An Alternative Approach for Developing Socially Assistive Robots
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Jayawardena, Chandimal
Kuo, I-Han
Sarrafzadeh, Hossein
Kuo, I-Han
Sarrafzadeh, Hossein
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2014
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RoboChair
robotic chairs
wheel chairs
socially assistive robotics
programming
lay people
robotic chairs
wheel chairs
socially assistive robotics
programming
lay people
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Jayawardena, C., Kuo, I., and Sarrafzadeh, A. (2014). An Alternative Approach for Developing Socially Assistive Robots. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2014)(Ed.), August 12-15, 2014 São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract
This paper presents the design of the socially assistive companion robotic wheelchair named RoboChair. Unlike in most current companion robotics projects, the approach of RoboChair is not to build a completely new robotic device. Instead, the focus of the RoboChair project is to convert an already useful device (i.e. wheelchair) to a socially assistive companion robot. The authors argue that there are number of advantages in this approach.
The proposed robotic chair is a mobile robot that can carry a person. It is equipped with several measuring devices for measuring vital signs. The robot chair is capable of engaging users with interactive dialogs through a touch screen and by using human-robot interaction techniques. It has a scalable modular software architecture so that adding new hardware and software modules is straightforward. The software frame- work is based on Robot Operating System (ROS) open source robotic middleware.
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IEEE Robotics and Automation Society + Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
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