Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749050
Zainab Mones, D. Zhen, I. Alqatawneh, Q. Zeng, F. Gu, A. Ball
Planetary gearboxes are widely used in drivetrains of helicopters, wind turbines, and heavy industrial applications. Since the role of complex planetary gearboxes is quite important and their failure may cause a shutdown of the entire train resulting in major economic losses, condition monitoring of planetary gearboxes has received significant attention. The installation of conventional accelerometers on the machine's housing can fail to provide accuracy in diagnosing planetary gearbox faults, due to the alterations in planet gear mesh excitation with the carrier. Advances in low-cost and low-power Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology allow the MEMS accelerometer to be installed onto the rotating shaft directly, and this implies that the rotating machine's dynamic features can be measured more accurately. This paper examines the characteristics of the rotating acceleration signals measured by on-rotor MEMS accelerometer installed on the low-speed input shaft of a planetary gearbox. The experimental results show that by investigating the frequency spectra of the on-rotor accelerometer measurements, different faults of planetary gearbox can be clearly diagnosed, thus providing a reliable and low-cost method for the condition monitoring of planetary gearbox.
{"title":"Fault Diagnosis of Planetary Gearboxes via Processing the On-Rotor MEMS Accelerometer Signals","authors":"Zainab Mones, D. Zhen, I. Alqatawneh, Q. Zeng, F. Gu, A. Ball","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749050","url":null,"abstract":"Planetary gearboxes are widely used in drivetrains of helicopters, wind turbines, and heavy industrial applications. Since the role of complex planetary gearboxes is quite important and their failure may cause a shutdown of the entire train resulting in major economic losses, condition monitoring of planetary gearboxes has received significant attention. The installation of conventional accelerometers on the machine's housing can fail to provide accuracy in diagnosing planetary gearbox faults, due to the alterations in planet gear mesh excitation with the carrier. Advances in low-cost and low-power Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology allow the MEMS accelerometer to be installed onto the rotating shaft directly, and this implies that the rotating machine's dynamic features can be measured more accurately. This paper examines the characteristics of the rotating acceleration signals measured by on-rotor MEMS accelerometer installed on the low-speed input shaft of a planetary gearbox. The experimental results show that by investigating the frequency spectra of the on-rotor accelerometer measurements, different faults of planetary gearbox can be clearly diagnosed, thus providing a reliable and low-cost method for the condition monitoring of planetary gearbox.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124891409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748946
Xiaoli Tang, Zainab Mones, Xianghong Wang, F. Gu, A. Ball
Condition monitoring (CM) deliveries significant benefits to industries by reducing breakdown losses of machines and enhancing their safe and high-performance operations. Monitoring the machine conditions in real time using an appropriate wireless sensor network (WSN) has the advantages of the avoidance of cable usages, ease of system deployment and hence cost-effectiveness of CM implementation. One of the major challenges for WSN is the battery replacement. Generally, the batteries of sensor nodes are difficult to recharge or replace due to the inevitable layout at inaccessible or risky positions. Recently, energy harvesting (EH) applied to WSNs has increasingly caught the attention of researchers due to the ideal permanent non-maintenance requirements of the autonomous WSN nodes. This paper overviews the principles of several promising EH technologies (including photovoltaic, thermoelectric, pyroelectric, piezoelectric, electromagnetic, triboelectric EH technologies) used in various fields. In addition, the corresponding EH prototypes and fabricated products developed by various researchers are reviewed. After the discussion of the advantages and limitations of different technologies, the EH technologies are evaluated for further development of the energy harvesters to achieve a maintenance-free system for reliable monitoring machines. Finally, a discussion on challenges, applications and future developments of EH applied for machine CM is held.
