DocumentCode :
615278
Title :
Context aware biomedical robotic platform for elderly health care
Author :
Surendran, Sumith ; Rasamany, Sreeram ; Megalingam, Rajesh Kannan
Author_Institution :
Amrita Center for Wireless Networks & Applic., Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (AMRITA Univ.), Coimbatore, India
fYear :
2013
fDate :
26-28 April 2013
Firstpage :
259
Lastpage :
263
Abstract :
Health professionals, nursing and care staff are in short supply to cater to all the needs of the growing, global elderly population. This paper presents the design and implementation of a low cost and low power context aware robotic system to assist the elderly due to a desire to develop accessible technology for all countries and considering the poverty of many elderly. The system is furnished with 4 wheels for indoor navigation. It is equipped with ´environmental parameter monitoring´ sensors and the system can be controlled by the user through voice commands. The system interprets the environmental contexts and makes context aware decisions based on the sensed information. On the basis of the previous medical history from the database server and the newly interpreted data, the decision making unit makes efficient decisions and gives feedback to the device control unit. The system improves the health of the elderly by regularly monitoring the environmental conditions of people.
Keywords :
control engineering computing; decision making; feedback; geriatrics; health care; human-robot interaction; medical robotics; patient care; telerobotics; ubiquitous computing; accessible technology; care staff; context aware biomedical robotic platform; context aware decision; context aware robotic system; database server; decision making unit; device control unit; elderly assistance; elderly health care; elderly health improvement; elderly population; environmental context; environmental parameter monitoring sensor; feedback; health professionals; indoor navigation; medical history; nursing staff; regular environmental condition monitoring; voice command; Biomedical monitoring; Computers; Humidity; Monitoring; Robot sensing systems; Temperature sensors; context aware robotics; elderly health care;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2013 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Colombo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4464-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICCSE.2013.6553921
Filename :
6553921
Link To Document :
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