Assisted Living for People with Disabilities using a Service Robot
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In this paper, we introduce a concept in personal robotics to support independent living for people with disabilities. Specifically, we introduce our current efforts on object retrieval and physical therapies for stroke rehabilitation. Our major contributions are as follows: general-purpose personal robots that can potentially deliver many kinds of services; methods of conveying goals to the robot that searches for and retrieves misplaced objects; and adaptive teletherapy.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015