{"title":"A Review on Energy Harvesting Supplying Wireless Sensor Nodes for Machine Condition Monitoring","authors":"Xiaoli Tang, Zainab Mones, Xianghong Wang, F. Gu, A. Ball","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748946","url":null,"abstract":"Condition monitoring (CM) deliveries significant benefits to industries by reducing breakdown losses of machines and enhancing their safe and high-performance operations. Monitoring the machine conditions in real time using an appropriate wireless sensor network (WSN) has the advantages of the avoidance of cable usages, ease of system deployment and hence cost-effectiveness of CM implementation. One of the major challenges for WSN is the battery replacement. Generally, the batteries of sensor nodes are difficult to recharge or replace due to the inevitable layout at inaccessible or risky positions. Recently, energy harvesting (EH) applied to WSNs has increasingly caught the attention of researchers due to the ideal permanent non-maintenance requirements of the autonomous WSN nodes. This paper overviews the principles of several promising EH technologies (including photovoltaic, thermoelectric, pyroelectric, piezoelectric, electromagnetic, triboelectric EH technologies) used in various fields. In addition, the corresponding EH prototypes and fabricated products developed by various researchers are reviewed. After the discussion of the advantages and limitations of different technologies, the EH technologies are evaluated for further development of the energy harvesters to achieve a maintenance-free system for reliable monitoring machines. Finally, a discussion on challenges, applications and future developments of EH applied for machine CM is held.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114662090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749056
S. Muhammad, Sijing Zhang, Vladimir Dyo
Majority of vehicular safety applications such as collision avoidance and blind spot warnings require a limited delay for a message to be transmitted from the abnormal vehicle to the endangered vehicles to avert the occurrence of the accident. This paper proposed a Timely and Efficient Multihop Broadcast (TEMB) Scheme, which combines an adaptive forwarding strategy that depends on the estimated transmission range between moving vehicles on the road. The scheme further combines ARQ with an adaptive Forward Error Correction system to minimise the number of retransmissions while ensuring the reliability of message delivery to the intended recipient. Modifications on the IEEE802.11p data and acknowledgement (feedback) frames are presented. The scheme has been evaluated and compared with the Fast Broadcast scheme, the results have shown that the TEMB scheme has outperformed the Fast Broadcast scheme for reliable and timely message delivery among the moving vehicles on the motorway.
{"title":"Timely and Efficient Multihop Broadcast Scheme for Reliable Inter-Vehicular Communication","authors":"S. Muhammad, Sijing Zhang, Vladimir Dyo","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749056","url":null,"abstract":"Majority of vehicular safety applications such as collision avoidance and blind spot warnings require a limited delay for a message to be transmitted from the abnormal vehicle to the endangered vehicles to avert the occurrence of the accident. This paper proposed a Timely and Efficient Multihop Broadcast (TEMB) Scheme, which combines an adaptive forwarding strategy that depends on the estimated transmission range between moving vehicles on the road. The scheme further combines ARQ with an adaptive Forward Error Correction system to minimise the number of retransmissions while ensuring the reliability of message delivery to the intended recipient. Modifications on the IEEE802.11p data and acknowledgement (feedback) frames are presented. The scheme has been evaluated and compared with the Fast Broadcast scheme, the results have shown that the TEMB scheme has outperformed the Fast Broadcast scheme for reliable and timely message delivery among the moving vehicles on the motorway.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114702218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749071
Umer Asghar Chattha, M. A. Shah
Virtual reality (VR) is a phenomenon in which user feels his/her presence in a virtual environment using the head mounted display (HMD) device. VR is used in different fields such as medical, gaming and simulation etc. A VR environment provides a realistic presence, however, in many cases, a VR environment can cause motion sickness. In this paper, our contribution is twofold. Firstly, we investigate and highlight the factors that can cause motion sickness in the VR environment. Secondly, we perform survey questionnaire from different VR users to determine the effect of each factor (such as nausea, fatigue) on different users. We run our experiments on Oculus Rift DK2 and have used ‘Escape’ as a VR game. The results revealed that many participants left the test without completing the simulation and remaining suffered from motion sickness. Some interesting facts of VR environment form part of the paper.
{"title":"Survey on Causes of Motion Sickness in Virtual Reality","authors":"Umer Asghar Chattha, M. A. Shah","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749071","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual reality (VR) is a phenomenon in which user feels his/her presence in a virtual environment using the head mounted display (HMD) device. VR is used in different fields such as medical, gaming and simulation etc. A VR environment provides a realistic presence, however, in many cases, a VR environment can cause motion sickness. In this paper, our contribution is twofold. Firstly, we investigate and highlight the factors that can cause motion sickness in the VR environment. Secondly, we perform survey questionnaire from different VR users to determine the effect of each factor (such as nausea, fatigue) on different users. We run our experiments on Oculus Rift DK2 and have used ‘Escape’ as a VR game. The results revealed that many participants left the test without completing the simulation and remaining suffered from motion sickness. Some interesting facts of VR environment form part of the paper.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124945618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748992
M. A. Sarwar, Nasir Kamal, Wajeeha Hamid, M. A. Shah
There are several machine learning techniques that are used to perform predictive analytics over big data in various fields. Predictive analytics in healthcare is a challenging task but ultimately can help practitioners make big data-informed timely decisions about patient's health and treatment. This paper discusses the predictive analytics in healthcare, six different machine learning algorithms are used in this research work. For experiment purpose, a dataset of patient's medical record is obtained and six different machine learning algorithms are applied on the dataset. Performance and accuracy of the applied algorithms is discussed and compared. Comparison of the different machine learning techniques used in this study reveals which algorithm is best suited for prediction of diabetes. This paper aims to help doctors and practitioners in early prediction of diabetes using machine learning techniques.
