Long term activity of the autonomous robot-proposal of a bench-mark problem for the autonomy

The purpose of our research is a realization of the autonomy to deal with the real environment of mobile robots. In this paper, the concept of the autonomy in the robot is discussed first, the “long term activity” as a benchmark problem for the autonomous mobile robot is proposed, and the elementary technologies to realize a autonomous robot with such an ability is considered. Our mobile robot Yamabico-Liv which is being constructed for the experiments of long time activity is also presented