PFI:BIC: Affordable and Mobile Assistive Robots for Elderly Care

PFI：BIC：经济实惠的移动老年护理辅助机器人

• 批准号: 1430216
• 负责人: Mark Yim
• 金额: $ 79.99万
• 依托单位: University of Pennsylvania
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1430216&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PFI; BIC; Affordable; Mobile; Assistive; PFI; BIC; Affordable; Mobile; Assistive

This Partnership For Innovation project develops and tests the use of service robots to monitor and improve health of the elderly. The growing elderly population coupled with low birth rates in the developed world is creating a crisis in healthcare. The number of senior citizens is outgrowing the number of working-age adults to care for them. In the U.S. alone, the number of seniors over age 65 is projected to double from year 2000 to 2030, reaching 71.5 million. With the scarcity of care options available, affordable robots are a welcome solution for assisting elders with small tasks that would normally be done by a caregiver. While helping elders with activities of daily living in an elder care facility, the system learns about them. It can then do things such as help ensure that they are eating or drinking healthily.The project consists of two main parts: development of a low-cost mobile manipulator capable of a limited set of elder-relevant manipulation tasks (e.g., picking up dropped items or filling a water glass); and development of a data-driven service system that analyzes the use of the robot over time to monitor elder health via service requests and pro-actively offer assistance as needed. One key to making this system viable is maintaining effectiveness at low cost. This work builds on a commercial low-cost mobile robot platform being developed at Savioke and adds manipulation capabilities via a novel low-cost expanding prismatic joint arm under development at the University of Pennsylvania. This mobile manipulator robot will be used to perform service tasks, such as delivering water to elders. The data gathered by these robots and how elders use them in the field will provide information about how robots can help create a larger data-driven health monitoring system.The partners at the inception of the project include University of Pennsylvania, both the School of Engineering and Applied Science as well as the School of Medicine (Philadelphia, PA) and Savioke (Sunnyvale, CA, a small business concern) along with broader context partner, "LIFE"--Living Independently For Elders (Philadelphia, PA, a non-profit organization).

这种创新项目的合作伙伴关系开发并测试了使用服务机器人来监视和改善老年人健康的使用。在发达国家中，不断增长的老年人口加上低出生率，正在造成医疗保健危机。老年人的人数超过了照顾他们的工作年龄成年人的数量。仅在美国，65岁以上的老年人的人数预计将从2000年到2030年增加一倍，达到7150万。由于可用的护理选择稀缺，负担得起的机器人是一种可喜的解决方案，可以帮助长者通常由照料者完成的小任务。该系统在帮助长者进行日常生活活动的同时，学习了这些活动。然后，它可以做一些事情，例如帮助确保他们健康饮食或饮用。该项目由两个主要部分组成：开发低成本移动操纵器，能够有限的相关老年人操纵任务（例如，捡起丢弃的物品或填充水杯）；以及开发数据驱动的服务系统，该系统会随着时间的推移分析机器人的使用，以通过服务请求监控老年人健康，并根据需要提供帮助。使该系统可行的关键之一是以低成本保持有效性。这项工作以Savioke开发的商业低成本移动机器人平台为基础，并通过宾夕法尼亚大学开发的新型低成本棱镜联合部门添加了操纵功能。该移动操纵器机器人将用于执行服务任务，例如向长者运送水。这些机器人收集的数据以及长者如何在现场使用它们，将提供有关机器人如何帮助创建更大数据驱动的健康监测系统的信息。该项目成立时的合作伙伴包括宾夕法尼亚大学，工程学院，应用科学学院以及医学学院以及医学学院以及医学学院（Philadelphia，Paioke，Pa）和Savioke（Paioke，Sunnyvale，CA Sunnyvale，Ca ca Cable，Ca ca Caper，''对于长老（宾夕法尼亚州费城，非营利组织）。