Title :
An Internet-based Tele-homecare System with Trinomial Protocol
Author :
Liu, Polley R. ; Meng, Max Q -H ; Liu, Peter X.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin
Abstract :
Since the population-aging problem is increasingly affecting the society, health monitoring at home with interactive teleoperation is of interest to researchers and healthcare practitioners. Thus, we develop a low-cost and platform-independent telecare system to support the aged and disable people for long-term health care online monitoring. A trinomial protocol and multi-modal human-machine interfaces are designed to decrease the influence of time delay in human interface of teleoperation and give the operator a robust and safe control of the robot. Experimental results show that the system can provide stable and reliable homecare service between physicians, nurses and patients
Keywords :
Internet; delays; geriatrics; health care; medical robotics; mobile robots; patient monitoring; telemedicine; Internet-based tele-homecare system; aged people; disable people; health monitoring; interactive teleoperation; long-term health care online monitoring; multimodal human-machine interfaces; population-aging problem; robot; time delay; trinomial protocol; Aging; Delay effects; Humans; Internet; Man machine systems; Medical services; Monitoring; Protocols; Robot control; Robust control;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8741-4
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617293
