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International Conference on
Robo t i c s a n d A u t oma t i o n
B iomater ial s and Nanomater ial s
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Journal of Biomedical Research | Volume 29
Technology and ethics for robots supporting older people living alone at home
Jim Torreson
University of Oslo, Norway
T
he proportion of elderly people worldwide increases
which seems to result in a future shortage of health care
resources. To handle this challenge, it becomes important that
people live as long as possible in their own homes which is also
what most older people want themselves. Thus, a rising issue
is how to incorporate technology to find efficient solutions for
health monitoring and care for older people staying at home.
Our multimodal elderly care systems (MECS) project aims to
create and evaluate a multimodal mobile human supportive
robot that can sense, learn and predict future abnormal events
of a person. In this keynote, three important aspects of the
project will be presented including the control architecture
of the robotic system, the sensing process and devices, and
finally design and privacy issues, respectively. The designed
control system handles the navigation of the robot in an indoor
environment in the presence of static and dynamic known and
unknown obstacles. The sensing part of the project deals with
utilizing various types of sensing devices for health monitoring
and care purposes. Finally, the design part of the project
focuses on the design issues of the robotic companion as well
as privacy-related matters concerning having a mobile robot
moving in a residential environment with a set of sensing and
recording devices
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Jimtoer@ifi.uio.noRobotics & Biomaterials 2018, Volume 29
DOI: 10.4066/biomedicalresearch-C6-017