DocumentCode
3053456
Title
A Universal Mobile robot for assistive tasks
Author
Takagi, Motoki ; Takahashi, Yoshiyuki ; Komeda, Takashi
Author_Institution
Shibaura Inst. of Technol., Saitama, Japan
fYear
2009
fDate
23-26 June 2009
Firstpage
524
Lastpage
528
Abstract
We have been developing a Universal Mobile robot for Assistive tasks (UMA). The aim of UMA is to assist elderly and disabled person in an indoor location. UMA is able to transport daily use objects by following the user. This paper presents an early construction of UMA and experimental result of following a user using visual tracking as a first step.
Keywords
handicapped aids; mobile robots; service robots; assistive task; disabled person; elderly person; indoor location; universal mobile robot; visual tracking; Cameras; Humans; Intelligent robots; Intelligent sensors; Machine vision; Mobile robots; Rehabilitation robotics; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Senior citizens;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Rehabilitation Robotics, 2009. ICORR 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Kyoto International Conference Center
ISSN
1945-7898
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3788-7
Electronic_ISBN
1945-7898
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209602
Filename
5209602
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