Flexible mechatronic assistive technology system to support persons with special needs in all their living and working environments
Funding: EU (IST-2001-32080)
2001- 2004
The MATS robot, developed in its entirety by the Robotics Lab of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid as part of the IST European Union project, aims to provide people independence in their own home. The development of service robots with high levels of mobi
The MATS robot has brought a highly innovative approach to the construction of service robots. The MATS robot can be adapted to different living environments and even move around the home using a flipping action. It can, for example, clamber around a house from room to room or even to another floor, and it is light enough for wheelchair users to move around while it is anchored to the chair.
The home in question, in keeping with the concept of environmental intelligence, must be equipped with a simple docking system that serves exclusively to feed the robot. The robot uses these docking stations to ?move? from one place to another, for example, from the living room wall to the wheelchair, or from the wheelchair to a kitchen top. The MATS robot can undertake a large range of household tasks, like feeding, bringing glasses, shaving, applying make-up, cleaning teeth, etc.
R.Aracil; C.Balaguer. M. Ferre, M. Buss, C. Melchiorri (Editors). Advances in Telerobotics. ISBN: 978-3-540-71363. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), vol. 31. 2007.
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C.Balaguer; A.Giménez; A.Jardón; R.Correal; S.Martínez. ADVANCES IN TELEROBOTICS. Chapter: Proprio & Teleoperation of a robotic system for disabled people assistance in domestic environments
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. pp.325-338. ISBN: 978-3-540-71363. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), vol. 31
SPRINGER NETHERLANDS EDITORIAL. 2007.
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C.Balaguer; R.Aracil. M. Ferre, M. Buss, C. Melchiorri. Advances in Telerobotics. Chapter: Introduction to Advances in Telerobotics. pp.1-10. ISBN: 978-3-540-71363. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR), vol. 31. 2007.
Journal publications
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C.Balaguer; A.Giménez; A.Jardón. The MATS robot: Service Climbing Robot for Personal Assistance. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine. Vol. 13. No. 1. pp.51-58. 2006.
C.Balaguer; A.Giménez; A.Jardón. Climbing Robots' Mobility for Inspection and Maintenance of 3D complex Environments. Autonomous Robots. Vol. 18. No. 3. pp.157-169. 2005.
Conference publications
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R.Correal; A.Jardón; S.Martínez; R.Cabas; A.Giménez; C.Balaguer. Human-Robot Coexistence in Robot-Aided Apartment. The 23rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2006). Tokyo. Japan. Oct, 2006.
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R.Cabas; L.M.Cabas; C.Balaguer. Optimized design of the underactuated robotic hand. ICRA 06. International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Orlando. United States. May, 2006.
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R.Correal; A.Jardón; R.Cabas; A.Giménez; C.Balaguer. Asibot, robot de asistencia a discapacitados y personas mayores. drt4ALL. Congreso Internacional sobre Domótica, Robótica y Teleasistencia. Madrid. Spain. Nov, 2005.
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A.Giménez; A.Jardón; R.Correal; R.Cabas; C.Balaguer. A portable light-weight climbing robot for personal assistance applications. 8th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (Clawar'05). ?The Best Paper Award?. London. UK. Sep, 2005.
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C.Balaguer; A.Giménez; A.Jardón; R.Cabas; R.Correal. Live experimentation of the service robot applications
elderly people care in home environments. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2005). Edmonton. Canada. Aug, 2005.
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R.Cabas; C.Balaguer. Design and development of a light weight embodied robotic hand activated with only one actuators. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'2005). Edmonton. Canada. Aug, 2005.
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C.Balaguer; A.Giménez; A.Jardón; R.Cabas; R.Correal. Live experimentation of the service robot applications elderly people care in home environments. ICRA 05. International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Barcelona. Spain. May, 2005.
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R.Correal; A.Jardón; A.Giménez; C.Balaguer. Wireless Teleoperation of an Assistive Robot by PDA. The 1st IFAC Symposium on Telematics Applications In Automation and Robotics. Helsinki. Finland. Jul, 2004.
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A.Giménez; A.Jardón; R.Correal; R.Cabas; C.Balaguer. Service robot applications for elederly people care in home environments. 2nd International workshop on advances in service robotics. Sttugart. Germany. Jun, 2004.
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A.Giménez; C.Balaguer. The MATS robotic system to assist disableb people in their home environments. Intl. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS'03. Las Vegas. USA. Oct, 2003.
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Patents
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A.Jardón; C.Balaguer; M.Arbulú; L.A.Pabón. ALOJAMIENTO PARA TRANSMISIÓN ARMÓNICA DE ENGRANAJES, SISTEMA REDUCTOR-AMPLIFICADOR DE VELOCIDAD, SISTEMA MOTO-REDUCTOR Y MÉTODO PARA REDUCIR LA VELOCIDAD DE UN MOTOR.
Número de publicación: ES2373493 A1 (06.02.2012)
También publicado como: ES2373493 B1 (06.11.2012) . Ref: P200900927. 2009.