RoboCare: an Integrated Robotic System for the Domestic Care of the Elderly

Abstract

Abstract. This article reports the state of advancement of the Robo-Care project, which was launched in December last year to address the problem of providing assistance to elderly people using a combina-tion of software, robots, intelligent sensors and humans. It addresses the creation of a multi-agent environment in which all these actors cooper-ate synergistically in order to provide user services. This paper details two aspects of the system in the making, namely the centralized, service-oriented supervision infrastructure, called Active Supervision Framework (ASF), and the robotic components in use in the present stage of system development. In particular, we give an overview of the integrated plan-ning and scheduling, execution monitoring and diagnosis services offered by the ASF, and on the domestic testbed environment which has been realized in our labs for on-site testing of the integrated system. 1