A Robotic Interface to a Medication Review Expert System

Medication problems are responsible for a significant percentage of health problems in the aged. A robot in the patient´s home may assist in monitoring their condition and medication use. This application allows us to address issues with integrating the sensory and interactive capabilities of robots with the high-level problem solving of expert systems. The robot needs to provide and recieve information from the patient with a simple interface, take sensor readings and use this data to make inferences using the expert system. This paper describes a system in development and gives a step-by-step example of an interaction between patient, robot and medication expert system.