Название: RADIO-Robots in Assisted Living: Unobtrusive, Efficient, Reliable and Modular Solutions for Independent Ageing
Автор: Vangelis Karkaletsis, Stasinos Konstantopoulos
Издательство: Springer
ISBN: 3319923293
Год: 2018 (2019 Edition)
Страниц: 199
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 10.9 MB

This book describes a unique approach to bring robotic technology into elders’ daily lives. Low cost components and low cost robotic assistants are effectively combined to offer high quality services to elders and people in need. The book presents in a comprehensive way how technology can be used for developing a new healthcare paradigm where high quality services are offered at home, thus reducing the ever-increasing hospitalization cost of the elders and the people with chronic diseases.

In RADIO Project, we developed an integrated smart home /assistant robot system, pursuing a novel approach to acceptance and unobtrusiveness: a system where sensing equipment is not discrete but an obvious and accepted part of the user’s daily life. By using the integrated smart home /assistant robot system as the sensing equipment for health monitoring , we mask the functionality of the sensors rather than the sensors themselves. In this manner, sensors do not need to be discrete and distant or masked and cumbersome to instal; they do however need to be perceived as a natural component of the smart home /assistant robot functionalities.

Contents:
1 Introduction to the RADIO Project 1
Part I Early Detection of Emerging Functional Impairments
2 A System of Recognition Services for Clinical Assessment 7
3 Obtrusiveness Considerations of AAL Environments 19
4 Realistic and Unobtrusive Solutions for Independent Ageing 33
Part II The RADIO System
5 Integrating Robots and WSN: Communication and Interfacing Aspects 47
6 ROS as Integration Medium for Service Robotics 83
7 Accelerating AAL Home Services Using Embedded Hardware Components 91
8 Designing User Interfaces for the Elderly 113
9 The Ecosystem of Connected RADIO Systems 149
Part III The Road to Commercialization
10 Roadmap to Expanding Alternatives to Hospitalization 167
11 Robots in Home Automation and Assistive Environments 177
Index189