CrowdBot – Qolo

Within a research agreement between LASA at EPFL and the AI Lab from the University of Tsukuba, we have established a cooperative project for research and development of a shared navigation control for the standing mobility vehicle Qolo in dynamic environments.

Within this project, we will assess the safety of the Qolo platform for crowd navigation, and study the possible strategies for navigation in real-world scenarios within the context of the EU project CrowdBot.

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Related Publications:

  1. Paez-Granados, D., Gupta, V., & Billard, A. (2021). Unfreezing Social Navigation : Dynamical Systems based Compliance for Contact Control in Robot Navigation. Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) – Workshop on Social Robot Navigation, 1(1), 1–4. [See at ResearchGate]
  2. Gonon, D., Paez-Granados, D. & Billard, A. (2021) “Reactive Controller for a Convex Non-holonomic Robot to Travel in Crowds“. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021. DOI:10.1109/LRA.2021.3068660 .  [Video abstract]
  3. Chen, Y., Paez-Granados, D., Kadone, H., & Suzuki, K. (2020). Control Interface for Hands-free Navigation of Standing Mobility Vehicles based on Upper-Body Natural Movements. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2020).  https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340875.  [See at the publisher]
  4. Chen, Y., Paez-Granados, D., & Suzuki, K. (2020). Holistic Body Machine Interface Solution for Standing Mobility Vehicle for the Lower-body Impaired Center of Chair. JSME Conference on Robotics and Mechatronics, 10(20), 27–29.
  5. Ibañez, A., & Paez-Granados, D. (2020). Personalización de la Interfaz de Control para un dispositivo de Movilidad de Pie a Manos-libres. National Conference of Biomedical Ingenieering CNIB-2020. https://doi.org/10.24254/CNIB.20.48.
  6. D.F. Paez Granados, H. Kadone & K. Suzuki. (2018) “Unpowered Lower Body Exoskeleton for Supporting Standing and Sitting Motions.” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2018), Madrid, SPAIN. Oct. 1-5, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8594199 [View at ResearchGate].
  7. K. Sazaki, D.F. Paez Granados, & K. Suzuki. (2018) “Child-sized Passive Exoskeleton for Supporting Voluntary Sitting and Standing Motions.” IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-2018), Madrid, SPAIN. Oct. 1-5, 2018.http://10.1109/IROS.2018.8593744
  8. Kadone H., Shimizu Y., Kubota S., Paez D., Ueno T., Hada Y., Suzuki K., Yamazaki M., Clinical assessment of stand-up and sit-down motion assist by personal standing mobility Qolo in people with spinal cord injury, 12th International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine World Congress (ISPRM), July 8-12, Paris, France, 2018.
  9. D.F. Paez Granados, H. Kadone, and K. Suzuki. “Passive Exoskeleton for Assisting Sitting-Standing Transition with a Lumbar Support Mechanism.” In ROBOMECH 2018, The Robotics and Automation Conference. Kita-Kyushu, June 2018.
  10. D.F. Paez Granados, H. Kadone & K. Suzuki. (2018) “Exoskeleton Design for Assisting Standing Posture Transitions through Modeling and Control of Body COM Motions.” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-2018). Workshop in ergonomic human-robot collaboration. Brisbane, AUSTRALIA, May 25-30, 2018. [View at ResearchGate]

Previous work at AI Lab. [See here] 

Publications from AI Lab: [Qolo – RAM-2016] [TRO-2018]

Awards/Grants :

January 2019: Team Qolo, University of Tsukuba: Toyota Mobility Unlimited Challenge

April 2018: Towards Life with Standing Mobility Unlimited: Toyota Mobility Unlimited Challenge –> AI Lab Team

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