Deployment of a service robot to help older people

Jayawardena, Chandimal; Kuo, I-Han; Unger, U.; Igic, Aleksandar; Wong, Randy Yee Man; Watson, Catherine; Stafford, Rebecca; Broadbent, Elizabeth; Tiwari, Priyesh; Warren, James R.; Sohn, Joo-Chan; MacDonald, Bruce A.

doi:10.1109/iros.2010.5649910

Cited by 61 publications

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“…[11] • Integration with sensor networks (intelligent environment): By integrating with sensor networks, it is possible to extend the usefulness of RoboChair by providing services such as falls monitoring [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In most current research attempts to design socially assistive robots, the focus is on designing new robotic agents that can interact with people by various means [13], [14], [15]. Since people do not have much experience with robots, usually extensive field trials are conducted in order to assess the usability of these robots.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since people do not have much experience with robots, usually extensive field trials are conducted in order to assess the usability of these robots. However, determining the usability of these robotic agents is a difficult task, since the results of field trials are not always conclusive [14], [16]. The difficulty of assessing usability directly affects product development and commercialization.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…RoboChair project is inspired mainly by the HealthBots project of the University of Auckland [14]. The motivation for designing this robotic chair comes from the service robot domain, in particular from health care robot domain.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Designing a socially assistive companion robotic wheel chair: RoboChair

Jayawardena

Baghaei

Ganeshan

et al. 2013

2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)

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Abstract-Developing socially assistive robots is an emerging interdisciplinary research area, which requires collaboration between a wide range of disciplines. Among recent research projects, there have been attempts to develop assistive robotic solutions to solve various health and social issues. In most current research attempts to design socially assistive robots, the focus is on designing new robotic agents that can interact with people by various means.Since people do not have much experience with robots, usually extensive field trials are conducted in order to assess the usability of these robots. However, determining the usability of these robotic agents is a difficult task, since the results of field trials are not always conclusive. In this paper, an attempt to overcome the difficulty of evaluating usability of assistive robots is presented.This paper presents the design of the first version of a companion robot called RoboChair. RoboChair is in the form of a wheel chair. But, functionally it is a socially assistive companion robot.The proposed robotic chair is a mobile robot that can carry a person. It is equipped with several measuring devices for taking clinical measurements mentioned above. In addition to that, it is equipped with several sensors for obstacle avoidance, map building, localization, detecting humans etc. It is also equipped with motor controllers and other actuators for motion control.The robot chair is capable of engaging users with interactive dialogs through a touch screen and by using human-robot interaction techniques. It has a scalable modular architecture so that adding new hardware and software modules is straightforward. The software framework is based on Robot Operating System (ROS) open source robotic middleware.RoboChair is controlled by a distributed controller that spans multiple hardware devices and multiple operating systems.

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Section: Experiments and Conclusionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Designing a socially assistive companion robotic wheel chair: RoboChair

Jayawardena

Baghaei

Ganeshan

et al. 2013

2013 6th IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)

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“…This is done by using technologies such as audio synthesizers (TTS) [17] and speech recognition systems (ASR) [18]. In the last years, these systems are becoming very common in social robotics [19], [20], [21], [22].…”

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Engaging human-to-robot attention using conversational gestures and lip-synchronization

Burgos¹,

Manso²,

Calderita³

et al. 2012

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Abstract-Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is one of the most important subfields of social robotics. In several applications, text-to-speech (TTS) techniques are used by robots to provide feedback to humans. In this respect, a natural synchronization between the synthetic voice and the mouth of the robot could contribute to improve the interaction experience. This paper presents an algorithm for synchronizing Text-To-Speech systems with robotic mouths. The proposed approach estimates the appropriate aperture of the mouth based on the entropy of the synthetic audio stream provided by the TTS system. The paper also describes the cost-efficient robotic head which has been used in the experiments and introduces the use of conversational gestures for engaging Human-Robot Interaction. The system, which has been implemented in C++ and can perform in realtime, is freely available as part of the RoboComp open-source robotics framework. Finally, the paper presents the results of the opinion poll that has been conducted in order to evaluate the interaction experience.

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