Study on teleoperated home care mobile robot

Abstract

Since the aging population is increasingly affecting the society, health monitoring at home with interactive tele-operation is of interest to researchers and healthcare practitioners. Assistive technologies for telemonitoring at homes constitute a very promising avenue to decrease load on the health care system, compensate for shortages of nurses and improve life quality. Thus, we attempt to develop teleoperated mobile robot system for hospitals or home healthcare. A feasibility study and basic platform design of a teleoperated home are robot via the Internet is described. We started from a literature review in the research on this topic. We then presented HSR-I, a new modular platform for Internet based mobile robotic systems including design principles, hardware and software architecture. Field tests at hospital facilities have confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed system equipped with the capability for navigation by visual information and friendly human-robot interface.