Paper Info
Title
Sensing, actuation triggering and decision making for service robots deployed in smart homes
Abstract
The Florence project develops a robot for elderly that provides multiple Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Lifestyle services with a consistent user-interface. The project success is measured by the acceptance of these services by the user group. Enabling such service robotics in (smart) homes requires a robust and flexible platform to collect, enhance and distribute sensory information; and to manipulate the actuators in the environment. A key characteristic of such an environment is that sensors and actuators are not always available, are distributed, and are mobile (due to e.g. the robot and phone mobility). This dynamicity requires a loose coupling between services and sensors/actuators. The paper describes the design principles and high level architecture of the Florence platform that hides the distribution, availability and mobility aspects from the services, and sketches some challenges that lie ahead.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-25167-2_34
AMI
Keywords
Field
DocType
smart home,high level architecture,service robot,design principle,consistent user-interface,lifestyle service,phone mobility,project success,flexible platform,florence project,florence platform,mobility aspect
Design elements and principles,Computer science,Loose coupling,Simulation,Phone,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Multimedia,Robotics,High-level architecture,Project success
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7040
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mortaza S. Bargh119921.12
Melvin Isken210.72
Dietwig Lowet3473.16
Niels Snoeck4201.90
Benjamin Hebgen500.34
Henk Eertink614625.83