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

为了使服务机器人成功地部署在卫生和社会保健领域，需要在多个层面证明其操作安全性和有效性——从非结构化空间的安全导航，到安全的人机交互和对新信息的可靠适应。在存在多个人类用户和真实环境的情况下证明此类复杂系统的可靠性是一项基本要求。我们的项目将为测试平台生成一个全面的规范，该测试平台被建模为一个基于特定服务机器人用例的生活实验室，这些用例捕获了多个视角和上下文。由此产生的测试台规范将为灵活的仪器空间提供一个模板和框架，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、社区和医院环境中进行操作，在这些环境中，与这些环境交互的最终用户可能有不同的感觉、认知和行动障碍。生活实验室试验床设施需要与一系列社区、初级、二级保健和社会保健服务相结合，这对于加速将实验室开发的原型转化为工作产品至关重要。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台所需的关键资源，作为一项可持续的业务，它将为开发人员提供设施，使他们能够从跨学科团队中获得专业知识，这些团队包括临床医生、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。团队将定义在一系列社会经济和生活经验背景下与最终用户进行验收测试的过程。其目标将是为服务机器人建立一个独特的试验场规范，以确保在采用服务机器人时获得用户的有效性证明，以及临床、监管和健康经济证据。该项目将为一个活体实验室测试平台提供一个可实施的规范，以及一个框架，以实现一个明确的过程，用于测试服务机器人的法规遵从性、人为因素分析、基准测试和产生价值主张，以促进采用。使用生活实验室测试平台，服务机器人开发者将能够确保他们的产品为市场做好准备。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制造空间。

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.