Robotic agents used to help teach social skills to individuals with autism: The fourth generation

Author

Tennyson, Matthew F. ; Kuester, Deitra A. ; Nikolopoulos, Christos

Author_Institution

Depts. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Bradley Univ., Peoria, IL, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

48

Abstract

Robotic platforms have been developed and investigated as educationally useful interventions to improve social interactions among individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In this paper, the development of a new generation of robotic agent is described, which uses economically available robotic platforms (Lego NXT) as Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR). In this generation, the robots were physically designed with maintainability, reliability, maneuverability, and aesthetics in mind; and the software architecture was designed for modularity, configurability, and reusability of the software.

Keywords

control engineering computing; medical disorders; medical robotics; social sciences; software architecture; software maintenance; software reliability; software reusability; ASD; Lego NXT; SAR; aesthetics; autism spectrum disorders; fourth generation; maintainability; maneuverability; reliability; robotic agents; robotic platform; social interaction; social skills; socially assistive robotics; software architecture; software configurability; software modularity; software reusability; Bluetooth; Mobile robots; Software; Tracking; Variable speed drives; Wheels; Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD); Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR); Telemanipulation; Telerobotics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence in Robotic Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies (CIR2AT), 2014 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIRAT.2014.7009740

Filename

7009740