TY - JOUR
T1 - Mobile robot system to aid the daily life for bedridden persons
AU - Komeda, Takashi
AU - Matsuoka, Hiroaki
AU - Ogawa, Yasuhiro
AU - Fujii, Mitsuyoshi
AU - Uchida, Tateki
AU - Miyagi, Masao
AU - Koyama, Hiroyuki
AU - Funakubo, Hiroyasu
PY - 1996/12/1
Y1 - 1996/12/1
N2 - People who care for bedridden patients have great burdens in mind and body. The number of old-aged people in the population is increasing in Japan, the problem of care for bedridden patients will become an increasingly social problem. We are trying to solve this problem by developing a small mobile robot system for bedridden patients. The purpose of this system is to pick up and to bring a small object putting it somewhere inside the room semi-automatically. This mobile robot consists of a manipulator, visual sensor unit and mobile unit. This system gives information about the surrounding to the patient through the camera and monitor. When the patient directs an target object on the monitor, the system measures a 3-dimensional location of it, and the mobile unit approaches the object and the manipulator picks up and carries it back to the patient. This system is controlled by the image information and also by human through an interface based on images.
AB - People who care for bedridden patients have great burdens in mind and body. The number of old-aged people in the population is increasing in Japan, the problem of care for bedridden patients will become an increasingly social problem. We are trying to solve this problem by developing a small mobile robot system for bedridden patients. The purpose of this system is to pick up and to bring a small object putting it somewhere inside the room semi-automatically. This mobile robot consists of a manipulator, visual sensor unit and mobile unit. This system gives information about the surrounding to the patient through the camera and monitor. When the patient directs an target object on the monitor, the system measures a 3-dimensional location of it, and the mobile unit approaches the object and the manipulator picks up and carries it back to the patient. This system is controlled by the image information and also by human through an interface based on images.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0030300754
SN - 0884-3627
VL - 4
SP - 2789
EP - 2792
JO - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
JF - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
T2 - Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Part 4 (of 4)
Y2 - 14 October 1996 through 17 October 1996
ER -