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

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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.