entered in RWRC 2014. The robot successfully completed all of the missions of the challenge. In this paper, the systems we implemented are detailed. Moreover, results of experiments and of the challenge are presented, and knowledges we gained through the experience are discussed.

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  91. Development of magnetic navigation method based on distributed control system using magnetic and geometric landmarks

    Naoki Akai, Sam Ann Rahok, Kazumichi Inoue, Koichi Ozaki

    Intensive Care Medicine   1 巻 ( 1 ) 頁: 1 - 11   2014年11月

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    © 2014, Akai et al.; licensee Springer. Background: In order for a robot to autonomously run in outdoor environments, a robust and stable navigation method is necessary. Especially, to run in real-world environments, robustness against moving objects is important since many pedestrians and bicycles come and go. Magnetic field, which is not influenced by the moving objects, is considered to be an effective information for autonomous navigation.Methods: Localization technique using a magnetic map, which records ambient magnetic field, has been proposed. The magnetic map is expressed as a linear map. When using this linear magnetic map, swerving from the desired path is a fatal problem. It is because that the magnetic map contains only magnetic data on a desired path. In the paper, we propose a novel navigation method which allows a robot to precisely navigate on a desired path even if localization is performed on the basis of the linear magnetic map. The navigation is performed by using a control method based on a DCS (Distributed Control System). In the system, several navigation modules are executed in parallel, and they independently control the robot by using magnetic and geometric landmarks.Results and discussion: We conducted three navigation experiments. Our robot could perfectly accomplish all navigation even if it was disturbed by many moving objects during the navigation.Conclusions: The control method based on the DCS could switch the navigation module for controlling the robot to cope against the change of its surroundings. The precise and robust navigation was achieved with the proposed method.

    DOI: 10.1186/s40648-014-0021-8

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  92. The realization and evaluation of the reins' control method

    Qingsong Han, Naoki Akai, Kazumichi Inoue, Koichi Ozaki

    Proceedings of the 2014 9th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2014     頁: 621 - 623   2014年10月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(国際会議プロシーディングス)   出版者・発行元:IEEE  

    © 2014 IEEE. Realizing robots' controlling in controlling way of saving dof has a broad prospect and applied space using control technology. The paper discussed controlling horses using reins as inspiration, realizing the operation of mobile equipment of reins' control. The experiment confirmed the feasibility of operation by the first stage; Comparing the operating system of reins with the operating system of games' handle that people are very familiar by the experimental research of the second stage, getting the conclusion that the operating of reins is equivalent to handles' operation, and the evaluations of the implementation is better than the handles'. The test results show that the control system is very accordant for intuitive feelings of the user of mobile devices' control demand, and can skillfully master the main point of the operation in a very short time. The results of studying provide a useful way of thinking for the development and evaluation of the personal mobile way.

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  93. Autonomous mobile robot MAUV – mission achievement on Tsukuba challenge 2011, 12 and 13

    Naoki Akai, Kazumichi Inoue, Sam Ann Rahok, Masatoshi Shinohara, Koichi Ozaki

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   26 巻 ( 5 ) 頁: 657 - 658   2014年10月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:FUJI TECHNOLOGY PRESS LTD  

    © 2014, Fuji Technology Press. All rights reserved. We developed MAUV, an autonomous mobile robot that has navigation using two types of landmarks; ambient magnetic and geometric. This enables the robot to localize robustly in actual outdoor environments. The robot achieved missions in Tsukuba Challenge 2011, 12, and 13.

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  94. Development of a personal mobility robot “NENA”

    Kazumichi Inoue, Naoki Akai, Koichi Ozaki

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   26 巻 ( 5 ) 頁: 659 - 659   2014年10月

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    © 2014, Fuji Technology Press. All rights reserved. A mobility robot “NENA” which can carry one person was developed by Utsunomiya University. The robot was developed based on the concept called “Design Framework” and it allowed the robot to equip with functions needed for manual driving and autonomous running and acceptable design for people. The robot fulfilled safety required for mobility robots used in the Tsukuba Mobility Robot Experimental Zone.

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  95. Autonomous navigation based on magnetic and geometric landmarks on environmental structure in real world

    Naoki Akai, Kazumichi Inoue, Koichi Ozaki

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   26 巻 ( 2 ) 頁: 158 - 165   2014年4月

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    記述言語:英語   掲載種別:研究論文(学術雑誌)   出版者・発行元:FUJI TECHNOLOGY PRESS LTD  

    For the Real World Robot Challenge (RWRC) 2013, a new task was established: every robot was required to search for designated persons. In this paper, therefore, we consider the difficulty of the task and construct a navigation strategy to achieve the task. To navigate a robot on the basis of the strategy, long distance navigation is necessary. We have developed a unique navigation method based on magnetic and geometric landmarks on environmental structures in various locations. This method allows a robot to robustly localize by evaluating the reliability of magnetic and geometric landmarks. By using this method, a robot can navigate stably, even if there are no existing landmarks to serve as objects. We achieved autonomous navigation over long distances and successfully searched out designated persons as the challenge of the RWRC2013. This paper presents our navigation method and discusses long distance navigation using the method.

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  96. Person detection method based on color layout in real world robot challenge 2013

    Kenji Yamauchi, Naoki Akai, Ryutaro Unai, Kazumichi Inoue, Koichi Ozaki

    Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics   26 巻 ( 2 ) 頁: 151 - 157   2014年4月

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    In Real World Robot Challenge 2013, a mission was added that had robots search for a person wearing clothes featuring unique colors. We focus on the layout of such clothes with the aim of detecting persons wearing them by applying color extraction. Color extraction is improved by preprocessing of a clipping image from the robot's vision and possibly extracting colors worn by target persons stably in natural light. Persons are detected by simply evaluating the layout of target colors. Our robots were equipped with person detection for this challenge and have detected all targeted persons. This paper describes considerations about person detection performance based on pre- and postchallenge results.

