Design and implementation of an interactive nurse robot

Author

Shieh, Ming-Yuan ; Lu, Cheng-Ming ; Chen, Chin-Chien ; Chuang, Chen-Yang ; Lai, Yu-Sheng

Author_Institution

Southern Taiwan Univ., Tainan

fYear

2007

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

2121

Lastpage

2125

Abstract

In this paper, an interactive nurse robot is developed which has worked successfully in home environment. The mobile robot, driven by two motors/wheels, consists of image processing, speech recognition, semantic analysis, local/remote interaction, and autonomous mobile components to provide nursing functions of surveillance, interaction, accompanying, patrol, and urgent announcement. Since the proposed robot is desired to service children and/or elders in home, its appearance and actions should be loveable and safe. The experimental results reveal the interactive nurse robot really reaches the goals of attracting and looking after children.

Keywords

medical robotics; mobile robots; service robots; autonomous mobile components; home environment; image processing; interactive nurse robot; mobile robot; semantic analysis; speech recognition; Infrared detectors; Infrared sensors; Medical services; Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Robotics and automation; Service robots; Speech analysis; Speech recognition; Accompanying; Interactive nurse robot; Semantic analysis; Speech recognition; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE, 2007 Annual Conference

Conference_Location

Takamatsu

Print_ISBN

978-4-907764-27-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-907764-27-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SICE.2007.4421337

Filename

4421337