PROMOVE: Advances in mobile robotics for promoting independent life of elders

This project aims at stepping forward to the development of personal robots able to serve elder people at home, who can benefit gaining in independence and quality of life. In this context, the research work will address some of the drawbacks found in the current robotic prototypes, like reliability and safety in home environments, proactivity and human-robot interaction. Thus, the project will face the design and implementation of new algorithms for robot perception and navigation, tailored to the particularities of the application, and will work towards endowing the robot with the required robustness and safety for live-long operation. Also, the robot will be provided with personal services for the user, i.e., measurement of physiological parameters, videoconferencing, access to internet, agendas, mail, etc. 

The robot will operate at different levels of autonomy, ranging from teleoperation, where a relative or caregiver virtually enters and visits the elder, to an intelligent and autonomous agent that safely behaves at home, interacts with the user, and provides valuable services. Remarkably, the proposal includes proof-of-concept and validation tests of the robotic system with real users, who will share their daily live with the robot during two separate time spans. The aplicant research team is a consolidated, active group with a strong background on mobile robotics and remarkable scientific results and developments in this field, as demonstrated by their international publications as well as the long history of participation in national and European projects. Particularly, this proposal relies to a great extend on the results obtained in the last projects in this line.

REFERENCE: DPI2014-55826-R
PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER: JAVIER GONZÁLEZ-JIMÉNEZ
INSTITUTION: UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA
FUNDED BY: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
PERIOD: January 2015 – December 2017

Publications

Publications in the scope of this project:

Journals (13)

2018

Á. Martínez-Tenor, J.A. Fernández-Madrigal, A. Cruz-Martín, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Towards a Common Implementation of Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Robotic Tasks

Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 100, pp. 246-259, 2018. Q1 · T1

M. Jaimez, J. Monroy, M. Lopez-Antequera, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Robust Planar Odometry based on Symmetric Range Flow and Multi-Scan Alignment

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, pp. 1623–1635, 2018, ISSN: 1552-3098. Q1 · T1

2017

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

A survey on learning approaches for Undirected Graphical Models. Application to scene object recognition

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 83, pp. 434-451, 2017. Q2 · T2

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Building Multiversal Semantic Maps for Mobile Robot Operation

Knowledege-Based Systems, vol. 119, pp. 257-272, 2017. Q1 · T1

F.A. Moreno, J.A. Merchán-Baeza, M. González-Sánchez, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, A. Cuesta-Vargas

Experimental Validation of Depth Cameras for the Parameterization of Functional Balance of Patients in Clinical Tests

Sensors, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 424, 2017, ISSN: 1424-8220. Q1 · T1

Á. Martínez-Tenor, J.A. Fernández-Madrigal, A. Cruz-Martín, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Towards a Common Implementation of Reinforcement Learning for Multiple Robotic Tasks

arXiv.org, 2017, (preliminary version).

F. Melendez-Fernandez, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

A web-based solution for robotic telepresence

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 14, no. 6, 2017.

J. Monroy, V. Hernandez-Bennetts, H. Fan, A. Lilienthal, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

GADEN: A 3D Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments

MDPI Sensors, vol. 17, no. 7: 1479, pp. 1–16, 2017, ISSN: 1424-8220. Q2 · T1

J. Monroy, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Gas Classification in Motion: An Experimental Analysis

Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, vol. 240, pp. 1205–1215, 2017, ISSN: 0925-4005. Q1 · T1

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Robot@Home, a robotic dataset for semantic mapping of home environments

The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 131-141, 2017. Q1 · T1

2016

J. Briales, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

A minimal closed-form solution for the Perspective Three orthogonal Angles (P3oA) problem. Application to visual odometry.

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 266-283, 2016. Q1 · T1

J. Monroy, E.J. Palomo, E. López-Rubio, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Continuous Chemical Classification in Uncontrolled Environments with Sliding Windows

Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, vol. 158, pp. 117–129, 2016, ISSN: 0169-7439. Q1 · T1

2015

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Scene Object Recognition for Mobile Robots Through Semantic Knowledge and Probabilistic Graphical Models

Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 42, no. 22, pp. 8805–8816, 2015. Q1 · T1

Book Chapters (1)

2016

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Probability and Common-Sense: Tandem Towards Robust Robotic Object Recognition in Ambient Assisted Living

10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, vol. 10070, Springer, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-319-48798-4.

Conferences (7)

2018

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, J. Monroy, F.A. Moreno, J.M. Bonelo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Data Analysis of the Hot Rolling Process in a Stainless Steel Factory for Predictive Maintenance

International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems (APPIS), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), 2018.

C. Sánchez-Garrido, J. Monroy, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Probabilistic Localization of Gas Emission Areas with a Mobile Robot in Indoor Environments

International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems (APPIS), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain), 2018.

2017

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, M. Guenther, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez, J. Hertzberg

Online Context-based Object Recognition for Mobile Robots

17th International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competition (ICARSC), Coimbra, Portugal, 2017.

2016

M. Jaimez, J. Monroy, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Planar Odometry from a Radial Laser Scanner. A Range Flow-based Approach

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 4479-4485, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016.

2015

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Joint Categorization of Objects and Rooms for Mobile Robots

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015.

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

OLT: A Toolkit for Object Labeling Applied to Robotic RGB-D Datasets

European Conference on Mobile Robots, Lincoln, UK, 2015.

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

UPGMpp: a Software Library for Contextual Object Recognition

3rd. Workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS), 2015.

National conferences (4)

2017

D. Fernandez-Chaves, J. Monroy, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Mejora del Comportamiento Proxémico de un Robot Autónomo mediante Motores de Inteligencia Artificial Desarrollados para Plataformas de Videojuegos

Actas de las XXXVIII Jornadas de Automática, Gijón, Spain, 2017.

J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, C. Galindo, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Modelado del Contexto Geométrico para el Reconocimiento de Objetos

Actas de las XXXVIII Jornadas de Automática, Gijón, Spain, 2017.

C. Sánchez-Garrido, J. Monroy, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Estimación Probabilı́stica de Áreas de Emisión de Gases con un Robot Móvil Mediante la Integración Temporal de Observaciones de Gas y Viento

Actas de las XXXVIII Jornadas de Automática, 2017.

2016

D. Zuñiga-Noël, J.R. Ruiz-Sarmiento, J. Gonzalez-Jimenez

Detección de Lugares con Camaras RGB-D. Aplicación a Cierre de Bucles en SLAM

Actas de las XXXVII Jornadas de Automática, Madrid, 2016.

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