Project Details
SRS - Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living
Project Period: 1. 9. 2011 – 30. 4. 2013
Project Type: grant
Code: 7E12056
Agency: Evropská unie
Program: Sedmý rámcový program Evropského společenství pro výzkum, technologický rozvoj a demonstrace
assistive robotics, computer vision
SRS (Multi-Role Shadow Robotic System for Independent Living) focuses on the
development and prototyping of remotely-controlled, semi-autonomous robotic
solutions in domestic environments to support elderly people. SRS solutions are
designed to enable a robot to act as a shadow of its controller. For example,
elderly parents can have a robot as a shadow of their children or carers. In this
case, adult children or carers can help them remotely and physically with daily
living tasks as if the children or carers were resident in the house. Remote
presence via robotics is the key to achieve targeted SRS goal. Based on the study
of user requirements, the usability of the system can be improved by real-time 3D
display on the client side. However, network communication poses serious problems
due to limited and potentially unreliable communication channels. The proposed
extension of the SRS project focuses on context-aware multimodal HRI support
aimed at usability, safety and situation awareness for remote users. The new
Context-Aware Virtual 3D Display will be able to cope with the project
visualisation needs resulting from the existing requirement specifications. It
will work on the client side based on predefined 3D maps. The Virtual map will be
updated online employing a combination of real-time 3D robot perception,
real-time 2D video processing and remote operator perception. The technical
outcome will employ context detection based on visual clues, trajectory
verification by means of video processing and object detection in images.
Advanced fusion mechanisms will also be explored too. The addition of BUT to the
consortium will allow optimizing the SRS HRI design and developing multimodal
interfaces that are more appropriate for and attractive to the targeted user
group. This will improve the end-user experience with the SRS robot and hence
make the project more effective and more efficient. The extension will enable
building better robots for personalized health care.
2017
- MATERNA, Z.; ŠPANĚL, M.; MAST, M.; BERAN, V.; WEISSHARDT, F.; BURMESTER, M.; SMRŽ, P. Teleoperating Assistive Robots: A Novel User Interface Relying on Semi-Autonomy and 3D Environment Mapping. Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 2017, vol. 29, no. 2,
p. 381-394. ISSN: 0915-3942. Detail
2015
- MAST, M.; BURMESTER, M.; GRAF, B.; WEISSHARDT, F.; ARBEITER, G.; ŠPANĚL, M.; MATERNA, Z.; SMRŽ, P.; KRONREIF, G. Design of the human-robot interaction for a semi-autonomous service robot to assist elderly people. In Ambient Assisted Living. Advanced Technologies and Societal Change. Berlin: Springer International Publishing, 2015.
p. 15-29. ISBN: 978-3-319-11865-9. Detail - MAST, M.; MATERNA, Z.; ŠPANĚL, M.; WEISSHARDT, F.; ARBEITER, G.; BURMESTER, M.; SMRŽ, P. Semi-Autonomous Domestic Service Robots: Evaluation of a User Interface for Remote Manipulation and Navigation With Focus on Effects of Stereoscopic Display. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2015, vol. 2015, no. 7,
p. 183-202. ISSN: 1875-4791. Detail
2013
- ILA, V.; POLOK, L.; SMRŽ, P.; ŠOLONY, M.; ZEMČÍK, P. Incremental Cholesky Factorization for Least Squares Problems in Robotics. Proceedings of The 2013 IFAC Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles Symposium. Gold Coast: IEEE Computer Society, 2013.
p. 1-8. ISBN: 978-3-902823-36-6. Detail - MAST, M.; ŠPANĚL, M.; ARBEITER, G.; ŠTANCL, V.; MATERNA, Z.; WEISSHARDT, F.; BURMESTER, M.; SMRŽ, P. Teleoperation of Domestic Service Robots: Effects of Global 3D Environment Maps in the User Interface on Operators' Cognitive and Performance Metrics. Proceedings of International Conference on Social Robotics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS/LNAI). Bristol: Springer Verlag, 2013.
p. 392-401. ISBN: 978-3-319-02674-9. ISSN: 0302-9743. Detail - POLOK, L.; ILA, V.; ŠOLONY, M.; ZEMČÍK, P.; SMRŽ, P. Efficient Implementation for Block Matrix Operations Nonlinear Least Squares Problems for Robotic Applications. Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Karlsruhe: IEEE Computer Society, 2013.
p. 123-131. ISBN: 978-1-4673-5642-8. Detail
2012
- HULÍK, R.; BERAN, V.; ŠPANĚL, M.; KRŠEK, P.; SMRŽ, P. Fast and Accurate Plane Segmentation in Depth Maps for Indoor Scenes. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Vilamoura, Algarve: Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia FIT BUT, 2012.
p. 1665-1670. ISBN: 978-1-4673-1737-5. ISSN: 2153-0858. Detail - QIU, R.; JI, Z.; NOYVIRT, A.; SOROKA, A.; SETCHI, R.; PHAM, D.; XU, S.; SHIVAROV, N.; PIGINI, L.; ARBEITER, G.; WEISSHARDT, F.; GRAF, B.; MAST, M.; BLASI, L.; FACAL, D.; ROOKER, M.; LOPEZ, R.; LI, D.; LIU, B.; KRONREIF, G.; SMRŽ, P. Towards robust personal assistant robots: Experience gained in the SRS project. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). Vilamoura: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012.
p. 1651-1657. ISBN: 978-1-4673-1737-5. Detail