EAGER: Autonomous Mobile Robots for Home Health Care of Motor-function Impaired Persons

EAGER：用于运动功能障碍人士家庭保健的自主移动机器人

• 批准号: 1139770
• 负责人: Tomonari Furukawa
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 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 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1139770&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Autonomous; Mobile; Robots; Home

The project advances the state-of-the-art of various robotics fields, including home health care robotics, robot mechanisms and kinematics, visual servoing, modeling and analysis, estimation and control, search and tracking, and localization and mapping. In addition, the integration of these technologies and its demonstration provides an opportunity to verify the capabilities and limitations of the state-of-the-art technologies, discovering new subsequent robotics problems to tackle.This project addresses the fundamental aspects relevant to many scientific and engineering applications and includes experimental demonstrations, and broadly impacts teaching, training and education. Further, the international collaboration provides graduate students who reside in the rural Southside Virginia opportunities to observe scientific, cultural and political similarities and differences between countries and encourages them to continue their efforts toward research, and to establish an international community of home health care robotics. The project contributes to the modernization of the engineering curriculum in general and the teaching of mobile robotics in particular.

该项目推进了各个机器人领域的最先进技术，包括家庭保健机器人、机器人机构和运动学、视觉伺服、建模和分析、估计和控制、搜索和跟踪以及定位和绘图。此外，这些技术及其演示的集成提供了一个机会来验证最先进技术的能力和局限性，发现需要解决的新的后续机器人问题。该项目解决了与许多科学和工程应用相关的基本方面，包括实验演示，并广泛影响教学、培训和教育。此外，国际合作为居住在弗吉尼亚州南边农村的研究生提供了观察国家之间科学、文化和政治异同的机会，并鼓励他们继续努力进行研究，并建立一个国际家庭医疗保健机器人社区。该项目有助于工程课程的现代化，特别是移动机器人的教学。