Development of Intelligent Bed Robot System for the Elderly and the Disabled

Development of Intelligent Bed Robot System for the Elderly and the Disabled

&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper introduces a new service robot system to give some practical services for the elderly and/or the disabled. Since they suffer great inconvenience to move their body even for simple task, it is necessary to develop a human-friendly service robot system to serve daily-life such as reading a book/newspaper, eating a food and massaging. Intelligent Bed Robot System is developed to centralize active services around the bed, which is utilized as an active living space that serves daily-life, while a conventional bed is usually used only for sleeping.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper presents each element and function of this system and confirms usefulness by showing some experimental results related to practical tasks of daily-life.