The guidance method of a mobile robot in consideration of human walking characteristics — 1st Report: Investigation of human walking characteristics

In recent years, the demand for service robots is increasing all over the world. Service robots have the purpose to assist living, such as medical treatment, transportation and security, and tend to have the function which move automatically in an environment. When operating such an autonomous mobile robot in a real world, the obstacle avoidance is the necessary technique to use a robot safely. A robot has to avoid static obstacles such as garden plants or signboards, and dynamic one such as pedestrians, and especially the robot has to act with caution to pedestrians. The purpose of this paper is analysis of human walking characteristics from the movement of a pedestrian, and from the experimental result, it turned out that the future movement of a pedestrian will be able to predict by movements of a few pedestrians.