{"title":"Prediction of Diabetes Using Machine Learning Algorithms in Healthcare","authors":"M. A. Sarwar, Nasir Kamal, Wajeeha Hamid, M. A. Shah","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748992","url":null,"abstract":"There are several machine learning techniques that are used to perform predictive analytics over big data in various fields. Predictive analytics in healthcare is a challenging task but ultimately can help practitioners make big data-informed timely decisions about patient's health and treatment. This paper discusses the predictive analytics in healthcare, six different machine learning algorithms are used in this research work. For experiment purpose, a dataset of patient's medical record is obtained and six different machine learning algorithms are applied on the dataset. Performance and accuracy of the applied algorithms is discussed and compared. Comparison of the different machine learning techniques used in this study reveals which algorithm is best suited for prediction of diabetes. This paper aims to help doctors and practitioners in early prediction of diabetes using machine learning techniques.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116119329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/iconac.2018.8748980
{"title":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation & Computing: Improving Productivity through Automation and Computing","authors":"","doi":"10.23919/iconac.2018.8748980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/iconac.2018.8748980","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121773259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748948
H. Tran, H. Ngo, T. Nguyen, Hung Nguyen
In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, instead of human, machine or robot plays an important role in working place. Especially, it is difficult to manage a large warehouse only with human. In this paper, the open platform of automated guided vehicle is introduced to meet the demands of logistics field. The design of hardware is ensured that vehicle is able to lift up and down goods without problems. There are three levels of software design such as firmware, middleware and monitoring software. In lowest level, firmware drives servo motors directly, receives signals from sensors and carried out the control command. The mission of middleware is to protect communication lacking traffic jam. In host PC, monitoring software displays internal parameters of system, provide executed status or caution. In theoretical analysis, the controller is integrated in microprocessor to track the pre-defined trajectory as well as guarantee the smooth motion. From the experimental results, the design and control method that proved in this work are feasible and capable.
{"title":"Develop of AGV Platform to Support The Arrangement of Cargo in Storehouse","authors":"H. Tran, H. Ngo, T. Nguyen, Hung Nguyen","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748948","url":null,"abstract":"In the era of the fourth industrial revolution, instead of human, machine or robot plays an important role in working place. Especially, it is difficult to manage a large warehouse only with human. In this paper, the open platform of automated guided vehicle is introduced to meet the demands of logistics field. The design of hardware is ensured that vehicle is able to lift up and down goods without problems. There are three levels of software design such as firmware, middleware and monitoring software. In lowest level, firmware drives servo motors directly, receives signals from sensors and carried out the control command. The mission of middleware is to protect communication lacking traffic jam. In host PC, monitoring software displays internal parameters of system, provide executed status or caution. In theoretical analysis, the controller is integrated in microprocessor to track the pre-defined trajectory as well as guarantee the smooth motion. From the experimental results, the design and control method that proved in this work are feasible and capable.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126182914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749101
U. Khan, P. Lazaridis, H. Mohamed, D. Upton, K. Mistry, B. Saeed, P. Mather, R. Atkinson, C. Tachtatzis, I. Glover
Partial discharge (PD) refers to the release of energy that occurs due to insulation cracks that partially bridge conductors. The ultimate consequence of PD activity in high voltage systems is a catastrophic failure. The continuous monitoring of PD activity contributes to avoidance of such failures. In this paper, a novel localization algorithm is proposed. The PD location was estimated for ten different positions. The PD signal was generated by using an emulator, and eight measurement sensors have been used. The received signal was converted into distance and the location estimation performed satisfactorily with no prior information of path loss model parameters. The results obtained show that increasing the number of measurement sensors reduces the estimation error.