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  97. Precise color extraction method based on color transition due to change in exposure time

    Kenji Yamauchi, Naoki Akai, Koichi Ozaki

    2014 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2014     頁: 275 - 280   2014年1月

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    © 2014 IEEE. This paper proposes a novel color extraction method using multiple images taken with different exposure time. Although using the multiple images is a famous technique to recover a high dynamic range radiance map, we do not use it. Alternatively, we focus on that any color performance is uniformly transited by changing exposure time even if under various illumination conditions. In this paper, we indicate it experimentally and develop a color extraction method with this characteristic. In the experiment, we set orange color as desired color and conducted color extraction to orange, red, and yellow colors in outdoor environments. Our proposed method exactly extracted only orange color from images under extreme exposure conditions.

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  98. Monte Carlo localization using magnetic sensor and lidar for real world navigation

    Naoki Akai, Satoshi Hoshino, Kazumichi Inoue, Koichi Ozaki

    2013 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration, SII 2013     頁: 682 - 687   2013年

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    For realizing more stable outdoor navigation for mobile robots, this paper proposes a localization method using a magnetic sensor and a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR). In the proposed method, Monte Carlo Localization (MCL) using the LIDAR and a determination method of a heading direction using the ambient magnetic field are combined. In other words, the proposal distribution becomes dense at the true state of the robot by using the ambient magnetic field. The determination method is based on the advantage of the magnetic navigation proposed by us. By the proposed method, the robot enabled to navigate with accuracy in the outdoor environment, since the robust localization is realized. The effectiveness of the proposed method is shown through experiments. Moreover, two robots implemented the proposed method achieved the task of Real World Robot Challenge 2012. This means that the proposed method is effective for real world navigation. © 2013 IEEE.

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  1. LiDARを用いた高度自己位置推定システム : 移動ロボットのための自己位置推定の高性能化とその実装例

    赤井 直紀

    コロナ社  2022年  ( ISBN:9784339032406

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  1. 磁場マップを用いた屋内位置測位システムの開発 スマートフォンを用いた歩行軌跡の精度検証

    清水友理, 赤井直紀  

    大成建設技術センター報(CD-ROM) ( 54 )   2021年

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  2. 東海国立大学機構における「航空宇宙設計・生産融合人材育成プログラム」

    伊藤和晃, 服部一隆, 渡口翼, 上木諭, 八田禎之, 石原秀昭, 川添博光, 稲守孝哉, 後藤圭太, 椿野大輔, 赤井直紀, 山口皓平, 砂田茂, 佐宗章弘  

    日本航空宇宙学会中部・関西支部合同秋期大会講演論文集(CD-ROM)58th 巻   2021年

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  3. ハイブリッド型屋内位置測位システムの開発 その2 PDR+磁場マップを用いた歩行軌跡の精度検証

    清水友理, 赤井直紀  

    日本建築学会大会学術講演梗概集・建築デザイン発表梗概集(CD-ROM)2021 巻   2021年

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  4. 最適化に基づく単眼自己位置推定のベイズフィルタによる融合とそれに基づくクアッドコプタの自律ナビゲーション

    赤井直紀, 嵐和也, 安井浩毅, サリュー カン, 椿野大輔, 原進  

    日本ロボット学会学術講演会予稿集(CD-ROM)39th 巻   2021年

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  5. GPS×カメラ×地図 初歩の自己位置推定 第2部 初めての自己位置推定ロボティクス 第6章 自己位置推定ツール 6)3D点群とモデルで推定!粒子フィルタ

    赤井直紀  

    トランジスタ技術56 巻 ( 10 )   2020年

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  6. LiDARを用いた自己位置推定における潜在変数全結合型のマルコフ確率場を用いたミスマッチ検出

    赤井直紀, 平山高嗣, 村瀬洋  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2020 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 2P1 - K14   2020年

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    <p>This paper presents a misalignment recognition method using a Markov random field with fully connected latent variables for LiDAR-based localization. The major difficulty for the misalignment recognition is that considering entire relation of sensor measurement in localization is impossible because it must be assumed that the sensor measurement is independent to one another. The presented method enables to consider the entire relation via the fully connected latent variables. This paper also presents a calculation method of localization failure probability based on the misalignment recognition. Experiments show that the presented method can exactly detect misalignment even though partial sensor measurement overlaps with a map and can exactly recognize success and failure localization results.</p>

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  7. GPS×カメラ×地図 初歩の自己位置推定 第2部 初めての自己位置推定ロボティクス 第7章 自己位置推定ツール 7)推定結果の信頼度を数値化!ニューラル・ネットワーク

    赤井直紀  

    トランジスタ技術56 巻 ( 10 )   2020年

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  8. 確率的自己位置推定法における機械学習の併用

    赤井直紀, 平山高嗣, 村瀬洋  

    日本ロボット学会学術講演会予稿集(CD-ROM)37th 巻   2019年

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  9. 観測物体のクラスを考慮した自己位置推定

    赤井直紀, MORALES Luis Yoichi, 平山高嗣, 村瀬洋  

    ロボティクスシンポジア予稿集24th 巻   2019年

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    電気・電子・情報関係学会東海支部連合大会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2019 巻   2019年

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    赤井直紀, 平山高嗣, MORALES Luis Yoichi, 赤木康宏, LIU Hailong, 村瀬洋  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2019 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 2A1 - E05   2019年

