Towards robotic assistants in nursing homes: Challenges and results

By Joelle Pineau, Michael Montemerlo, Martha E. Pollack, Nicholas A. Roy, Sebastian Thrun. Robotics Auton. Syst., 2003

723 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Control and Systems Engineering, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f01719eef39adbbc6376b89e99900ff0b4de3fed

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

In Control and Systems Engineering

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

Intelligent Technology for an Aging Population: The Use of AI to Assist Elders with Cognitive Impairment (2005, background): “The mobile robot, which is named Pearl and is depicted in figure 8, includes a differential drive system, two on-board computers, laser range-finders, sonar sensors, microphones for speech recognition, speakers for speech synthesis, a touch-sensitive graphics display, a custom-designed actuated head”
Anytime Point-Based Approximations for Large POMDPs (2006, methodology): “On the practical side, our search for a robust robot controller has been in large part guided by the Nursebot project ( Pineau, Montermerlo, Pollack, Roy, & Thrun, 2003 ).”
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.”
Planning under Uncertainty for Robotic Tasks with Mixed Observability (2010, methodology): “We would also like to point out that the belief update and backup operations, which are the main modifications required for SARSOP to solve MOMDPs, are common to most pointbased POMDP algorithms, such as PBVI (Pineau et al. 2003a), Perseus (Spaan and Vlassis 2004), and HSVI (Smith and Simmons 2004).”
Human-robot interaction in rescue robotics (2004, background): “Although human interactions with robots span almost every robotic endeavor [10], [11], HRI research has been conducted primarily in six application domains: entertainment [12], [13], [14], [15] (see Breazeal in this issue), museum docents [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], personal assistants [21], [22] ”
(S)he's Got the Look: Gender Stereotyping of Robots1 (2012, background): “For example, this concerns the systematic study of applications of specific types of robots (Hinds et al., 2004; Kanda et al., 2004; Lohse, Hegel, & Wrede, 2008; Pineau et al., 2003).”
In the hands of machines? The future of aged care (2006, background): “For instance, Pineau et al. (2003) in ‘‘Towards robot assistants in nursing homes’’ report a good deal of enthusiasm for the robot they were evaluating amongst the older persons participating in their experiments (we would note, however, that there are alternative explanations for this phenomenon ”
SARSOP: Efficient Point-Based POMDP Planning by Approximating Optimally Reachable Belief Spaces (2008, result): “Along with other reports in literature [2, 3, 10, 11, 14, 19], our results indicate that with the advances in POMDP solution algorithms, the POMDP approach is gradually becoming practical for non-trivial robotic tasks.”
Robot task planning and explanation in open and uncertain worlds (2017, methodology): “[34] using a POMDP planner to derive a high-level controller for a mobile robot with a dialogue system by exploiting hierarchy to reduce the state space.”
Interactive Humanoid Robots for a Science Museum (2006, background): “Nursebot [ 5 ], RHINO [6], and RoboX [7] are traditional mobile robots, the developers of”
A survey of socially interactive robots (2003, background): “Pineau et al. [ 127 ], for example, describe mobile robots that assist the elderly.”
The Impact of POMDP-Generated Explanations on Trust and Performance in Human-Robot Teams (2016, background): “To quantify the effectiveness of different explanation content in achieving the desired transparency, we implemented an experimental testbed to simulate an HRI scenario (Section 5).”
Point-Based Value Iteration for Continuous POMDPs (2006, methodology): “In the first one, the initial value function (i.e., at planning horizon 0) is a set of α-vectors directly defined from the reward function (Sondik, 1971; Monahan, 1982; Cheng, 1988; Kaelbling et al., 1998; Cassandra et al., 1997; Pineau et al., 2003a).”
Deliberation for autonomous robots: A survey (2017, background): “Pearl [171] PA MDP Service robots Handling of uncertainty”