{"title":"Received Signal Strength Intensity Based Localization of Partial Discharge in High Voltage Systems","authors":"U. Khan, P. Lazaridis, H. Mohamed, D. Upton, K. Mistry, B. Saeed, P. Mather, R. Atkinson, C. Tachtatzis, I. Glover","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749101","url":null,"abstract":"Partial discharge (PD) refers to the release of energy that occurs due to insulation cracks that partially bridge conductors. The ultimate consequence of PD activity in high voltage systems is a catastrophic failure. The continuous monitoring of PD activity contributes to avoidance of such failures. In this paper, a novel localization algorithm is proposed. The PD location was estimated for ten different positions. The PD signal was generated by using an emulator, and eight measurement sensors have been used. The received signal was converted into distance and the location estimation performed satisfactorily with no prior information of path loss model parameters. The results obtained show that increasing the number of measurement sensors reduces the estimation error.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128837793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748994
Haiyong Chen, Jiali Liu, Shuang Wang, Kun Liu, Peng Yang
The segmentation of dislocation defects has important value for photovoltaic polysilicon wafers to predict power generation efficiency and optimize the growth process of silicon ingots. However, the accurate segmentation of dislocation defects has still been a challenging issue because the intensity and shape feature between dislocation and background in the polysilicon wafer image show significant similarities. Thus, a new globalization framework based on Atmospheric Scattering Model (ASM) is proposed to accurately complete the dislocation defects region segmentation. Firstly, a parameter-optimized ASM was proposed to enhance the contrast of PL images and highlight the dislocation features in the PL images. Secondly, the contour detector combines multi-scale probability of boundaries (mPb) into the globalization framework based on spectral probability of boundaries (sPb) in this paper. Finally, an oriented watershed transform combined (owt) with an ultrametric contour map (ucm) method effectively removes the artifacts of potential contours and achieves an accurate segmentation of dislocation defects in the images.
{"title":"Robust dislocation defects region segmentation for polysilicon wafer image","authors":"Haiyong Chen, Jiali Liu, Shuang Wang, Kun Liu, Peng Yang","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8748994","url":null,"abstract":"The segmentation of dislocation defects has important value for photovoltaic polysilicon wafers to predict power generation efficiency and optimize the growth process of silicon ingots. However, the accurate segmentation of dislocation defects has still been a challenging issue because the intensity and shape feature between dislocation and background in the polysilicon wafer image show significant similarities. Thus, a new globalization framework based on Atmospheric Scattering Model (ASM) is proposed to accurately complete the dislocation defects region segmentation. Firstly, a parameter-optimized ASM was proposed to enhance the contrast of PL images and highlight the dislocation features in the PL images. Secondly, the contour detector combines multi-scale probability of boundaries (mPb) into the globalization framework based on spectral probability of boundaries (sPb) in this paper. Finally, an oriented watershed transform combined (owt) with an ultrametric contour map (ucm) method effectively removes the artifacts of potential contours and achieves an accurate segmentation of dislocation defects in the images.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128409908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-09-01DOI: 10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749031
Nico Sun, Erfu Yang, J. Corney, Yi Chen, Zeli Ma
This paper presents an evidence-based overview of the functionality that robotic care systems should provide. The results identify a number of key characteristics that range from existing commercial products to research prototypes. For example, social care needs voice assistance that already exists in the form of smart speakers. Such systems provide an opportunity for entertainment and the ability to stay in contact with caregivers, friends and family. Consequently, a good speech recognition and ability to perform conversations were highly valued by elderly users. In contrast, care robots providing physical assistance still have not left the prototype phase and generally, do not have enough skills to be considered useful in the home. The results highlight the fact that the most common difficulties the elderly experience have not been solved and should be focused on in the future. The perception of usefulness and integration into the existing home of an elderly person are the main barriers to a robot being accepted as a part of the household. One of the paper's conclusions is that an ecosystem open to independent developers could greatly increase the robotic skillset and the chance that it can perform a useful task for its user.
{"title":"A review of high-level robot functionality for elderly care","authors":"Nico Sun, Erfu Yang, J. Corney, Yi Chen, Zeli Ma","doi":"10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/IConAC.2018.8749031","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an evidence-based overview of the functionality that robotic care systems should provide. The results identify a number of key characteristics that range from existing commercial products to research prototypes. For example, social care needs voice assistance that already exists in the form of smart speakers. Such systems provide an opportunity for entertainment and the ability to stay in contact with caregivers, friends and family. Consequently, a good speech recognition and ability to perform conversations were highly valued by elderly users. In contrast, care robots providing physical assistance still have not left the prototype phase and generally, do not have enough skills to be considered useful in the home. The results highlight the fact that the most common difficulties the elderly experience have not been solved and should be focused on in the future. The perception of usefulness and integration into the existing home of an elderly person are the main barriers to a robot being accepted as a part of the household. One of the paper's conclusions is that an ecosystem open to independent developers could greatly increase the robotic skillset and the chance that it can perform a useful task for its user.","PeriodicalId":121030,"journal":{"name":"2018 24th International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127838966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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