Ren Komatsu (D1), Department of Precision Engineering, win a Best Presentation Award at The 17th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference

On 18Th December 2016, Mr. Ren Komatsu (D1), Project Lecturer Hiromitsu Fujii, Associate Professor Yusuke Tamura, Associate Professor Atsushi Yamashita, Professor Hajime Asama, Department of Precision Engineering, wins a Best Presentation Award at The 17th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2016) .

The 17th SICE System Integration Division Annual Conference (SI2016) focuses on a wide variety of fields such as Robotics, Disaster prevention, Medical care/welfare, etc.This presentation award is provided to the authors who gave an excellent oral presentation, and this award is endorsed by an executive committee of this conference from among all presentations.

<About awarded research>

In robot teleoperation, operators greatly benefit from free viewpoint images of the environment around the robots. In this paper, a novel free view point image generation method is proposed. We use multiple cameras and a laser rangefinder mounted on a robot, and generate images with the assumption that walls are perpendicular to the floor surface. Experimental results show that our system can generate free viewpoint images in real time.

<Comments>

I am very honored to receive this award. I am most grateful to my supervisors and co-authors for giving me a lot of advice on this research. Our research group intends to continue to develop the system.