Robotic home assistant Care-O-bot: past-present-future

Author

Hans, M. ; Graf, B. ; Schraft, R.D.

Author_Institution

Fraunhofer Inst. for Manuf. Eng. & Autom., Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

380

Lastpage

385

Abstract

Technical aids allow elderly and handicapped people to live independently in their private homes as long as they wish. As a contribution to such technological solutions, a demonstrator platform for a mobile home care system - called Care-O-bot - was designed and implemented by Fraunhofer IPA, Stuttgart. Care-O-bot is a mobile service robot which has the capability to perform fetch and carry and various other supporting tasks in home environments. This paper gives an overview about Care-O-bot´s functionalities and first practical tests.

Keywords

geriatrics; handicapped aids; manipulators; medical robotics; mobile robots; Care-O-bot; control software; demonstrator platform; elderly people; fetch carry tasks; handicapped people; hardware architecture; home environments; household tasks; intelligent mobility aid; intelligent walking aid; manipulator arm; mobile home care system; mobile service robot; robotic home assistant; Intelligent robots; Legged locomotion; Manufacturing automation; Medical robotics; Mobile communication; Mobile robots; Robotics and automation; Senior citizens; Service robots; TV;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2002. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7545-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.2002.1045652

Filename

1045652