High level functions for the intuitive use of an assistive robot
Résumé
This document presents the research project ARMEN (Assistive Robotics to Maintain Elderly People in a Natural environment), aimed at the development of a user friendly robot with advanced functions for assistance to elderly or disabled persons at home. Focus is given to the robot SAM (Smart Autonomous Majordomo) and its new features of navigation, manipulation, object recognition, and knowledge representation developed for the intuitive supervision of the robot. The results of the technical evaluations show the value and potential of these functions for practical applications. The paper also documents the details of the clinical evaluations carried out with elderly and disabled persons in a therapeutic setting to validate the project.
Mots clés
very elderly
Aged
80 and over
Disabled Persons
Equipment Design
Humans
User-Computer Interface
Validation Studies as Topic
Assistive robotics
Disabled people
Emotion understanding
Evaluation protocol
intuitive HMI
Mobile manipulation
Function evaluation
Knowledge representation
Object recognition
Robots
Handicapped persons
computer interface
devices
disabled person
human
procedures
rehabilitation
robotics
validation study