MOVAID (1998) by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. The aim of the MOVAID project is to provide robotic assistance for everyday life at home.
"The MOVAID system consists of a number of fixed work-stations (PCs), located where main activities are carried out at home, such as the kitchen and the bedroom, along with a mobile robotic unit able to navigate in the house avoiding unexpected obstacles, to grasp and manipulate common objects and to dock to the fixed workstations for data exchange and power supply. Commands to the robot are given in a high level language through a graphical interface running on the fixed workstations. On the user interface, a continuous visual feed-back from on-board cameras is also shown to the user, allowing him/her not only to monitor what the robot is doing, but also to collaborate with it, by indicating objects and positions directly on the screen. Moreover, to allow and ease access to standard technological products, interfaces for standard kitchen appliances were studied, and a prototype of a microwave oven interface, offering the oven basic functionality, was developed and tested. Typical tasks for the system, defined on the basis of identified users needs, are: to warm up some food in a microwave oven and serve it at the user’s bed; to clean the kitchen work surface; and to remove dirty sheets from a bed." – MOVAID: a personal robot in everyday life of disabled and elderly people.
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