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    <p>This paper presents a driving behavior modeling method using autoregressive input-output hidden Markov models (AIOHMMs). First, model parameter learning and discrimination ways using the AIOHMMs are detailed. In experiments, we model four driving maneuvers with driver's eye-gaze and ego-vehicle localization information and compare maneuver discrimination performances by four types of HMMs. Additionally, we discuss modeling performance by the AIOHMMs through the experiments.</p>

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2019.2A1-E05

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  12. 電動車いす運転の習熟に伴う視行動変化の分析

    前川大和, 赤井直紀, MORALES Luis Yoichi, 平山高嗣, 出口大輔, 川西康友, 井手一郎, 村瀬洋  

    電子情報通信学会大会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2019 巻   2019年

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  13. LiDARを用いた自車両位置認識結果の信頼度推定 査読有り

    赤井 直紀, モラレス ルイス 洋一, 平山 高嗣, 村瀬 洋  

    自動車技術会論文集50 巻 ( 2 ) 頁: 609 - 615   2019年

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    自車両位置認識は自動運転における基幹技術であり,位置認識の失敗は自動運転自体の失敗へ直結する危険がある.しかし,その認識結果の正誤を保証する術はない.本稿では,位置認識の正誤を学習した学習機の出力を新たな観測変数として利用し,ロバストに位置認識結果の正誤(信頼度)を推定するモデルを提案・検証する.

    DOI: 10.11351/jsaeronbun.50.609

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  14. 幾何地図上での観測物体の有無を考慮した自己位置推定

    赤井直紀, モラレスルイス 洋一, 平山高嗣, 村瀬洋  

    計測自動制御学会論文集55 巻 ( 11 ) 頁: 745 - 753   2019年

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    <p>This paper presents a localization approach that simultaneously estimates a robot's pose and class of sensor observations, where "class" categorizes the sensor observations as those obtained from known and unknown objects on a given geometric map. The proposed approach is implemented using Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering algorithm. The robot's pose can be robustly estimated utilizing sensor observations obtained from the only known objects by the simultaneous estimation. The proposed approach is efficient in terms of computational complexity because its complexity is same as that of the likelihood field model. Performance of the proposed approach was shown through experiments using a 2D LiDAR simulator.</p>

    DOI: 10.9746/sicetr.55.745

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  15. 完全自動運転実現のための信頼度付き自己位置推定の提案

    赤井直紀, 平山高嗣, 村瀬洋  

    計測自動制御学会システム・情報部門学術講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2019 巻   2019年

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  16. 「空間移動自動運転技術」自動運転のための運転知能と今後の展開 査読有り

    鈴木達也, 赤井直紀, 出口大輔  

    人工知能34 巻 ( 2 ) 頁: 206 - 214   2019年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 人工知能学会  

    DOI: 10.11517/jjsai.34.2_206

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  17. 整合性の取れた地図を要しない移動ロボットのためのティーチングプレイバックナビゲーション

    赤井直紀, モラレスルイス洋一, 平山高嗣, 村瀬洋  

    日本ロボット学会学術講演会予稿集(CD-ROM)36th 巻   2018年

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  18. 自車両位置認識結果の信頼度推定

    赤井直紀, MORALES Luis Yoichi, 平山高嗣, 村瀬洋  

    自動車技術会大会学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM)2018 巻   2018年

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  19. CNNとRBPFを用いた自己位置と位置推定結果に対する信頼度の同時推定

    赤井直紀, MORALES Luis Yoichi, 村瀬洋  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2018 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 1A1 - J01   2018年

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    <p>This paper presents a novel localization approach that simultaneously estimates a robot's pose and reliability of its estimation. To estimate the reliability, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is used as a decision maker for distinguishing whether localization has failed. The CNN, however, sometimes makes wrong decisions. To reduce influence of the wrong decisions, Rao-Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF) is employed. The reliability can be robustly estimated using the RBPF and it exactly describes successful and failure localization results. Exact performance of the reliability is shown through the experiments.</p>

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2018.1A1-J01

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  20. INS とマルチレイヤー LiDAR を用いた自動運転車両のための高精度自己位置推定

    赤井 直紀, 竹内 栄二朗, 山口 拓真, モラレス ルイス 洋一, 吉原 佑器, 奥田 裕之, 鈴木 達也, 二宮 芳樹  

    自動車技術会論文集49 巻 ( 3 ) 頁: 675 - 681   2018年

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    自動運転を行うためには,走行すべき経路との相対位置関係や,注視すべき物体の情報を得ることが有用であり,そのためにも,自己位置推定は重要な技術である.本稿では,デッドレコニングとマルチレイヤーLIDARによる位置推定結果を融合することで,一般道における高精度位置推定,および自動運転を達成したので報告する.

    DOI: 10.11351/jsaeronbun.49.675

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  21. 死角からの飛び出しリスクと自動運転経路計画の統合

    吉原佑器, MORALES SAIKI Luis Y., 赤井直紀, 竹内栄二朗, 二宮芳樹  

    自動車技術会大会学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM)2017 巻   2017年

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  22. 自動運転におけるLiDARベースの位置推定手法の課題と動向

    赤井直紀  

    月刊車載テクノロジー5 巻 ( 2 ) 頁: 56 - 61   2017年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:技術情報協会  

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  23. IoT,Big dataと交通 自動運転実証実験:位置推定精度の検証

    橘川雄樹, 加藤真平, 赤井直紀, 竹内栄二朗, 枝廣正人  

    IATSS Review (International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences)42 巻 ( 2 ) 頁: 130 - 135   2017年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:国際交通安全学会  

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  24. INSとマルチレイヤーLIDARを用いた高精度自己位置推定に基づく一般公道での自動運転

