Assistive Robot with Action Planner and Schedule for Family

Abstract

In the present day, the world is moving quickly, making the modern live of people to be more complex. Some people may have less time to manage their schedules, which could make them forget to do something that may be important. Especially, a family may not be able to manage their time well because they are caught up in their busy works. We have developed an application to help members in a family to manage their schedule. This application is a scheduling application with reminder, a user can add tasks for other family members and specify an activity, a place to remind each activity, and a person who is going to be reminded or do the activity. Multiple tasks can be complied together to become a plan, a plan specifies the date and time that the defined tasks must be done. In reminder part, we use a personal robot assistant called Zenbo from ASUS opened for developers. Zenbo has capabilities to speak, move, detect persons and much more. It works with the application to remind members in family to perform an activity at a preset time. Zenbo retrieves the information of tasks that stored on the application database. It can go to the specified place to notify a person to do the task. Users can view the history of the previous Because people are too busy and may not manage their time well, we developed a schedule and reminder application that works with Zenbo, to help people in family manage their activities and time effectively.