Noriko Takase

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Publications - 4

Practical robot edutainment activities program for junior high school students

J. Botzheim Takuya Hashimoto Noriko Takase Naoyuki Takesue Naoyuki Kubota

Publication Name: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics

Publication Date: 2016-01-01

Volume: 9834 LNCS

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 111-121

Description:

In this paper, we describe the approach of the research activities in order to take advantage of the creativity and thinking abilities in practical research of the robot for junior high school female students. The students mainly understand the main idea and the definition of robots and they created them based on information and advice provided by our university and teachers. As a result, the students created the robots by their unique imagination.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43506-0_10

Evolving spiking neural network for robot locomotion generation

J. Botzheim Noriko Takase Naoyuki Kubota

Publication Name: 2015 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation CEC 2015 Proceedings

Publication Date: 2015-09-10

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 558-565

Description:

In this paper, we propose locomotion generation for a mobile robot. Legged robot can walk in various complex terrains such as stairs as well as in flat environment. However, setting its behaviour to adapt to various environments in advance is very difficult. The robot can mimic the movement of organisms based on computational intelligence. In this study, we apply spiking neural network, which can take into account the transition of temporal information between the neurons. More specifically, the motion patterns are generated by applying a spiking neural network trained by Hebbian learning and evolution strategy, by using data provided by the physics engine measuring the distance walked by the robot and applied the motion patterns to real robot. Simulation was conducted to confirm the proposed technique.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2015.7256939

Cyclic motion generation for intelligent robot by evolutionary computation

J. Botzheim Noriko Takase Naoyuki Kubota

Publication Name: Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space Riiss 2013 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence Ssci 2013

Publication Date: 2013-10-31

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 13-19

Description:

In this paper we propose a method for motion generation of intelligent multi-legged robot using evolutionary computation. Legged robot can walk in various complex terrains such as stairs as well as in flat environment. However, setting the robot's behavior to adapt to various environments in advance is very difficult. The robot can mimic the movement of organisms based on computational intelligence. In this study we apply steady state genetic algorithm for generating the motion sequence of a six-legged robot modeled by forward kinematics. The number of intermediate positions of the motion sequence is adapted to the environment and optimized as well. We use a computer simulation environment before we apply our method in real robot. This can reduce the time spent on finding the optimal parameter settings and the solution itself for the optimization problem. The solution is evaluated mainly on the moving distance of the robot. Experiments were conducted to confirm the proposed technique. © 2013 IEEE.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1109/RiiSS.2013.6607923

Robot edutainment on walking motion of multi-legged robot

J. Botzheim Noriko Takase Naoyuki Kubota

Publication Name: Proceedings 2013 2nd International Conference on Robot Vision and Signal Processing Rvsp 2013

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 229-233

Description:

In this paper we present a short-term robot edutainment for junior high school students. The theme of this robotic course is the walking motion of multi-legged robot. We provided the students with the robot educational material that contains assembled leg parts. The students devised the configuration and motion of the robot using given constraints. We conducted a robot contest for the students to present their results in this robot course. As a result, by using limited materials, the students were able to produce a robot that shows their ingenuity. We could observe from a questionnaire about the course that the students were interested in science and robots. © 2013 IEEE.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1109/RVSP.2013.59