Robotic assistants for health care

Author

Barea, R. ; Bergasa, L.M. ; López, E. ; Ocaña, M. ; Schleicher, D. ; León, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Univ. of Alcala, Alcala de Henares

fYear

2009

fDate

22-25 Feb. 2009

Firstpage

1099

Lastpage

1104

Abstract

The main objective of this work is to develop a robots´ fleet working together to make assistance tasks in a hospital, geriatric or home in a collaborative way. This paper focus on multi-robot mapping and localization system for robotic assistants and a camera based system for tracking people. This paper presents a method to detect, recognize and track people using mount cameras fixed on a building and an algorithm for collaborative mobile robot mapping and localization based on probabilistic methods. The performance of this system has been tested successfully. Some experimental results and conclusions are presented.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; SLAM (robots); geriatrics; health care; medical robotics; mobile robots; multi-robot systems; object detection; object recognition; probability; robot vision; tracking; Monte Carlo method; camera based system; collaborative mobile robot mapping; geriatrics; health care; localization system; multirobot mapping; object detection; object recognition; object tracking; probabilistic method; robotic assistant; Costs; Geriatrics; Hospitals; Medical services; Mobile robots; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Robustness; Senior citizens; Simultaneous localization and mapping; Health care; Monte Carlo Localization; Multi-robot SLAM; PCA; Patient monitoring;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Biomimetics, 2008. ROBIO 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2678-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2679-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBIO.2009.4913154

Filename

4913154