    赤井直紀, 竹内栄二朗, 山口拓真, MORALES Luis Yoichi, 吉原佑器, 奥田裕之, 鈴木達也, 二宮芳樹  

    自動車技術会大会学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM)2017 巻   2017年

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  25. 異なる露光時間で撮影された画像の輝度値に対する色相と彩度の遷移を用いた色抽出法-つくばチャレンジにおける探索対象衣服の識別に関する検討-

    土方優明, 赤井直紀, 柿木泰成, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2016 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 2A1 - 19b2   2016年

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    <p>Extracting predetermined colors under various illumination conditions like outdoor is difficult. To overcome the problem, we focused on color transition which is obtained by changing camera's exposure and proposed a color extraction method using it. Although this method improves color extraction accuracy from simple color extraction methods which uses a color space such as xy chromaticity diagram or HSV color space, some problems still exist. The objective of this study is to extend this method and evaluate its performance. To extend this method, we propose a new color extraction method using two color transitions, hue and saturation transitions. This performance is evaluated by applying it to a task of the Tsukuba Challenge that is to a find person who wears specific color clothes.</p>

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2016.2A1-19b2

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  26. 残留磁場を用いた自己位置推定法に基づくループ検知法

    赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    日本ロボット学会誌34 巻 ( 6 ) 頁: 397 - 403   2016年

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    This paper proposes a novel loop-closure detection method based on localization using residual magnetism. Although the method uses only a magnetic sensor as external sensor, accurate loop-closure detection can be performed. This is because that precisely distinguishing of magnetic pattern is realized by using normalized cross-correlation. In addition, the method has usefulness that loop-closure detection is executed so fast. The effectiveness and usefulness of the method are shown through experiments.

    DOI: 10.7210/jrsj.34.397

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  27. 死角によって生じる危険度コスト関数の検討

    吉原佑器, 竹内栄二朗, 赤井直紀, 二宮芳樹  

    自動車技術会大会学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM)2016 巻   2016年

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  28. 雨天におけるLIDARを用いたナビゲーションを可能とする自律移動ロボットの開発

    柿木泰成, 赤井直紀, 米山翔悟, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2016 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: 1A1 - 07b4   2016年

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    <p>A LIDAR is commonly used for autonomous mobile navigation. It detects raindrops under rainy situations since its output laser beams collide the drops. This influences against performance of the navigation, for example obstacle avoidance. In this study, we first investigate influence of rain against the LIDAR and then propose a coping method, which contains two ways, for reducing the rain's influence. The first way is a hardware-based coping method that is to add additional waterproof parts. The second way is a software-based coping method that is to remove raindrops from the LIDAR readings like a filtering algorithm. By using these methods, number of raindrop detection is significantly reduced. As a result, autonomous navigation can be performed in rainy situations and its performance is verified in a man-made environment.</p>

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2016.1A1-07b4

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  29. つくばチャレンジ2016における名古屋大学の取組

    赤井直紀, DARWEESH Hatem, 太田裕貴, SUJIWO Adi, 橘川雄樹, 安藤智仁, 山田献二朗, MORALES Luis Yoichi, 竹内栄二朗, 二宮芳樹, 冨沢哲雄, 加藤真平  

    計測自動制御学会システムインテグレーション部門講演会(CD-ROM)17th 巻   2016年

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  30. 先読み運転支援を可能にするための自車両位置推定

    赤井直紀, 竹内栄二朗, SUJIWO Adi, 吉原佑器, MORALES Luis Yoichi, 二宮芳樹  

    自動車技術会大会学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM)2016 巻   2016年

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  31. 先読み運転支援を可能にするための空間認識

    竹内栄二朗, 吉原佑器, 赤井直紀, MORALES SAIKI Luis Yoichi, 二宮芳樹  

    自動車技術会大会学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM)2016 巻   2016年

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  32. 先読み運転支援を可能にするための危険評価

    吉原佑器, MORALES Luis Y., 赤井直紀, 竹内栄二朗, 二宮芳樹  

    自動車技術会大会学術講演会講演予稿集(CD-ROM)2016 巻   2016年

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  33. 色・勾配情報に基づく茎画素検出とエネルギー最小化に基づく茎認識

    熊谷秀樹, 赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    日本ロボット学会学術講演会予稿集(CD-ROM)33rd 巻   2015年

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  34. 磁場の実験的解析と自律移動法への応用

    赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    日本ロボット学会学術講演会予稿集(CD-ROM)33rd 巻   2015年

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  35. 異なる露光時間で撮影された画像を用いた照度変化にロバストな色抽出つくばチャレンジ2015における色抽出に基づく探索対象の検出

    土方優明, 赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    計測自動制御学会システムインテグレーション部門講演会(CD-ROM)16th 巻   2015年

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  36. 環境磁場を用いた移動ロボットの軌跡推定と環境地図構築

    赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2015 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: _2A2 - M05_1-_2A2-M05_4   2015年

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    A SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) problem is major in mobile robotics field about past two decades. In order to solve the problem, a camera and a LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) are generally used. In contrast, this paper proposes a new solution for the problem using a magnetic sensor. Our method is simple since an observation model in RBPF (Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter)-SLAM is replaced by that of a magnetic sensor. However, magnetic sensor-based SLAM has a problem that is so narrow measurement range of the sensor. To deal with the problem, we use a heuristic method to determine surround magnetic field. We conducted experiments in actual outdoor environments including loops and verified its accuracy by using a LIDAR. Through the experiments, it was shwon that our method can close loops and build consistent maps; magnetic and geometric.

