Robots and Robotic Services for Ambient Assisted Living · for Ambient Assisted Living December 3rd, 2013 Norihiro Hagita Director ... Japan-EU Policy Forum on Silver ICT, EC Building,

Presentation by Norihiro Hagita Japan-EU Policy Forum on Silver ICT (03/12/2013)

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Robots and Robotic Services

for Ambient Assisted Living

December 3rd, 2013

Norihiro Hagita

Director

ATR Social Media Laboratory Group, ATR Fellow

Japan-EU Policy Forum on Silver ICT,

EC Building, Room 0/S1

2nd Session: Present policy issues on Silver ICT both in Japan and EU

Robot has three functions

1.Sensation Seeing, hearing, been touched

2. Actuation Moving, gesturing, talking

delivering goods

3. Intelligent Control Communicating with other

robots, sensor networks, smartphones, etc.

Robovie II (ATR, 2001)



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Touring support

Shopping support

Health care

Active hearing

Robotic services are systems, devices, and robots with three functions：

sensation, actuation and control

Life support research project in Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in Japan ATR, NTT, Hitachi, Toshiba, and NEC in 2009-2013

Cloud Networking

Community building support

Station(2006)

Shopping mall(2009-2013)

Field Experimentations by ATR (2002-2013)

School(2002)

Science museum (2004-2005)

Tour guide (2010) Day-care center(2009)

Universal Citywalk(2008-2009)

FP6: DustBot (SSSA)



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Shopping support service for elderly wheelchair users (March, 2011)

Networking

Map registry

User registry

Robot registry

UNR-PF

Booking a wheelchair robot Using smartphone in advance

Area１:Home

Teleoperator

Area 3: East mall

Secure shopping support

Area 2: West mall

The wheelchair will say hello to the user

Wandering Support and Watching of Falling

out of Bed in Nursing Home (Before)

Floor sensors Wandering support with wheelchair

Watching of falling out of bed with floor sensors

Lack of caregivers Physically hard work Elderly hesitate to contact caregivers and

then tend to stay alone.

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Facing problem:



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Wandering Support and Watching of Falling out

of Bed in Nursing Home Using UNR-PF (After)

Wandering support with wheelchair and UNR-PF

Watching of falling out of bed with depth sensors

Depth sensors with KINECT Tele-monitoring

by caregivers UNR-PF

Semi-autonomous wheelchair robots Recognition of elderly behaviors in the night

Three-layer Architecture in UNR-PF Standardized by ITU-T.SG16.Q25(2013), OMG(2011,2012), OGC(2012)

UNR-PF Layer

Service Application

Layer

Robot Component

Layer

Local Platform

User Registry

Map Registry

Operator Registry

Service DB

Robot Registry

Status Manager Message Manager Resource Manager

Wheelchairs Sensors

App1

Wandering support Watching services

App2 App3 App4



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UNR-PF Layer

Service Application

Layer

Robot Component

Layer

Local Platform

User Registry

Map Registry

Operator Registry

Service DB

Robot Registry


Wheelchairs Sensors

App1


App2 App3 App4

An robot component may be used for several service applications

UNR-PF Layer

Service Application

Layer

Robot Component

Layer

Local Platform

User Registry

Map Registry

Operator Registry

Service DB

Robot Registry


Wheelchairs Sensors

App1


App2 App3 App4

A service application may be available for several robot components (different wheelchairs)



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Simulation Room for Nursing Home in Osaka Grand Front Building

Innovation Center of Orix Living Co. at Osaka Grand Front Building.

• Patients with different nursing care levels

• Standardized Robotic Service Platform (UNR-PF) is utilized

• Easy to develop different service applications with UNR-PF

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