Design of the Human-Robot Interaction for a Semi-Autonomous Service Robot to Assist Elderly People

Mast, Marcus; Burmester, Michael; Graf, Birgit; Weißhardt, Florian; Arbeiter, Georg; Španěl, Michal; Materna, Zdeněk; Smrž, Pavel; Kronreif, Gernot

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11866-6_2

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“…The user interface evaluated in this article is part of a wider usage concept for assisting elderly people at home [2,47] (see Sect. 2.2).…”

Section: Innovations Of the Evaluated User Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The user interface evaluated in this article was developed iteratively in a human-centered design process [18] as part of a broader robotic usage concept for assisting elderly people at home [2,47] in the European project SRS [87]. Over the course of 3 years and 3 months, a total of 430 prospective users were involved in this process (40 % over 65).…”

Section: Overall Usage Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• Elderly people living at home and in need of moderate forms of assistance with activities of daily living • Relatives or friends willing to provide assistance but currently not able to or only to a limited extent because they do not live on site or are often away, e.g., due to work • Professional teleoperators available 24 hours in a call center As a result of the user requirements studies [2,88], we focused on fetch and carry services (which are the foundation for many other user-requested services), on assistance in cases of emergency (e.g., assessing the situation or opening a door for the ambulance), and on assistance with reaching objects in places problematic for elderly people (high or low) [2,47]. The concept of the user interfaces is shown in Fig.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Semi-Autonomous Domestic Service Robots: Evaluation of a User Interface for Remote Manipulation and Navigation With Focus on Effects of Stereoscopic Display

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In this article, we evaluate a novel type of user interface for remotely resolving challenging situations for service robots in domestic environments. Our focus is on potential advantages of stereoscopic display. The user interface is based on a control architecture that allows involvement of a remote human operator when the robot encounters a problem. It offers semi-autonomous remote manipulation and navigation with low-cost interaction devices, incorporates global 3D environment mapping, and follows an ecological visualization approach that integrates 2D laser data, 3D depth camera data, RGB data, a robot model, constantly updated global 2D and 3D environment maps, and indicators into a single 3D scene with user-adjustable viewpoints and optional viewpoint-based control. We carried out an experiment with 28 participants in a home-like environment investigating the utility of stereoscopic display for three types of task: defining the shape of an unknown or unrecognized object to be grasped, positioning the gripper for semiautonomous reaching and grasping, and navigating the robot around obstacles. Participants were able to successfully complete all tasks and highly approved the user interface in both monoscopic and stereoscopic display modes. They were significantly faster under stereoscopic display in positioning the M. Mast (B) · M. Burmester gripper. For the other two task types, there was a tendency for faster task completion in stereo mode that would need to be verified in further studies. We did not find significant differences in perceived workload between display types for any type of task. We conclude that stereoscopic display seems to be a useful optional display mode for this type of user interface but that its utility may vary depending on the task.

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“…The user interface evaluated in this article is part of a wider usage concept for assisting elderly people at home [2,47] (see Sect. 2.2).…”

Section: Innovations Of the Evaluated User Interfacementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overall Usage Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Overall Usage Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Semi-Autonomous Domestic Service Robots: Evaluation of a User Interface for Remote Manipulation and Navigation With Focus on Effects of Stereoscopic Display

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“…This task requires an important function which is to track a human [1]. For example, a mobile robot is developed for the elderly people to assist them as presented in [2], which could be helpful in taking care of the elderly. The navigation of mobile robots is a relevant and widely studied topic in the field of robotics [3 -4].…”

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Platooning strategy of mobile robot: simulation and experiment

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Abstract. Concurrent studies show vehicle platooning system as a promising approach for a new transportation system. The platooning strategy can be also applied to automated mobile robots. Including dynamic modelling in the simulation with kinematic model would yield a different result as the dynamic modelling would include the physical parameters of the mobile robot. The aim is to create a model that describes the motion of a robot that follows another robot based on predetermined distance. Dynamic model of the proposed mobile robot is simulated and the kinematic modelling was included in to simulate the motion of the mobile robot. PID controller will be used as a controller for robot's motion and platooning strategy. A reference distance is given as the input and the PID controller computes the error and sends input to the mobile robot in the form of voltage. The robot is able to follow the leader robot by maintaining a distance of one metre with a small deviation in the direction as the robot tends to move towards the left due to forces acting on the wheel. This method can be implemented in a human following mobile robot where the leader robot is replaced with a human user.

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“…These networked robots have turned out to a tool for vigorous investigation in the field of robotics, and numerous projects have been taken up to prove how this concept can augment the ability of individual robotic services. These kind of techniques have amplified the capability of service robots to systematically support the routine activities [8]. In our regular life, it is rare to keep doing a same task at a given place.…”

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Design of the Human-Robot Interaction for a Semi-Autonomous Service Robot to Assist Elderly People

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Semi-Autonomous Domestic Service Robots: Evaluation of a User Interface for Remote Manipulation and Navigation With Focus on Effects of Stereoscopic Display

Semi-Autonomous Domestic Service Robots: Evaluation of a User Interface for Remote Manipulation and Navigation With Focus on Effects of Stereoscopic Display

Platooning strategy of mobile robot: simulation and experiment

An Enhanced Railways Control Office Application Implementation in Cloud Environment

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