• DocumentCode
    3483547
  • Title

    A health care robot for patients

  • Author

    Yamamoto, Hiroshi ; Endo, Hiroshi ; Kitajima, Koichi ; Ohashi, Shingo ; Kondoh, Isao ; Kuwahara, Michiyoshi

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Health Sci., Okayama Univ., Japan
  • fYear
    1990
  • fDate
    3-6 Jul 1990
  • Firstpage
    985
  • Abstract
    Describes a health care robot for patients in hospitals. It is important and helpful in health cares to visualize and recognize the conditions of patients. The authors developed a health care robot for patients. This robot has an audio announcement system and a vision system. When the patient´s condition becomes worse, the robot calls doctors or nurses. In this manner, this robot can assist doctors and nurses in their patients care
  • Keywords
    computer vision; health care; robots; audio announcement system; health care robot; hospitals; patients; vision system; Drugs; Educational robots; Hospitals; IEEE news; Image processing; Intelligent robots; Machine vision; Medical services; Robot vision systems; Service robots;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Intelligent Robots and Systems '90. 'Towards a New Frontier of Applications', Proceedings. IROS '90. IEEE International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Ibaraki
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IROS.1990.262523
  • Filename
    262523