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Development of a High Mobility Assistant Personal Robot for Home Operation

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Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications

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This paper presents the development of an Assistant Personal Robotic (APR) designed with the objective of creating a high reliable robot that can be used in several home applications such as: home safety, elder people supervision and remote assistance, remote presence, etc. In this proposal the APR is remotely controlled by a smartphone or portable tablet with Wi-Fi connectivity. The APR design has taken into consideration safety factors, mobility and physical restrictions of an average home; including opened doors, tight turns, and narrow corridors. The APR design includes several onboard sensors in order to protect the robot and avoid collisions with fixed or moving surrounding objects.

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Acknowledgments

This work is partially founded by Indra, the University of Lleida, and the RecerCaixa 2013 grant.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Industrial Engineering, University of Lleida, 25001, Lleida, Spain

    Eduard Clotet, Dani Martínez, Javier Moreno, Marcel Tresanchez & Jordi Palacín

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Correspondence to Jordi Palacín .

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University, College of Engineering, Doha, Qatar

    Amr Mohamed

  2. Departamento de Informatica, ALGORITMI Centre, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Paulo Novais

  3. Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestäo de Leiria, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

    António Pereira

  4. Departamento de Informática y Automática, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Gabriel Villarrubia González

  5. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Antonio Fernández-Caballero

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Clotet, E., Martínez, D., Moreno, J., Tresanchez, M., Palacín, J. (2015). Development of a High Mobility Assistant Personal Robot for Home Operation. In: Mohamed, A., Novais, P., Pereira, A., Villarrubia González, G., Fernández-Caballero, A. (eds) Ambient Intelligence - Software and Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 376. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19695-4_7

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