[robocup-worldwide] Last call for participants: RSJ Tutorial on SIGVerse at IROS 2019

[Tetsunari Inamura]

The following tutorial will be held soon at IROS 2019.
We welcome your participation.

IROS 2019 RSJ Tutorial on "SIGVerse: Cloud-based VR platform for
Human-Robot Interaction"
http://www.sigverse.org/wiki/en/index.php?Tutorial%20at%20IROS2019

Date: 8th November (Friday)
Time: 14:00 to 18:00  (Half-day tutorial)
Location: Room LG-R17, The Venetian Macao (at IROS 2019)

Purpose of the Tutorial

This tutorial is aimed to provide an opportunity to learn how to use
the SIGVerse, which is a virtual reality (VR) based platform for
human-robot interaction (HRI) research. Since collecting and storing a
massive amount of data concerning multimodal interaction experiences
is an important task concerning research on HRI, a cloud-based VR
platform, named “SIGVerse,” which reduces costs of developing real
robots and interaction experiments in the real world, is proposed. The
system combines Unity and ROS frameworks to enable general users to
login to an avatar in a robot simulator for the HRI experiments. The
proposed architecture provides functionalities for constructing
scalable 3D environments, embodied and social interaction via the
Internet, compatible robot software, high-fidelity sensor feedback,
and recording/playback of interaction.

This system is already used as an official software to organize a
robot competition such as RoboCup at Home and World Robot Challenge to
evaluate the effectiveness of the interaction between users and
service robots in daily life environment. Developing actual service
robots require huge time cost and budget cost; however, so many
researchers and students can start up the research on HRI using
service robot with our system. As well as the ROS middle can reduce
the development cost of robot software, the SIGVerse has a great
potential to accelerate the research on HRI.

Organizers
- Tetsunari Inamura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
- Hiroyuki Okada (Tamagawa University, Japan)
- Yoshiaki Mizuchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)


Request for the attendee
If you bring your laptop PC, this workshop would be more fruitful for
you with installing and testing the software. Since the power strips
are limited in the convention venue, please charge your laptop before
the tutorial and the organizers recommend carrying your own power
strip.
We recommend installing the following software before the workshop to
smooth proceeding.
- UnityHub
- Unity 2018.4.11
- VMWare Workstation Player 15.5.0

Program of the tutorial
14:00 Welcome remark
14:05 Introduction of SIGVerse
14:30-15:00 Installation of the SIGVerse base system
15:00-15:45 Testing several basic examples
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:00 Testing several advanced applications for robot
competition (RoboCup at Home Simulation)
17:00-17:45 Free exercise using VR headsets
17:45 Closing remark

Acknowledgement
This tutorial is supported by RSJ (Robotics Society of Japan)

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Tetsunari Inamura   (Associate Professor)
National Institute of Informatics, JAPAN
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), JAPAN
TEL   : +81-3-4212-2518   FAX : +81-3-4212-2035
URL   : http://researchmap.jp/inamura/?lang=english
Email : inamura at nii.ac.jp