Fostering the NAO platform as an elderly care robot
Fostering the NAO platform as an elderly care robot
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打造NAO养老机器人平台
DOI：
10.1109/segah.2013.6665313
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发表时间：
2013
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N. Ferreira
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Jessica P. M. Vital;M. Couceiro;Nuno M. M. Rodrigues;C. M. Figueiredo;N. Ferreira
老年人的抑郁和孤独是影响世界人口的最大问题之一。这导致老年人孤立，这是自杀的一个主要风险因素。此外，如果隔离与身体疾病和丧失行为能力相结合，这种风险就会成倍增加。为了解决这个问题，机器人专家已经提出了自主监控、支持甚至促进老年人体育活动的解决方案。然而，这些似乎是非常高成本和复杂的解决方案，需要先进的技术专长。最近的现成解决方案，如著名的NAO机器人，成为可能的替代方案。科英布拉工程研究所（ISEC）正在开发NAO机器人的扩展版RIA。RIA不仅是为了与老年人进行社会互动而建立的，而且也是通过分析健康和环境参数来促进专业护理的自主工具。因此，RIA机器人是一个改编的NAO低成本平台，配备了多个传感器，可以测量体温、血压和心率等不同参数。通过验证这个有价值的平台，为老年人护理的全新范例奠定了基础。
Depression and loneliness among the elderly are one of the biggest problems affecting the world population. This leads to elderly isolation which is a major risk factor for suicide. Moreover, if isolation is coupled with physical illness and incapacitation, such a risk increases exponentially. To fight back this problem, roboticists have been proposing solutions to autonomously monitor, support and even promote physical activities among the elderly. Nevertheless, those appear as very high-cost and complex solutions that require an advanced technical expertise. Recent off-the-shelf solutions, such as the well-known NAO robot, emerged as possible alternatives. An extension to the NAO robot, denoted as RIA, is being developed at the Engineering Institute of Coimbra (ISEC). The RIA is not only built for a social interaction with the elderly but also as an autonomous tool to promote professional care through the analysis of health and environmental parameters. Therefore, the RIA robot is an adapted NAO low-cost platform equipped with several sensors that can measure different parameters like body temperature, blood pressure and heart rate. By validating this valuable platform, the foundations were laid for a whole new paradigm in elderly care.