PFI-TT: Affordable Daily Activity Assistive Robots for Individualized Elderly Care in Community Based Long-term Care Centers

PFI-TT：经济实惠的日常活动辅助机器人，用于社区长期护理中心的个性化老年护理

• 批准号: 1827673
• 负责人: Mark Yim
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827673&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; TT; Affordable; Daily; Activity

The broader impact/commercial potential of this PFI project addresses the healthcare crisis of the growing elderly population coupled with low birth rates where the number of older adults is outgrowing the number of working-age adults to care for them. With the scarcity of care options available, robots are a welcome solution for assisting elders with small tasks that would normally be done by a caregiver. These robots would serve in an estimated 17,000 elder care facilities nationwide. Robots will be able to identify elders and personalize their assistance while monitoring health parameters. Critically, this work will aim to understand how a robot capable of assistance in simple activities of daily living should behave to aid elders in a community long term care setting including the acceptance and willingness to receive assistance from the robot.The proposed project addresses three research areas: 1) Robot Design for Elderly: How can we develop a useful affordable robot system for the elder-care community? What is the elder-care community preference for humanoid robot forms over non-humanoid in a robot that provides assistance? 2) Robot Behavior for Elderly: How will the elderly react to an autonomous robot that can recognize individuals, call them by name and provide services? What effects will different designs have on the interaction such as form-factor, motions, expressiveness and modalities of interaction? 3) Robotic Health Tracking of Elderly: As interactions with the robot occur in social settings, the robot can log data such as requests for water delivery from the robot, distance walked by the elders etc. What factors affect the quality of data can be obtained and how useful will this data be to clinicians? These questions will be answered by building a low cost robot using a variety of technologies developed from NSF-funded programs, then validating the performance with tests in an elder-care facility.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这一PFI项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力解决了不断增长的老年人口的医疗保健危机，以及低出生率，其中老年人的数量超过了照顾他们的工作年龄成年人的数量。由于护理选择的稀缺，机器人是一个受欢迎的解决方案，可以帮助老年人完成通常由护理人员完成的小任务。这些机器人将服务于全国约1.7万家老年护理机构。机器人将能够识别老年人，并在监测健康参数的同时为他们提供个性化的帮助。至关重要的是，这项工作将旨在了解一个能够在简单的日常生活活动中提供帮助的机器人应该如何在社区长期护理环境中帮助老年人，包括接受和愿意接受机器人的帮助。本项目主要研究三个方面：1)老年人机器人设计：如何为老年人护理社区开发一种实用且价格合理的机器人系统？在提供帮助的机器人中，老年人护理社区对人形机器人形式的偏好比非人形机器人的偏好是什么？2)老年人的机器人行为：老年人对一个能够识别个人、叫出名字并提供服务的自主机器人会有什么反应？不同的设计会对交互产生什么影响，比如形式因素、动作、表现力和交互方式？3)老年人的机器人健康跟踪：由于与机器人的互动发生在社交环境中，机器人可以记录数据，例如机器人的送水请求，老年人行走的距离等。哪些因素会影响所获得数据的质量？这些数据对临床医生有多大用处？这些问题将通过使用由美国国家科学基金会资助的项目开发的各种技术来建造一个低成本的机器人来回答，然后通过在老年人护理机构的测试来验证其性能。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Development and Deployment of a Mobile Manipulator for Assisting and Entertaining Elders Living in Supportive Apartment Living facilities

开发和部署移动机械手，用于协助和娱乐居住在支持性公寓生活设施中的老年人

• DOI: 10.1109/roman.2018.8525826
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: RO-MAN 2018 - IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
• 作者: Mucchiani, Caio;Torres, Wilson O.;Edgar, Daniel;Johnson, Michelle J.;Cacchione, Pamela Z.;Yim, Mark
• 通讯作者: Yim, Mark

Deployment of a Socially Assistive Robot for Assessment of COVID-19 Symptoms and Exposure at an Elder Care Setting

部署社交辅助机器人以评估老年护理机构中的 COVID-19 症状和暴露情况

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN
• 作者: Mucchiani, Caio;Cacchione, Pamela;Johnson, Michelle;Mead, Ross;Yim, Mark
• 通讯作者: Yim, Mark

On New Research Guidelines for the Deployment of Socially Assistive Robots for Elder Care Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

关于在 COVID-19 大流行期间部署老年护理社交辅助机器人的新研究指南

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: RoboHEC workshop at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS
• 作者: Mucchiani, Caio;Cacchione, Pamela;Mead, Ross;Johnson, Michelle J.;Yim, Mark
• 通讯作者: Yim, Mark

Preliminary Hardware and System Design Investigation for an Affordable and Mobile Assistive Robot for Elderly Care

经济实惠的移动养老辅助机器人的初步硬件和系统设计研究

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: MoRobAE - Mobile Robot Assistants for the Elderly A workshop at ICRA 2019
• 作者: Mucchiani, Caio;Cacchione, Pamela;Mead, Ross;Johnson, Michelle;Yim, Mark
• 通讯作者: Yim, Mark