A Cloud Robotics Solution to Improve Social Assistive Robots for Active and Healthy Aging

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• 作者：Manuele Bonaccorsi ; Laura Fiorini…
• 刊名：International Journal of Social Robotics
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：June 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：3
• 页码：393-408
• 全文大小：1,581 KB
• 刊物类别：Engineering
• 刊物主题：Automation and Robotics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1875-4805
• 卷排序：8

文摘

Technological innovation in robotics and ICT represents an effective solution to tackle the challenge of providing social sustainable care services for the ageing population. The recent introduction of cloud technologies is opening new opportunities for the provisioning of advanced robotic services based on the cooperation of a number of connected robots, smart environments and devices improved by the huge cloud computational and storage capability. In this context, this paper aims to investigate and assess the potentialities of a cloud robotic system for the provisioning of assistive services for the promotion of active and healthy ageing. The system comprised two different smart environments, located in Italy and Sweden, where a service robot is connected to a cloud platform for the provisioning of localization based services to the users. The cloud robotic services were tested in the two realistic environments to assess the general feasibility of the solution and demonstrate the ability to provide assistive location based services in a multiple environment framework. The results confirmed the validity of the solution but also suggested a deeper investigation on the dependability of the communication technologies adopted in such kind of systems.KeywordsCloud roboticsAALLocation based services