Abstract
Elderly population in Europe is increasing, while the size of the healthcare workforce remains the same. Robotics , home automation , assistive technology and other telecare support independence of older adults and chronically ill populations can provide their daily lives with health monitoring at home and provide them with the potential to moderate the burden from healthcare institutions. Existing stand-alone technologies are now covering these needs but multiple stand-alone systems in one dwelling can be complicated for users and their caregivers. Ideally, integrated solutions providing a complete set of services would cover more needs of the users under one solution. This section explores the external environment for integrating robots in the home automation and assistive environments looking into the technological challenges and proposes a roadmap of integration drawing on the RADIO project experience.
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Simshaw et al. [1].
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RoboLaw EU project deliverable, D6.2 Guidelines on Regulating Robotics , published on 22 September 2014.
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UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Special Interest Group (RAS-SIG), 2014:7; cited at ROBOLAW 2014.
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Holder et al. [2].
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Pollack et al. [3].
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In order to cope with the navigation and localization problem, RADIO makes use of ROS since it provides powerful and well-tested software to deal with navigation issues. Gmapping and hector slam are the most used ROS packages by the community for SLAM (both based in MCL).
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Doukas [8].
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Tarazón, R.L., García, R.N., Aivalioti, S., Ventura, R., Mariatos, V. (2019). Robots in Home Automation and Assistive Environments. In: Karkaletsis, V., Konstantopoulos, S., Voros, N., Annicchiarico, R., Dagioglou, M., Antonopoulos, C. (eds) RADIO--Robots in Assisted Living. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92330-7_11
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