Cost-Oriented Mobile Robot Assistant for Disabled Care

Abstract

This abstract describes briefly how mobile robot assistant system for disabled persons can be cost-effective. This is done by using a widely available on the market robot parts and a web based user interface. So this system can easily be controlled even over the Internet. To be a user-friendly the robot firmware and software implements various control algorithms - like PID based motor control and collision avoidance. This results in achieving a very smooth and precise movement and a control tolerant to operator's mistakes. Different methods for sending movement commands to the mobile robot system are proposed and evaluated. The robot will be able to remind disabled persons to take medications, it will serve pre-prepared food and drinks, will turn on/off electronic devices, will alert when his/her health is getting worse and will connect to his physician, relatives or with the emergency services.