ENRICHME: Perception and Interaction of an Assistive Robot for the Elderly at Home
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ENRICHME: Perception and Interaction of an Assistive Robot for the Elderly at Home Serhan Co¸sar1 · Manuel Fernandez-Carmona1 · Roxana Agrigoroaie2 · Jordi Pages3 · François Ferland4 · Feng Zhao5 · Shigang Yue1 · Nicola Bellotto1 · Adriana Tapus2 Accepted: 29 November 2019 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Recent technological advances enabled modern robots to become part of our daily life. In particular, assistive robotics emerged as an exciting research topic that can provide solutions to improve the quality of life of elderly and vulnerable people. This paper introduces the robotic platform developed in the ENRICHME project, with particular focus on its innovative perception and interaction capabilities. The project’s main goal is to enrich the day-to-day experience of elderly people at home with technologies that enable health monitoring, complementary care, and social support. The paper presents several modules created to provide cognitive stimulation services for elderly users with mild cognitive impairments. The ENRICHME robot was tested in three pilot sites around Europe (Poland, Greece, and UK) and proven to be an effective assistant for the elderly at home. Keywords Assistive robotics · Robot perception · Human–robot interaction
1 Introduction This research has received funding from the EC H2020 Programme under Grant Agreement No. 643691, ENRICHME.
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Serhan Co¸sar [email protected] Manuel Fernandez-Carmona [email protected] Roxana Agrigoroaie [email protected] Jordi Pages [email protected] François Ferland [email protected] Feng Zhao [email protected] Shigang Yue [email protected]
Modern assistive technologies help humans to improve their quality of life. In particular, assistive robotics is an important research field that focuses on monitoring and improving the daily life of people. Beyond this, which usually requires direct physical contact for assistance, the field of socially assistive robotics [25,48] investigates the usage of robots that assist humans through social interactions (e.g. speech for appointment and medicine intake reminders [56]). Considering the ageing population and their increasing life expectancy, the societal and economical impact of such robots for the elderly could be significant. Many socially assistive robotic systems have been proposed by various research projects [40,41,49,57]. In this paper, we describe a robotic system that enables health monitoring, complementary care and social support for elderly
Nicola Bellotto [email protected] Adriana Tapus [email protected] 1
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK
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ENSTA-ParisTech, Palaiseau, France
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PAL Robotics, Barcelona, Spain
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Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, 443 Huangshan Road, Hefei 230027, China
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International Journal of Social Robotics
Fig. 1 The ENRICHME system integrates an assistive robot for the elderly, here sho
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