Interdisciplinary centre for the commercialisation and deployment of service robotics technologies in health and social care

为了使服务机器人能够成功地应用于健康和社会护理领域，需要在多个层面上证明其操作安全性和有效性-从非结构化空间的安全导航到安全的人机交互以及对新信息的可靠适应。在多个人类用户和真实世界环境中证明这种复杂系统的可靠性是一个基本要求。我们的项目将为一个模拟为生活实验室的测试床制定一个全面的规范，该规范来自特定的服务机器人用例，这些用例捕捉了多个视角和背景。由此产生的测试床规范将为灵活的仪器化空间提供模板和框架，其将能够在不同场景中进行验证和基准测试，特别是考虑在一系列家庭、社区和医院环境中的操作，其中与这些环境交互的最终用户可能具有不同的感官、认知和移动障碍。提供初级、中级保健和社会护理，这对于加速实验室开发的原型向工作产品的发展至关重要。在这项范围界定研究中，我们将确定建立和运行服务机器人生活实验室测试床所需的关键资源，作为一项可持续的业务，为开发人员提供设施，以获得来自跨学科团队的领域专业知识，包括临床医生，护理人员，治疗师，用户体验设计师，健康经济学家和商业专家。该团队将定义在一系列社会经济和生活体验背景下与最终用户进行验收测试的流程。目标是实现服务机器人独特试验场的规范，确保采用用户的功效证明，以及临床，监管和健康经济证据。该项目将为生活实验室测试床提供可实施的规范，以及一个框架，以实现测试服务机器人的法规遵从性，人为因素分析，制定基准并生成价值主张，以促进采用。使用生活实验室测试台，服务机器人开发人员将能够确保他们的产品已准备好进入市场。这项工作将建立在医疗设备和技术采用中心的专业知识基础上，以及诺丁汉大学的CoBot Make Space。

In order for service robots to be successfully deployed in health and social care, proof of their operational safety and efficacy is required at multiple levels - from safe navigation in unstructured spaces, to safe human-robot interaction and reliable adaptation to new information. Proving reliability of such complex systems in the presence of multiple human users and real-world environments is an essential requirement.Our project will produce a comprehensive specification for a test bed modeled as a living lab based drawn from working through specific service robot use-cases which capture multiple perspectives and contexts. The resulting test bed specification will provide a template and framework for a flexible instrumented space that will enable validation and benchmarking in different scenarios, specifically considering operation in a range of home, community and hospital environments where the end-users interacting with these are likely to have a varying sensory, cognitive and mobility impairments.A living lab test bed facility needs to integrate with a range of community, primary, secondary health and social care provisions which is fundamental to accelerating the progression of prototypes developed in the laboratory into working products. In this scoping study we will determine the key resources required to set up and run a Service Robotics Living Lab Test Bed as a sustainable business that will provide facilities for developers to access domain expertise from interdisciplinary teams comprising clinicians, carers, therapists, user experience designers, health economists and business experts. The team will define processes for conducting acceptance testing with end-users in a range of socioeconomic and lived experience contexts. The aim will be to realise a specification for a unique proving ground for service robots that ensures adoption with user testimonials of efficacy, as well as clinical, regulatory and health economic evidence.This project will result in an implementation-ready specification for a living lab test bed, together with a framework to enable realisation of a clear process for testing service robots for regulatory compliance, human-factors analysis, benchmarking and generating value propositions to facilitate adoption. Using the living lab test bed, service robot developers will be able to ensure that their products are market ready.This work will build on the expertise of the Centre for Healthcare Equipment and Technology Adoption, and the CoBot Make Space at the University of Nottingham.