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  37. つくばチャレンジ2013の課題を題材とした実環境におけるタスク遂行ロボットの開発

    赤井直紀, 山内健司, 井上一道, 宇内隆太郎, 山本条太郎, 尾崎功一  

    計測自動制御学会論文集51 巻 ( 1 ) 頁: 24 - 31   2015年

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    In Tsukuba Challenge 2013, every robot had to navigate on a given path and detect specific persons wearing showy color clothes. There are many ideal functions for achieving the mission. It is, however, difficult to implement all ideal functions since complex algorithms are required. This paper, therefore, considers simplified functions for achieving the mission even if complex algorithms are not implemented. Our robot can run long distance by using a unique localization method which uses both of magnetic and geometric landmarks. Moreover, it can detect the target based on a color extraction method. These abilities enable the robot to exactly work the simple functions. Through the experiments, it is shown that our robot can exactly achieve the given mission by using only the simplified functions.

    DOI: 10.9746/sicetr.51.24

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  38. 全身触覚ボディを実現するための応力・歪み分布シミュレーションに基づくセンサ配置の決定

    柿木泰成, 赤井直紀, 井上一道, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2015 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: _1P1 - V08_1-_1P1-V08_3   2015年

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    This report describes development of a mobile robot's armor which is enable to detect pushing or touching with any objects on its surface. In order to achieve the purpose, it is necessary to design suitable layout of strain gauges as haptic sensors on the armor when changing surface of the armor such as widely bends or distortion with pushing. The armor should be shapely, and it is to be desired that number of haptic sensors is reduced. Therefore, it is required to detect efficiently changing on the surface by haptic sensors in even small number. In this report, it is shown that the layout by 34 sets of strain gauges as haptic sensors is designed based on analysis of stress on surface of the armor.

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  39. つくばチャレンジのタスク簡略化とそれに基づくナビゲーション戦略

    赤井直紀, 米山翔悟, 柿木泰成, 尾崎功一  

    計測自動制御学会システムインテグレーション部門講演会(CD-ROM)16th 巻   2015年

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  40. 空気圧シリンダを用いて2関節筋を再現した2足歩行ロボットの開発

    中村拓哉, 高橋庸平, 赤井直紀, 阿部有貴, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2014 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: _1A1 - Q03_1-_1A1-Q03_4   2014年

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    Since powerful actuators are required for legged robots in practical use, it is considered that air cylinders, which have high power weight ratio, are suitable. In the report, we design a biped robot using air cylinders as actuators. For controlling air cylinders, it is difficult to apply them for mechanism of robots, since they have not enough precise positioning. Each air cylinder is attached to two links and imitates a bi-articular muscle. By the imitation, position definition precision is increased, even if the air cylinder is used as actuators. Moreover, air cylinders have damper function, and this function can be utilized for absorbing impact from a floor. This report shows these effectiveness by some inspections.

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2014._1A1-Q03_1

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  41. 磁場ノイズを用いた自己位置推定法の有用性検証とそれに基づく自律移動法に関する考察

    赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    日本ロボット学会学術講演会予稿集(CD-ROM)32nd 巻   2014年

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  42. 磁場の実験的解析に基づく磁気ナビゲーション法の実装

    赤井直紀, RAHOK Sam Ann, 片寄浩平, 島田遼, 井上一道, 尾崎功一  

    日本ロボット学会誌32 巻 ( 4 ) 頁: 395 - 402   2014年

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    In practical use of automatic guided vehicles, magnetic markers are widely used. However, an approach of which pattern of magnetic intensity in usual environment is defined as landmarks is not investigated. This reason is that it is difficult to be known environmental magnetic field since magnetic intensity is invisible. This paper shows investigation of environmental magnetic field in actual environment and describes implementation of the magnetic based navigation, magnetic navigation method. As the magnetic investigation, magnetic intensity of the mounted devices in a mobile robot was measured, and condition of efficient layout of the devices was obtained. By the measurement of environmental magnetic field in mentioned condition, pattern of magnetic intensity that is suitable as a landmark is shown in this paper. The mobile robot records magnetic intensity on its travel path as magnetic map, and achieves stable navigation based on the magnetic map. In this paper, performance of the magnetic navigation method is shown by an experiment.

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  43. 環境磁場を利用した自己位置推定と観測の信頼性評価に基づくマルチナビゲータによる自律移動

    赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    ロボティクスシンポジア予稿集19th 巻   2014年

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  44. 広域空間における磁気収集を目的としたパーソナルモビリティロボットの開発

    赤井直紀, 松田卓也, 井上一道, 宇内隆太郎, 山内健司, 山本条太郎, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2014 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: _2A1 - I02_1-_2A1-I02_2   2014年

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    Many studies on autonomous mobile robots field have been worked. However, mobile robots which work in actual environments are not developed yet. We have developed a personal mobility robot which supports persons in civil environment. The robot can also collect magnetic data during driving. It is permitted that we conduct experiments with use of the robot in Tsukuba Mobility Robot Special District. In the report, the specification of the robot is described. Moreover, the possibility is indicated that a constructed magnetic map by the robot can be shared by other robots. Finally, we discuss about the knowledge obtained by developing the robot.

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2014._2A1-I02_1

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  45. 撮影画像による三次元形状認識を用いた原子炉内調査への適用性検討

    上地優, 伊藤主税, 日野竜太郎, 赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    日本原子力学会秋の大会予稿集(CD-ROM)2013 巻   2013年

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  46. 複数移動手法による協調的動作生成を用いた磁気ナビゲーション法の拡張-ROBOMEC2013における道案内デモンストレーションによる実証実験-

    赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2013 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: _2P1 - R07_1-_2P1-R07_4   2013年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    This report describes performance of a guidance robot that leads persons in public space. The robot has a unique navigation system consisting of multiple agents as moving method. One of the moving methods is the magnetic navigation method, which was proposed by the authors, and mainly executed in the navigation system. The other methods are for supporting the magnetic navigation to induce the robot to the target path. Flexible and stable behavior is spontaneously generated by cooperation of processes of every method, which are independently executed. By the navigation system, a robot enables guidance navigation in the public space with pedestrians and bicycles. In ROBOMEC 2013, demonstration guiding participants to the venue will be planed, and it is assumed that many obstacles surrounding the robot. In this report, it is shown performance of the navigation system by experimental results that the robot accomplishes stable guiding navigation in the assumed situation.

