Robotic smart house to assist people with movement disabilities

Kwang Hyun Park, Zeungnam Bien, Ju Jang Lee, Byung Kook Kim, Jong Tae Lim, Jin Oh Kim, Heyoung Lee, Dimitar H. Stefanov, Dae Jin Kim, Jin Woo Jung, Jun Hyeong Do, Kap Ho Seo, Chong Hui Kim, Won Gyu Song, Woo Jun Lee

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new robotic smart house, Intelligent Sweet Home, developed at KAIST in Korea, which is based on several robotic agents and aims at testing advanced concepts for independent living of the elderly and people with disabilities. The work focuses on technical solutions for human-friendly assistance in motion/mobility and advanced human-machine interfaces that provide simple control of all assistive robotic systems and home-installed appliances. The smart house concept includes an intelligent bed, intelligent wheelchair, and robotic hoist for effortless transfer of the user between bed and wheelchair. The design solutions comply with most of the users' requirements and suggestions collected by a special questionnaire survey of people with disabilities. The smart house responds to the user's commands as well as to the recognized intentions of the user. Various interfaces, based on hand gestures, voice, body movement, and posture, have been studied and tested. The paper describes the overall system structure and explains the design and functionality of some main system components.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)183-198
Number of pages16
JournalAutonomous Robots
Volume22
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2007

Keywords

  • Assistive system
  • Human-friendly interface
  • Intelligent bed
  • Intelligent wheelchair
  • Movement assistance
  • Robotic hoist
  • Smart house

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