Integrating a Humanoid Robot into ECHONET-Based Smart Home Environments

Bui, Ha-Duong; Pham, Van Cu; Lim, Yuto; Tan, Yasuo; Chong, Nak Young

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-70022-9_31

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“…The implemented service gateway is the core component to support the interaction between the robot and smart environment in Ref. [26] as a part of the CARESSES project [27].…”

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An Ontology-driven ECHONET Lite Adaptation Layer for Smart Homes

Pham

Lim

Sgorbissa

et al. 2019

Journal of Information Processing

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ECHONET Lite is a leading protocol for controlling devices in Japan smart homes. However, it lacks interoperability with service platforms that provide ambient assisted living (AAL) services to residents which are actively researched in order to deal with the population aging. This research proposes an adaptation layer for ECHONET Lite protocol which provides the semantic interoperability based on ontology. In order to verify the proposed solution, a service gateway based on the proposed architecture was implemented to integrate ECHONET Lite protocol into the universAAL platform, a leading AAL platform in Europe.

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“…The implemented service gateway is the core component to support the interaction between the robot and smart environment in Ref. [26] as a part of the CARESSES project [27].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Ontology-driven ECHONET Lite Adaptation Layer for Smart Homes

Pham

Lim

Sgorbissa

et al. 2019

Journal of Information Processing

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“…Figure 3 shows the external aspect of these two platforms. Aldebaran Robotics' Pepper robot was used by Bui et al [43] and Bui and Chong [44]. This robot has a higher motor capacity, which allows it to move around the environment, and a larger size, which facilitates face-to-face interaction with the user.…”

Section: Robotic Platformsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socially Assistive Robots in Smart Environments to Attend Elderly People—A Survey

Cruces,

Jerez,

Bandera

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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The aging of the population in developed and developing countries, together with the degree of maturity reached by certain technologies, means that the design of care environments for the elderly with a high degree of technological innovation is now being seriously considered. Assistive environments for daily living (Ambient Assisted Living, AAL) include the deployment of sensors and certain actuators in the home or residence where the person to be cared for lives so that, with the help of the necessary computational management and decision-making mechanisms, the person can live a more autonomous life. Although the cost of implementing such technologies in the home is still high, they are becoming more affordable, and their use is, therefore, becoming more popular. At a time when some countries are finding it difficult to provide adequate care for their elderly, this option is seen as a help for carers and to avoid collapsing health care services. However, despite the undoubted potential of the services offered by these AAL systems, there are serious problems of acceptance today. In part, these problems arise from the design phase, which often does not sufficiently take into account the end users—older people but also carers. On the other hand, it is complex for these older people to interact with interfaces that are sometimes not very natural or intuitive. The use of a socially assistive robot (SAR) that serves as an interface to the AAL system and takes responsibility for the interaction with the person is a possible solution. The robot is a physical entity that can operate with a certain degree of autonomy and be able to bring features to the interaction with the person that, obviously, a tablet or smartphone will not be able to do. The robot can benefit from the recent popularization of artificial intelligence-based solutions to personalize its attention to the person and to provide services that were unimaginable just a few years ago. Their inclusion in an AAL ecosystem should, however, also be carefully assessed. The robot’s mission should not be to replace the person but to be a tool to facilitate the elderly person’s daily life. Its design should consider the AAL system in which it is integrated, the needs and preferences of the people with whom it will interact, and the services that, in conjunction with this system, the robot can offer. The aim of this article is to review the current state of the art in the integration of SARs into the AAL ecosystem and to determine whether an initial phase of high expectations but very limited results have been overcome.

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“…In [ 49 ], the Pepper Robot is integrated with a fully functional smart home called iHouse. The system uses the NaoQi framework to perform speech to text, then Api.ai as a natural language processing tool to classify the utterance and match it to an action.…”

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The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot

Ghita

Gavril

Nan

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Recent studies in social robotics show that it can provide economic efficiency and growth in domains such as retail, entertainment, and active and assisted living (AAL). Recent work also highlights that users have the expectation of affordable social robotics platforms, providing focused and specific assistance in a robust manner. In this paper, we present the AMIRO social robotics framework, designed in a modular and robust way for assistive care scenarios. The framework includes robotic services for navigation, person detection and recognition, multi-lingual natural language interaction and dialogue management, as well as activity recognition and general behavior composition. We present AMIRO platform independent implementation based on a Robot Operating System (ROS). We focus on quantitative evaluations of each functionality module, providing discussions on their performance in different settings and the possible improvements. We showcase the deployment of the AMIRO framework on a popular social robotics platform—the Pepper robot—and present the experience of developing a complex user interaction scenario, employing all available functionality modules within AMIRO.

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Integrating a Humanoid Robot into ECHONET-Based Smart Home Environments

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

An Ontology-driven ECHONET Lite Adaptation Layer for Smart Homes

An Ontology-driven ECHONET Lite Adaptation Layer for Smart Homes

Socially Assistive Robots in Smart Environments to Attend Elderly People—A Survey

The AMIRO Social Robotics Framework: Deployment and Evaluation on the Pepper Robot

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