Experiences with a mobile robotic guide for the elderly

By Michael Montemerlo, Joelle Pineau, Nicholas A. Roy, Sebastian Thrun, V. Verma. AAAI/IAAI, 2002

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Natural person-following behavior for social robots (2007, background): “In particular, for robots that operate in hospitals or in nursing homes [5, 11], we argue that such robots need to move in”
Designing robots for long-term social interaction (2005, background): “The Nursebot [8] is another robot that uses social competence to improve task performance.”
The Cricket indoor location system (2005, background): “One interesting application enabled by indoor location is robot-assisted elderly care, where a robot uses its own location and the location of people to stay close to the person it is caring for [62].”
Point-Based Value Iteration for Continuous POMDPs (2006, background): “Such problems arise in a wide range of application domains including assistive technologies (Montemerlo et al., 2002; Boger et al., 2005), mobile robotics (Simmons and Koenig, 1995; Cassandra et al.”
A hands-off physical therapy assistance robot for cardiac patients (2005, background): “Pearl the NurseBot [14], interactively assists the elderly by providing daily reminders and navigation guidance.”
User—robot personality matching and assistive robot behavior adaptation for post-stroke rehabilitation therapy (2008, methodology): “The Nursebot project [18,25, 32 ,44] is one of the most mature efforts in this new field, involving a mobile robot that roams the hospital, makes deliveries, and verbally interacts with patients.”
Robot navigation in dense human crowds: Statistical models and experimental studies of human–robot cooperation (2015, background): “, 2011), to work on nursing home robots (Pineau et al., 2003; Montemerlo et al., 2002), to robots that perform household chores (Kruse et al.”
Learning Motion Patterns of People for Compliant Robot Motion (2005, background): “Furthermore, there are prototypes of autonomous wheelchairs (Lankenau and Röfer 2000; Kluge, Köhler, and Prassler 2001) and intelligent service robots, which are designed to assist people in their homes (Lacey and Dawson-Howe 1998; Schaeffer and May 1999; Montemerlo et al. 2002).”
Towards robotic assistants in nursing homes: Challenges and results (2003, unknown): “To this aim, the team has developed two prototype autonomous mobile robots, shown in Figure 1 (22).”
Bayesian Optimization and Semiparametric Models with Applications to Assistive Technology (2014, background): “The NURSEBOT [Montemerlo et al., 2002] project uses artificial intelligence to develop a robotic guide for the elderly.”
Autominder: an intelligent cognitive orthotic system for people with memory impairment (2003, methodology): “See [18] for details of Pearl’s hardware and navigation algorithms.”