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。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。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.