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2013._2P1-R07_1

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  47. 磁気情報を用いた自己位置推定と横方向位置補正を組み合わせた低コスト構成の長距離ナビゲーション法の実装

    赤井 直紀, Rahok SAM ANN, 井上 一道, 尾崎 功一  

    日本機械学会論文集 C編79 巻 ( 799 ) 頁: 681 - 690   2013年

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    We have proposed a navigation method using magnetic information that occurs in the environment. This paper proposes a improve navigation method that combines a localization using magnetic information and a lateral error compensation based on external geometric information. In our previous method, it is required to adjust parameters used for the robot navigation. This adjustment is needed excluding unreliable magnetic information. On the other hand, our proposed method enables a robot to travel long distance without adjustment parameters even if the unreliable magnetic information is included. The robot is able to identify its position with the particle filter on a topological map using magnetic information. Furthermore, the robot uses external geometric information for only compensate the lateral error. As a result, the localization accuracy is increased and is not depend on geometric information. In addition, these methods are applicable to the robot using simple algorithm, computational and memory costs are low. Through the navigation experiments, we show that the robot achieved over 2 km navigation in real world. Moreover, the proposed method is compared to other two methods. Finally, the usefulness and advantage of the proposed method are presented.

    DOI: 10.1299/kikaic.79.681

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  48. 磁気情報を用いた自己位置推定と横方向位置補正を組み合わせた低コスト構成の長距離ナビゲーション法の実装

    赤井直紀, SAM ANN Rahok, 井上一道, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会論文集 C編(Web)79 巻 ( 799 )   2013年

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  49. 磁気および幾何情報を用いたマルチナビゲータによる自律移動ロボットのナビゲーション法の実装

    赤井直紀, 尾崎功一  

    日本ロボット学会学術講演会予稿集(CD-ROM)31st 巻   2013年

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  50. カメラ画像を用いた三次元図面作成プログラムの開発(画像マッチング手法の検討と予備評価結果)

    上地優, 赤井直紀, 赤井直紀, 尾崎功一, 尾崎功一, 伊藤主税  

    日本原子力研究開発機構JAEA-Research(Web)2013 巻 ( 2013-018 ) 頁: 巻頭1 - 2,1-18   2013年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:日本原子力研究開発機構  

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  51. 撮影画像における特徴点マッチングと三次元形状認識を用いた原子炉内状況調査への適用

    上地優, 赤井直紀, 尾崎功一, 伊藤主税, 日野竜太郎  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2013 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: _1P1 - G07_1-_1P1-G07_2   2013年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    Preliminary examination of image processing was conducted using existing reactor inside images through a fiber scope in order to confirm applicability of 3D-mapping in a reactor as a part of development of 3D-measurement technology. The Upright SURF (Speeded Up Robust Features) was used to find corresponding points between two captured images. In case of images showing many similar textures or lack of texture, it was difficult to find corresponding points using SURF only. By coupling with a canny algorithm to detect edges of the inside structure, it was found that 3-D structure could be measured for rectilinear objects.

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2013._1P1-G07_1

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  52. パーソナルモビリティの設計構想とロボット特区での開発チャレンジ

    松田卓也, 井上一道, 赤井直紀, 中田未央, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2013 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: _1P1 - A06_1-_1P1-A06_3   2013年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    In order to entry the Special zone of experiment by mobility robots, it is required to obey the inspection of District Land Transport Bureaus in development of mobility robots. This report describes a challenge of development for a personal mobility robot that makes fun to ride. The mobility robot has two front driving and one rear free wheels, and the center of rider's body is placed on upper of the rear wheel. Therefore, the rider has fun since feels like rotating its body when the robot moves on curve. Furthermore, for fun, the shape of the robot is designed to be stylish since it is considered that its looks are important. As the results of developing the robot, this report shows the basic design for the inspection, assemble the chassis by using general parts, and molding the exterior body for stylish and safety.

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2013._1P1-A06_1

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  53. 環境磁場を用いたトポロジカルマップによる長距離ナビゲーション手法

    赤井直紀, 篠原正俊, 島田遼, 片寄浩平, RAHOK Sam Ann, 尾崎功一  

    日本機械学会ロボティクス・メカトロニクス講演会講演論文集(CD-ROM)2012 巻 ( 0 ) 頁: _1A2 - I09_1-_1A2-I09_3   2012年

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    記述言語:日本語   出版者・発行元:一般社団法人 日本機械学会  

    This paper describes a navigation method using environmental magnetic field called magnetic navigation based on topological map. The mobile robot that navigates with the magnetic navigation, estimates its position using change of environmental magnetic intensity. However, the magnetic navigation produces lateral error. Therefore, it is necessary to compensate that error. This paper proposes a method using Laser Scanner (LS) to compensate the lateral error occurred during the navigation. Since only two data of LS (one on the left and one on the right) are used in the proposed method, the mobile robot is able to navigate on a distance of 2km with a low computational cost in comparison to scan matching.

    DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2012._1A2-I09_1

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  54. 環境磁場を用いた自律移動ロボットのナビゲーション手法

    赤井直紀, RAHOK Sam Ann, 尾崎功一  

    日本ロボット学会学術講演会予稿集(CD-ROM)30th 巻   2012年

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講演・口頭発表等 11

  1. 移動ロボットのための自己位置推定の基礎とその実装

    赤井直紀

    日本ロボット学会セミナー  2022年 

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    開催年月日: 2022年

  2. Detection of localization failures with probabilistic modeling

    Naoki Akai

    2021年8月31日 

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    開催年月日: 2021年

  3. 信頼できる位置推定を目指したモデルと学習の融合および位相的データ解析の応用

    赤井直紀

    RSJデータ工学ロボティクス研究専門委員会  2021年 

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    開催年月日: 2021年

  4. ベイズ推定に基づく自己位置推定

    赤井直紀

    ロボット工学セミナー  2019年 

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    開催年月日: 2019年

  5. 画像およびLiDARを用いた自動走行に関する動向

    赤井直紀

    SSII2019 企画セッション「画像センシング技術の最先端」  2019年 

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    開催年月日: 2019年

  6. 自動運転の安全性向上に向けて:自車両位置推定の必要性と概略および推定結果の信頼度推定に関する取組の紹介

    赤井直紀

    第5回アクティブセイフティ部門委員会  2019年 

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    開催年月日: 2019年

  7. 深層学習を「活用」する:モデルベース・学習ベース手法の併用による自己位置推定の性能向上

    赤井直紀

    令和元年度 電気・電子・情報関係学会 東海支部連合大会  2019年 

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    開催年月日: 2019年

  8. 自動運転における自己位置推定技術の動向と事例紹介

    赤井直紀

    ITSS名古屋チャプタ2018年度第2回講演会  2018年 

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    開催年月日: 2018年

  9. 自車両位置認識結果の信頼度推定

    赤井直紀

    第4回エレクトロニクス部門委員会  2018年 

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    開催年月日: 2018年

  10. INSとマルチレイヤーLIDARを用いた高精度自己位置推定に基づく一般公道での自動運転

    赤井直紀

    第8回アクティブセイフティ部門委員会  2017年 

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    開催年月日: 2017年

  11. データ駆動型およびモデルベース型自己位置推定の融合

    赤井直紀

    日本鉄鋼協会シンポジウム  2021年 

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共同研究・競争的資金等の研究課題 7

  1. ノウハウ

    2021年

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  2. 著作

    2021年

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    配分額:330000円

  3. 著作物

    2021年

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    配分額:726000円

  4. 著作物

    2021年

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科研費 5

  1. 学習器の不確実性を扱う確率モデルに基づく新たな知能システム実現のための研究

    研究課題/研究課題番号:23K03773  2023年4月 - 2027年3月

    科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(C)

    赤井 直紀

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    担当区分:研究代表者 

    配分額:4680000円 ( 直接経費:3600000円 、 間接経費:1080000円 )

    本研究では主に、確率モデリングを行う。特に自律移動や自動運転などを対象として、これらで用いられる知能化技術に焦点を当てる。
    基本的には、ある一つの知能化技術を単に機械学習を用いて置き換えることはせず、機械学習を用いて類似・関連する機能を実装し、それと確率モデルを融合させることで、1つの知能技術を実現させ、性能向上の実現を目指す。

  2. 人物行動を手掛かりとした車載映像クラウド探索による知識獲得型認識基盤の構築

    研究課題/研究課題番号:23H03474  2023年4月 - 2027年3月

    科学研究費助成事業  基盤研究(B)

    出口 大輔, 赤井 直紀, 川西 康友

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    担当区分:研究分担者 

    本研究では、我々人間が明示的・暗黙的なルールに従いながら状況に合わせて同じような行動をするという知見を活用し、そのようなルールに従う行動のセンシング結果を手掛かりとして、物体認識モデルの性能を向上させる学習データを車載映像クラウドから自動的に見つけ出す基盤技術の開発を行う。そして、人の行動とルールの情報を手がかりとして、それらの学習データに対してアノテーション情報を自動付与しながらモデル更新を行う知識獲得型認識基盤の実現を目指す。

  3. 離れた複数の場所で同じ実験授業を安全に同時かつ一緒に行えるシステムの確立

    研究課題/研究課題番号:22K18620  2022年6月 - 2025年3月

    科学研究費助成事業  挑戦的研究(萌芽)

