SRS - Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living

Provider

Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports

Programme

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Call for proposals

FP7-ICT-2011-7

Main participants

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Contest type

RP - Co-financing of EC programme

Contract ID

34668/2012-32

Project name in Czech

SRS - Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living

Annotation in Czech

SRS (Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living) focuses on the development and prototyping of remotely-controlled, semi-autonomous robotic solutions in domestic environments to support elderly people. SRS solutions are designed to enable arobot to act as a shadow of its controller. For example, elderly parents can have a robot as a shadow of their children or carers. In this case, adult children or carers can help them remotely and physically with daily living tasks as if the children orcarers were resident in the house. Remote presence via robotics is the key to achieve targeted SRS goal. Based on the study of user requirements, the usability of the system can be improved by real-time 3D display on the client side. However, network communication poses serious problems due to limited and potentially unreliable communication channels. The proposed extension of the SRS project focuses on context-aware multimodal HRI support aimed at usability, safety and situation awareness for remote users. The new Context-Aware Virtual 3D Display will be able to cope with the project visualisation needs resulting from the existing requirement specifications. It will work on the client side based on predefined 3D maps. The Virtual map will be updated online employing a combination of real-time 3D robot perception, real-time 2D video processing and remote operator perception. The technical outcome will employ context detection based on visual clues, trajectory verification by means of video processingand object detection in images. Advanced fusion mechanisms will also be explored too. The addition of BUT to the consortium will allow optimizing the SRS HRI design and developing multimodal interfaces that are more appropriate for and attractive to thetargeted user group. This will improve the end-user experience with the SRS robot and hence make the project more effective and more efficient. The extension will enable building better robots for personalized health care.

R&D category

AP - Applied research

CEP classification - main branch

JC - Computer hardware and software

CEP - secondary branch

JD - Use of computers, robotics and its application

CEP - another secondary branch

IN - Informatics

OECD FORD - equivalent branches <br>(according to the <a href="http://www.vyzkum.cz/storage/att/E6EF7938F0E854BAE520AC119FB22E8D/Prevodnik_oboru_Frascati.pdf">converter</a>)

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)<br>20204 - Robotics and automatic control<br>20205 - Automation and control systems<br>20206 - Computer hardware and architecture

Provider evaluation

U - Uspěl podle zadání (s publikovanými či patentovanými výsledky atd.)

Project results evaluation

Following the condition that the candidate of financial contribution was evaluated and afterwards selected by international provider in accordance with the rules of the program the Ministry of Education, Youth ans Sports does not realize the evaluation of project results. The project is evaluated only after its approval by an international provider.

Realization period - beginning

Jan 1, 2012

Realization period - end

Jan 31, 2013

Project status

U - Finished project

Latest support payment

Mar 20, 2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data delivery code

CEP14-MSM-7E-U/01:1

Data delivery date

Jun 30, 2014

Total approved costs

1,663 thou. CZK

Public financial support

1,663 thou. CZK

Other public sources

0 thou. CZK

Non public and foreign sources

0 thou. CZK