Robotic home assistant Care-O-bot II

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

2343

Abstract

Technical aids allow elderly and handicapped people to live independent and supported in their private homes as long as they wish. As a contribution to these required 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. Strong emphasis is also laid on integrating communicational and social features, like video telephone, automatic emergency calls and other interactive communication.

Keywords

geriatrics; handicapped aids; medical robotics; mobile robots; Fraunhofer IPA; automatic emergency calls; communicational features; demonstrator platform; household tasks; intelligent mobility aid; interactive communication; private homes; robotic home assistant Care-O-bot II; social features; technological solutions; video telephone; Communication system control; Intelligent robots; Legged locomotion; Manufacturing automation; Mobile communication; Robotics and automation; Senior citizens; Service robots; Speech; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053313

Filename

1053313