Bio-Robotics & Human-Mechatronics Laboratory (Waseda Univ.)

		Bio-Robotics & Human-Mechatronics Laboratory --- theme/announcement (Takafumi Matsumaru Laboratory)
		Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems (IPS), WASEDA University

Mobile Robot with Upcoming Operation Announcement Function

PMR-5R: indicating schedules route and occupied area using projctor (wmv movie by click on the image: 16,262kB)
Upcoming occupied width and area during robot's travelling are displayed on the frame by drawing a belt with the same widhth as the robot. People will never come into contact nor collision with robot and safety will be secured only if they do not just step on the belt.

PMR-2: eyeball robot (wmv movie by click on the image: 1,999kB)

PMR-6: arrow robot (wmv movie by click on the image: 1,778kB)

PMR-1: light-ray robot (wmv movie by click on the image: 1,892kB)

PMR-5: projection robot (wmv movie by click on the image: 1,979kB)

Hizook, http://www.hizook.com/blog/2008/12/01/video-projector-shows-robots-intentions (2008.12.01).
[YouTube1] ---Persistence of Vision as a robot interface
[YouTube2] ---LCD Robot Interface
[YouTube3] ---Scanned Laser as a Robot Interface
[YouTube4] ---Video Projector Robot Interface