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

这个项目的总体愿景是设计和建造一个协作服务机器人，它将帮助有发育障碍的人实现他们的个人目标，并利用现有的和新的技术实现更大的独立性。这将使JDQ系统公司能够在集体家庭环境中为发育障碍者及其照顾者提供先进的服务类型。继续这个项目的目的是提高在集体家庭环境中自主机器人导航的准确性和安全性。这需要提高机器人在集体之家的定位精度，在地图上导航，识别和避免无生命和人类障碍。提供这样的服务机器人将从经济上提高为发育障碍人士提供服务的规模。它还减少了护理人员重复性工作的负担，使他们有时间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，这将导致支持服务的持续改进，同时持续关注有限的财务资源的有效利用。为了实现该项目的目标，还可以调查随着人口老龄化，加拿大社会将出现的保健和老年人护理部门日益增长的问题和机会。

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.