Objectives
The aim of the MOBISERV project is to implement a framework and a platform supporting mobility for older persons, with the following objectives.
Social Objectives
- To develop a Personal Robotic System as a holistic approach to support daily living of older persons in everyday activity scenarios in a living space context with an emphasis on supporting personal health care and improving independence in living environments and the quality of life.
- Support older persons in maintaining their social activities.
- To embrace a paradigm shift in health responders and emergency assistance, that is redefining the way of treating and managing health-related emergency calls and the way first responders, carers, family, health care service providers are coordinated, thus giving support to integrated care.
Research objectives
- To research, develop and implement self-learning techniques in relation to optical recognition, pattern recognition and autonomous navigation techniques.
- To research effective self-learning methods for predicting and detecting health-related adverse events of the older citizens from multiple sensors given the fact that single sensor based solutions are not robust and reliable enough (issuing false alarms).
- To evaluate the Personal Intelligent Robotic System in terms of comfort, usability and safety.
- To investigate the most effective and efficient communication modes between the robot and human user in various scenarios, and the impact of cultural, gender, age and cognitive differences on this.
- To evaluate different types of robot embodiments in relation to user acceptability, and the relationship between criteria for acceptance and cultures, societal demographics.
Technological objectives
- To produce an efficient system design of the Personal Robotic Platform.
- To develop the Personal Robotic Platform components, that are:
- Health Status Monitoring System integrated into wearable fabrics.
- Secure tele-alarm and health reporting system.
- Nutrition support system.
- To integrate the aforementioned components into the Personal Robotic Environment.
- To apply innovative personal tracking techniques for monitoring nutrition habits and vital signs of the older persons while they are accomplishing their daily activities. The project will also apply location tracking in cases of harmful situations (e.g. after a health related incident has occurred).
- To develop a reliable communication platform for various heterogeneous devices of MOBISERV by providing a unified interface to different wireless technologies ranging from mobile technologies to wireless LANs, enabling seamless connectivity and vertical handovers to provide maximum reliability.
- To develop methods for securing sensitive and private communicated information while taking computing requirements.
