Control of assistive robots

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Description

The assistance of disabled, elderly and persons with
special needs become to be one of the most important service applications of the
robotic systems in the near future. Humans care and service
demands an innovative robotic solution to make easier the day-life
of these people in home, workplace and
institutional care
environments. In this way the quality of life
of the important part of population improves toward their social
integration
.
 

           
During the last years the
rehabilitation technology
is developing towards more flexible and
adaptable robotic systems. These robots aim at supporting disable
and elderly people with special needs in their home environment. Furthermore,
most advanced countries are becoming to be aging societies, and the percentage
of people with special needs is already significant and due to grow. There have
been very interesting developments in this field, such as Paro (K.
Wada, 2002), a robot which provide psychological and social effects to human
beings, or Dexter (L. Zollo,2001) and RAID (G.
Bolmsjo, 1995), which are mounted on a wheelchair and helps in welfare tasks to
the disable people. Another interesting robots is Handy 1
(Topping, 2002) and MANUS (Kwee, 1997). These systems are a
commercially available robotic system capable of assisting the most severely
disabled people in self-feeding, and personal hygiene tasks. 

Along this road, the
MATS robot is a robotic system that can climb the
different planes of the environment (wall, table, bath,…) in order to perform
numerous personal care and service applications such
as kitchen plates and cup manipulation, toothbrush and toothpaste coordinated
manipulation in the bathroom and entertainment games in the living room.

Entries:
Flexible Field Factory for Construction Industry
Assembly Automation. num. 2 , vol. 33 , pages: 175 – 183 , 2013
S. Martinez A. Jardon Juan G. Victores
Building industrialization: robotized assembly of modular products
Assembly Automation- Emerald Group Publishing Ltd . num. 2 , vol. 28 , pages: 134 – 142 , 2008
S. Martinez A. Jardon
AUTMOD3: The Integration of Design and Planning Tools for Automatic Modular Construction
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (ISSN: 1729-8806). num. 4 , vol. 4 , pages: 457 – 468 , 2007
V.M. Padron M. Abderrahim
A mechatronics security system for the construction site
Automation in Construction. num. 4 , vol. 14 , pages: 461 – 467 , 2005
M. Abderrahim
FutureHome: An integrated construction automation approach
IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine. num. 1 , vol. 9 , pages: 55 – 66 , 2002
M. Abderrahim
Robotics and automation in construction
IEEE Robotics & Automation magazine. num. 1 , vol. 9 , pages: 4 – 6 , 2002
C. Balaguer M. Abderrahim
Computer-aided architectural design oriented to robotized facade panels manufacturing
Computer Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. num. 3 , vol. 16 , pages: 216 – 227 , 2001

Entries:
User-Oriented Interactive Building Design
23rd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2006), Tokyo, Japan
S. Martinez
Robotics and Automation in Construction industry: From hard to soft robotics
3rd IARP Workshop on Service, Assistive and Personal Robots, Madrid, Spain
3D Simulator of Modular Building Assembly by Automated Cranes
20th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC2003), 2003, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
V.M. Padron M. Abderrahim
A Mechatronics Security System for the Construction Site
20th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC2003), 2003, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
M. Abderrahim
EU FutureHome project results Lugar de celebración: (Holanda)
20th International Symposium on Robotics and Automation in Construction (ISARC?2003), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
AUTMOD3: A Planning Tool for Modular Building System
19th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 2002, Washington, USA
V.M. Padron M. Abderrahim
The design and Development of an Automatic Construction Crane
18th IAARC/IFAC/IEEE International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC2001), 2001, Warsaw, Poland
V.M. Padron A. Gimenez S. Garrido M. Abderrahim
Autmod3: an Automatic Modularization System
17th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 2000, Taipei, Taiwan
V.M. Padron M. Abderrahim
Open issues and future possibilities in the EU construction
17th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC?00), Taipei, Taiwan

Entries:
Robotics and Automation in Construction
IN-TEH , ISBN: 978-953-7619-13, 2008
M. Abderrahim