Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview

Martínez-Martín, Ester; Pobil, Ángel P. del

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62530-0_5

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“…In this regard, SAR develops systems to improve older people's health through physical activity, which has a positive cognitive impact [26]. Some research attempts have consisted of companion robots that help users with assisted therapy and activity (see [27] for an overview). However, work is needed to promote for their acceptance among older people, as pointed out in [28], especially in terms of social interactions.…”

Section: Older Adult Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

2020

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Over one billion people in the world suffer from some form of disability. Nevertheless, according to the World Health Organization, people with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to deficiencies in services, such as health care, rehabilitation, support, and assistance. In this sense, recent technological developments can mitigate these deficiencies, offering less-expensive assistive systems to meet users’ needs. This paper reviews and summarizes the research efforts toward the development of these kinds of systems, focusing on two social groups: older adults and children with autism.

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Section: Older Adult Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

2020

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“…RRT* generates shorter paths but at a significant running time increase [3]. Previous robots have been found to be too slow and unresponsive [6]. After a solution is found we employ local path smoothing to reduce the path cost and for a more natural motion.…”

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Semantic Path Planning for Indoor Navigation and Household Tasks

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Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems

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Assisting people with daily living tasks in their own homes with a robot requires a navigation through a cluttered and varying environment. Sometimes the only possible path would be blocked by an obstacle which needs to be moved away but not into other obstructing regions like the space required for opening a door. This paper presents semantic assisted path planning in which a gridded semantic map is used to improve navigation among movable obstacles (NAMO) and partially plan simple household tasks like cleaning a carpet or moving objects to another location. Semantic planning allows the execution of tasks expressed in human-like form instead of mathematical concepts like coordinates. In our numerical experiments, spatial planning was completed well within a typical human-human dialogue response time, allowing for an immediate response by the robot.

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“…The cognitive assistants consist typically of a combination of software and hardware systems that help people (mostly cognitively impaired) in their ADL. The aim is to provide memory assistance (through reminders), visual/auditory cues, and physical assistance (through robots or smart home actuators) [13,14].…”

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A Low-Cost Cognitive Assistant

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In this paper, we present in depth the hardware components of a low-cost cognitive assistant. The aim is to detect the performance and the emotional state that elderly people present when performing exercises. Physical and cognitive exercises are a proven way of keeping elderly people active, healthy, and happy. Our goal is to bring to people that are at their homes (or in unsupervised places) an assistant that motivates them to perform exercises and, concurrently, monitor them, observing their physical and emotional responses. We focus on the hardware parts and the deep learning models so that they can be reproduced by others. The platform is being tested at an elderly people care facility, and validation is in process.

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Personal Robot Assistants for Elderly Care: An Overview

Cited by 59 publications

References 33 publications

Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

Socially Assistive Robots for Older Adults and People with Autism: An Overview

Semantic Path Planning for Indoor Navigation and Household Tasks

A Low-Cost Cognitive Assistant

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