    原 進, 椿野 大輔, 赤井 直紀, 伊藤 和晃

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    担当区分:研究分担者 

    工学部機械航空工学系学科の教育で重要である実験科目について,ポストコロナ時代への対応や,実験科目を指導できる人材不足・予算縮小などから求められる効率化を念頭に,「離れた複数の場所で同じ実験授業を安全に同時かつ一緒に行うことは可能か?」を明らかにする.特に,本研究では振動工学や制御工学の実験科目を対象とし,このようなシステムの確立のために階層化最適制御理論に基づく独創的なシステム設計論を導入する.
    工学部機械航空工学系学科の教育で重要である実験科目について,ポストコロナ時代への対応や,実験科目を指導できる人材不足・予算縮小などから求められる効率化を念頭に,「離れた複数の場所で同じ実験授業を安全に同時かつ一緒に行うことは可能か?」を明らかにすることを目標とした.特に,本研究では振動工学や制御工学の実験科目を対象とし,このようなシステムの確立のために階層化最適制御理論に基づく独創的なシステム設計論の導入を目指している.具体的には,本研究で導入するシステムにより,①少人数ごとに分散して実験を実施可能,②分散実施しても授業の質が維持できる,③学習意欲向上の観点から,多数の受講生の一体感が得られる,④安価に新しい実験システムを導入できる,⑤最小限の指導者で授業全体の安全性を確保した上で,十分な実験教育が行える体制を確立できる,の5つの仕様を満たした実験授業システムの実現に取り組んでいる.
    初年度となる令和4年度では,研究代表者が所属する名古屋大学と研究分担者(伊藤)が所属する岐阜大学において上記のような実験科目に導入する基本的な実験装置を準備した.両大学をインターネットで結ぶ実験の前段階として,本年度は2台の実験装置を有線で接続し,階層化最適制御を適用した制御実験に成功した.この成果は複数の国内学会において発表した.同時に,研究代表者と研究分担者(伊藤)がこれまで取り組んできた「飛行ロボットの設計製作に関するPBL」に関しても改善点がないか検討した.
    令和4年度当初に交付申請書で示した,名古屋大学と岐阜大学で使用する実験装置の準備ならびに,複数実験装置を有線接続した階層化最適制御の実施についてはおおむね計画通り実施できた.
    令和4年度の実施計画はおおむね達成できたものの,複数遠隔地にある実験装置をインターネットで結んで同時に実験するためには,いくつか困難な問題があることがわかってきた.当初は通信遅れの問題がネックになるのではないかと予想していたが,それ以上にネットワークのセキュリティ方策とバッティングしないように結ぶ工夫などが必要であることがわかってきた.令和5年度以降はやや苦労が多くなると予想しており,着実な研究推進のために取るべき手段について熟慮している.
    初年度(令和4年度)は国内学会での発表に留まったが,令和5年度からは国際会議での発表ならびにジャーナル論文への投稿を目指す.

  4. 薄暮時・夜間における歩行者と移動体の視覚的インタラクションの基盤技術

    研究課題/研究課題番号:19K12080  2019年4月 - 2022年3月

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C)  基盤研究(C)

    平山 高嗣, MORALES・S Luis・Y, 赤井 直紀, 劉 海龍, MORALES・S Luis・Y, 赤井 直紀, 劉 海龍

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    クルマ(運転知能)が急速に高度化しているが対歩行者事故はほとんど減っていない。薄暮時と夜間の視界不良状況において、クルマはもとより運転者でさえも、受動的な観測によって歩行者の行動予測を行うことが困難なためである。歩行者の顕著性や視認性を向上させる技術が必要であり、歩行者側への支援も重要である。そこで、①次世代ヘッドライト技術を想定した適切なパターンでの光照射により顕著性と視認性を向上させることで、運転者の視覚認知および車載される歩行者認識システムの視覚処理を支援する技術を構築し、②歩行者に自車の接近を気づかせ、安心感を与える光照射による視覚的インタラクションの基礎研究に取り組む。検知、認識、意図伝達の3つのフェーズで構成される視覚的インタラクションを設計する。
    2019年度は主に、検知フェーズにおける歩行者への点滅光照射によるインタラクションの設計と評価を行い、ドライビングシミュレータ上で複数の周辺光条件を設定して模擬した交通環境における実験により、点滅光照射による歩行者の見つけやすさの向上と、周辺光条件に応じて効果的な点滅周波数が異なることを確認した。夜間において周囲に明かりがない環境では3Hz、街灯が存在する環境および前方に信号機が存在する環境では5Hz、薄暮時において街灯が存在する環境では3Hz、前方に信号機が存在する環境では2Hzが効果的な照射光パターンであった。実環境においても、設定することができた周辺光条件は限定的であるが、同様の結果を得ている。また、運転者の視行動の分析とモデル化等の基盤研究やヘッドアップディスプレイの利用を想定した視認性評価の研究も推進した。

  5. モデルベース法に基づく自動走行の安全保障を可能にする機械学習の利用に関する研究

    研究課題/研究課題番号:18K13727  2018年4月 - 2022年3月

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業 若手研究  若手研究

    赤井 直紀

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    担当区分:研究代表者 

    配分額:4160000円 ( 直接経費:3200000円 、 間接経費:960000円 )

    本年度も自己位置推定機能に焦点を当てた研究を行った。
    自己位置推定はこれまでにも多くの関連研究が行われており、モデルに基づく様々な手法が提案されている。これらの方法は、自動運転を実現するためにも利用されており、一定の成果を上げているといえる。しかしながら、安全保障の観点まで含めるまだ完全な機能であるとは言い難い。そのため、近年は機械学習を用いてその機能の性能を上げようという取り組みが多い。しかし大半の研究は、機械学習を単独で使うことを想定しているため、機械学習特有の欠点が存在することが多い。また、モデルベース法でできていたことが逆にできなくなってしまう、といった問題もある。
    これに対して本年度行った研究は、モデルベース法と機械学習による方法を効率的に融合することで、互いの利点のみを活用する自己位置推定を実現させるための試みである。具体的には、モデルベース法としてモンテカルロ自己位置推定、機械学習として畳み込みニューラルネットワークを用いたend-to-end型の自己位置推定を利用した。この際、ニューラルネットワークにモンテカルロドロップアウトを適用することで、その出力を確率分布として捉えられるようにした。これにより、重点サンプリングという方法を用いて、数学的な一貫性を失うことなく、モンテカルロ自己位置推定と融合できることを示した。そして、両者の利点のみを活用する仕組みが導出されることも示した。実機とシミュレーションを用いた実験により、互いの利点のみを活用した自己位置推定が実現できることを確認した。
    本研究の成果をまとめた論文が、IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automationに採択された。なお本学会は、Google ScholarのRobotics部門における引用数1位の学会である。

産業財産権 1

  1. 自己位置推定装置

    赤井直紀

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    出願人:トヨタ自動車株式会社

    出願番号:2018-103111  出願日:2018年5月

    公開番号:2019-207177  公開日:2019年12月

 

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