Systems for ambient assisted living(AAL) that integrate service robots with sensor networks and user monitoring can help elderly people with their daily activities, allowing them to stay in their homes and live active...Systems for ambient assisted living(AAL) that integrate service robots with sensor networks and user monitoring can help elderly people with their daily activities, allowing them to stay in their homes and live active lives for as long as possible. In this paper, we outline the AAL system currently developed in the European project Robot-Era, and describe the engineering aspects and the serviceoriented software architecture of the domestic robot, a service robot with advanced manipulation capabilities. Based on the robot operating system(ROS) middleware, our software integrates a large set of advanced algorithms for navigation, perception, and manipulation. In tests with real end users, the performance and acceptability of the platform are evaluated.展开更多
For a domestic personal robot, personalized services are as important as predesigned tasks, because the robot needs to adjust the home state based on the operator's habits. An operator's habits are composed of...For a domestic personal robot, personalized services are as important as predesigned tasks, because the robot needs to adjust the home state based on the operator's habits. An operator's habits are composed of cues, behaviors, and rewards. This article introduces behavioral footprints to describe the operator's behaviors in a house, and applies the inverse reinforcement learning technique to extract the operator's habits, represented by a reward function. We implemented the proposed approach with a mobile robot on indoor temperature adjustment, and compared this approach with a baseline method that recorded all the cues and behaviors of the operator. The result shows that the proposed approach allows the robot to reveal the operator's habits accurately and adjust the environment state accordingly.展开更多
As described in this paper, we propose a new haptic interface for a service robot. For safety with service robots working in a space where people live, some notification before collision with an obstacle is desirable....As described in this paper, we propose a new haptic interface for a service robot. For safety with service robots working in a space where people live, some notification before collision with an obstacle is desirable. To achieve such a function, we developed a master-slave manipulator system in which the slave manipulator surface is covered with many proximity sensors. Additionally, we developed a haptic device that feeds back proximity sense information to the operator using small vibration motors. We attached the haptic device to the arm of the operator and vibrated the vibration motor corresponding to the sensor. Thereby, the operator was able to ascertain the position of an object near the manipulator, and to make the robot maneuver to avoid it before collision. To confirm the system usefulness, we equipped subjects with the developed proximity sense presentation device and performed a detection-position-specific experiment and an obstacle avoidance experiment in a narrow space. As results of the detection position specific experiment on five subjects, four subjects reported the detection position correctly. The remaining one person failed because of his particular arm shape. Operation experiments conducted in a narrow space showed that all subjects＇ work was successful when given feedback of proximity sense information. Nobody was successful without proximity sense information. Results of these two experiments demonstrate that this proposed system is useful for obstacle avoidance of a master-slave manipulator system.展开更多
This paper presents a technological solution to promote and help independent access to work for disabled people. The aim is to develop a form of technical assistance that supports them in the control of schedules, pre...This paper presents a technological solution to promote and help independent access to work for disabled people. The aim is to develop a form of technical assistance that supports them in the control of schedules, prevention of dangerous areas in the work place, warnings and automatic alarm generation. The device chosen to exchange all this information is a smartphone based on Android Operating System and GPS （Global Positioning System） technology mainly. A set of Android applications has been developed using Java language, and controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. All of them are connected to the Server Application through the Communications Module. The Server Application Module provides the assistants or psychologists the possibility of supervise all the handicapped people activities. The assistants, psychologists and users have all evaluated the application very positively as it covers disabled people＇s needs perfectly.展开更多
With the continuous development of China＇s cruise tourism industry, the problem of lacking of specialized cruises talents has become increasingly prominent. This paper selects services personnel as the object of stud...With the continuous development of China＇s cruise tourism industry, the problem of lacking of specialized cruises talents has become increasingly prominent. This paper selects services personnel as the object of study, through analyzing the talent shortage phenomenon, identifying the reasons for the shortage of talent. Meanwhile by introducing the incentive theory and methods, cruise service talents incentive elements be identified and then establishing in accordance with incentive models. In the end of paper, a number of recommendations to strengthen the incentives are concluded, in the hope of society, governments, businesses and their employees join forces and work together to promote the rapid development of cruise service personnel.展开更多
