Intelligent personal robots for healthcare environments

服务和个人机器人行业正在经历大规模的增长，预计将达到超过 到2017年实现收入1900万美元。到2025年，它有望与汽车和计算机行业竞争。 美元和工作。将机器人融入社会的主要动机之一是由于 世界老年人口。加拿大与其他发达经济体沿着面临着严峻的人口 由于人口增长率低，加上人口老龄化，这是一个挑战。人口老龄化是一个 这是一个复杂的问题，不仅关系到我们老年人的福祉，而且还带来严重的健康，社会， 和经济问题。 虽然加拿大的机器人产业正在扩大，但其增长速度远远低于2008年。 日本，美国，和欧洲迫切需要促进认真的倡议，以促进研究， 个人/服务机器人和开发加拿大制造的服务/个人机器人技术。这些类型的 就其潜力而言，机器人是一种极其重要和独特的战略技术形式 提高加拿大的工业竞争力，改善加拿大人的生活质量。 该项目建议为个人机器人开发辅助智能， 推理需要，以便这些机器人安排和执行多种辅助活动， 以人为中心的环境。与我们的行业合作伙伴机器人博士合作。股份有限公司、我们专注于 开发智能个人机器人，以自主地帮助生活在辅助生活中的老年人 旨在提高生活质量的活动设施。该项目的预期成果是： 开发和实施多任务规划和调度架构， 机器人在真实世界的多人动态室内环境中执行多种活动。

The service and personal robotics industry is experiencing a massive growth spurt projected to reach more than $19 million in revenues by 2017. By 2025, it is expected to rival the automobile and computer industries in both dollars and jobs. One of the main motivations of incorporating robots into society is due to the increase in the world's elderly population. Canada along with other developed economies is facing severe demographic challenges due to a low population growth rate coupled with an aging population. Population aging is a complex issue that concerns not only the well-being of our elders, but also brings forth severe health, social, and economic problems. Although the robotics industry in Canada is expanding, it is growing at a substantially slower rate than in Japan, the U.S., and Europe. There exists an urgent need to promote serious initiatives to nurture research in personal/service robotics and develop made-in-Canada service/personal robotic technologies. These types of robots represent a fundamentally important and unique form of strategic technology in terms of their potential to boost Canada's industrial competitiveness as well as benefit the quality of life of Canadians. This project proposes to develop assistive intelligence for personal robots that will encompass the explicit reasoning needed in order for these robots to schedule and carry out multiple assistive activities in human-centered environments. In collaboration with our industry partner Dr. Robot. Inc., we focus on the development of intelligent personal robots to autonomously assist elderly individuals living in assisted living facilities with activities intended to improve quality of life. The expected outcome of this project is the development and implementation of a multi-task planning and scheduling architecture that will allow personal robots to perform multiple activities in a real-world multi-person, dynamic indoor environment.