Title
PHAROS 2.0-A PHysical Assistant RObot System Improved.
Abstract
There are great physical and cognitive benefits for older adults who are engaged in active aging, a process that should involve daily exercise. In our previous work on the PHysical Assistant RObot System (PHAROS), we developed a system that proposed and monitored physical activities. The system used a social robot to analyse, by means of computer vision, the exercise a person was doing. Then, a recommender system analysed the exercise performed and indicated what exercise to perform next. However, the system needed certain improvements. On the one hand, the vision system captured the movement of the person and indicated whether the exercise had been done correctly or not. On the other hand, the recommender system was based purely on a ranking system that did not take into account temporal evolution and preferences. In this work, we propose an evolution of PHAROS, PHAROS 2.0, incorporating improvements in both of the previously mentioned aspects. In the motion capture aspect, we are now able to indicate the degree of completeness of each exercise, identifying the part that has not been done correctly, and a real-time performance correction. In this way, the recommender system receives a greater amount of information and so can more accurately indicate the exercise to be performed. In terms of the recommender system, an algorithm was developed to weigh the performance, temporal evolution and preferences, providing a more accurate recommendation, as well as expanding the recommendation to a batch of exercises, instead of just one.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19204531
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
assistive robotics,active ageing,decision support system,cognitive assistant,deep learning
Recommender system,Social robot,Motion capture,Machine vision,Ranking,Decision support system,Electronic engineering,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Deep learning,Cognition
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
20
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ester Martinez-Martin100.34
Angelo Costa2318.75
Miguel Cazorla332544.17