Expanding practicability of ApriAlpha in cooperation with networked home appliances

Author

Matsuhira, Nobuto ; Ozaki, Fumio ; Ogawa, Hideki ; Yoshimi, Takashi ; Hashimoto, Hiroya

Author_Institution

Center of Corporate R&D, Toshiba Corp., Kawasaki, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

12-15 June 2005

Firstpage

254

Lastpage

259

Abstract

In this paper, the information services of "ApriAlpha™" such as news reading, controlling home appliances, and question-answer system for recipes using network technologies are explained. ApriAlpha is a mobile home robot which can offer security and information services. The robot acts as a voice controlled human interface, thus you can use ApriAlpha™ anytime and anywhere even you are busy doing something. ApriAlpha\´s controller is built based on Toshiba\´s open robot controller architecture (ORCA) to make easy integration of the technologies such as an agent, UPnP™, and question-answer technologies. The practicability of the ApriAlpha™ has been expanded by cooperating with networked home appliances. Finally, the infrastructure improvement for the physical environment is described to realize more home robots in practical use.

Keywords

home automation; information services; mobile robots; security; speech-based user interfaces; ApriAlpha; Toshiba open robot controller architecture; information services; mobile home robot; networked home appliances; security services; voice controlled human interface; Face detection; Face recognition; Home appliances; Humans; Information security; Intelligent networks; Mobile robots; Orbital robotics; Robot vision systems; Speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, 2005. IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8947-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ARSO.2005.1511661

Filename

1511661