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A Chinese cooking robot for elderly and disabled people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2011

Wen-Tao Ma ,
Wei-Xin Yan ,
Zhuang Fu  and
Yan-Zheng Zhao
Wen-Tao Ma
Affiliation:
State Key Lab of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (HIT), Shanghai 200240, P.R. China
Wei-Xin Yan
Affiliation:
State Key Lab of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (HIT), Shanghai 200240, P.R. China
Zhuang Fu*
Affiliation:
State Key Lab of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (HIT), Shanghai 200240, P.R. China
Yan-Zheng Zhao
Affiliation:
State Key Lab of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University State Key Laboratory of Robotics and System (HIT), Shanghai 200240, P.R. China
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail: zhfu@sjtu.edu.cn
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Abstract

Cooking themselves is very important and difficult for elderly and disabled people in daily life. This paper presents a cooking robot for those people who are confined to wheelchairs. The robot can automatically load ingredients, cook Chinese dishes, take cooked foods out, deliver dishes to the table, self-clean, collect used ingredient box components, and so on. Its structure and interface is designed based on the barrier-free design principles. Elderly and disabled people can only click one button in the friendly Graphic User Interface of a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) to launch the cooking processes, and several classic Chinese dishes would be placed in front of them one after another within few minutes. Experiments show that the robot can meet their special needs, and the involved aid activities are easy and effective for elderly and disabled people.

Keywords

Cooking robotChinese dishesElderly and disabled peopleBarrier-free design
Type
Articles
Information
Robotica , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , October 2011 , pp. 843 - 852
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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