Co-operative robot teams in a hospital environment

Thiel, Simon; Häbe, Dagmar; Block, Micha

doi:10.1109/icicisys.2009.5358271

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“…Service robots of varying complexity can be found in domains as diverse as child-care [13], toys [14], vacuum cleaning [15], lawn-mowing [10], surveillance and guarding [16], hospital assistance [17] and domestic assistance [18].…”

Section: Service Roboticsmentioning

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Challenges for service robots operating in non-industrial environments

Soroka

Qiu

Noyvirt

et al. 2012

IEEE 10th International Conference on Industrial Informatics

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The concept of service robotics has grown considerably over the past two decades with many robots being used in non-industrial environments such homes, hospitals and airports. Many of these environments were never designed to have mobile service robots deployed within them. This paper describes some of the challenges that are faced and need to be overcome in order for robots to successfully work in nonindustrial environments (specifically homes and hospitals). These include the problems caused by an environment not having been designed to be robot-friendly, the unstructured nature of the environment and finally the challenges presented by certain user populations who may have difficulties interacting with a robot.

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Section: Service Roboticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Challenges for service robots operating in non-industrial environments

Soroka

Qiu

Noyvirt

et al. 2012

IEEE 10th International Conference on Industrial Informatics

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“…As a transport example, Carreira et al designed a service robot to deliver meals to patients [21], whereas Ozkil et al show the design of a fleet of robots for general transportation of goods [22]. Finally, a European project called IWARD http://www.iward.eu/ was devoted to introducing a self-configuring robot team for hospital cleaning, surveillance, drug delivery, environment monitoring and virtual consultancy, as described in [23]. …”

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Semantic Framework for Social Robot Self-Configuration

Azkune

Orduña

Laiseca

et al. 2013

Sensors

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Healthcare environments, as many other real world environments, present many changing and unpredictable situations. In order to use a social robot in such an environment, the robot has to be prepared to deal with all the changing situations. This paper presents a robot self-configuration approach to overcome suitably the commented problems. The approach is based on the integration of a semantic framework, where a reasoner can take decisions about the configuration of robot services and resources. An ontology has been designed to model the robot and the relevant context information. Besides rules are used to encode human knowledge and serve as policies for the reasoner. The approach has been successfully implemented in a mobile robot, which showed to be more capable of solving situations not pre-designed.

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“…It is not just the realms of science fiction that displays the use of robotic systems assisting humans, but we see the use of human-robot teams in advanced space systems (Singer and Akin, 2010). Even day-to-day activities, such as a simple trip to the museum that can result in encountering a robot tour guide (Shiomi et al, 2006), or on arrival at a hospital can expose us to the use of robot helpers (Thiel et al, 2009). We are promised the use of robot helpers -that can assist our everyday tasks (Kim et al, 2011) or to support the elderly to continue remain living in their own home (Prakash et al, 2013).…”

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Escape from the factory of the robot monsters: agents of change

Richards

2017

TPM

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Purpose-The increasing use of robotics within modern factories and workplaces not only sees us becoming more dependent on this technology but it also introduces innovative ways by which humans interact with complex systems. As agent-based systems become more integrated into work environments, the traditional human team becomes more integrated with agent-based automation and, in some cases, autonomous behaviours. This paper discusses these interactions in terms of team composition and how a human-agent collective can share goals via the delegation of authority between human and agent team members. Design/methodology/approach-This paper highlights the increasing integration of robotics in everyday life and examines the nature of how new novel teams may be constructed with the use of intelligent systems and autonomous agents. Findings-Areas of human factors and human-computer interaction are used to discuss the benefits and limitations of human-agent teams. Research limitations/implications-There is little research in (human-robot) (H-R) teamwork, especially from a human factors perspective. Practical implications-Advancing the author's understanding of the H-R team (and associated intelligent agent systems) will assist in the integration of such systems in everyday practices. Social implications-H-R teams hold a great deal of social and organisational issues that need further exploring. Only through understanding this context can advanced systems be fully realised. Originality/value-This paper is multidisciplinary, drawing on areas of psychology, computer science, robotics and human-computer Interaction. Specific attention is given to an emerging field of autonomous software agents that are growing in use. This paper discusses the uniqueness of the human-agent teaming that results when human and agent members share a common goal within a team.

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Co-operative robot teams in a hospital environment

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Challenges for service robots operating in non-industrial environments

Challenges for service robots operating in non-industrial environments

Semantic Framework for Social Robot Self-Configuration

Escape from the factory of the robot monsters: agents of change

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