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

为了成功地将服务机器人部署在卫生和社会保健领域，需要在多个层面上证明它们的操作安全性和有效性--从在非结构化空间的安全导航，到安全的人-机器人交互和对新信息的可靠适应。在有多个人类用户和真实环境的情况下，证明这种复杂系统的可靠性是一项基本要求。我们的项目将为一个模拟为生活实验室的试验台制定一个全面的规格，该试验台是从特定的服务机器人用例中提取出来的，这些用例捕获了多个视角和背景。由此产生的试验台规范将为灵活的仪表化空间提供模板和框架，使其能够在不同的场景中进行验证和基准测试，特别是考虑在一系列家庭、社区和医院环境中运行，在这些环境中，与这些环境交互的最终用户可能会有不同的感觉、认知和行动障碍。活的实验室试验床设施需要与一系列社区、初级、二级卫生和社会护理设施相集成，这是加快实验室开发的原型进入工作产品的基础。在这项范围研究中，我们将确定建立和运营服务机器人Living Lab测试床作为可持续业务所需的关键资源，该业务将为开发人员提供设施，使其能够从包括临床医生、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在内的跨学科团队中获取领域专业知识。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。该项目的目标将是实现一个独特的服务机器人试验场的规范，该规范确保采用用户对疗效的证明以及临床、监管和健康经济证据。该项目将产生一个可实施的活实验室试验台规范，以及一个框架，使能够实现一个明确的过程，测试服务机器人的法规遵从性、人为因素分析、基准和生成价值主张，以促进采用。使用Living Lab试验台，服务机器人开发商将能够确保他们的产品已经上市。这项工作将建立在医疗设备和技术采用中心以及诺丁汉大学CoBot Make Space的专业知识基础上。

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.