PAMM - a robotic aid to the elderly for mobility assistance and monitoring: a “helping-hand” for the elderly

Author

Dubowsky, Steven ; Genot, Frank ; Godding, Sara ; Kozono, Hisamitsu ; Skwersky, Adam ; Yu, Haoyong ; Yu, Long Shen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

570

Abstract

Meeting the needs of the elderly presents important technical challenges. In this research, a system concept for a robotic aid to provide mobility assistance and monitoring for the elderly and its enabling technologies are being developed. The system, called PAMM (personal aid for mobility and monitoring), is intended to assist the elderly living independently or in senior assisted living facilities. It provides physical support and guidance, and it monitors the user´s basic vital signs. An experimental test-bed used to evaluate the PAMM technology is described. This test-bed has a cane based configuration with a nonholonomic drive. Preliminary field trials at an Eldercare Facility are presented

Keywords

handicapped aids; mobile robots; path planning; patient monitoring; PAMM; elderly aid; mobility assistance; monitoring; motion planning; nonholonomic drive; physical support; robotic aid; Biomedical monitoring; Control systems; Costs; Delay estimation; Dementia; Mechanical engineering; Medical services; Mobile robots; Senior citizens; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robotics and Automation, 2000. Proceedings. ICRA '00. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1050-4729

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5886-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROBOT.2000.844114

Filename

844114