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A cloud robotics solution was designed and initially tested with a mobile robotic platform and a smart environment, in order to provide health-care management services to senior citizens and improve their independent living. The solution was evaluated in terms of Quality of Service (QoS) and tested in the realistic scenario of the DomoCasa Living Lab, Peccioli, Italy. In particular, a medication reminding service, a remote home monitoring and a user indoor localization algorithm were outsourced in the cloud and provided to the robots, users and carers. The system acquired data from a smart environment and addressed the robot to the user for service delivery. Experiments showed a service’s Reliability of Response at least of the 0.04 % and a Time of Response of the same order of magnitude of the processing time required by the user localization algorithm.
M. Bonaccorsi and L. Fiorini are equally contributed to the work
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 288899 (Robot-Era Project). This work was also supported in part by Telecom Italia, Joint Open Lab WHITE, Pisa, Italy.
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Bonaccorsi, M., Fiorini, L., Cavallo, F., Esposito, R., Dario, P. (2015). Design of Cloud Robotic Services for Senior Citizens to Improve Independent Living and Personal Health Management. In: Andò, B., Siciliano, P., Marletta, V., Monteriù, A. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. Biosystems & Biorobotics, vol 11. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18374-9_43
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