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Goal 1 R&D ProjectsReliability-ensuring Cybernetic Avatar Infrastructure Allowing Interactive TeleoperationJPMJMS2216

Project manager (PM)MATSUMURA TakeshiResearch Executive Director, Network Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Summary of the project

Moonshot Goal 1 aims to estab-lish the Cybernetic Avatar (CA) Platform and promote a society where people can naturally live and work with CAs (CA life). Through CA technologies, people can par-ticipate in social activities beyond physical, spatial, temporal, and even cognitive constraints. By 2030, multiple teleoperators (TOs) are expected to teleoperate more than ten CAs simultaneously, while by 2050, large numbers of CAs will cooperatively support human ac-tivities in diverse environments, including the air, underwater, inside the human body, and even on the Moon. This project aims to estab-lish a reliability-ensuring platform that enables continuous CA ser-vices despite network uncertainties such as communication delay, jitter, congestion, and network failures for Socio-CAs and In-body CAs. To achieve this, we develop and demonstrate technologies for net-work quality visualization, predic-tion, and control in domestic and international teleoperation envi-ronments, as well as in collabora-tive scenarios involving multiple TOs and multiple CAs. The project will contribute to the social de-ployment of CA-based telework and self-care services, supporting a more inclusive and sustainable society.

Milestone by year 2030

This project aims to establish a reliability-ensuring platform for CA services, enabling people to work and participate in society regard-less of physical or geographical constraints. The platform will en-sure stable and continuous CA teleoperation even under real-world network conditions with fluctuating communication quality, congestion, and failures. By 2028, we will de-velop communication, control, and evaluation technologies to support CA services in environments where more than 10 CAs operate simul-taneously. By 2030, we aim to enable collaborative operation of multiple CAs by multiple TOs and demonstrate its effectiveness in international and large-scale net-work environments. The project integrates network quality visuali-zation, prediction, and control technologies to ensure reliable CA services under network uncertain-ties. Through practical demonstra-tions involving international tele-operation and multi-CA collabora-tion, we will establish evaluation benchmarks, promote international standardization.

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Performers

R&D Item [4][6] MATSUMURA Takeshi National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
R&D Item [4] YANO Kazuto Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
R&D Item [4] HASEGAWA Mikio Tokyo University of Science
R&D Item [5] ASAEDA Hitoshi National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
R&D Item [5] MURAKAMI Homare National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

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