Criteria for Quality and Safety while Performing Unobtrusive Domestic Mobility Assessments Using Mobile Service Robots

Frenken, Thomas; Isken, Melvin; Volkening, Nils; Brell, Melina; Hein, Andreas

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27491-6_5

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“…The challenge in the human-torobot direction is to combine several basic skills to obtain more elaborated percepts, like discovering human intentions [29], [44], [56] (for example, while communicating by voice, gestures or shared attention). The challenge in the robot-tohuman direction is safety, that has to be embedded and granted in every robot action [22] (for example, when crossing with humans in a corridor).…”

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Evaluating the use of robots to enlarge AAL services1

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Abstract-We introduce robots as a tools to enhance Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) services. Robots are a unique opportunity to create new systems to cooperate in reaching better living conditions. Robots offer the possibility of richer interaction with humans, and can perform actions to actively change the environment. The current state-of-art includes skills in various areas, including advanced interaction (natural language, visual attention, object recognition, intention learning), navigation (map learning, obstacle avoidance), manipulation (grasping, use of tools), and cognitive architectures to handle highly unpredictable environments. From our experience in several robotics projects and principally in the RoboCup@Home competition, a new set of evaluation methods is proposed to assess the maturity of the required skills. Such comparison should ideally enable the abstraction from the particular robotic platform and concentrate on the easy comparison of skills. The validity of that lowlevel skills can be then scaled to more complex tasks, that are composed by several skills. Our conclusion is that effective evaluation methods can be designed with the objective of enabling robots to enlarge AAL services.

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