Personal Robotic Assistants For The Elderly - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

The project PERSONAL ROBOTIC ASSISTANTS FOR THE ELDERLY is an inter-disciplinary research initiative on Personal Service Robots for the elderly, that brings together researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

The goal of our project is to develop mobile, personal service robots that assist elderly people suffering from chronic disorders in their everyday life. We are currently developing anautonomous mobile robot that “lives” in a private home of a chronically ill elderly person. The robot provides a research platform to test out a range of ideas for assisting elderly people, such as Intelligent reminding, Mobile manipulation, Telepresence, Data collection and surveillance, and Social interaction.

If successful, this project could change the way we deliver health-care to the ever-growing contingent of elderly people, and it could significantly advance the state-of-the-art in mobile service robotics and human robot interaction.

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2003

Policy-contingent abstraction for robust robot control

Joelle Pineau, Geoffrey Gordon, and Sebastian Thrun

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 19th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '03), pp. 477 - 484, August, 2003

Towards robotic assistants in nursing homes: Challenges and results

Joelle Pineau, Michael Montemerlo, M. Pollack, Nicholas Roy, and Sebastian Thrun

Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Special Issue on Socially Interactive Robots, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 271 - 281, March, 2003

2002

Pearl: A Mobile Robotic Assistant for the Elderly

M. Pollack, S. Engberg, J. T. Matthews, Sebastian Thrun, L. Brown, D. Colbry, C. Orosz, B. Peintner, S. Ramakrishnan, J. Dunbar-Jacob, C. McCarthy, Michael Montemerlo, Joelle Pineau, and Nicholas Roy

Workshop Paper, AAAI '02 Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: the Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care, July, 2002