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ACCRA Project: Agile Co-Creation for Robots and Aging

  • Laura FioriniEmail author
  • Grazia D’Onofrio
  • Raffaele Limosani
  • Daniele Sancarlo
  • Antonio Greco
  • Francesco Giuliani
  • Antonio Kung
  • Paolo Dario
  • Filippo Cavallo
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering book series (LNEE, volume 540)

Abstract

The mission of ACCRA (Agile Co-Creation for Robots and Aging) is to enable the development of advanced ICT Robotics based solutions for extending active and healthy aging in daily life by defining, developing and demonstrating an agile co-creation development process. ACCRA project consists of three robotic applications which aim to promote the independent living by means of personal mobility application, to support the daily life management thanks to housework application and to promote conversation rehabilitation tailored on personal attitude by means of dedicated software programme. Additionally, ACCRA project will be designed and developed on open source framework (i.e. ROS, FIWARE, universAAL and Rospex) to promote the interoperability among scientific community.

Keywords

Service robotics Agile programming Co-creation Active aging 
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Notes

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the ACCRA Project, founded by the European Commission—Horizon 2020 Founding Programme (H2020-SCI-PM14-2016) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan under grant agreement No. 738251.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant’AnnaPontedera (PI)Italy
  2. 2.Complex Unit of Geriatrics, Department of Medical SciencesIRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”FoggiaItaly
  3. 3.ICT, Innovation and Research UnitIRCCS “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza”FoggiaItaly
  4. 4.TrialogParisFrance

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