Recently, the demand of services for architectural space is more increasing due to the diversification and complication of people＇s needs. In this research, it is assumed that the robot will support people＇s various...Recently, the demand of services for architectural space is more increasing due to the diversification and complication of people＇s needs. In this research, it is assumed that the robot will support people＇s various needs and people＇s lives in the near future. In this study, the authors investigated the relationship between a robot and a person in quasi space close to actual life space. The authors carried out an experiment to clarify the feelings of worriment due to a robot in the living room in the case of Japanese males. This research aims to establish architecture techniques for robots and humans living together. In this experiment, the robot approached a male sitting on a sofa in quasi space. At different distances between the robot and the male, the subject evaluated his feelings of worriment from ＂no worriment＂ to ＂worriment＂ in five steps from one to five. The robot used in this experiment is middle-sized （380 mm （L） × 380 mm （W） × 350 mm （H））. In this experiment, it is considered that the robot asks for help outside when an emergency occurs. In this experiment, the authors had three situations for the subject： watching television, reading a magazine and just sitting.展开更多
With the aging of our population is growing significantly, pension issues are also increasingly prominent in the family pension, social pension and retirement communities, and retirement communities have both advantag...With the aging of our population is growing significantly, pension issues are also increasingly prominent in the family pension, social pension and retirement communities, and retirement communities have both advantages and both have their own characteristics and become an effective means to solve the pension problem, Shanghai is currently analyzing the situation and problems of the pension on the basis of the Shanghai community care services continue to improve mechanisms to forward the healthy and orderly development of Shanghai pension service mechanism.展开更多
Smart homes can provide complementary information to assist home service robots.We present a robotic misplaced item finding(MIF)system,which uses human historical trajectory data obtained in a smart home environment.F...Smart homes can provide complementary information to assist home service robots.We present a robotic misplaced item finding(MIF)system,which uses human historical trajectory data obtained in a smart home environment.First,a multi-sensor fusion method is developed to localize and track a resident.Second,a path-planning method is developed to generate the robot movement plan,which considers the knowledge of the human historical trajectory.Third,a real-time object detector based on a convolutional neural network is applied to detect the misplaced item.We present MIF experiments in a smart home testbed and the experimental results verify the accuracy and efficiency of our solution.展开更多
It’s lunch hour on a weekday and a small restaurant in central Beijing is packed to the gil s.Harried-looking waiters run from table to table to cope with the stream of orders,and the manager’s fingers fly like ligh...It’s lunch hour on a weekday and a small restaurant in central Beijing is packed to the gil s.Harried-looking waiters run from table to table to cope with the stream of orders,and the manager’s fingers fly like lightning over the calculator as she tallies up bills.In sharp contrast to the hectic activity,the little kitchen,visible through the long narrow glass window that partitions it from the dining hal,is a calm oasis.A lean but efficient army composed of three cooks is dishing out the orders,working in perfect coordination and harmony.展开更多
China’s first cargo spacecraft is launched in preparation for future space stationScience f iction is becoming a reality with China’s first robotic cargo ship firmly anchored in space,paving the way for a manned spa...China’s first cargo spacecraft is launched in preparation for future space stationScience f iction is becoming a reality with China’s first robotic cargo ship firmly anchored in space,paving the way for a manned space station around 2022.Tianzhou-1,China’s first cargo spacecraft as well as its largest and heaviest spacecraft,展开更多
基金partially supported by the European Commission in project Robot-Era under contract FP7-288899
文摘Systems for ambient assisted living(AAL) that integrate service robots with sensor networks and user monitoring can help elderly people with their daily activities, allowing them to stay in their homes and live active lives for as long as possible. In this paper, we outline the AAL system currently developed in the European project Robot-Era, and describe the engineering aspects and the serviceoriented software architecture of the domestic robot, a service robot with advanced manipulation capabilities. Based on the robot operating system(ROS) middleware, our software integrates a large set of advanced algorithms for navigation, perception, and manipulation. In tests with real end users, the performance and acceptability of the platform are evaluated.
基金supported in part by Hong Kong RGC GRC (CUHK14205914 and CUHK415512)
文摘For a domestic personal robot, personalized services are as important as predesigned tasks, because the robot needs to adjust the home state based on the operator's habits. An operator's habits are composed of cues, behaviors, and rewards. This article introduces behavioral footprints to describe the operator's behaviors in a house, and applies the inverse reinforcement learning technique to extract the operator's habits, represented by a reward function. We implemented the proposed approach with a mobile robot on indoor temperature adjustment, and compared this approach with a baseline method that recorded all the cues and behaviors of the operator. The result shows that the proposed approach allows the robot to reveal the operator's habits accurately and adjust the environment state accordingly.
