Title :
A Universal Mobile robot for assistive tasks
Author :
Takagi, Motoki ; Takahashi, Yoshiyuki ; Komeda, Takashi
Author_Institution :
Shibaura Inst. of Technol., Saitama, Japan
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;
Conference_Titel :
Rehabilitation Robotics, 2009. ICORR 2009. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto International Conference Center
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3788-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1945-7898
DOI :
10.1109/ICORR.2009.5209602
