A portable light‐weight climbing robot for personal assistance applications

Abstract

PurposeHuman care and service demands will need innovative robotic solutions to make the day‐to‐day life of elderly and disabled people in home and workplace environments easier. The main objective of this work is to develop a new concept of climbing robot for this type of service applications.Design/methodology/approachASIBOT is a 5 DOF self‐containing manipulator that includes the entire control system on‐board. The main advantage of this robot is its light weight, about 11 kg with 1.3 m reach. The robot is totally autonomous and only needs a power supply to be operated.FindingsThe robot is an arm able to move between different points (Docking stations (DS)) of the rooms and, if necessary, “jump” to (or from) the environment to the wheelchair. In this way the ASIBOT robot could become a home companion and assistance for numerous people.Originality/valueASIBOT is a 5 DOF self‐containing light weight manipulator that includes the entire control system on‐board.

Adaptive collision-limitation behavior for an assistive manipulator

“…1(a). Another is ASIBOT, a 5 Degree Of Freedom (DOF) manipulator developed at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) [1]. See Fig.…”

Task-Oriented Kinematic Design of a Symmetric Assistive Climbing Robot

“…The symmetric unit grid cost function can be seen in Equation (1). The equalization constraint (EC) ensures that the DH parameters of a joint are as close as possible to that of the same joint for the next and the previous task point (except the joint angles).…”

“…The assistive robot ASIBOT has been developed at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). The unique feature of this assistive robot is its ability to attach itself to the environment by specially designed, low-cost Docking Stations (DS) [1]. These are placed to empower the robot, allowing it to move and work throughout the entire environment.…”

Usability assessment of ASIBOT: a portable robot to aid patients with spinal cord injury

“…The robotic system ASIBOT (figure 2) [8] [9] [10] [11], totally developed by RoboticsLab at the University Carlos III of Madrid, is a significant advance in service robots [9] [12] [13]. All the electronic systems for activation, control, and communications are on board, which makes it the first portable climbing robot able to manipulate things.…”