文摘As described in this paper, we propose a new haptic interface for a service robot. For safety with service robots working in a space where people live, some notification before collision with an obstacle is desirable. To achieve such a function, we developed a master-slave manipulator system in which the slave manipulator surface is covered with many proximity sensors. Additionally, we developed a haptic device that feeds back proximity sense information to the operator using small vibration motors. We attached the haptic device to the arm of the operator and vibrated the vibration motor corresponding to the sensor. Thereby, the operator was able to ascertain the position of an object near the manipulator, and to make the robot maneuver to avoid it before collision. To confirm the system usefulness, we equipped subjects with the developed proximity sense presentation device and performed a detection-position-specific experiment and an obstacle avoidance experiment in a narrow space. As results of the detection position specific experiment on five subjects, four subjects reported the detection position correctly. The remaining one person failed because of his particular arm shape. Operation experiments conducted in a narrow space showed that all subjects＇ work was successful when given feedback of proximity sense information. Nobody was successful without proximity sense information. Results of these two experiments demonstrate that this proposed system is useful for obstacle avoidance of a master-slave manipulator system.
文摘This paper presents a technological solution to promote and help independent access to work for disabled people. The aim is to develop a form of technical assistance that supports them in the control of schedules, prevention of dangerous areas in the work place, warnings and automatic alarm generation. The device chosen to exchange all this information is a smartphone based on Android Operating System and GPS （Global Positioning System） technology mainly. A set of Android applications has been developed using Java language, and controlling the device via Google-developed Java libraries. All of them are connected to the Server Application through the Communications Module. The Server Application Module provides the assistants or psychologists the possibility of supervise all the handicapped people activities. The assistants, psychologists and users have all evaluated the application very positively as it covers disabled people＇s needs perfectly.
文摘With the continuous development of China＇s cruise tourism industry, the problem of lacking of specialized cruises talents has become increasingly prominent. This paper selects services personnel as the object of study, through analyzing the talent shortage phenomenon, identifying the reasons for the shortage of talent. Meanwhile by introducing the incentive theory and methods, cruise service talents incentive elements be identified and then establishing in accordance with incentive models. In the end of paper, a number of recommendations to strengthen the incentives are concluded, in the hope of society, governments, businesses and their employees join forces and work together to promote the rapid development of cruise service personnel.
文摘Recently, the demand of services for architectural space is more increasing due to the diversification and complication of people＇s needs. In this research, it is assumed that the robot will support people＇s various needs and people＇s lives in the near future. In this study, the authors investigated the relationship between a robot and a person in quasi space close to actual life space. The authors carried out an experiment to clarify the feelings of worriment due to a robot in the living room in the case of Japanese males. This research aims to establish architecture techniques for robots and humans living together. In this experiment, the robot approached a male sitting on a sofa in quasi space. At different distances between the robot and the male, the subject evaluated his feelings of worriment from ＂no worriment＂ to ＂worriment＂ in five steps from one to five. The robot used in this experiment is middle-sized （380 mm （L） × 380 mm （W） × 350 mm （H））. In this experiment, it is considered that the robot asks for help outside when an emergency occurs. In this experiment, the authors had three situations for the subject： watching television, reading a magazine and just sitting.
基金Acknowledgement With this paper,first of all thanks to zhe help of my tutor zhang,,without his help,l am not going to write this article so quickly.This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Grant NO. 00000000） and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central University （Grant NO.TD2010-2）.
文摘With the aging of our population is growing significantly, pension issues are also increasingly prominent in the family pension, social pension and retirement communities, and retirement communities have both advantages and both have their own characteristics and become an effective means to solve the pension problem, Shanghai is currently analyzing the situation and problems of the pension on the basis of the Shanghai community care services continue to improve mechanisms to forward the healthy and orderly development of Shanghai pension service mechanism.
基金Project supported by the Basic Public Research Program of Zhejiang Province,China(No.LGF18F030001)the Open Research Project of the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology,Zhejiang University,China(No.ICT1800414)
文摘Smart homes can provide complementary information to assist home service robots.We present a robotic misplaced item finding(MIF)system,which uses human historical trajectory data obtained in a smart home environment.First,a multi-sensor fusion method is developed to localize and track a resident.Second,a path-planning method is developed to generate the robot movement plan,which considers the knowledge of the human historical trajectory.Third,a real-time object detector based on a convolutional neural network is applied to detect the misplaced item.We present MIF experiments in a smart home testbed and the experimental results verify the accuracy and efficiency of our solution.
文摘It’s lunch hour on a weekday and a small restaurant in central Beijing is packed to the gil s.Harried-looking waiters run from table to table to cope with the stream of orders,and the manager’s fingers fly like lightning over the calculator as she tallies up bills.In sharp contrast to the hectic activity,the little kitchen,visible through the long narrow glass window that partitions it from the dining hal,is a calm oasis.A lean but efficient army composed of three cooks is dishing out the orders,working in perfect coordination and harmony.
文摘China’s first cargo spacecraft is launched in preparation for future space stationScience f iction is becoming a reality with China’s first robotic cargo ship firmly anchored in space,paving the way for a manned space station around 2022.Tianzhou-1,China’s first cargo spacecraft as well as its largest and heaviest spacecraft,
