Robotic service coordination for elderly people and caregivers with Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform

This paper proposed a method for deploying robotic service coordination for elderly people and caregivers. By showing two kinds of robotic services for them in real environments, we explain what important designs to deploy robotic services are. For this purpose, we utilized an infrastructure, called Ubiquitous Network Robot Platform (UNR-PF), allowing robot service coordination with robots, smartphones, and sensor networks. Three layered architecture of UNR-PF supports developers of personalized robotic services and their coordination to utilize different types of hardware according to characteristics of users. In the case studies of elderly care, robotic services should consider different types of hardware (e.g., wheelchair type) due to characteristics of users; it makes difficulties for design of robotics services.