Mobile service robots are expected to operate in our daily life soon, as mobile robot technologies such as SLAM are rapidly developing. As a new application area of the technologies, we propose mobile monitoring and support robot (MMSR), which maintains a residential environment to be comfortable, safe, and secure. A key to realizing MMSRs is monitoring the physical state of the environment. By using a mobile robot as a mobile sensor base, an MMSR can efficiently obtain only necessary environmental information such as the temperature of the location of a person. It can then do supporting actions such as controlling appliances to make the environment more comfortable. We have developed and tested a prototype of MMSR to show the potential feasibility of MMSR concept.Index Terms-Mobile monitoring and support robot, physical state monitoring, personal service robot.
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