Watching elderly and disabled person's physical condition by remotely controlled monorail robot

Yasunori Nagasaka; Yoshinori Matsumoto; Yasutoshi Fukaya; Tomoichi Takahashi; Toru Takeshita

doi:10.1117/12.444202

5 October 2001 Watching elderly and disabled person's physical condition by remotely controlled monorail robot

Yasunori Nagasaka, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Yasutoshi Fukaya, Tomoichi Takahashi, Toru Takeshita

Proceedings Volume 4572, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.444202
Event: Intelligent Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, 2001, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

We are developing a nursing system using robots and cameras. The cameras are mounted on a remote controlled monorail robot which moves inside a room and watches the elderly. It is necessary to pay attention to the elderly at home or nursing homes all time. This requires staffs to pay attention to them at every time. The purpose of our system is to help those staffs. This study intends to improve such situation. A host computer controls a monorail robot to go in front of the elderly using the images taken by cameras on the ceiling. A CCD camera is mounted on the monorail robot to take pictures of their facial expression or movements. The robot sends the images to a host computer that checks them whether something unusual happens or not. We propose a simple calibration method for positioning the monorail robots to track the moves of the elderly for keeping their faces at center of camera view. We built a small experiment system, and evaluated our camera calibration method and image processing algorithm.

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Yasunori Nagasaka, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Yasutoshi Fukaya, Tomoichi Takahashi, and Toru Takeshita "Watching elderly and disabled person's physical condition by remotely controlled monorail robot", Proc. SPIE 4572, Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XX: Algorithms, Techniques, and Active Vision, (5 October 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.444202

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