Coordinating heterogeneous agents to synthesize proactive monitoring

Abstract

This paper describes the results of the ROBOCARE, a project aimed at creating an integrated environment endowed with heterogeneous software and robotic agents for assisting an elderly person at home. Specifically, a proactive environment for continuous daily activity monitoring has been created in which an autonomous robot acts as the main interactor with the person. This paper describes how the synergy of different component technologies guarantees an overall intelligent be-havior capable of personalized and contextualized interaction with the assisted person. Environment for continuous monitoring In the ROBOCARE project we have been dealing with the problem of monitoring an older person during her daily ac-tivity at home. The use of intelligent technology for support-ing older people at home has been addressed in various re-search projects in the last years, e.g., PEAT (Levinson 1997),