Autonomous robot navigation in a group home environment of developmentally disabled people

发育障碍人士群体家庭环境中的自主机器人导航

• 批准号: 508679-2017
• 负责人: Little, James
• 金额: $ 0.73万
• 依托单位: University of British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Plus Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=640422
• 关键词: Autonomous; robot; navigation; group; home

The overarching vision of this project is to design and build a collaborative service robot that will help peoplewith developmental disabilities reach their personal goals and achieve greater independence, using existing andnew technologies. This will allow JDQ Systems Inc. to advance the type of services provided todevelopmentally disabled people and their caregivers in a group home environment.The aim of continuing this project in particular is to improve the accuracy and safety of the autonomous robotnavigation in a group home environment. This requires increasing the precision of localizing the robot in thegroup home, navigating on the map, and identification and avoidance of inanimate and human obstacles.Delivering such a service robot will improve the scale of services provided to developmentally disabled peopleeconomically. It also reduces the burden of repetitive tasks on the caregivers and frees up their time to focus onother tasks that robots cannot do well at present. Developing such a technology for JDQ Systems Inc. paves theway to achieve greater goals that will result in continual improvement of support services accompanied withcontinual attention to the efficient use of limited financial resources. Achieving the goals of this project alsoallows to investigate the growing problems and opportunities in the health and elder care sectors that willmanifest in Canadian society as our population ages.

该项目的总体愿景是设计和建造一个协作服务机器人，利用现有和新技术，帮助发育障碍患者实现个人目标并实现更大的独立性。这将使JDQ Systems Inc.推进在家庭环境中为发育障碍者及其照顾者提供的服务类型。继续开展该项目的目的尤其是提高在家庭环境中自主机器人导航的准确性和安全性。这就要求提高机器人在集体之家的定位精度、在地图上导航的精度以及识别和避开非生物和人类障碍物的精度。交付这样的服务机器人将在经济上提高为发育障碍者提供服务的规模。它还减少了护理人员重复性任务的负担，并释放了他们的时间来专注于机器人目前无法完成的其他任务。为JDQ Systems Inc.开发这样的技术。为实现更大的目标铺平了道路，这些目标将导致支持服务的持续改进，同时持续关注有限财政资源的有效利用。实现这个项目的目标也允许调查越来越多的问题和机会，在卫生和老年人护理部门，将体现在加拿大社会作为我们的人口老龄化。