Chapter 2.4

Design and Implementation of a Service Robot for Elders

Tao Mei1, Minzhou Luo1, Xiaodong Ye1, Jun Cheng2, Lan Wang2, Bin Kong3,  and Rujin Wang3     1Institutes of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, CAS Changzhou, China     2Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China     3Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, CAS Hefei, China

Abstract

A prototype of a service robot for elders is described in this chapter. The robot has the functions of autonomous mobility in the home environment, manipulation for small commodities, speech recognition and synthesis in specific backgrounds, movement detection for elders’ safety and basic nursing ability. There are ...

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