10 accepted papers
Elderly and mobility impaired people need special attention during bathing activities, since these tasks are demanding in body flexibility. Our aim is to build an assistive robotic bathing system, in order to increase the independence and safety of this procedure. Towards this end, the expertise of…
In this work, we present a novel framework for on-line human gait stability prediction of the elderly users of an intelligent robotic rollator using Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks, fusing multimodal RGB-D and Laser Range Finder (LRF) data from non-wearable sensors. A Deep Learning (DL) based…
In this letter, we tackle the problem of adapting the motion of a robotic assistant rollator to patients with different mobility status. The goal is to achieve a coupled human–robot motion in a front-following setting as if the patient was pushing the rollator himself/herself. To this end, we propos
The accurate human gait tracking is an important factor for various robotic applications, such as robotic walkers aiming to provide assistance to patients with different mobility impairment, social robot companions, etc. A context-aware robot control architecture needs constant knowledge of the user
In this paper we describe a control strategy for a user-adaptive human-robot system for an intelligent robotic Mobility Assistive Device (MAD)using raw data from a single laser-range-finder (LRF)mounted on the MAD and scanning the walking area. The proposed control architecture consists of three mod…
Elderly or disabled people usually need augmented nursing attention both in home and clinical environments, especially to perform bathing activities. The development of an assistive robotic bath system, which constitutes a central motivation of this letter, would increase the independence and safety
Tracking human gait accurately and robustly constitutes a key factor for a smart robotic walker, aiming to provide assistance to patients with different mobility impairment. A context-aware assistive robot needs constant knowledge of the user's kinematic state to assess the gait status and adjust it…
Elderly people have particular needs in performing bathing activities, since these tasks require body flexibility. Our aim is to build an assistive robotic bath system, in order to increase the independence and safety of this procedure. Towards this end, the expertise of professional carers for bath…
When designing a user-friendly Mobility Assistive Device (MAD) for mobility constrained people, it is important to take into account the diverse spectrum of disabilities, which results to completely different needs to be covered by the MAD for each specific user. An intelligent adaptive behavior is…
The precise analysis of a patient's or an elderly person's walking pattern is very important for an effective intelligent active mobility assistance robot. This walking pattern can be described by a cyclic motion, which can be modeled using the consecutive gait phases. In this paper, we present a co…