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Robotic smart house to assist people with movement disabilities

Authors: Kwang-Hyun Park, Zeungnam Bien, Ju-Jang Lee, Byung Kook Kim, Jong-Tae Lim, Jin-Oh Kim, Heyoung Lee, Dimitar H. Stefanov, Dae-Jin Kim, Jin-Woo Jung, Jun-Hyeong Do, Kap-Ho Seo, Chong Hui Kim, Won-Gyu Song, Woo-Jun Lee

Published in: Autonomous Robots | Issue 2/2007

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This paper introduces a new robotic smart house, Intelligent Sweet Home, developed at KAIST in Korea, which is based on several robotic agents and aims at testing advanced concepts for independent living of the elderly and people with disabilities. The work focuses on technical solutions for human-friendly assistance in motion/mobility and advanced human-machine interfaces that provide simple control of all assistive robotic systems and home-installed appliances. The smart house concept includes an intelligent bed, intelligent wheelchair, and robotic hoist for effortless transfer of the user between bed and wheelchair. The design solutions comply with most of the users’ requirements and suggestions collected by a special questionnaire survey of people with disabilities. The smart house responds to the user's commands as well as to the recognized intentions of the user. Various interfaces, based on hand gestures, voice, body movement, and posture, have been studied and tested. The paper describes the overall system structure and explains the design and functionality of some main system components.

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Title: Robotic smart house to assist people with movement disabilities
Authors: Kwang-Hyun Park
Zeungnam Bien
Ju-Jang Lee
Byung Kook Kim
Jong-Tae Lim
Jin-Oh Kim
Heyoung Lee
Dimitar H. Stefanov
Dae-Jin Kim
Jin-Woo Jung
Jun-Hyeong Do
Kap-Ho Seo
Chong Hui Kim
Won-Gyu Song
Woo-Jun Lee
Publication date: 01-02-2007
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Published in: Autonomous Robots / Issue 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0929-5593
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7527
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-006-9012-9

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