SHB: Small: An Assistive, Robotic Table [ART] Promoting Independent Living

SHB：小型：辅助机器人桌 [ART] 促进独立生活

• 批准号: 1116075
• 负责人: Keith Green
• 金额: $ 27.13万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1116075&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHB; Small; Assistive; Robotic; Table

In hospitals, technology has become pervasive and indispensable during medical crises. At home, technology proliferates as computerized health monitoring systems and, perhaps in the future, as assistive "humanoid" robots. Meanwhile, our everyday environments remain essentially conventional: low-tech and ill-adaptive to dramatic life changes. This social condition places strain on healthcare and family support systems, and represents a failure of scientists, engineers and architects to support independent living. The overall aim of this effort is to enhance everyday environments with intelligent hardware promoting independent living. This project is focused on a discrete component of an envisioned suite of networked, robotic furniture integrated into existing living environments: an Assistive, Robotic Table [ART]. ART is the hybrid of a typical nightstand and the over-the-bed table found in hospital rooms, comprised of a novel "continuum robotic" table surface that gently folds, extends, and reconfigures to support work and leisure activities; a smart storage volume that physically manages and delivers personal effects; and an accessorized headboard. These components of ART recognize, communicate with, and partly remember each other in interaction with human users and with other components of the suite. The key deliverable for this award is the full-scale, working ART prototype performing "going-to-bed" and "awaking" scenarios for three target groups. Our trans-disciplinary team will develop this complex physical-digital artifact by way of iterative design and evaluation activities that recognize engineering design, architectural design and human-centered design as inseparable. Key outcomes of the research are the "continuum robotic" surface as well as an innovative approach to human mobility and its metrics for intelligent, physical artifacts. The key broader impact of the research is intelligent "architectural robotic" ART, empowering people to remain in their homes for as long as possible, even as their physical capabilities alter over time; and, in more grave circumstances, affording people some semblance of feeling "at home" as user and ART move to assisted care facilities. This work is jointly funded by the Office of International Science and Engineering.

在医院里，技术已经变得无处不在，在医疗危机中不可或缺。在国内，技术以计算机化的健康监测系统的形式激增，也许在未来，还将成为辅助性的“人形”机器人。与此同时，我们的日常环境基本上仍然是传统的：低科技和不适应戏剧性的生活变化。这种社会状况给医疗保健和家庭支持系统带来了压力，代表了科学家、工程师和建筑师在支持独立生活方面的失败。这一努力的总体目标是通过智能硬件促进独立生活来改善日常环境。 这个项目的重点是一个离散的组件，一套设想的网络，机器人家具集成到现有的生活环境：一个辅助，机器人表[艺术]。ART是典型的床头柜和医院病房中的床上桌的混合体，由一个新颖的“连续机器人”桌面组成，可以轻轻折叠，延伸和重新配置以支持工作和休闲活动;智能存储空间，可以物理管理和提供个人物品;以及装饰床头板。ART的这些组件在与人类用户和套件的其他组件的交互中相互识别、通信并部分记住彼此。该奖项的关键交付成果是为三个目标群体提供全尺寸的工作ART原型，用于执行“上床睡觉”和“醒来”场景。我们的跨学科团队将通过迭代设计和评估活动来开发这个复杂的物理-数字工件，这些活动将工程设计，建筑设计和以人为本的设计视为不可分割的。该研究的主要成果是“连续体机器人”表面以及人类移动性的创新方法及其智能物理人工制品的指标。该研究的关键更广泛的影响是智能“建筑机器人”ART，使人们能够尽可能长时间地留在家中，即使他们的身体能力随着时间的推移而改变;并且，在更严重的情况下，当用户和ART移动到辅助护理设施时，为人们提供一些“在家”的感觉。 这项工作由国际科学和工程办公室共同资助。