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A Robot Assistant in an Edge-Computing-Based Safe Driving Support System

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Advances in Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS 2018)

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In this paper, we describe a robot-based interface for presenting important information to assist safety driving. We have been developing a safe driving support system consisting of various devices for sensing the in-vehicle environment and driver’s vital signals, a set of edge computing nodes for analyzing the sensed data, and actuators for presenting the analyzed results to the driver. Because visual and auditory messages are commonly used in an instrumental panel, an audio system, and a navigation system in the car, adding similar notification methods may hinder the driver’s safety driving operations. We, therefore, propose to use robot motions with voice messages as a new way of delivering important information to the driver. We designed and implemented two sets of the driver assisting methods using a real robot placed in a vehicle and a visual robot aid moving on a monitor screen. We conducted a comparative experiment among the methods to verify their effectiveness and practicality.

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  1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Oita University, Oita, Japan

    Toshiyuki Haramaki & Hiroaki Nishino

  2. Graduate School of Engineering, Oita University, Oita, Japan

    Akihito Yatsuda

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Correspondence to Toshiyuki Haramaki .

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Natalia Kryvinska

  3. Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

  4. Department of Advanced Sciences, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

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Haramaki, T., Yatsuda, A., Nishino, H. (2019). A Robot Assistant in an Edge-Computing-Based Safe Driving Support System. In: Barolli, L., Kryvinska, N., Enokido, T., Takizawa, M. (eds) Advances in Network-Based Information Systems. NBiS 2018. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98530-5_13

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