Title :
Towards ROS Based Multi-robot Architecture for Ambient Assisted Living
Author :
Ruijiao Li ; Oskoei, Mohammadreza Asgari ; Huosheng Hu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Essex, Colchester, UK
Abstract :
The demographic trend is towards ageing in our society and the number of people with physical impairments and disabilities will increase dramatically in the future. It is necessary to deliver advanced healthcare and services to these people so that they can live independently and stay well at home throughout their lifespan. This paper presents a multi-robot architecture for ambient assisted living of the elderly and disabled, which is based on the robot operating system (ROS). A communication bridge is proposed for different means of human robot interaction, and ROS provides a framework for rapid system development with a reduced cost. Some experimental results are given in the paper to demonstrate the feasibility and performance of the proposed system.
Keywords :
assisted living; control engineering computing; handicapped aids; human-robot interaction; multi-robot systems; operating systems (computers); ROS based multi-robot architecture; ambient assisted living; communication bridge; cost reduction; demographic trend; health care; health services; human robot interaction; people with disabilities; people with physical impairments; robot operating system; Mobile robots; Navigation; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Service robots; Wheelchairs; Ageing society; Ambient assisted living; Intelligent wheelchair; Navigation; ROS; Well-being;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Manchester
DOI :
10.1109/SMC.2013.590
