Chieh-Chih Wang

Towards Socially Assistive Robots for the Elderly

Chieh-Chih Wang, Shao-Wen Yang, Ko-Chih Wang, Yu-Chun Wu, Jiun-Fu Chen and Chung-Che Yu

The 10th International Conference on Automation Technology

Abstract

The NTU-PAL1 and NTU-PAL2 robots for the elderly are introduced in this paper. The emphasis of NTU-PAL1 is offering increased mobility for elderly people who are less-mobile. NTU-PAL2, an emotional expressive robot, is used to stimulate interaction, to supply relaxed companionship and to fulfill a sense of affection for senior citizens staying alone. The core software modules in terms of dynamic scene understanding and human understanding are summarized to demonstrate our progress towards socially assistive robotics for the elderly.

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Bibtex

@inproceedings{wang_automation09,
    author = {Chieh-Chih Wang, Shao-Wen Yang, Ko-Chih Wang, Yu-Chun Wu, Jiun-Fu Chen and Chung-Che Yu},
    title = {Towards Socially Assistive Robots for the Elderly},
    booktitle = {the 10th International Conference on Automation Technology},
    address = {Tainan, Taiwan},
    month = {June},
    year = {2009},
}