dc.contributor.author | Jayawardena, Chandimal | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuo, I-Han | |
dc.contributor.author | Sarrafzadeh, Hossein | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-11T22:02:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-08-11T22:02:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10652/2967 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper presents the design of the socially assistive companion robotic wheelchair named RoboChair. Unlike in most current companion robotics projects, the approach of RoboChair is not to build a completely new robotic device. Instead, the focus of the RoboChair project is to convert an already useful device (i.e. wheelchair) to a socially assistive companion robot. The authors argue that there are number of advantages in this approach.
The proposed robotic chair is a mobile robot that can carry a person. It is equipped with several measuring devices for measuring vital signs. The robot chair is capable of engaging users with interactive dialogs through a touch screen and by using human-robot interaction techniques. It has a scalable modular software architecture so that adding new hardware and software modules is straightforward. The software frame- work is based on Robot Operating System (ROS) open source robotic middleware. | en_NZ |
dc.language.iso | en | en_NZ |
dc.publisher | IEEE Robotics and Automation Society + Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society | en_NZ |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.ieee-ras.org/ | en_NZ |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.embs.org/ | en_NZ |
dc.rights | All rights reserved | en_NZ |
dc.subject | RoboChair | en_NZ |
dc.subject | robotic chairs | en_NZ |
dc.subject | wheel chairs | en_NZ |
dc.subject | socially assistive robotics | en_NZ |
dc.subject | programming | en_NZ |
dc.subject | lay people | en_NZ |
dc.title | An Alternative Approach for Developing Socially Assistive Robots | en_NZ |
dc.type | Conference Contribution - Paper in Published Proceedings | en_NZ |
dc.rights.holder | IEEE Robotics and Automation Society + Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society | en_NZ |
dc.subject.marsden | 080101 Adaptive Agents and Intelligent Robotics | en_NZ |
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | Jayawardena, C., Kuo, I., and Sarrafzadeh, A. (2014). An Alternative Approach for Developing Socially Assistive Robots. IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2014)(Ed.), August 12-15, 2014 São Paulo, Brazil | en_NZ |
unitec.institution | Unitec Institute of Technology | en_NZ |
unitec.publication.title | IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2014) | en_NZ |
unitec.conference.title | IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BioRob 2014) | en_NZ |
unitec.conference.org | IEEE Robotics and Automation Society + Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society | en_NZ |
unitec.conference.location | São Paulo, Brazil | en_NZ |
unitec.conference.sdate | 2014-08-12 | |
unitec.conference.edate | 2014-08-15 | |
unitec.peerreviewed | yes | en_NZ |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Unitec Institute of Technology | en_NZ |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Auckland University of Technology | en_NZ |
unitec.identifier.roms | 56160 | en_NZ |
unitec.identifier.roms | 56579 | |
unitec.institution.studyarea | Computing | |