Studies on necessary condition of companion robot in the RAA application

Author

Ohkubo, Eiichi ; Negishi, Takashi ; Oyamada, Yasuko ; Kimura, Ryuhei ; Naganuma, M.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Sci. & Eng., Teikyo Sci. & Technol. Univ., Tochigi, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

16-20 July 2003

Firstpage

102

Abstract

This paper describes desirable properties that the companion robots should have for the application to robot assisted activity / robot assisted therapy (RAA/RAT) from the standpoint of robotics. Although animal assisted activity / robot assisted therapy (AAA/AAT) give us much better effectiveness in the hospital and old-peoples nursing home for the present time, these institutes have been looking forward to RAA/RAT because of difficulties in AAA/AAT in handling of living animals and prevention of epidemics. From the fieldwork in pediatrics ward and the nursing home using the robots on-the-market that can be partly brought up, we extracted what kind of function is effective in communication between patient-robot, patient-nurse, and patient-patient. This paper also mentions how to actualize such function by software modeling and programming.

Keywords

geriatrics; medical robotics; patient treatment; animal assisted activity; companion robot; epidemic prevention; hospital; old-peoples nursing home; pediatrics ward; programming; robot assisted activity; robot assisted therapy; robotics standpoint; software modeling; Aging; Animals; Functional programming; Hospitals; Humans; Medical services; Medical treatment; Pediatrics; Production facilities; Robot programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7866-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIRA.2003.1222071

Filename

1222071